2022 Offensive Line Almanac
Offensive line play matters in fantasy football. (We dug into exactly how much it matters last year.) Yet it goes relatively overlooked in most fantasy analysis.
Not here. We research every offensive line when building our player projections and writing our player profiles.
Wanna know what we found and how it’ll impact your 2022 fantasy season? Here’s your 2022 Offensive Line Almanac, looking back at offensive line play last year, examining which units are trending up or down and running through the teams and players that will be helped or hurt by their O-lines.
2021 in Review
Let’s start by looking back at how all 32 offensive lines performed in both the run and pass games last year. I took the average of each team’s rank in Pro Football Focus grades and Football Outsiders metrics – Adjusted Line Yards for run blocking and Adjusted Sack Rate for pass blocking.
Run Blocking
Pass Blocking
Let’s Run it Back!
These 3 teams return the same 5 starters from last year’s offensive line. Continuity is generally a good thing on the O-line – although it’s less of a good thing when the line was bad last year.
Atlanta Falcons (11th in 2021 run blocking; 28th in pass blocking)
Detroit Lions (20th in 2021 run blocking; 16th in pass blocking)
Kansas City Chiefs (4th in 2021 run blocking; 3rd in pass blocking)
Trending Up
Expect these 5 offensive lines to be better this season than last: