2025 Offensive Line Rankings: 10-1

Jun 27, 2025

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As I’m sure you’ve hypothesized before, the play of a team’s offensive line has a tangible impact on the fantasy points its skill players can produce — and now we have the data to back it up. By understanding which units are thriving (and which are floundering), we can make more informed decisions when targeting or fading certain players — another small but crucial edge against our league mates. With that in mind, it’s time to pinpoint exactly where each offensive line stands heading into 2025.

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Below, I’ll be counting down the top 10 offensive lines entering the 2025 season, including a “key stat” from last year’s group and a rundown of offseason changes. Movement notes will list either the player’s previous team or the round in which they were drafted. Additions and subtractions are limited to those expected to start, serve as primary backups, or those selected in the top four rounds of the 2025 NFL Draft. Let’s dig in.

10. Indianapolis Colts

Key 2024 Stat: 2.12 RB Yards Before Contact (4th)

Offseason Movement

Additions: Jalen Travis (fourth round)

Subtractions: Ryan Kelly (Vikings), Will Fries (Vikings)

Continuity has been a hallmark of the Colts' offensive line in recent years, and even with the departure of longtime center Ryan Kelly and right guard Will Fries, the 2025 unit won’t look drastically different. At center, a camp battle looms between 2024 fourth-rounder Tanor Bortolini and 2020 fifth-rounder Danny Pinter, both of whom logged starts at the position last season. At right guard, Matt Goncalves is the favorite after starting eight games at tackle as a rookie third-round pick.

Both positions are likely to take a step back in the short term, though it's worth noting that Kelly and Fries combined to miss 19 games in 2024, with Fries completing just one full season as a starter since being drafted in 2021. If Bortolini wins the job, there’s a realistic path to him settling in as a replacement-level contributor in Year 2.

Despite a down year from RT Braden Smith, the other three spots along the line have far fewer questions. Quenton Nelson is back to doing Quenton Nelson-type things that put him in the yearly conversation as the best LG in the league, and LT Bernhard Raimann continues to make improvements in pass protection. After allowing just 20 pressures last year, Raimann has posted pass-blocking efficiency marks of 95.8, 96.8, and 97.3 across his first three seasons.

This isn’t a group that will challenge for top-three status, but there’s enough stability and upside to keep the floor comfortably in the middle tier.

9. Minnesota Vikings

Key 2024 Stat: 4.53 Adjusted Line Yards (12th)

Offseason Movement

Additions: Ryan Kelly (Colts), Will Fries (Colts), Justin Skule (Buccaneers), Donovan Jackson (first round)

Subtractions: Garrett Bradbury (Patriots), Cam Robinson (Texans), Ed Ingram (Texans)

There is undoubtedly a lot of movement along the interior of the Vikings' offensive line, but the cumulative talent of this unit is hard to deny. They have one of the best tackle tandems in the league, with Brian O’Neill on the right and Christian Darrisaw on the left, which should help ease the transition for the new faces playing alongside them.

Darrisaw, in particular, is incredible when healthy; he just happens to keep getting bitten by the injury bug. The bug struck in Week 8 last season, when he tore both his ACL and MCL, though he was already back on the field for minicamp in early June, so it doesn’t look like they’ll have any issues rolling him out for Week 1. That’s a good sign for the cohesion of this group, as first-round selection Donovan Jackson would probably like to get some reps next to his running mate before his first professional regular-season snaps.

On another team, Jackson might very well be being sculpted as a left tackle after his impressive fill-in role during Ohio State’s 2024 run, but the Vikings will be looking for him to potentially set up a terrific left side of their line for the future. As for the present, the rookie may experience some early-career struggles, although he continued to grow throughout his three collegiate seasons. Per Trench Warfare’s Brandon Thorn,

“Overall, Jackson hasn't quite lived up to the hype as the nation's best guard coming out of high school largely due to a robotic playing style with some erratic footwork, but has the necessary build, raw strength and enough movement skills to compete for a job as a rookie and stick if he can continue to tighten up his game from the ground up.”

With the free-agent additions of Ryan Kelly and Will Fries, there should be enough of a veteran presence to mask most growing pains along the interior.