2025 Offensive Line Rankings: 21-11

Jun 21, 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 middle-ground 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.

21. Las Vegas Raiders

Key 2024 Stat: 3.85 Adjusted Line Yards (30th)

Offseason Movement

Additions: Alex Cappa (Bengals), Charles Grant (third round), Caleb Rogers (third round)

Subtractions: Andre James (Chargers), Cody Whitehair (FA)

Though the Raiders were rumored to potentially take a swing at a high-Draft-capital offensive line piece in 2025, they decided to go the “weapons” route with Ashton Jeanty and Jack Bech in the first two rounds. This means that last year’s iteration is mostly intact, with Alex Cappa looking to replace the Cody Whitehair/Jordan Meredith regime at guard. This will open things up for Jackson Powers-Johnson to slide into a full-time role at center, where he was only able to log about half of his rookie-season snaps while being shifted across all three interior positions.

Cappa has strong ties to minority owner Tom Brady —including the 2020 Buccaneers Super Bowl run— but the veteran’s play has seen a steady decline since their time together. Things bottomed out last year, his third with the Cincinnati Bengals, and saw him allow a league-high 51 pressures while ranking 70th/79 qualifying guards in PFF’s pass-blocking efficiency metric (95.9). We’ll see if the Raiders give him a long enough leash to allow 50 pressures again, but the switch from the air-it-out Bengals to a more “conventional” under-center running game could help ease the veteran into his age-30 season. If that fails to help things, the team does have a backstop in Jordan Meredith and rookie Caleb Rogers.

Rogers, part of back-to-back OL selections (Charles Grant) in the third round, will move from the outside to eliminate some potential concerns about his length, but does have experience along the interior, including 55 straight starts across all four guard and tackle positions. He is more of a project than a true threat to Cappa in the early going, but he can help maintain a solid floor for the unit if he’s forced into action.

20. Arizona Cardinals

Key 2024 Stat: 1.96 RB Yards Before Contact (5th)

Offseason Movement

Additions: Jake Curhan (Bears)

Subtractions: (none)

In one of the more pleasant surprises of the 2024 season, the Arizona Cardinals’ run game saw a major boost in efficiency, jumping from 27th to 9th in adjusted line yards (4.22 to 4.65) and from 22nd to 5th in RB yards before contact (1.57 to 1.96) year over year. Though Trey Benson didn’t get to share in much of the glory, we did get to see James Conner repeat his 1,000-yard rushing performance, finishing as the RB11 despite a small downtick in yards created after contact (3.93 to 3.30).

A significant reason for this increase in efficiency was a massive improvement in Year 2 by Paris Johnson, who transitioned to the left side of the line, where he excelled in his final collegiate season at Ohio State. Cardinals running backs averaged 0.04 EPA per attempt on runs to the “left outside” and “left off tackle”, the fourth-highest mark in the league, with Conner specifically earning 5.1 yards per attempt, far higher than his 4.3 average to all other areas of the field.

The concern along the line now shifts over to the other gate, where Jonah Williams will look to enter the season as the starting RT for the second year in a row, though he missed much of the ‘24 season with a knee injury. Upon returning in Week 12, he had a five-game stretch without giving up a sack —the longest stretch of his career— and will look to build on that momentum to prove that he can be a league-average tackle. This will move the 36-year-old Kelvin Beachum back into a swing-tackle role as Williams gets more reps alongside right guard Isaiah Adams.

Adams, the Cardinals' third-round selection a year ago, had a difficult time in pass protection as a rookie, allowing 18 pressures in 269 opportunities, accruing a 96.3 pass-blocking efficiency rating from PFF, which ranked 65th out of 79 qualifying guards. His current competition for snaps includes sixth-rounder Hayden Conner and journeyman Royce Newman, who has notched 524 snaps at either guard spot since the beginning of the 2022 season.