Pro Football Focus Has Praise for Titans Offensive Line

Pro Football Focus is a handy objective tool and another set of eyes on what happens during NFL games. They do great work and back up their statistics and ratings with plausible and worthy analysis. Today they came out with their offensive line rankings of all 32 teams through Week 11, and the Titans unit came in sixth overall. Here’s what they had to say.

I agree with most of what they say. Lewan’s penalties are getting out of control, and it crescendoed poorly on Sunday when he got ejected for pushing a referee. He’s been great all year, but he really needs to keep his emotions in check because it’s beginning to hurt the team. We’ve had a revolving door at both guard positions and it’s pretty impressive that we haven’t negatively noticed any one player who has played there at every point of the season. It’s a testament to the coaching staff and the chemistry all of the team’s offensive linemen have developed together.

Their praise for our offensive line was also found in a tweet they sent out yesterday, highlighting Jack Conklin as their highest-graded right tackle for the year. Conklin has been a lot better than I believed he would be at this point. Rookie offensive linemen tend to struggle early on, but Conklin has been steady and dependable through his first 11 games. The majority of draft “experts/pundits” on Twitter were not fans of Conklin going into the draft, saying he was slow and soft and didn’t deserve more than second round grade. Well, he’s quieted those concerns quickly. We’re all thankful for that.