{"id":157300,"date":"2025-06-25T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/157300\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:20:10","slug":"olu-fashanu-mason-taylor-listed-as-players-to-watch-in-25-by-espn-pff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/157300\/","title":{"rendered":"Olu Fashanu, Mason Taylor Listed as Players to Watch in \u201925 By ESPN, PFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the 2025 NFL season, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/predicting-the-nfls-most-improved-player-at-every-position\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Football Focus<\/a> predicted that Jets LT <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/olumuyiwa-fashanu\/\" title=\"Olu Fashanu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olu Fashanu<\/a> would be the most improved left tackle in the league. In addition, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/draft2025\/story\/_\/id\/45025476\/2025-nfl-draft-ranking-rookie-year-impact-mid-late-rounders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a> forecasted TE <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/mason-taylor\/\" title=\"Mason Taylor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Taylor<\/a> to be one of the NFL&#8217;s highest impact rookies this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Fashanu, the No. 11 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, played in 15 games (7 starts) as a rookie, at both tackle spots (336 snaps at LT, 159 at RT) and right guard (37 snaps).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The long-term plan was for Fashanu to take over at left tackle during the season \u2013 it just happened earlier than anticipated,&#8221; PFF&#8217;s Thomas Valentine wrote. &#8220;What followed was the natural progression of a rookie playing one of the most difficult positions in football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the uncertainty surrounding his playtime, the Penn State product showed noticeable improvement and got more comfortable throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fashanu allowed 10 pressures in the first five games and dropped his pressure rate allowed to 5.5% over final 10 weeks, which was still in the top- 30 for highest rates but was a noticeable improvement,&#8221; Valentine wrote. &#8220;From Week 11 to 16, Fashanu earned a 67.8 grade and often flashed excellent pass-blocking traits.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the 2025 NFL season, Pro Football Focus predicted that Jets LT Olu Fashanu would be the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[7,226,929,280,1917,255,88,2321,2097,6,13030],"class_list":{"0":"post-157300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-mason-taylor","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-jets","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkjets","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-olumuyiwa-fashanu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114743975983292195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}