{"id":688263,"date":"2026-01-19T08:32:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/688263\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:32:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:32:53","slug":"detroit-lions-t-penei-sewell-wants-offensive-line-to-re-gain-confidence-swagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/688263\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions T Penei Sewell wants offensive line to re-gain confidence &#038; swagger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best player upfront for the Lions as graded by PFF was right tackle <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/team\/players-roster\/penei-sewell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Penei Sewell<\/a>, whose 95.2 overall grade led all offensive linemen. His run-blocking grade (95.1) is the highest by any right tackle over the past five years and led all offensive linemen this season by a substantial margin. Sewell allowed pressure on just 3.3 percent of pass plays, a career best that ranked second among right tackles and fifth among all offensive tackles.<\/p>\n<p>He was recently named First-Team All-Pro for a third straight year and earned his fourth consecutive Pro Bowl nod.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to Sewell after the conclusion of a disappointing regular season from a team perspective, it&#8217;s clear the fifth-year veteran closely ties individual success with team success.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year alone, it wasn&#8217;t my best ball,&#8221; Sewell said, despite the analytics saying otherwise. &#8220;It was far from that. I&#8217;m a firm believer it starts with me upfront. I believe I set the tone. And make plays typically offensive linemen don&#8217;t make. This year was definitely a down year for me, and we&#8217;ll start with that. All the other stuff, I&#8217;ll leave up to the coaches, but going into this next season, that&#8217;ll be on my mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best player upfront for the Lions as graded by PFF was right tackle Penei Sewell, whose 95.2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,2506,7,416,147,415,6,645],"class_list":{"0":"post-688263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroitlions","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-news-twentyman","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-penei-sewell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115920843802870142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688263","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=688263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}