The NFL Honors ceremony, which presents the league\u2019s post-season awards, is next week, and for the first time ever, it will include the Protector of the Year award. The award will be given to the best offensive lineman of the 2025 season. As expected, Detroit Lions right tackle Penei Sewell is a finalist for the award.<\/p>\n
The other five finalists are:<\/p>\n
For Sewell, this is the latest in several honors for the former first-round pick. Earlier this offseason, Sewell was named First-Team All Pro for the third consecutive season, and he has now made four straight Pro Bowls. PFF also named Sewell their Protector of the Year<\/a> after posting a 95.5 PFF grade, best among all offensive lineman.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fifth-year right tackle\u2019s PFF overall grade (95.5) ranks third among all offensive linemen over the past three seasons and first among right tackles in that span,\u201d PFF\u2019s Zolt\u00e1n Buday wrote. \u201cWhile his PFF run-blocking grade (95.1) is the highest by any right tackle over the past five years and trails only Trent Williams\u2019 2021 season among all offensive linemen.\u201d<\/p>\n The official Protector of the Year award is voted on by a panel of former offensive linemen based on the following criteria: skill metrics, impactx, leadership, durability, and strength of opponent. To learn more about the award, check out the official NFL\u2019s announcement here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL Honors ceremony, which presents the league\u2019s post-season awards, is next week, and for the first time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,153,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-712931","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-detroit-lions-news","11":"tag-detroitlions","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712931","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=712931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}