Sewell’s 95.2 overall grade from Pro Football Focus led all offensive linemen this season. His run-blocking grade (96.8) is the highest by any right tackle over the past five years and led all offensive linemen by a substantial margin. He led all offensive tackles in positively graded run-play rate (21.9 percent) and was the only player at the position to clear the 20 percent mark.<\/p>\n
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. He allowed one sack in 16 games this season.<\/p>\n
The winner will be selected by a panel of former offensive linemen (LeCharles Bentley, Jason Kelce, Shaun O’Hara, Orlando Pace, Will Shields and Andrew Whitworth), based on the following criteria:<\/p>\n
Quality of competition: quality and consistency of defensive fronts faced.
\nAvailability to teammates: presence on the field, leadership.
\nDurability: ability to meet the physical demands of the season.
\nWeekly consistency: sustained performance across the full schedule.
\nVideo validation: film review confirming execution, technique, and situational impact.
\nFootball analytics: advanced metrics tied to pass protection, run blocking, discipline and team efficiency. <\/p>\n
Sewell was already named the PFF Protector of the Year this season, a separate award given out each season by PFF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sewell’s 95.2 overall grade from Pro Football Focus led all offensive linemen this season. His run-blocking grade (96.8)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714781,"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-714780","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\/115980286708771162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714780","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=714780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}