{"id":94323,"date":"2025-05-31T22:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T22:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/94323\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T22:59:10","slug":"no-steelers-ot-cracks-recent-list-of-top-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/94323\/","title":{"rendered":"No Steelers OT Cracks Recent List Of Top 32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a reflection of how much progress a young Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 offensive line has to go, Pro Football Focus didn\u2019t include either of the team\u2019s starting tackles in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/nfl-offensive-tackle-rankings-top-32-ahead-of-2025-nfl-season?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dhtwitter&amp;utm_content=null\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent list of its Top 32.<\/a> Author Zoltan Budley didn\u2019t choose Broderick Jones or Troy Fautanu in his ranking and with valid reason.<\/p>\n<p>Both players are first round picks but neither have proven themselves at the NFL level. Jones is coming off a difficult second season, one filled with mental mistakes, penalties, and poor pass protection. Fautanu missed nearly his entire rookie season after dislocating his kneecap in September, shelving him for the year.<\/p>\n<p>For Pittsburgh\u2019s offensive line investments to pay off, Jones and Fautanu will need to make leaps this year. If Jones falters, the Steelers could search for his replacement next offseason. And a down year from Fautanu, even if healthy, means the team will have gone two years without return on investment. Tackles can take time to grow and develop but Fautanu was an experienced senior out of college, not an underclassman lump of clay like Jones, and Pittsburgh has set a high bar for his abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Working in their favor is the <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersdepot.com\/2025\/05\/the-steelers-o-line-still-has-questions-it-also-has-answers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knowledge of exactly where they\u2019ll play.<\/a> Jones is entrenched as the starting left tackle after spending most of his NFL career on the right side and also occasionally bouncing between both tackle spots during his first two training camps. He\u2019s slimmed down to 305 pounds, more agile to fit in OC Arthur Smith\u2019s outside zone scheme and better conditioned to handle the rigors of an entire season. Last year was Jones\u2019 first season starting wire-to-wire. Fautanu has mental reps and more time getting comfortable at right tackle, a spot he hadn\u2019t played since high school.<\/p>\n<p>Even with 64 starters, the goal should be for Jones and Fautanu to appear on next year\u2019s list. The higher, the better, but even both cracking the Top 32 would serve as an encouraging sign.<\/p>\n<p>The top offensive tackle on the list is the Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 Jordan Mailata. Around the AFC North, the Baltimore Ravens\u2019 Ronnie Stanley placed 23rd. Like the Steelers, no Cincinnati Bengals\u2019 or Cleveland Browns\u2019 tackles made the Top 32, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a reflection of how much progress a young Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 offensive line has to go, Pro Football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[465,7,6,520,57,2360,426,12356,24893],"class_list":{"0":"post-94323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-broderick-jones","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","14":"tag-steelers","15":"tag-troy-fautanu","16":"tag-zoltan-budley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114604930817422493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94323","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=94323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}