I know, I know. Earlier in the week, we pointed out how the Detroit Lions’ offensive line barely improved at all this year according to Pro Football Focus’ rankings through 12 weeks. The argument is that while the run game improved, pass protection still failed against the better teams, leading to overall mediocre-at-best grades from the analytics website.
However, Football Outsiders’ Ben Muth—a former college left tackle himself—has been following the Lions offensive line all year, specifically rookie left guard Frank Ragnow. On Friday, he released his final analysis of both the Lions offensive line and the play of Ragnow, and had some promising conclusions about the unit.