The next installment of our Chiefs offensive line review / preview series, we’ll establish a simple grading system and test it on the two notable veteran newcomers to the position group: Ben Grubbs and Paul Fanaika.
Offensive line play is dirty, under-appreciated work (as is film study on offensive line). Each NFL team has their own way of grading and evaluating players, but there is a LOT of gray area.
A few other factors that I see as challenges to OL evaluation:
- With OL (like CB), you don’t notice them until something really bad happens.