No matter how objective you try to be, there is almost inevitably going to be some level of subjectivity in evaluation when it comes to something like sports. While I think that more advanced statistical analyses that we have seen emerging over the course of the past decade are illuminating and informative, they only color rather than run the discussion.
Still, I think it’s worth exploring what they have to offer, and we recently saw yet another attempt to quantify offensive line play through largely ‘objective’ measures in an article on the league’s website by Matt Harmon, which uses their ‘Next Gen Stats’ to create a list of the top 10 lines in 2017.