Garett Bolles was named PFF’s Pass Blocker of the Year for the 2025 season and he has been dominant all yr lengthy. He made his first ever Pro Bowl choice this season too.
I’ve been protecting the Denver Broncos for his whole profession and I keep in mind writing up some fairly harsh criticism of his play early on — particularly with regard to holding penalties. I recall at one level he was committing holding penalties at a record-breaking charge. He was to this point above the remainder of the discipline that he’d break charts if anybody tried to chart it. The greatest a part of that saga is that he by no means let the outdoors noise (from me and plenty of others) get to him. He labored on his craft and he received higher. And then received even higher to the level the place it is fairly clear that he is one among the greatest left tackles in all of soccer. He is going to go down as one among the greatest tackles in franchise historical past too when its all stated and achieved. It’s an ideal comeback story.
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All that stated, he wasn’t the solely one among the Broncos gamers on that offensive line to make an impression with guard Quinn Meinerz additionally being named a PFF All-Pro participant. The complete offensive line has been dominant in practically each class and is the essential engine that has pushed the offenses successes this season.
A giant cause why two of the 5 offensive linemen made this PFF All-Pro listing is as a result of the line is credited with just six total sacks on the season. The subsequent closest playoff group had greater than double that mark.
Pro Football Network additionally launched their high offensive traces of the yr and the Broncos were ranked the fourth-best of their grading system:
4) Denver Broncos
Team OLi Grade: 83.0
Best-Ranked OL: Garett Bolles, 89.0 (seventh general, third place)
Worst-Ranked OL: Alex Palczewski, 63.5 (159th general, 61st place)
And yet another to finish the image comes from Sharp Football Analysis who has the Broncos ranked fifth-overall of their NFL Offensive Line Stats:
broncos offensive line rating
There is a lot proof that reveals the trenches on each aspect of the ball is what has introduced the success of the 2025 Broncos. It’s an space that Sean Payton has stated in the previous is all the time an space of focus. He is aware of you don’t win persistently in case your group is being dominated in the trenches.
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