The best NFL teams know that you build through the trenches first, and having all the best skill position players in the league doesn’t matter much if you can’t block up front.
Today’s game also demands more athletically from players than ever before, and that includes the massive maulers along the offensive line.
So, just how athletic was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ last season?
Kent Lee Platte, who devised the “Relative Athletic Score” as a way to calculate and compare the athleticism of NFL draft prospects entering the league every year, revisited the scores for all of Tampa Bay’s starting offensive linemen for the 2023 campaign:
