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#10 Overall, Jason Peters, Free Agent, Offensive Tackle, #3 Offensive Lineman
2023 Pre-Season Rank #9, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #14, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #16, 2020 Pre-Season Rank #17. Peak Period: 2009-11/2013-14
This may be the end of the road for Peters who has the MPA in Pro Bowls and Games Played, but we said the same thing two years ago, and he found work ith Dallas in 2022. Then, we said it again, and he played eight games with Seattle in 2023. "The Mythical Creature" was an All-Decade player in the 2010s, and a nine-time Pro Bowl, but Offensive Lineman need an awful lot to get in. He probably has enough as he is a Super Bowl Champion with the Eagles and has an Approximate Value over 130, which is well above any other active Offensive Lineman. We hope Peters finds work as a player in 2024, but if he does not, he has done enough for a bonze bust in Canton.
Modern Positional Average
Offensive Linemen: Joe Thomas (2023), Tony Boselli (2022) Alan Faneca (2021), Steve Hutchinson (2020) and Kevin Mawae (2019).
As we progress in football analytics, it is easier to calculate the effectiveness of Offensive Lineman more than ever before. We will be adding more metrics in the future (time did not permit it for this year), but games are won and lost in the trenches, and football fans are visually divested there.
Here are the statistics that we are using based on the last group of Offensive Lineman to enter the Pro Football Hall of Fame:
- Games Played: 174.8
- Approximate Value: 188
- Approximate Value per Games Played: 0.6760
- Games Started: 173
- Approximate Value per Games Started: 0.6832
- Approximate Value per Five-Year Peak: 65.4
- Approximate Value’s Best Five Results: 68.0
- Pro Bowls: 7.8
- First Team All-Pros*: 4.8
- Super Bowl Wins 0.4
- Super Bowl Appearances 0.2
*This is an aggregate of the Top Five finishes (5th = 1, 4th = 2, 3rd = 3, 2nd = 4th, 1st = 5)
**This is a reminder that the All-Pros we use are from the AP.
#5 Overall, Travis Kelce: Kansas City Chiefs, #1 Tight End
2023 Pre-Season Rank #7, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #12, 2021 Pre-Season Rank: #20, 2020 Pre-Season Rank #37. Peak Period: 2018-22
Travis Kelce's performance is exceptional, especially when compared to the only two legends in the Modern Positional Average statistics, Shannon Sharpe & Tony Gonzalez. Despite this daunting comparison, Kelce has not only measured up but surpassed expectations. In the 2010s, he was the number two Tight End behind Rob Gronkowski, and now, he stands as the top man at his position among active players. It's not an exaggeration to say that he is the most recognized man in football.
Dating Taylor Swift will do that.
This man is a rock star of an athlete, but even if he was a mute, Kelce has the numbers of a Hall of Fame Tight End: over 11,000 Yards and 74 Touchdowns, a nine-year Pro Bowl streak, and four First Team All-Pros. Throw in three Super Bowls, and you have a man making a first-ballot Hall of Fame case and someone looking at the Mount Rushmore of Tight Ends.
Kelce might be declining, but not in popularity.
#36 Overall, Jimmy Graham: Free Agent, #2 Tight End
2023 Pre-Season Rank #31, 2023 Pre-Season Rank #40, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #41, 2020 Pre-Season Rank #46. Peak Period: 2011-15
Is it the end of the road for Jimmy Graham? At one point, it looked like he was Hall of Fame-bound, and he looked like the game's top Tight End when he was in his first run in New Orleans, but that seems like a lifetime ago. Overall, Graham's AV/G is low; he did not make the 10,000 Yard mark (and won't), but his 89 Touchdown Passes are sparkling, and when his name comes up for consideration, this should be one of the first things they look at.