The Eagles may draw plenty of questions up front, but there’s no mystery about their starting tackles. Around the league, Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata still command serious respect.
That showed up again in ESPN reporter Jeremy Fowler’s latest positional survey, where league coaches, executives and scouts weighed in on offensive tackles. Mailata came in at No. 4, and one evaluator even put him at No. 1.
"He was the best tackle in the NFL by far [in 2024]," said a personnel executive with an NFL team. "He regressed some last year. But that wasn't all his fault."
"He does everything consistently well," one NFL coordinator said about Mailata. "That's rare."
Mailata has long been one of those players who seems to earn praise everywhere except on the official awards sheet. He finally picked up a second-team All-Pro nod in 2024, but he has still never landed first-team All-Pro honors or a Pro Bowl selection.
The numbers from last season help explain why he remains so highly regarded. Pro Football Focus graded Mailata as the 10th-best offensive tackle in the league with an 83.4. He gave up 27 pressures, four quarterback hits and two sacks across 564 pass-blocking snaps, and he was flagged four times.
Johnson, meanwhile, also cracked the top 10, checking in at No. 7 in the same survey. That’s notable considering he was coming off a bad foot injury that sidelined him for the final two months of the 2025 season.
Even with that setback, Johnson’s 2025 work was clean. He allowed just seven pressures and did not give up a quarterback hit or sack in 262 snaps.
His résumé already speaks for itself: six Pro Bowl selections, along with three second-team All-Pro honors and two first-team All-Pro nods.
So while the Eagles’ offensive line may still invite debate, the league’s view of its two bookend tackles is pretty straightforward. Mailata and Johnson remain two of the best at what they do.
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