NFL Offensive Line Analyst Compares Former Oklahoma Sooner to Hall of Famer

The Oklahoma Sooners have been an offensive line pipeline into the NFL throughout their history. You could make a case that the Sooners boast the two top tackles in the NFL between Trent Williams and Lane Johnson.

Johnson is the lynchpin of the entire Eagles' offense and is the best pass protector in the NFL right now across all positions. His staunch play over his career has made him an all-but-certain Hall of Fame lock whenever he decides to hang up the cleats.

One analyst compared Johnson's play to a recently-inducted Hall of Famer. Brandon Thorn, the owner of the Trench Warfare substack, a voter for the Joe Moore Award handed to the best offensive line in CFB, and an offensive line contributor for Bleacher Report and Establish the Run labeled Johnson as the "like the RT [right tackle] version of Joe Thomas" following the Eagles' win over the Green Bay Packers.

The former fourth overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, Johnson has been an Eagle his whole career. Over the course of his NFL career, Johnson has allowed just 32 sacks-with 11 of those coming his rookie season. Since that time, he's allowed just 21 sacks in 10 seasons. In two of those seasons, Johnson did not allow a single sack and he also allowed just one sack apiece in four seasons.

This has come on the heels of playing for three separate head coaches and multiple different quarterbacks throughout his tenure.

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The most astounding part of Johnson's career is perhaps his play in the last four seasons. He's been over 30 throughout Nick Sirianni's tenure as head coach, but he's allowed just three sacks in the last four seasons. All three came in 2023, serving as perhaps the biggest sign of how much the Eagles fell apart last season.

With four All-Pros, five Pro Bowl nominations, and a Super Bowl ring, I feel confident saying that Lane Johnson is a Hall of Fame lock after he retires. If (when) he makes it in, he would be the first Sooners player drafted out of Oklahoma since Tommy McDonald (1998) to enter the Hall of Fame.

I'd expect Trent Williams to join him there as well.