Eagles 2025 Position Group Report Cards: Offensive Line

The Eagles' offensive line entered the 2025 season as the best unit in football. By the time January rolled around, it had become the single biggest reason Philadelphia's Super Bowl defense crumbled in the Wild Card round against San Francisco. What happened in between is a story of injuries, regression, and a harsh reminder that dominance has an expiration date.

Series: Eagles 2025 Position Group Report Cards — Part 5 of 10

The Bookends: Mailata Dominates, Johnson Derailed

Jordan Mailata was the best offensive lineman in football in 2025. Full stop. Coming off a 2024 campaign where he earned first-team All-Pro honors and posted PFF's highest overall offensive grade (96.9), Mailata somehow managed to raise his game even further. He allowed just one sack on the season, was a mauler in the run game, and provided Jalen Hurts with a blindside protector that opposing defenses simply could not solve.

Mailata's consistency was the lone bright spot on a line that otherwise fell apart around him. Locked into a team-friendly deal through 2028, the 6-foot-8, 365-pound Australian is the foundation this offensive line will be rebuilt around. He's 26 years old and playing at an elite level. That's the good news.

The bad news starts at right tackle. Lane Johnson was his typical dominant self through the first half of the season before suffering a Lisfranc injury that cost him eight games down the stretch. The Eagles went 3-5 without Johnson — and for context, Philadelphia is 15-27 without him since 2016. That's basically Giants-level football.

Fred Johnson filled in admirably, starting nine games and logging a career-high 626 snaps, but he was a clear downgrade. The drop-off in pass protection was noticeable, and the Eagles' ability to run behind the right side diminished significantly. Johnson is a solid backup, but asking him to be a starter exposed the lack of depth behind the two bookend tackles.

The Interior Collapse

This is where the season went sideways. Landon Dickerson entered 2025 coming off meniscus surgery in August and was never right. He battled through ankle issues all year, and by the time the Eagles were eliminated, he was openly discussing the physical toll and hinting at potential retirement at just 27 years old. The three-time Pro Bowler was a shell of the player who dominated from 2022 through 2024.

Cam Jurgens had a similar story. After a brilliant 2024 season that saw him make the Pro Bowl as Jason Kelce's successor, Jurgens struggled through 2025 following offseason back surgery. His ability to get to the second level — arguably the trait that made him special — was visibly diminished. He wasn't pulling with the same explosiveness, wasn't sustaining blocks at the same rate, and wasn't the cerebral quarterback of the line that he'd been the year before.

The combination of Dickerson and Jurgens both playing below their standard gutted the interior. Philadelphia's rushing attack, which set a franchise record with 3,048 yards in 2024, regressed noticeably. The pocket collapsed more frequently from the inside, and Hurts took too many hits up the middle.

Tyler Steen manned the right guard spot and was quietly decent — he allowed just one sack and graded out better than both Johnson and Brett Toth in pass protection at various points. But Steen is a league-average starter at best, and when the guys next to him are compromised, average isn't enough.

The Stoutland Exit Changes Everything

As if the on-field concerns weren't enough, the Eagles lost Jeff Stoutland this offseason after 13 years as the team's offensive line coach. Stoutland was widely regarded as the best in the business — a coach who turned mid-round picks into Pro Bowlers and extended the careers of aging veterans through technical refinement.

His replacement, Chris Kuper, comes from the Vikings and brings solid credentials, but he's inheriting a unit that needs more than coaching continuity. Dickerson's health is a legitimate question mark. Jurgens needs to prove the back is behind him. Johnson will be 36 in May. And the depth behind the starters — Cameron Williams, Myles Hinton, Drew Kendall — is unproven at best.

The 2026 Draft Looms Large

Howie Roseman has to address this line in the draft. The days of running it back with the same five and assuming health are over. Philadelphia needs at least one interior lineman who can push for immediate playing time, and ideally a developmental tackle to groom behind Mailata and Johnson.

The offensive line went from the greatest strength on the roster to its most pressing concern in a single season. Injuries were the primary culprit, but the warning signs were there — an aging right tackle, an interior that relies on two players with extensive injury histories, and a coaching change that disrupts the development pipeline.

Overall Grade: C+

Mailata deserves an A+ on his own, and a healthy Johnson is still elite. But the interior's regression, the depth issues exposed by Johnson's absence, and the coaching upheaval drag this grade down significantly. This was a unit that entered the year as the best in football and left it as a liability. The ceiling is still enormous if health cooperates in 2026 — but banking on health with this group feels like a dangerous bet.

Up next in the series: Part 6 — Defensive Line