2025 NFL Offensive Lines: The Nine Biggest Things Fantasy Players Must Know with Brandon Thorn (Episode 884)
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🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva talk with ETR’s resident Offensive Line Guru, Brandon Thorn (Trench Warfare, OL Masterminds), to assess the biggest changes across offensive lines in the NFL you need to know before drafting in 2025.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Will Houston’s “addition by subtraction” approach work?
- The new “Protector of the Year” award
- How big of an impact will Tristan Wirfs’ injury have across the Tampa Bay offense?
- Why San Francisco’s O-Line has more concerns than you think
- Are we sleeping on Dallas’ run game?
Timestamps:
0:00 - IntroÂ
2:29 - The Impact of Tristan Wirfs’ Injury
6:54 - Will Houston’s OL revamp work out?
12:17 - Cowboys Offensive Line & Philosophy Outlook
16:37 - Concerns For Darnold’s Protection in Seattle
21:10 - Callahan, Titans Invest Up Front
25:12 - 49ers Early Signs Of Concern
27:44 - Brandon Thorn’s Most Improved Units
33:30 - Brandon Thorn’s Most Declined Units
37:25 - Protector of the Year Award
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 884 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | My name is Adam Levittan. I am one of the co-founders here at ETR. |
| 0:08.9 | As always, joined by fellow co-founder Evan Silva. |
| 0:11.7 | And today we have our annual treat, our own Brandon Thorne, who has grinded so hard. |
| 0:18.1 | So far down to a nub to the point he is now widely considered |
| 0:21.4 | one of the preeminent offensive line evaluators on earth. |
| 0:26.0 | Brandon Thornt, thanks for being here. How's it going today? |
| 0:29.3 | It's going great, guys. Always happy to be here. |
| 0:32.1 | Excited to talk some ball with y'all. |
| 0:34.2 | For sure. Evan, how's it going today? |
| 0:36.5 | Doing great. Huge fan of today's guests got a chance |
| 0:40.6 | to spend some time with him in breckinridge a few weeks ago had a blast with him just a wealth of |
| 0:46.5 | knowledge you know a guy that spends time with actual NFL offensive linemen you know NFL offensive |
| 0:52.7 | line coaches you know has like some insider |
| 0:55.8 | information, like legit insider information. Just take what he says seriously. I know. I'm |
| 1:00.8 | afraid we're going to lose him to like some coaching staff in the NFL or something like that. But |
| 1:06.0 | anyways, I digress. On today's show, we're going to talk about the most interesting offensive line situations around the NFL and their impact on fantasy football. |
| 1:16.8 | We'll also hit Brandon's most improved units. |
| 1:19.0 | The units he think got markedly worse. |
| 1:22.2 | And we'll also touch on the new Protector of the Year awards market. |
| 1:27.0 | Reminder that if you want to read Thorns full and in-depth |
| 1:30.3 | offensive line and defensive line rankings, you need our draft kit pro. That draft kit pro also |
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