Trent Williams is the 49ers' best player, but is he still the best left tackle in the NFL. CBS Sports believes he is and has the advanced stats to support their ranking:
CBS Sports believes he is and"Williams' throne as the best tackle in the game is getting challenged, yet he's still at the top heading into 2024. A First-Team All-Pro for the third consecutive year, Williams didn't allow a sack in 413 pass-blocking snaps last season. He allowed just 18 pressures and a pressure rate allowed per dropback of 4.4%. Going up against Micah Parsons, Josh Allen, and Myles Garrett last year -- Williams remained unscathed.
Williams will turn 36 on July 19. Sewell is still 23. Williams misses at least two games every season. Sewell has missed just one game in his three-year career. And While Williams gave up zero sacks last season, he played just 413 pass-blocking snaps because the 49ers rarely pass the ball. As opposed to Sewell who played a whopping 643 pass-blocking snaps and gave up just one sack in 2023.
If Sewell played left tackle instead of right tackle, I'm guessing he'd be considered the best OT in football right now. Which is silly, because right tackle has become just as important as left tackle in the modern NFL.GRANT COHN Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers.
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