PFSN’s Football Debate Club re-ranked the top five offensive tackles from the 2025 NFL Draft with conviction. Armand Membou and Kelvin Banks Jr. were unanimous at OT1 and OT2, and then the real argument started at OT3. NFL Draft analyst Ian Cummings put Josh Simmons at No. 3, while NFL analyst Jacob Infante kept Will Campbell there.
Why Armand Membou, Kelvin Banks Jr. Are the Consensus Top 2
Membou earned the OT1 spot the same way he played all season: with no drama. The No. 7 overall pick by the New York Jets started all 17 games on a team that was the only one in the league to start the same five offensive linemen every week. Membou earned PFWA All-Rookie honors as a right tackle.
Banks at OT2 has similar receipts. The No. 9 overall pick by the New Orleans Saints started all 17 games at left tackle, led the team in offensive snaps (1,066), and joined Membou on the PFWA All-Rookie team. Both analysts agreed: Membou and Banks were the steadiest cornerstones of this class.
Then, things got interesting.
At No. 3, Infante stuck with the No. 4 overall pick, Campbell.
“I’d have Campbell three overall because the regular season was a lot more steady [than] in the postseason,” Infante said. He pointed to PFSN’s OL Impact Score: “Out of 107 qualified offensive tackles, Will Campbell placed 39th overall. And for reference, you’re looking at Aireontae Ersery, Josh Simmons, Josh Conerly Jr. — none of them placed in the top-55 even.”
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Campbell started all 12 games before suffering an MCL sprain in Week 12 against the Cincinnati Bengals that put him on injured reserve for four games. He returned for the playoffs but was clearly diminished.
Then came the Super Bowl. Campbell allowed 14 pressures in Super Bowl LX, the most by any offensive lineman in a game all season, regular or postseason. Across four playoff games, he allowed 29 pressures, the most in the Next Gen Stats era since 2016.
Cummings explained why he has Simmons ahead of Campbell.
“Will Campbell, I do think there’s a little bit of knee-jerk reaction to the Super Bowl,” Cummings said. “But I look at Josh Simmons over in Kansas City. I think you have a guy who has a similar size profile, similar length profile, but I think is a far superior athlete and was more consistent in pass protection this past year.
“He had the lowest true dropback pressure rate allowed among all of these tackles, just a 6.6%.”
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Simmons played only 8 games before a fractured wrist on Thanksgiving ended his rookie year, but the tape was almost universally clean. He instantly stabilized a Chiefs left tackle spot that had been a weak point for years.
Ersery rounded out the top five. The Houston Texans’ second-round pick at No. 48 became C.J. Stroud’s blind-side protector and was one of only 11 tackles in the NFL to play 1,000-plus snaps as a rookie.
Some saw the Patriots’ top 2026 draft pick as a partial vote of no-confidence in Campbell. New England traded up to draft Utah tackle Caleb Lomu at No. 28, but he projects to be the right tackle of the future behind 35-year-old Morgan Moses.
At the end of the day, this is a debate between whether Simmons’ small-sample dominance protecting Patrick Mahomes outweighed Campbell’s measured regular season and historically bad postseason.
