2025 New York Jets Offensive Tackle Room
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The entire New York Jets offensive tackle room in 2025 heading into training camp.
The New York Jets have one of the most talented pairs of bookend offensive tackles in the NFL in 2025.
Olu Fashanu mans the blindside, and Armand Membou, the No. 7 overall pick in April’s draft, mans the right tackle spot. On paper, the Jets have one of the best offensive lines they have had in 15 years as an overall unit.
Fashanu, 22, and Membou, 21, have a chance to be together for the next decade plus. They’re really talented now, but the more football experience they get, the better off they will be.
Assessing the Jets Overall Depth at the Offensive Tackle Positions
According to ESPN’s depth chart for the Jets, they have five players listed at offensive tackle.
The two starters that we already mentioned and Carter Warren, Obinna Eze, and Chukwuma Okorafor.
Warren, 26, entered the league as the No. 120 overall pick in the 2023 NFL draft out of Pittsburgh. The reason the former Panthers product slipped on draft day is because of his medicals.
Across his two seasons with the team, he has appeared in 14 total games and has made six starts. According to Pro Football Focus, Warren has not performed well with those opportunities.
In 2024, Warren received a 44.6 overall grade, a 34.1 pass block grade, and a 58.4 run block grade. Those grades ranked No. 128th, No. 129th, and 83rd among offensive tackles in the NFL.
Obinna Eze, 27, has played with three NFL teams, including the Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers, and now the Jets. He also had a stint in the UFL with the Michigan Panthers. He has not registered any stats during his NFL career to date.
Finally, Chukwuma Okorafor is the most experienced offensive lineman the Jets have. Okorafor, 27, has appeared in 78 games and has made 60 starts. He was a sneaky signing that not a lot of people are talking about.
Okorafor signed a one-year $1.3 million contract with only $757,500 guaranteed in his deal.
The Jets Have a Backup Left Tackle Issue That No One Is Talking About
If God forbid Fashanu gets hurt, it’s unclear what the Jets’ plan of attack is.
Some people have assumed that Okorafor would step up to the plate, but I’m not so sure. Last year, Okorafor signed with the New England Patriots to be their right tackle, but something changed during the offseason that changed their mind.
Instead, they asked him to play left tackle for the first time in his career. It went worse than anyone could have imagined. Okorafor appeared in 12 plays, was benched, and was eventually placed on the reserve/left the squad list and was ruled out for the year.
Speaking with folks who cover the Patriots, they tell me the beef between Okorafor and the team was centered around the right tackle versus left tackle conversation. Okorafor signed up to play right tackle, not left tackle, and he had a disagreement with the team about it.
Fast forward a year, and now all of a sudden, he would be cool playing left tackle in a pinch? That doesn’t pass the smell test.
So if he wouldn’t play left tackle, who would?
Warren? Max Mitchell? Eze? Those alternatives don’t exactly inspire confidence. In a perfect world, an NFL team has a swing tackle who serves as the sixth offensive lineman. If either the starting left or right tackle got hurt, that player could jump into either role. The Jets don’t appear to have that luxury on the roster.
That could come back to bite them later this season.