Micah Parsons says it all about Lane Johnson after Philadelphia Eagles star lineman gets huge NFL honor ahead of 2025 season
“He’s just a pain to deal with.”
Philadelphia Eagles’ star offensive tackle Lane Johnson enters the 2025 NFL season with the league-wide respect that he’s most certainly earned over the past 12 years.
Coming off his fifth All-Pro selection and a second Super Bowl title, the NFL has Johnson ranked No. 23 on its Top 100 list. Players who’ve battled against him, including big-time rival and Dallas Cowboys star defender Micah Parsons, weighed in on what it’s like to line up opposite one of the best.
“He has such an anchor,” Parsons said. “He just anchors down. He’s got this wide set, and he can just grab you with his long arms. But he’s strong as hell, and I don’t think people realize that. He’s just a pain to deal with on Sundays.”
Johnson wrapped up the 2024 season as the top-graded offensive tackle in both pass-blocking (83.1) and run-blocking (92.2), according to Pro Football Focus.
And even at 35 years old, he’s confident that he’s far from slowing down anytime soon.
“I feel like I’m getting close to maybe my peak,” Johnson said earlier this offseason. “As weird as it is to say, but that’s truly how I feel. I feel like even though I’m 35, I feel better than I was when I started (or when I was) 29 or 30. I had the (ankle) surgeries, and so for me the toughest year was ’21, and you can go back and watch it, you can clearly see on film, I was very hindered with my left foot.”
Perhaps the best part about Johnson is that he signed a contract extension that keeps him in Philly until 2027. That’s good news for Saquon Barkley and the Eagles’ run game, but not so good news for Parsons, who will have three more seasons of dealing with some painful Sundays.