- Lane Johnson retires after 14 NFL seasons: The Eagles right tackle finished his career as a six-time Pro Bowler, two-time first-team All-Pro and two-time Super Bowl champion.
- Pass protection defined his career: Johnson allowed 295 pressures and 33 sacks in 6,886 career pass-blocking snaps, including a 1,405-snap stretch without giving up a sack.
- Johnson remained selective to the end: He posted a 97.2% pass-block win rate through the first four weeks of 2026 and retired with 374 consecutive pass-blocking snaps without allowing a sack or quarterback hit.
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Lane Johnson calls it a career.
The Philadelphia Eagles right tackle announced his retirement Tuesday in a post on X, bringing an abrupt end to one of the greatest careers ever put together by an offensive tackle.
Johnson, 36, walked away as a six-time Pro Bowler, two-time first-team All-Pro and two-time Super Bowl champion. He played a whopping 11,917 snaps over a 14-year career that made him a pillar of a stellar Eagles offensive line.
And, even at the end, he was still playing at a high level.
Lane Johnson: PFF grades and rankings since 2013
Johnson earned a 79.8 PFF grade through three games and 181 offensive snaps in 2026, including an 82.3 pass-blocking grade and 76.3 run-blocking grade. He earned a positive grade on 6.1% of his snaps, 16th among qualifying tackles, while his 8.3% negative grade play rate ranked ninth at the position.
But his work in pass protection remained exceptional.
Johnson allowed just two hurries in 112 pass-blocking snaps, with no sacks or quarterback hits, and his 1.8% pressure rate ranked fourth among his peers. No NFL player has posted a higher pass-block win rate through the first four weeks of the season than Johnson’s 97.2% mark.
It extended one of the notable pass-protection streaks of his career. Johnson finished 374 consecutive pass-blocking snaps without allowing a knockdown — a sack or quarterback hit — the fourth-longest active streak in the NFL.
It’s hardly the first time he’s gone an almost unfathomable amount of time without giving up a sack, either. From Week 11 of the 2020 season through Week 9 of the 2023 season, Johnson went 1,405 pass-blocking snaps without allowing one.
Lane Johnson: PFF Pass-blocking grades and rankings from 2020
Those stretches help tell the story of a player who became one of the best pass-protectors of his generation and maintained that standard well into his 30s.
Johnson logged 6,886 pass-blocking snaps in his career and allowed just 295 pressures, including 33 sacks and 37 quarterback hits.
His 2022 season could be the high point. Johnson earned a career-best 90.1 pass-blocking grade and did not allow sacks or quarterback hits in 651 pass-blocking snaps. Two years later, at age 34, he earned an 88.7 pass-blocking grade while giving up just 14 pressures and one sack in 574 pass-blocking snaps.
That longevity is reflected throughout his PFF scoring profile.
Johnson earned a top-10 PFF grade in tackles in six different seasons, starting with an 83.5 grade that ranked ninth in 2014. He was ranked seventh in 2017, fourth in 2019, 10th in 2021 and fifth in both 2022 and 2024. His overall grade was 88.9 PFF-season that grade.
The value Johnson provided to Philadelphia is also reflected in PFF’s wins above replacement metric. He amassed 3.25 WAR from 2013 to 2025 and ranked in the top 10 in tackles metric seven times. His best season came in 2022, when his 0.48 WAR over 141 tackles ranked second. He followed that up with a 0.43 WAR in 2023, fourth among 138 players at the position.
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Even his later years offer more evidence of just how hard he was to beat.
Johnson missed seven games in 2025 with a Lisfranc foot injury, limiting him to 262 pass-blocking snaps. But he allowed just seven pressures and no sacks or quarterback hits. He returned in 2026, played another 112 pass-blocking snaps and gave up just two hurries before deciding to walk away.
In other words, the last sack or quarterback hit Johnson allowed was 374 pass-blocking snaps before he retired. That was a fitting final number for a player whose career was defined by keeping pass-rushers away from his quarterback.
Johnson left the game with two Super Bowl rings, six Pro Bowl selections, two first-team All-Pro honors and more than a decade’s worth of PFF data that puts his continued excellence in perspective.
The Eagles are missing their right tackle three games into the 2026 season. The NFL is losing one of the best pass-protectors of his era. And Johnson walks with a Canton-worthy résumé.