many as Walter Jones allowed in his career) and was often cited as one of the worst pass blockers in the NFL at the time. The Jags went 3-13 and finished dead last in points and net yards per pass attempt. Plenty of that falls on Blake Bortles, but Joeckel and the rest of the offensive line weren’t helping.

In 2015, Joeckel started 14 games at left tackle and was starting to get some praise from our JAX sister site Big Cat Country:

Luke Joeckel had the best season of his career at left tackle. He played steadily for most of the first 15 games, but then he had an absolute meltdown and played the worst game of his career in the final game against the Houston Texans. That kindat the context of his NFL career, it’s easier to understand why that hasn’t happened:

He came into a situation in Jacksonville that had a lot of moving parts, including a new GM, head coach, offensive line coach, missing piece at center that had held things together for so long, and then a move from left tackle to right tackle and then back to left tackle.

Getting almost no experience as a pro left tackle from the time he was drafted until the start of his second season, a period of about 18 months. Consider that so many of those first-year practices and exhibition games came on the right side.

A poor year at left tackle that was really his rookie season, protecting the worst QB in the NFL.

A decent year