Much Hinges On Guyton's Progress in 2025
Dallas is not losing hope in '24 1st Rd Left Tackle, but they need a big step forward.
Let’s not sugarcoat Tyler Guyton’s 2024.
It was bad.
The team knows it, and he knows it too.
It wasn’t that he didn’t give it everything he had. It was more that the harder he tried, the worse things got. He was in over his head. He wasn’t trained well enough, and against the stiffest tests, everything unraveled—things started speeding up instead of slowing down.
“I want to be the guy that can be depended on. I just feel like I had a lot to prove and I needed to work on thing. I'm not going to make any excuses. I just didn't play as good as I needed to last year.” - Tyler Guyton on May 30th.
According to ProFootballFocus grading, the following was true about Guyton’s rookie season:
Of tackles who played 50% of available snaps, Guyton was graded 57th best out of 58. The only tackle below him was New England’s Demontrey Jacobs.
As a pass blocker, he was graded 51st of those 58 (which found Terence Steele at 52nd, by the way).
As a run blocker, he was graded 54th of those 58 (Steele was 13th in the NFL).
Of rookie tackles in 2024 (regardless of the round they were taken) who played at least 500 snaps, Guyton was graded the very worst.
He committed 18 penalties which was the 3rd most in the NFL in 2024 including 8 pre-snap penalties and 8 holds. Laremy Tunsil and Jawaan Taylor both had 19, but they also both played over 500 more snaps than Guyton. On a per play basis, he easily led the NFL in penalties.
As they say, there is nowhere to go but up.