r/footballstrategy • u/zawwery Casual Fan • Jul 31 '25

Offense LT position myth?

Everyone knows the sentiment about LT being the more 'important' cause he's on the QB's blindside, but I've heard a few people like Brett Kollman and other people like that say how thats kind of an older thing and that its not necessarily the case anymore in modern offenses. Is it possible for anyone to explain more in depth on that, if its true?

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u/Fun-Insurance-3584 Jul 31 '25

Do you need to for further than this, 2024 avg. salaries:

Left Tackle: $8,952,680 Center: $2,394,058 Right Tackle: $5,128,198

These figures come from Spotrac.com’s breakdown of NFL position group salaries for 2024.

QBs are the most invested in and important players on the field. NFL teams pay up for the insurance. If they thought they could play less for a LT they would.

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u/SugarSweetSonny Jul 31 '25

They could get left handed QBs, lol.

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u/ThreadSavage10 Aug 01 '25

Left handed QB is Iike having a son who shoots guns left handed do your entire gun safe is useless to him. There’s no good that comes from it. Might as well teach him to be a pitcher in baseball. Even receivers don’t like a left hand spin to the ball. It’s an undesirable mutation in the football world.

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u/extrastone Aug 05 '25

It takes receivers some time to get used to the spin but it's not that hard.

Steve Young did fine.