Entering the 2019 NFL season, hopes were high for Seattle Seahawks right tackle Germain Ifedi. Coming into his fourth year in the league and his third season playing tackle, many fans hoped this would be the year of the breakout in which he put everything together and began to perform at a level commensurate with where he was drafted.
The exact opposite has happened.
Through the first five games of the season, his pass blocking has regressed by every available metric, his run blocking remains questionable and he’s on pace for the second highest number of enforced penalties in his career.