Penei Sewell

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

• AP First-Team All-Pro: 2023, 2024
• Pro Bowl: 2022, 2023, 2024
• 2021 PFWA All-Rookie Team
• 2021 Pro Football Focus All-Rookie Team
• Became the third tackle in Lions history to earn multiple First-Team AP All-Pro selections in 2024, joining Lou Creekmur (1954, 1956-57) and George Christensen (1931, 1934).
• Selected to his third-straight Pro Bowl in 2024, joining Lou Creekmur (1950-57) and Lomas Brown (1990-95) as the only Lions tackles to be named to at least three Pro Bowls.
• A second-time team captain in 2024, he started all 17 games and posted an 89.6 overall PFF grade on the season.
• Was named a team captain for the first time in 2023 and started all 17 games on the season.
• Led all NFL tackles with a 92.8 overall PFF grade in 2023. He also led all tackles with a 95.1 PFF run-blocking grade, the second-highest grade by a tackle since 2008.
• Played in 38-career games before his 23rd birthday, the second-most games played by an NFL offensive lineman before reaching the milestone. His 38-career starts are the fourth-most by an NFL player before their 23rd birthday.
• Started in all 17 games for the Lions in 2022, surrendering only 1.5 sacks en route to his first-career Pro Bowl berth.
• Recorded one reception for nine yards in Week 14 vs. Minnesota (12/11/22) for a first down late in the fourth quarter. It was the third-longest reception by an OL in franchise history and the longest since T Taylor Decker's 11-yard reception in 2018.
• Had Pro Football Focus' 10th-highest run-blocking grade among all NFL offensive tackles in 2021 (85.3).
• Started all 16 games in which he appeared in 2021, with his first eight starts coming at left tackle and his last eight coming at right tackle.
• At 20 years and 338 days old, he became the youngest player to start an NFL game at left tackle when he started vs. the San Francisco 49ers in Week 1 (9/12/21). He also became the second-youngest player to appear in a game in franchise history and the second player in franchise history to start a game before turning 21.
• Joined the Lions as a first-round selection (7th overall) in the 2021 NFL Draft out of Oregon. He became the second-highest drafted offensive tackle in franchise history and Detroit's youngest first-round pick in the common draft era (20 years and 202 days).

COLLEGE:

• Played at Oregon from 2018-19 and started 20 games at left tackle. In 1,376-career snaps, he only allowed 1.0 sack. In 2019, he joined RB LaMichael James (2010) and QB Marcus Mariota (2014) as the only Oregon players to be unanimous First-Team All-Americans. He also became the first Polynesian, first sophomore offensive lineman and first Duck to win the Outland Trophy in 2019. Oregon went 17-3 in two seasons with Sewell in the starting lineup.
• 2019: Started 13 of 14 games at left tackle.
  • Outland Trophy Winner (NCAA's top interior lineman)
  • Morris Trophy Winner (Pac-12's top offensive lineman)
  • Polynesian College Football Co-Player of the Year
  • AP Pac-12 Co-Offensive Player of the Year
  • Unanimous All-American
  • Finished as the top-graded offensive lineman in the FBS and in Pro Football Focus history at 95.5
• 2018: Started all seven games played (all at left tackle).
  • Rated the top freshman offensive lineman overall, the No. 2 offensive lineman in the Pac-12 and the No. 7 tackle in the nation with an 84.0 grade from Pro Football Focus
  • First Oregon true freshman offensive lineman to start the first game of the season since 1997

PERSONAL:

• Attended Desert Hills High School in St. George, Utah.
• Played in the 2018 U.S. Army All-American Bowl and the 2018 Polynesian Bowl.
• Brothers Gabriel, Nephi and Noah all played Division I football before embarking on professional careers, which includes NFL stints for Nephi and Noah.
• Grew up on the main island of American Samoa before moving to the U.S. with his family in 2012.