Tristan Wirfs leads the NFC South offensive line race in the 2020s with a combined score of 111, and that total puts his name at the top of an evaluation built on Pro Football Reference AV and award points. Vita Vea does not appear in the ranking, because the list measures offensive line production only across the four teams in the NFC South.
The All-NFC South Team of the 2020s article uses AV, first-team All-Pro, second-team All-Pro, and Pro Bowl points to separate the division’s best blockers. Pro Football Reference describes approximate value as “an attempt to put a single number on the seasonal value of a player at any position from any year.”
Wirfs and the 111-point lead
Wirfs posted 71 AV, five Pro Bowl appearances, two first-team All-Pro selections, and one second-team All-Pro selection on the way to 111 points. He spent his first three years at right tackle before moving to the left side, and he had not started a game at left tackle since Sept. 28, 2019 at Iowa before making that switch.
That kind of score puts him ahead of the field because the system rewards both volume and awards, not just reputation. For a reader tracking the All-NFC South Team of the 2020s, the result is straightforward: the top spot belongs to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lineman, and the margin is wide enough to separate him from everyone else in the same pool.
Matthews, Lindstrom, McCoy
Matthews scored 45 points, and the number reflects a run of durability that the piece singles out by noting he has not missed a start since his rookie season in 2014. Lindstrom followed with 85 combined score points, built on 53 AV, four consecutive Pro Bowls, and four straight second-team All-Pro teams.
Erik McCoy reached 35 points as a two-time Pro Bowler, but injuries have cost him a lot of time in recent years. Cesar Ruiz finished with 22 points, and the article says he regressed in 2025 and could find himself in a competition for his starting job if the slide continues.
NFC South scoring logic
The scoring only counts contributions on the four teams in the NFC South, so the comparison stays inside the division rather than mixing in work from elsewhere. That makes the ranking useful as a clean benchmark for the 2020s: it isolates who has produced most at the position, then converts award history and AV into a single number readers can compare quickly.
The article is the final offensive entry in the All-NFC South Team of the 2020s series after earlier installments on quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends. The remaining question inside the truncated text is simple: which players filled out the rest of the second-team offensive line selections.
