Questions about the Patriots’ offensive front start along the line of: Can Will Campbell’s knee hold up?

With training camp set to start at the end of the month, we’ll provide a position-by-position breakdown of where the Patriots stand. We started with the quarterbacks, wide receivers, running backs, and tight ends/fullbacks. Today, we finish up our look at the offense with a breakdown of the offensive line.

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Roll call: LT Will Campbell, LG Alijah Vera-Tucker, C Jared Wilson, RG Mike Onwenu, RT Morgan Moses, G/C Ben Brown, G Mekhi Butler, G JonDarius Morgan, T Caleb Lomu, T Dametrious Crownover, T James Hudson, G/T Andrew Rupcich, T Marcus Bryant, G/T Caedan Wallace, T Lorenz Metz, OL Sebastian Gutierrez, OL Jacob Rizy.

By the numbers:

4: The number of offensive line combinations the Patriots started in 2025 (down from 11 in 2024).

1,082: The number of regular-season offensive snaps played by Onwenu last season, a team-high 98.9 percent.

The skinny: There’s more uncertainty about the offensive line than any other position on the roster. Where to start?

At left tackle, Campbell is working his way back to 100 percent after a knee injury clearly hindered his play down the stretch and into the postseason. On the right side, Moses turned 35 in March, and he didn’t play at all during mandatory minicamp after an undisclosed health issue sidelined him late in OTAs.

On the interior, Wilson moves from left guard to center to take over for Garrett Bradbury, and while he appeared very comfortable there in the spring, he has yet to take snaps at the position in the NFL. Vera-Tucker is penciled in as the starting left guard but has never played 17 games in a season in his career and was out all of last year.

One new face who will be part of the conversation is Lomu, who played almost exclusively at left tackle as a two-year starter at Utah but spent a lot of time at right tackle during spring workouts in place of Moses. The first-round pick has drawn early raves from coach Mike Vrabel.

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“He’s been an unbelievably coachable player,” Vrabel said of Lomu, who also repped briefly at guard in the spring. “He’s young, he’s big, he’s athletic, and he’s willing to learn. He’s excited about learning. So, where he plays, we want to end up with the five best linemen. I think he’s going to have the ability to play both [left and right tackle].”

So, can they make it all work? It can be a fool’s errand to make a sweeping judgment about the offensive line until the pads go on in August. And even then, you really don’t know what sort of group you have until you’re a few games into the regular season.

To that point, look at last year’s group, which faced many of the same sort of personnel questions at this point before coalescing nicely by the middle of the season. Campbell’s November knee injury threw a wrench into the group’s evolution, with the effects being felt all the way through the Super Bowl. But the improvement from 2024 to ′25 was undeniable.

As the new season dawns, the hope is Vrabel and the coaching staff will find a similarly productive blend that will allow them to craft a protection plan worthy of a championship-driven offense. If they can find the right mix, good things will almost certainly follow. If not, it would hinder the development of what could be a very good offense.

How does this position rate against the rest of the league? If healthy — particularly Campbell — it’s a group that’s somewhere in the middle of the pack.

Quote of note: “Getting back healthy, I did [physical therapy] five days a week the entire offseason. Until we got back, basically. Just trying to rebuild the strength in my knee to get it back to where it was previously. And I feel like I did a good job with that. Just working, training, and trying to put myself in the best position possible to come back in the best shape I can.” — Campbell, talking this spring about his offseason focus.

Biggest story lines: Can those who remained after the Super Bowl find a way to rebound after a ghastly outing on the big stage? Is Campbell’s knee sound enough for him to hold up on the edge consistently against the league’s elite pass rushers? Can the Patriots get another season out of Moses? And can rookies Lomu and Crownover make contributions in 2026?

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