{"id":9394,"date":"2025-06-15T23:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/eagles-lane-johnson-explains-why-hes-getting-close-to-his-peak-at-35-years-old\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T23:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:28:20","slug":"eagles-lane-johnson-explains-why-hes-getting-close-to-his-peak-at-35-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/eagles-lane-johnson-explains-why-hes-getting-close-to-his-peak-at-35-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles’ Lane Johnson explains why he’s getting close to his ‘peak’ at 35 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Lane Johnson<\/a> is already a Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> legend. He was a member of both of Philly’s two Super Bowls teams, has been tabbed an All-Pro five times, made six Pro Bowls and is now the longest-tenured Eagles player. While he just turned 35 years old and is set to enter his 13th NFL<\/a> season, Johnson believes 2025 could be his best year yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Now, I feel like even though I’m 35, I feel better than I was when I started (or when I was) 29 or 30,” Johnson said last week, via NBC Sports Philadelphia<\/a>. “I had the (ankle) surgeries and so for me the toughest year was ’21 and you can go back and watch it, you can clearly see on film, I was very hindered with my left foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“And now, I feel like I’m getting close to maybe my peak. As weird as it is to say, but that’s truly how I feel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Maybe they need to do a Combine for guys 10 years (in the league), see how we do compared to 10 years ago.”<\/p>\n

Johnson may have a point. He has been named an All-Pro and made the Pro Bowl in each of the last three seasons, and his 88.7 PFF pass-blocking grade ranked fifth among all tackles in 2024. The legendary Eagle allowed zero sacks in the regular season, just one quarterback hit, six pressures and a 1.4% pressure rate.<\/p>\n

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This offseason, Johnson signed a one-year contract extension<\/a><\/span> that will keep him tied to Philly through the 2027 season, and he said back in March it’s “very possible” he could play out this deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think when you get to this stage of your career, you take it year by year,” Johnson said. “Physically I feel really good. I was thinking a few years ago when I was coming back from all these surgeries, I thought my body was gonna start going downhill, but I think with how strength and conditioning program we have here, the stuff we do in the offseason, I feel really good.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“As long as I’m feeling good, I feel like I can contribute, and I think I’ll continue to play. It’s all I’ve really known. I love my football family. I’m an only child, so my brothers are here in the locker room.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n