Broncos LT Garett Bolles is building one of the best pass-blocking résumés of the PFF era

• Historic sack-free streak: Garett Bolles has gone 958 consecutive pass-blocking snaps without allowing a sack, the sixth-longest tackle streak of the PFF era.

• Elite long-term production: Since 2019, Bolles has won 93.6% of his pass-blocking reps, fifth among 105 qualifying tackles.

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Through two weeks of the 2026 season, Garett Bolles has been virtually flawless in pass protection.

The Denver Broncos left tackle has yet to allow a pressure across 69 pass-blocking snaps, earning a position-best 90.2 PFF pass-blocking grade in the process. He has won 96.9% of his pass-blocking reps, third among tackles, without surrendering a sack, hit or hurry.

Among the 62 tackles with at least 50 pass-blocking snaps this season, Bolles ranks first in pressure rate allowed (0.0%) and negatively graded play rate (2.7%). He is also the only tackle in that qualifying group yet to allow a pressure.

But two clean games barely scratch the surface of what has become one of the most impressive pass-blocking résumés of the PFF era. Bolles has now gone 958 consecutive pass-blocking snaps without allowing a sack, a streak that dates back to Week 17 of the 2024 season and the sixth-longest tackle streak of the PFF era. He has also gone 343 consecutive pass-blocking snaps without allowing either a sack or a hit, essentially half a season's worth of pass protection without surrendering a knockdown.

And that's not even the longest sack-free streak of his NFL career.

The 34-year-old offensive lineman's career-best streak stretched 995 pass-blocking snaps from Week 8 of the 2019 season through Week 2 of 2021. Only three tackle streaks in the PFF era have lasted longer: Lane Johnson‘s 1,405-snap run and two separate streaks from Tristan Wirfs, spanning 1,128 and 996 snaps.

Two of the six longest sack-free streaks by a tackle in the PFF era belong to Bolles, but his consistency extends well beyond his ability to keep his quarterback off the ground.

Since 2019, Bolles has logged 3,933 pass-blocking snaps and won 93.6% of his pass-blocking reps, fifth among the 105 tackles who have played 1,000 pass-blocking snaps in that span. His 3.92% pressure rate ranks eighth, while his 1.00% knockdown rate ranks ninth.

Perhaps most impressive is how rarely those pressures have turned into sacks. Bolles has surrendered 111 quarterback hurries and 28 hits since 2019 but just 15 sacks. That equates to a 0.38% sack rate — one allowed every 262.2 pass-blocking snaps — which ranks eighth among the same group of 105 tackles.

And his performance holds up when he is left to handle a pass-rusher without help.

Bolles has posted an island win rate of at least 90.0% in six of the past seven seasons, including each season since 2023. He currently sits at 95.6% in 2026, seventh among tackles, after ranking eighth at 93.1% in 2025 and sixth at 93.6% in 2024.

His best mark came in 2020, when he won 95.7% of his island reps, third among tackles.

The separation between those two columns is revealing. Bolles hasn't routinely ranked among the league leaders in how often he is left on an island. He has, however, repeatedly ranked near the top in how often he wins once he gets there.

True pass sets provide another useful lens because not every pass-blocking snap asks the same thing of an offensive lineman.

Screens, play-action passes, rollouts and extremely quick throws can all alter the conditions a blocker faces and limit a pass-rusher's opportunity to win. PFF's true pass sets remove those plays, as well as snaps with extremely long times to throw and those with fewer than four pass-rushers, to better isolate situations that clearly evaluate a lineman's pass protection.

Bolles has consistently excelled under those conditions. He currently owns a 91.2 PFF pass-blocking grade on true pass sets in 2026, the best mark among tackles, and he has won 100% of those reps.

It continues a three-year stretch in which he has ranked seventh or better in true pass-set grade every season. He finished second with an 84.7 grade in 2025 after ranking fourth at 85.8 in 2024 and seventh at 77.8 in 2023.

The results are significant because the favorable circumstances that can make a pass-blocker's job easier have largely been stripped away. And Bolles' performance has not suffered. He has produced a top-10 true pass-set grade in six of the eight seasons since 2019, including top-four finishes in four of them.

Zoom all the way out, and his career numbers reinforce the point.

Among 252 tackles with at least 1,000 career pass-blocking snaps since 2006, Bolles' 87.9 career PFF pass-blocking grade ranks 11th. He has allowed one pressure every 22.3 pass-blocking snaps, the 16th-best rate among qualifiers, and one sack every 208.3 snaps, which ranks ninth.

The 69 pressure-free snaps to start this season are only the latest chapter. The 958 consecutive snaps without allowing a sack make his current run historic, but the larger story extends well beyond one streak. Bolles owns two of the six longest sack-free streaks by a tackle in the PFF era, and he has paired that consistency with multiple years of high-end production on an island and in true pass sets.

Bolles hasn’t merely opened 2026 on a hot streak. For the better part of seven seasons, he has built a body of work that places him among the defining pass-blocking tackles of his era.