Michael Oher: not a fan of 'The Blind Side.' (Getty Images)

Despite their job being arguably the most important players on the field, NFL offensive linemen typically go unnoticed. Their best plays simply allow skill position players to do what they do best, enabling them to put points on the board and highlights on TV. Most of the time, linemen are only noticed when they screw up and somebody gets planted in the backfield.

According to Panthers tackle Michael Oher, that issue is exacerbated when it comes to him. Oher's life and road to the NFL were documented in the Michael Lewis book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game and then dramatized in the movie, The Blind Side, for which Sandra Bullock won Golden Globe and Academy Awards for portraying Oher's adoptive mother, Leigh Anne Touhy, which Oher said has affected how people view his play.

"Offensive linemen don't get looked at,'' Oher said, according to ESPN.com. "Nobody is paying attention to the offensive line. But me? I'm getting watched for everything."

"That's taken away from my football,'' Oher said. "That's why people criticize me. That's why people look at me every single play.''

Oher entered the NFL as a highly-touted tackle prospect out of Ole Miss in 2009, when he was selected in the first round by the Ravens. He had an excellent first season in Baltimore, but play has since been up-and-down, at best. He was cut by the Titans just a year into the four-year, $20 million contract he signed with them last year (after grading out as Pro Football Focus' 75th-ranked tackle out of the 84 that played at least one-quarter of their team's snaps), before ending up in Carolina on a two-year, low money deal earlier this offseason.