About interior linemen
It just occured to me that some players, in fact most players, are not allowed to receive a forward pass. Doesn't that mean that some players spend their entire playing careers just ramming into other players? That sounds boring af. Like you're facing a dude at the line of scrimmage, and when the whistle blows, your only job is to just ram into that guy, and it's just rinse and repeat? Without ever touching the actual ball besides a few exceptions? Of course this is a gross oversimplification of the duties of the interior linemen but at least in almost any other sport like hockey or basketball, everyone gets to play the puck/ball pretty equally and score.
Even the wikipedia article describes the eligible ball carriers as "skill positions" and the rest are "heavily reliant on power and brute strength". I mean, even the description of the positions sounds like there are a few positions that get to do the fun stuff that takes skill and the rest just ram into other players, and that creates a strong imbalance of perceived importance, fame, and recognition. Like even before I became interested in football, I knew who Tom Brady was and I had heard of other quarterbacks like Mahomes. And mind you, I live in Finland where "American football" is not a thing.
Am I missing something? Is the ineligible receivers' job more interesting and versatile than it sounds?