Evan Watkins Reviews the '23 Transfer Class by PFF Grade

I almost posted this article when I started reading it this morning and then Bar1990 posted in French's Tuten film review here about Tuten's PFF and confirmed that it would be a good discussion.

Watkins reviews each of the transfers' PFF grades and compares them to the '22 roster by position. I am not super familiar with PFF, but maybe a little more than Fuente ever was (sorry I couldn't help myself). Anyway, here is Watkins' explanation of the grade:

In the Pro Football Focus system, players are awarded grades between 0 to 100. A grade of 85 or higher is considered an NFL-caliber rating while any rating between 78-68 is considered above average. A performance graded 61-67 is considered average while below-average grades range from 50-60, and anything below 50 is considered poor.

A ranking greater than 90 is considered elite and thus is rare to achieve.

Here are some things that jumped out to me in no particular order.:

  • Jennings, Lane, and Felton all rank higher than Kaleb Smith and 2 of the three are rated between above average and NFL caliber. Our WR room was so so incredibly bad last year.
  • Drones rated very meh at 71.5, but still rates higher than Wells. Hilariously, Brown was the highest rated of the 3. This is a good example of the importance of context and sample size.
  • LB Stone Synder from VMI (which I had forgotten about) ranks better than all of our LBs last year.

Many more fun facts in the full article.

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