PFF: West Virginia football's full regular season grades
WVSports.com and the Rivals network have teamed up with PFF, the go-to site for player grades and advanced analytics in both college football and the NFL. We will incorporate PFF data into stories regularly going forward, and one thing you can look forward to each week is a grade for all of West Virginia's players from the previous game by their scale.
In this article, we use the PFF grades to show you how every Mountaineer performed in the 2023 regular season now that it has been completed, including both offensive and defensive players.
You can find an explanation of the grading system below the article.
OFFENSE:
Player | Position | Grade |
---|---|---|
Jahiem White |
HB |
92.2 |
Garrett Greene |
QB |
90.5 |
CJ Donaldson Jr. |
HB |
80.3 |
Wyatt Milum |
T |
78.2 |
Landen Livingston |
C |
77.4 |
Hudson Clement |
WR |
75.6 |
Zach Frazier |
C |
75.0 |
Bryce Biggs |
G |
74.0 |
CJ Cole |
WR |
71.4 |
Devin Carter |
WR |
71.2 |
Doug Nester |
T |
71.1 |
DJ Oliver |
HB |
66.7 |
Justin Johnson Jr. |
HB |
65.9 |
Jaylen Anderson |
HB |
65.5 |
EJ Horton |
WR |
65.5 |
Kole Taylor |
TE |
65.3 |
Nicco Marchiol |
QB |
65.2 |
Tomas Rimac |
G |
65.0 |
Sullivan Weidman |
G |
62.1 |
Nick Malone |
T |
62.1 |
Ja'Shaun Poke |
WR |
61.8 |
Preston Fox |
WR |
61.7 |
Luke Hamilton |
FB |
61.1 |
Johnny Williams IV |
T |
60.9 |
Traylon Ray |
WR |
60.2 |
Taran Fitzpatrick* |
WR |
60.0 |
Colin McBee* |
FB |
58.8 |
Ja'Quay Hubbard |
G |
58.8 |
Brandon Yates |
G |
58.5 |
Tyler Evans* |
WR |
56.8 |
Rodney Gallagher III |
WR |
55.2 |
Noah Massey |
WR |
54.3 |
Victor Wikstrom |
TE |
53.1 |
Cortez Braham |
WR |
50.3 |
Cooper Young |
G |
50.1 |
Nick Krahe |
T |
49.8 |
Jarel Williams |
WR |
48.8 |
Jeremiah Aaron |
WR |
48.1 |
Treylan Davis |
TE |
43.9 |
Will Dixon |
TE |
35.2 |
DEFENSE:
Player | Position | Grade |
---|---|---|
Zequi Lawton* |
DL |
84.9 |
Beanie Bishop Jr. |
CB |
78.5 |
Aubrey Burks |
S |
77.4 |
Fatorma Mulbah |
DL |
76.4 |
Hershey McLaurin |
S |
75.7 |
Malachi Ruffin |
CB |
72.6 |
Lee Kpogba |
LB |
71.5 |
Hammond Russell IV |
DL |
71.1 |
Oryend Fisher* |
DL |
70.3 |
Harry Hilvert* |
DL |
68.7 |
Christion Stokes |
S |
68.7 |
Anthony Wilson |
S |
68.3 |
Marcis Floyd |
S |
67.3 |
Jairo Faverus |
LB |
67.1 |
Edward Vesterinen |
DL |
66.0 |
Trey Lathan |
LB |
65.4 |
Davoan Hawkins |
DL |
64.8 |
Sean Martin |
DL |
64.5 |
Josiah Jackson |
S |
63.6 |
Corey McIntyre Jr. |
DL |
63.2 |
DJ Cotton* |
DL |
62.7 |
Jalen Thornton |
DL |
62.5 |
Jacolby Spells |
CB |
62.2 |
Tomiwa Durojaiye |
DL |
61.5 |
Avery Wilcox |
S |
61.1 |
Derek Berlitz* |
DL |
60.6 |
Aden Tagaloa-Nelson* |
CB |
60.3 |
Sullivan Weidman* |
G |
60.2 |
Jordan Jackson* |
CB |
60.0 |
Lance Dixon |
S |
59.9 |
Caden Biser |
LB |
59.1 |
Taurus Simmons |
DL |
58.9 |
Mike Lockhart |
DL |
57.7 |
Tyrin Bradley |
DL |
56.5 |
Asani Redwood |
DL |
55.4 |
Jared Bartlett |
DL |
54.9 |
Montre Miller |
CB |
50.4 |
Raleigh Collins III |
CB |
48.6 |
James Heard Jr.* |
DL |
48.3 |
Ben Cutter |
LB |
48.2 |
Tirek Austin-Cave |
LB |
46.3 |
Andrew Wilson-Lamp |
CB |
41.6 |
Keyshawn Cobb |
S |
29.7 |
On every play, a PFF analyst grades each player on a scale of -2 to +2 according to what he did on the play.
At one end of the scale you have a catastrophic game-ending interception or pick-six from a quarterback, and at the other a perfect deep bomb into a tight window in a critical game situation, with the middle of that scale being 0-graded, or ‘expected’ plays that are neither positive nor negative.
Each game is also graded by a second PFF analyst independent of the first, and those grades are compared by a third, Senior Analyst, who rules on any differences between the two. These grades are verified by the Pro Coach Network, a group of former and current NFL coaches with over 700 combined years of NFL coaching experience, to get them as accurate as they can be.
From there, the grades are normalized to better account for game situation; this ranges from where a player lined up to the dropback depth of the quarterback or the length of time he had the ball in his hand and everything in between. They are finally converted to a 0-100 scale and appear in our Player Grades Tool.
Season-level grades aren’t simply an average of every game-grade a player compiles over a season, but rather factor in the duration at which a player performed at that level. Achieving a grade of 90.0 in a game once is impressive, doing it (12) times in a row is more impressive.
It is entirely possible that a player will have a season grade higher than any individual single-game grade he achieved, because playing well for an extended period of time is harder to do than for a short period, Similarly, playing badly for a long time is a greater problem than playing badly once, so the grade can also be compounded negatively.
Each week, grades are subject to change while we run through our extensive review process including All-22 tape runs and coaching audit, so you may notice discrepancies among grades published in earlier articles compared with those in the Player Grades tool until grade lock each week.
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