West Virginia Mountaineers PFF Grades from Oklahoma State
WVSports.com and the Rivals network has 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 the Mountaineers performed during their 27-13 loss to Oklahoma State.
On every play, a PFF analyst will grade 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.
OFFENSE:
Player | Position | Grade |
---|---|---|
Zach Frazier |
C |
63.9 |
Reese Smith |
WR |
62.5 |
Alec Sinkfield |
RB |
62.4 |
Leddie Brown |
RB |
61.6 |
T.J. Simmons |
WR |
59.6 |
Chase Behrndt |
LT |
58.3 |
Sam James |
WR |
58.0 |
Sean Ryan |
WR |
57.1 |
Isaiah Esdale |
WR |
53.9 |
Michael Brown |
RG |
53.1 |
Winston Wright |
WR |
52.8 |
James Gmiter |
LG |
51.6 |
Brandon Yates |
LT |
50.8 |
Jarret Doege |
QB |
50.2 |
Mike O'Laughlin |
TE |
49.8 |
John Hughes |
RT |
49.5 |
Bryce Ford-Wheaton |
WR |
49.2 |
T.J. Banks |
TE |
49.1 |
Junior Uzebu |
RT |
41.3 |
Briason Mays |
RT |
28.2 |
West Virginia's offense vs.Oklahoma State's defense
Team | Position Group | Grade |
---|---|---|
West Virginia |
Passing Offense |
50.6 |
Receivers/Pass Routes |
51.2 |
|
Oklahoma State |
Coverage |
77.6 |
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
---|---|---|
West Virginia |
Rushing Offense |
61.8 |
Oklahoma State |
Run Defense |
79.9 |
Team | Column 2 | Column 3 |
---|---|---|
West Virginia |
Pass Blocking |
25.8 |
Run Blocking |
52.2 |
|
Oklahoma State |
Pass Rush |
85.8 |
Run Defense |
79.9 |
DEFENSE:
Player | Position | Grade |
---|---|---|
Tykee Smith |
Spear |
68.8 |
Akheem Mesidor |
DT |
68.6 |
Exree Loe |
LB |
68.1 |
Dante Stills |
DT |
68.0 |
Sean Mahone |
FS |
66.9 |
Tony Fields II |
LB |
65.5 |
Jeffery Pooler Jr. |
DE |
64.9 |
Nicktroy Fortune |
CB |
64.5 |
Dylan Tonkery* |
LB |
64.4 |
Darius Stills |
DT |
64.0 |
Jalen Thornton |
DE |
63.9 |
Quay Mays* |
DT |
63.7 |
VanDarius Cowan |
LB |
62.5 |
Alonzo Addae |
FS |
62.1 |
Noah Guzman |
SS |
61.0 |
Jackie Matthews* |
CB |
60.0 |
Dreshun Miller |
CB |
59.9 |
Josh Chandler-Semedo |
LB |
59.2 |
Jared Bartlett |
LB |
51.6 |
West Virginia's defense vs. Oklahoma State's offense
Team | Position Group | Grade |
---|---|---|
Oklahoma State |
Passing Offense |
61.9 |
Receivers/Pass Routes |
66.0 |
|
West Virginia |
Coverage |
72.7 |
Team | Position Group | Grade |
---|---|---|
Oklahoma State |
Rushing Offense |
52.5 |
West Virginia |
Run Defense |
69.4 |
Team | Position Group | Grade |
---|---|---|
Oklahoma State |
Pass Blocking |
74.7 |
Run Blocking |
54.0 |
|
West Virginia |
Pass Rush |
57.0 |
Run Defense |
69.4 |
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