PFF Player Rankings Going Into Week 16

[RiverDog]

Here are the PFF player rankings for our guys along with the top ranked by position going into Week 16. The number in parathesis represents the number of players that had enough snaps to qualify for a ranking, necessary information in order to put the rankings into their proper perspective:


Offense

QB (42) Sam Darnold, #7. Top Ranked: Mathew Stafford, Rams.

WR (129) JSN, #2. Cooper Kupp, T-#38. Tory Horton, #46. Rashid Shaheed, #55. Top Ranked: Puka Nacua, Rams.

RB (62) Kenneth Walker, #3. Zach Charbonnet, #10. Top Ranked: Jahmyr Gibbs, Lions.

TE (77) AJ Barner, #17. Elijah Arroyo, #65. Top Ranked: George Kittle, Niners.

Center (39) Jalen Sundell, #26. Olusegun Oluwatimi, #37. Top Ranked: Creed Humphrey, Chiefs.

OG (78) Anthony Bradford, #61. Grey Zabel, #67. Top Ranked: Quinn Meinerz, Broncos.

OT (82) Abe Lucas, #23. Charles Cross, #26. Top Ranked: Penei Sewell, Lions.

Defense

CB (112) Devon Witherspoon, #1. Tariq Woolen, #70. Josh Jobe, #95. Top Ranked: Devon Witherspoon, Hawks.

Safety (98) Ty Okada, #17. Nick Emmanwori, #27. Coby Bryant, #32. Julian Love, #37. Quandre Diggs, #44. Top Ranked: Jalen Pitre, Texans.

LB (88) Tyrice Knight, #17. Drake Thomas, T-#25. Ernest Jones, T-#46. Top Ranked: Fred Warner, Niners.

DT (129) Leonard Williams, #6. Byron Murphy, T-#30. Jarron Reed, #55. Top Ranked: Cameron Heyward, Steelers.

DE (112) DeMarcus Lawrence, #23. Derick Hall, T-#27. Boye Mafe, #42. Uchenna Nwosu, #81. Top Ranked: Myles Garrett, Browns.

This does take some time to compose, so any comments you might have would be appreciated. If you have a specific question about the grades and/or ranking of any of our guys, or for that matter, any other player in the league, please note them in a reply and I'll look it up. I need to get my money's worth out of this subscription.

 

[stang233]

Thank you for taking the time to compile this data. It’s phenomenal

 

[falcongoggles]

Our running back ranks seem way too high. Emmanwori seems too low.

Everything else seems about right

 

[JustTheTip]

How the hell is Fred Warner still the top ranked LB weeks after his injury?

 

[Dallashawksfan]

Walker #3?

Bradford higher than Zabel?

Damn, my eyes are lying to me

 

[Seahwkgal]

PFF rankings are a joke

 

[Wsumatt1982]

Walker #3?

Bradford higher than Zabel?

Damn, my eyes are lying to me

Lucas was the highest graded offensive player this week from our entire offense. Bradford was #2.

Bradford is consistently higher than Zabel, all year. At least according to PFF

 

[Wsumatt1982]

How the hell is Fred Warner still the top ranked LB weeks after his injury?

And this is why anyone who knows knows PFF is a complete joke.

 

[flv2]

Walker #3?

Bradford higher than Zabel?

Damn, my eyes are lying to me

Bradford and Oluwatimi have earned pay rises under the NFL's Proven Player escalator provisions. Both players will be due around $3.45M next season. The money isn't guaranteed so there will be some interesting discussions before August 2026.

 

[Seahawkfan80]

Could you please put the list of safeties out there up to #44? Curious who they seem to believe is better.

 

[RiverDog]

Our running back ranks seem way too high. Emmanwori seems too low.

Everything else seems about right

I agree, and I'll toss in Zabel as one who is ranked lower than one would expect.

 

[RiverDog]

Could you please put the list of safeties out there up to #44? Curious who they seem to believe is better.

44 would be a lot. The table doesn't copy and paste very well, so I have to manually type everything on a note, which requires navigating to/from the page to make sure I got the spelling, ranking, and teams right, then copy and paste what I typed on the note into a post. It took me about 45 minutes to compose the OP.

But the top 5 safeties are:

1. Jalen Pitre, Texans.
2. Antonio Johnso, Jags.
3. Kyle Hamilton, Ravens.
4. Minkah Fitzpatrick, Fins.
5. Xavier McKinney, Packers.

 

[hawker84]

But i thought our backs are trash? According to some folks.

Look at the rb numbers compared to the OLine. Explains a lot.

 

[RiverDog]

How the hell is Fred Warner still the top ranked LB weeks after his injury?

Because prior to his injury, he accumulated enough snaps to meet the minimum for a ranking. He may very well drop out of next week's rankings when the minimum snap count threshold goes up as it does each week.

 

[hawker84]

Bradford and Oluwatimi have earned pay rises under the NFL's Proven Player escalator provisions. Both players will be due around $3.45M next season. The money isn't guaranteed so there will be some interesting discussions before August 2026.

Huh? Na they're both average to below average as hell. We need to upgrade those positions in the off season.

 

[Seahawkfan80]

44 would be a lot. The table doesn't copy and paste very well, so I have to manually type everything on a note, which requires navigating to/from the page to make sure I got the spelling, ranking, and teams right, then copy and paste what I typed on the note into a post. It took me about 45 minutes to compose the OP.

But the top 5 safeties are:

1. Jalen Pitre, Texans.
2. Antonio Johnso, Jags.
3. Kyle Hamilton, Ravens.
4. Minkah Fitzpatrick, Fins.
5. Xavier McKinney, Packers.

That is enough then. Thank you.

 

[flv2]

Huh? Na they're both average to below average as hell. We need to upgrade those positions in the off season.

The Proven Player escalator is based solely on snaps played. Players drafted in rounds 3-7 have to play 35% of snaps in 2 of the 3 years or 35% over the 3 years as a whole.

overthecap.com/proven-performance-escalator

 

[Atradees]

Seahawks week 15 defense ranked by yards allowed. #4.

Offense #9 yotal yards.

So there is a disconnect somewhere

Top 5 defense; top 10 offense
I will take it. Superb owl. Like. numbers.

Only two teams all that scary. They are in our division

Considering our O coordinator leaves the defense on the feild all day, I would say even these numbers are not reflective of the Hawks true abilities.

Ken Walker has faced 8 men in the box 43% of the time. =Run run run punt.

 

[SeahawkSteve80]

Kenneth Walker is the most pedestrian running back I’ve seen in a long time. Terrible vision, inability to break tackles, refusal to hit the hole (when there is one). He’s a Dollar General version of Barry Sanders. There’s no way in hell that he’s #3 in the league. No way

 

[Grahamhawker]

Love at #37 seems questionable at best.