PFF scores vs Detroit

[CJD]

(10-18-2021, 09:48 AM)jj22 Wrote: Interesting Hendrickson isn't listed as a high grade earner considering the narrative that Sewell struggled.....

What was his grade? I though he had a good game.

Pass rushing/pass blocking grades in PFF are probably always going to be the most "questionable" in terms of comparing them to statistics because to fans and to most of the NFL, sacks are really important but to PFF, they're just 1 bad play in a sea of 40+ plays.

Let's say Hendrickson got 5 pressures, 1 sack and 1 tackle for no gain in 40 pass rushing sets (I'm not saying those numbers are correct, but they're probably not far off). To your typical fan, that's a really good day and we would say that Hendrickson dominated Sewell.

But to PFF, that is 7 bad plays and 33 good plays by Sewell. Plus, they probably didn't attribute the sack to Sewell because it was technically the TE that gave up the sack, if I recall correctly.