PFF: Highest-graded Bills players on defense vs. the Colts PFF: Highest-graded Bills players on defense vs. the Colts Kam Towle The Buffalo Bills beat the Indianapolis Colts, 30-20, in Week 10 at Lucas Oil Stadium. Statistics might help determine who played well or not, and so may the eye test. But, let’s take it a step further with some help from the analytics folks at Pro Football Focus. Using PFF grades from Week 10, here are the five highest-graded players from the Bills (8-2) defense against the Colts (4-6). 5. Dorian Williams Getty Images PFF grade: 77.2. 4. Taron Johnson USA Today Sports PFF grade: 85.5. 3. Von Miller PFF grade: 86.0. 2. Greg Rousseau Imagn Images PFF grade: 90.1. 1. Cam Lewis Imagn PFF grade: 90.6. Read all the best Bills coverage at the Democrat and Chronicle and Bills Wire.
PFF: Highest-graded Bills players on defense vs. the Colts
Giants news, 11/13: Joe Schoen presser, Evan Neal, Dexter Lawrence, more headlines
Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images New York Giants news for Wednesday Good morning, New York Giants fans! From Big Blue View Giants’ GM Joe Schoen insists ‘we’re not far off’ despite team’s 2-8 record, more takeaways Schefter: ‘Anything’s possible’ with Brian Daboll, New York Giants 2025 NFL Draft QB stock report: Which quarterbacks helped themselves in Week 12? Dexter Lawrence needs help, and the Giants can’t offer it on the defensive line Giants are better at edge defender, but are they good enough? Evan Neal showed signs of improvement vs. Panthers — film study Other Giant observations Ranking the best NFL rookies after Week 10 | PFF 4. CB Andru Phillips, PFF Grade: 84.6. Phillips has earned the third-highest coverage grade in the NFL this season and is coming off a career-best performance in Munich against the Panthers. He allowed only three receptions across 22 coverage snaps, holding them to a total of 6 yards, and he recorded four defensive stops, too. 7. WR Malik Nabers, PFF Grade: 80.9. Though he hasn’t quite matched the level of play he showed before his injury, Malik Nabers has been a steady presence for the Giants, averaging 2.03 yards per route run through the first 10 weeks. He’s also been a primary target, seeing 10 or more targets in six of his eight games this season. Joe Schoen: Probably a mistake trying to accelerate rebuild Great question by @art_stapleton about success of 2022 season led to Giants trying to accelerate their rebuild. pic.twitter.com/rqFXhi71aC — Giants Daily (@NYGDaily) November 12, 2024 NY Giants: Should Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll lose their jobs? | The Record There have also been suggestions that, for Schoen and Daboll, their time is up, despite a vote of confidence from co-owner John Mara last month. It’s worth pointing out that, under the guise that the Giants are nowhere near where they expect to be in the standings, revisionist history is being used against them, and the takes are disingenuous. But there’s a lot at play here. How the Giants respond to perception when everyone in their building knows what the reality was when Schoen and Daboll took over, and how far from that they truly are right now despite the record. Tyrone Tracy Jr. nominated for Rookie of the Week | Giants.com For the fourth time this season, running back Tyrone Tracy Jr. has been nominated for the Pepsi Zero Sugar Rookie of the Week. Tracy and wide receiver Malik Nabers have each been nominated for the award four times through the first 10 weeks of the season. The 24-year-old running back carried the ball 18 times for 103 yards, good for an average of 5.7 yards per carry, and a touchdown in Munich. Tracy finished the game with three runs of 10+ yards, including his impressive 32-yard touchdown run. The rookie back proved difficult to tackle as he matched his season-high with five missed tackles forced, while setting a new high mark with 4.28 yards after contact per attempt. ‘The QB has to make the throws’ .@Giants can draw up all the plays in the dirt from ghe beginning of time….the QB has to make these throws. Its free money #BaldysBreakdowns i made a mistake in saying Jalin Hyatt and I should have said @wanda1erobinson ran a perfect set up route. Please forgive the mistake pic.twitter.com/DzlNTk1j2H — Brian Baldinger (@BaldyNFL) November 12, 2024 Why your NFL team won, lost in Week 10 | PFF It was another bad day at the office for Daniel Jones, and the Giants quarterback just isn’t handling pressure well. Jones was pressured on 35.7% of his dropbacks and completed just 27.3% of his passes for 38 yards and an average of 3.8 yards per attempt, earning a 50.8 passing grade. Giants need to plug holes in NFL-worst run defense | New York Post The Giants enter their bye week surrendering 5.3 yards-per-carry this season — worst in the NFL. They’ve given up 1,471 total rushing yards, third-most in the league. Recently, opponents have been attacking the edge and running outside the tackles on the Giants — away from Dexter Lawrence in the middle. It’s been badly exposed without Kayvon Thibodeaux, who has missed the last five games with a wrist injury. Azeez Ojulari has filled in at outside linebacker and is not a strong run-stopper. There is no obvious ‘golden goose’ draft pick for Giants to lose for | New York Post ESPN NFL Draft analyst Matt Miller only has first-round grades and top-32 rankings on two college quarterbacks: Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders and Miami’s Cam Ward. “It’s a unique class: There’s not a great offensive tackle. There’s not a great quarterback,” said Miller. “The great players are at cornerback and defensive tackle. I think what we’ll see more than anything is that teams who want to trade up for quarterbacks, it’s not going to be as expensive as it’s been. There is not that golden goose.” NFL Draft 2025: What are Giants’ chances of getting their preferred replacement for Daniel Jones? | NJ.com We know Daniel Jones is finished as the Giants’ starting quarterback, regardless of whether he gets benched during the bye week, after that debacle of a loss to the Panthers in Munich. Even if Jones starts a few more games (or starts the rest of 2024), he won’t return in 2025. 2025 NFL draft order projections: Panthers, Patriots at top | ESPN.com Let’s take a look at the projected first-round draft order for all 32 teams using ESPN’s Football Power Index (FPI) by projecting the draft order by simulating the remainder of the season 20,000 times. Game probabilities are based largely on the model’s ratings for individual teams in addition to game locations. The order is based on the records the model believes the teams will have after 17 games and each team’s average draft position in the simulations. 1. New York Giants (2-7). Average draft position: 4.8 (last week 6.4). FPI chance to earn No. 1 pick: 17.3% (7.2%). FPI
Open thread: Which remaining regular season game are you most looking forward to?
Photo by Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Which remaining Lions regular season game are you most looking forward to watching? Now that we are at the (kind of) halfway point of the regular season, it feels like a good time to look at what lies ahead for the 8-1 Detroit Lions. Don’t get me wrong, the most important game for the Lions is the next one on their schedule. Coach Dan Campbell consistently preaches that to the team. Just focus on stacking wins—just like the Lions have been doing throughout the first half of the 2024 season. However, we, as fans, have the luxury of peering beyond the upcoming week’s matchup. And while the Lions have put several of their more anticipated games in the rear view, there are still quite a few intriguing matchups left on the schedule… after Week 10 where they will host the Jacksonville Jaguars, That brings us to today’s Question of the Day: What is your favorite game left on the regular season schedule? My Answer: I almost picked the Thanksgiving Day game against the Chicago Bears here because it has been way too long since the Lions won that game (2016!), but instead I am going with the Week 17 Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers. With the 49ers currently at 5-4 and in second place in the NFC West division. The game could have some playoff seeding implications, but my motivations are more simple than that. That’s right. I want some get back for the 2023 NFC Championship game. Some good, old-fashioned, sweet revenge sounds like it would be a good time. An almost-New-Years treat. How about you? What regular season game left on the schedule are you most looking forward to? Let us know in the comments below.
NFL power rankings Week 11 roundup
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Ranking the best NFL rookies after Week 10
Washington Commanders QB Jayden Daniels is the highest-graded rookie in the NFL after 10 weeks of NFL action.
10 takeaways from Rams Monday Night loss to Dolphins
The Los Angeles Rams arguably suffered their most frustrating loss of the season, losing to the Miami Dolphins 23-15. Needing to keep pace with the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers, the Rams fell behind in the NFC West race. A loss the 2-6 Dolphins puts a stamp on the kind of season that it has been for the Rams. Here are my 10 takeaways. 1. The slow starts on offense need to stop For the fifth time this season, the Rams failed to score in the first quarter. They currently rank 31st in first quarter points per game at 1.4 which is ahead of only the Chicago Bears. That tends to set the tone for the first half of games where the Rams rank 28th in scoring, leading only the New England Patriots, New York Giants, and Cleveland Browns. It’s hard to believe that much of that has to do with poor game planning or being under prepared. Sean McVay is one of the best schematic coaches in the NFL. Whether it’s needing to feel out games, the Rams need to find ways to get into a rhythm and find their fastball much earlier. 2. Rams started three new offensive linemen and it looked like it The Rams offense simply looked disjointed for much of the night. However, that should have been expected despite the fact that they were getting Steve Avila and Jonah Jackson back in the lineup. At the end of the day, the offensive line was consisting of new starters at 60 percent of the spots. While Steve Avila was certainly an upgrade over Justin Dedich and Joe Noteboom was filling in for Rob Havenstein at right tackle, there is something to be said about pulling Beaux Limmer for Jonah Jackson. The Rams offense has shown during the McVay era that cohesiveness along the offensive line is important. They didn’t have that Monday Night. When it comes to Jackson, the situation is complicated. The Rams paid him a lot of money and he simply hasn’t worked out how they would have liked. He hasn’t played center since his sophomore year at Rutgers so not only are the Rams playing a new face at center, but someone who’s unfamiliar with the position in the offense. The Rams front office has done a good job of admitting mistakes and moving on from players. However, they won’t do it with Joe Noteboom for some reason. The offensive line didn’t look good and two of the biggest reason were two players getting the biggest paycheck. 3. Defense kept Rams in the game…which is unexpected At the Week 10 point of the season, not many would have expected that it would actually be the Rams defense keeping them in games. However, that was exactly the case. This is a young group that still has the occasional mental lapse, but for the most part they are getting more consistent. Following the touchdown on the opening drive, the defense allowed three more points. Those points only came after a Matthew Stafford tipped ball interception. They gave the offense opportunities to take control of the game with two turnovers, but Stafford and co. could not take advantage. The Rams defense deserves a lot of props. Against an explosive offense, they finished the week ranked seventh in defense EPA and eighth in defensive success rate. The offense simply needs to reward them. 4. The defensive front took over and Jared Verse is on way to stardom There was a period during the second and third quarters in which the Rams defensive line simply took over the game. Jared Verse had six pressures and a pressure rate of 23.1 percent. That doesn’t mention his forced fumble and fumble recovery. In primetime, Verse was on the verge of taking over the game. Kobie Turner also added three more pressures and a sack. Verse is running away with the defensive rookie of the year award right now and this is only the beginning. His 20.4 percent pressure rate is the third-highest among all defenders and the second-highest by a rookie since 2018 via NextGen stats. He is going to be a star in this league. The bad news for the rest of the NFL is that him and the rest of the Rams defensive line are only in year one and two. 5. Only thing consistent about the offense is getting in its own way The only consistent thing about the Rams offense right now is how often they get in their own way. With the offense moving at the end of the first half, Alaric Jackson gave up a sack on the left side. Following Christian Rozeboom’s first interception, Kyren Williams fumbled on the very next play. With a chance to bring the game within one score, Limmer had a false start to make a 52-yard field goal a 57-yard attempt. That doesn’t mention Stafford not seeing Williams for a touchdown late in the game. This isn’t just a one week thing. These are the same type of mistakes that the Rams had last week and have plagued them in losses to the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears. The Rams offense just never looked comfortable against the Dolphins and when they had opportunities, they bottled them. To put it simply, the Rams had drives that started at their own 49, the Dolphins 36, and the Dolphins 48 and scored three points on those drives. 6. Kyren Williams has a fumbling problem Kyren Williams has fumbled three times this season which is behind only Breece Hall and Rhamondre Steveson among running backs. He’s tied with four other running backs with three. Williams fumbled last week against the Seahawks, but didn’t lose it. He lost another fumble in the loss to the Packers. It’s not just that Williams fumbled, but when he fumbled. The fumble came following a Rozeboom interception and a chance to grab some momentum. It’s a turnover that let the Dolphins off the hook.
Bengals vs. Ravens snap counts from Week 10
Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images The defense struggles again despite low snaps. Offensive injuries have led to some interesting developments in the Cincinnati Bengals’ snap counts. This was even more obvious, with the unit taking 81 snaps in the 35-34 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. With Zack Moss out, Chase Brown once again dominated the running back snaps, taking 71. Newcomer Khalil Herbert was expected to see more action, but after fumbling his first carry away, he Homer Simpson gif-ed into the bushes. Herbert played two snaps, Trayveon Williams played one, and tight end Drew Sample saw significant action in the backfield in passing situations. The absence of Erick All at tight end led to a heavy dose of Tanner Hudson. Hudson played 29 snaps, which was third behind Mike Gesicki (58) and Sample (46). Surprisingly, UDFA Cam Grandy leapfrogged sixth-round pick Tanner McLachlan to become the fourth active tight end. He saw four snaps, including Chase Brown’s touchdown run, on which he made a key block. Jermaine Burton saw significant action this week and established himself as the third wide receiver in terms of snaps. Ja’Marr Chase led the way with 77 snaps, followed by Andrei Iosivas with a nice 69 snaps. Burton added 39 snaps, and Trenton Irwin trailed the trio with 12. Chase dominated the stat sheet with 264 yards and three touchdowns on 11 receptions. Iosivas and Burton failed to make a major impact. Iosivas had two catches for 29 yards on four targets, and Burton had only one catch for 11 yards on five targets. The defense, on the other hand, took only 63 snaps. Jordan Battle was third on the team in tackles with seven despite only taking 30 snaps. He split time with Vonn Bell, who took 32 snaps, while Geno Stone took 62 snaps. Rookie Josh Newton got into the action a bit more at cornerback, taking 19 snaps, but Cam Taylor-Britt (58 snaps), DJ Turner (54 snaps), and Mike Hilton (42 snaps) remained the top dogs. DJ Ivey added eight snaps to the mix. BJ Hill and Sheldon Rankins took the lion’s share of snaps at defensive tackle. Hill played 44, and Rankins logged 41. Rookies Kris Jenkins (21 snaps) and McKinnley Jackson (12 snaps) were the primary subs, while Jay Tufele added six snaps. Bengals vs. Ravens Snap Counts Week 10
Good news, Michael Mayer is back
Michael Mayer | Stephen R. Sylvanie-Imagn Images Tight end has been out for personal reasons Michael Mayer is back with the Las Vegas Raiders. The second-year tight end was designated for return by the team Tuesday as he has returned to practice. The Raiders put the 2023 second-round pick on the reserve/non-football injury list October 11 due to a personal reason. Prior to that, Mayer has missed two weeks of practices and games. He missed the past six games. Recently, Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce said he was hopeful Mayer getting close to returning. Mayer had four catches for 21 yards in the first three games of the season. He had 27 catches for304 yards as a rookie in 2023. The Raiders traded up to take Mayer with the 35th pick of the draft. The Raiders’ planned to use Mayer often in a double tight end set with rookie sensation Brock Bowers and that is still possible this season. It is not known when Mayer will play. The Raiders play at the Miami Dolphins on Sunday with a 10 a.m. PT kickoff. Whether he plays this week or not, Mayer is clearly getting close and that is excellent news.
Former Bills linebacker surprisingly cut, could he return?
Former Bills linebacker surprisingly cut, could he return? Former Bills linebacker surprisingly cut, could he return? Nick Wojton In a surprise move, the Seattle Seahawks have made a former Buffalo Bills linebacker available for hire in the middle of the 2024 NFL season. The Seahawks (4-5) have released Tyrel Dodson. The 26-year-old only signed in Seattle this past offseason after his 2023 season in Buffalo ended and he became a free agent. Most interestingly, Dodson made 71 tackles for the Seahawks defense, a team-high, and he also totaled two sacks, two pass breakups, and five tackles for loss … and while he was released, he started all nine games for the team this year. Seattle head coach Mike Macdonald explained that others were just going to get a chance now. “We took a step back and realized where we were at,” Macdonald said about the move. “It was the best thing for us to move forward [without Dodson]. We’re going to give the other [linebackers] an opportunity.” Paired alongside Jerome Baker from the Miami Dolphins on a similar one-year deal, Dodson and Baker were slated to replace Bobby Wagner and Jordyn Brooks at linebacker in 2024. That clearly did not go according to plan, as Dodson departs Seattle after Baker already had weeks ago. Depending on price tag, Dodson is a name to keep in mind for the Bills defense. He originally signed as an undrafted free agent in Buffalo after the draft, came up through the ranks, and had a solid 2023 season before leaving. That indicates the Bills coaching staff certainly believes in the player. And the linebacker spot has had a few injuries in it this year. Currently Baylon Spector (calf) is on injured reserve. Matt Milano (knee) has been designated to return but still is weeks out. And on top of all that, Dodson does know the Bills defense already having spending years in it. He could be destined for Buffalo once again. Bills Wire will provide updates as information is made available. Read all the best Bills coverage at the Democrat and Chronicle and Bills Wire.
Week 10 Separation Report: Best receivers at beating coverage to get open
Dontayvion Wicks has created separation on 43 of his 57 opportunities this season, with his 75.44% separation percentage leading all wide receivers.
