Pro Football Focus handed out grades<\/a> for all players who took the field, and we sorted them by best and worst (min. 10 snaps). The offense had a bunch of standout players, as did the defense, but there were some starters who still must improve.<\/p>\nTop 5 offenseWR Puka Nacua: 93.1TE Tyler Higbee: 90.5QB Matthew Stafford: 82.5RT Warren McClendon Jr.: 80.2RB Blake Corum: 76.5<\/p>\n
Nacua had the highest grade on the team after catching 10 passes for 76 yards and a touchdown, also rushing for 24 yards.<\/p>\n
Higbee was excellent in his return, catching five passes for 91 yards and a touchdown. He did drop one pass, though.<\/p>\n
Stafford had two turnover-worthy plays and one big-time throw but didn’t throw any interceptions.<\/p>\n
McClendon played well again, allowing only one pressure, which was a sack.<\/p>\n
Corum had 13 carries for 59 yards and forced just one missed tackle.<\/p>\n
Top 5 defenseLB Troy Reeder: 90.0DT Kobie Turner: 89.5NT Poona Ford: 89.5OLB Jared Verse: 87.0CB Roger McCreary: 78.3<\/p>\n
Reeder played 11 snaps at the end of the game, missing one tackle and allowing one catch for 4 yards.<\/p>\n
Turner was outstanding, recording four pressures on the afternoon with one fumble recovery.<\/p>\n
Ford was equally good, tying for the team lead with five pressures.<\/p>\n
Verse matched Ford and Desjuan Johnson with five pressures, including one sack.<\/p>\n
McCreary gave up two catches for 14 yards on two targets.<\/p>\n
Bottom 5 offenseRG Justin Dedich: 56.9TE Nick Vannett: 55.9C Coleman Shelton: 53.7WR Konata Mumpfield: 51.1TE Davis Allen: 50.5<\/p>\n
Dedich allowed three pressures and had a 36.6 pass-blocking grade.<\/p>\n
Vannett played sparingly, primarily as a blocker, and wasn’t targeted once.<\/p>\n
Shelton allowed two pressures but didn’t give up any hits on the QB.<\/p>\n
Mumpfield went catchless, seeing just one target in the win.<\/p>\n
Allen was also targeted once and didn’t have any receptions.<\/p>\n
Bottom 5 defenseCB Ahkello Witherspoon: 50.3LB Nate Landman: 49.8CB Emmanuel Forbes Jr.: 43.3DL Braden Fiske: 35.6OLB Josaiah Stewart: 34.4<\/p>\n
Witherspoon had an impressive interception but also gave up three catches for 92 yards on four targets.<\/p>\n
Landman struggled again, recording just three tackles with one missed tackle, as well. He allowed 28 yards on three catches.<\/p>\n
Forbes missed one tackle and gave up two catches for 33 yards on four targets.<\/p>\n
Fiske had four pressures on only 18 pass-rush snaps, one of which was a sack.<\/p>\n
Stewart had the highest pass-rushing grade on the team and forced a fumble on the third play of the game, but his coverage grade of 24.4 was the lowest on the team, allowing one catch for 28 yards.<\/p>\n
Other notablesOLB Byron Young: 71.6RB Kyren Williams: 68.2CB Cobie Durant: 57.4<\/p>\n
Young had three pressures, including one sack and two total tackles.<\/p>\n
Williams forced an eye-popping five missed tackles and had 60 yards on 12 carries.<\/p>\n
Durant missed one tackle but wasn’t targeted once in coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Puka Nacua capped off his remarkable season with yet another outstanding performance on Sunday The Los Angeles Rams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[9705,9707,857,247,265,240,375,390,6915,4084,5996,5999,5995,1214,1327,14440,11728,16870,11368,318,339,6916,3629,14204,58667,42128,14441,1581,25013,5997,7,18493,10153,8074,20842,1433,3417,1283,1070,5994,4076,8799,239,1014,58,2444,2611,3310,32,29148,1075,2641,8802,246,88,6,35196,1132,34211,245,264,537,10994,10997,530,1074,1088,424,8798,3555,9090,818,16871,817,829,9,266,3177,819,412,8801,1757,7390,776,34210,3685,607,9706,5952],"class_list":["post-658217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-rams","tag-ahkello","tag-ahkello-witherspoon","tag-allen","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-angeles","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-blake","tag-blake-corum","tag-braden","tag-braden-fiske","tag-byron","tag-byron-young","tag-cardinals","tag-cobie","tag-cobie-durant","tag-coleman","tag-coleman-shelton","tag-college","tag-college-sports","tag-corum","tag-davis","tag-davis-allen","tag-desjuan","tag-desjuan-johnson","tag-durant","tag-emmanuel","tag-emmanuel-forbes-jr","tag-fiske","tag-football","tag-forbes","tag-ford","tag-higbee","tag-hub","tag-jared","tag-jared-verse","tag-johnson","tag-jr","tag-kyren","tag-kyren-williams","tag-landman","tag-los","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesrams","tag-matthew","tag-matthew-stafford","tag-mccreary","tag-nacua","tag-nate","tag-nate-landman","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-nick","tag-nick-vannett","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-overall-positive","tag-poona","tag-poona-ford","tag-positive","tag-puka","tag-puka-nacua","tag-rams","tag-reeder","tag-roger","tag-roger-mccreary","tag-scores","tag-shelton","tag-sport","tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-stafford","tag-statistics","tag-troy","tag-troy-reeder","tag-tyler","tag-tyler-higbee","tag-u0026","tag-vannett","tag-verse","tag-williams","tag-witherspoon","tag-young"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}