Player Grade overview<\/a>.<\/p>\nMost of us as fans view PFF ratings this way: \u201cIf the grade fits my opinion of a player then it\u2019s credible, but if the grade conflicts with my conclusions then PFF is stupid garbage and should never be trusted.\u201d I\u2019m not advocating for PFF, rather I\u2019m just providing one set of data that\u2019s at least interesting.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how PFF graded and ranked the Panthers primary offensive players who played at least 300 snaps in 2025.<\/p>\n
POSNameGradePOS RankSnaps% SnapsQBBryce Young71.023 of 3896491%RBChuba Hubbard69.937 of 5943241%RBRico Dowdle63.554 of 5959156%WRTetairoa McMillan79.320 of 12792587%WRJalen Coker75.432 of 12743941%WRXavier Legette52.0123 of 12764261%TEMitchell Evans66.334 of 7539337%TETommy Tremble62.541 of 7563660%TEJa\u2019Tavion Sanders51.672 of 7539337%TTaylor Moton81.013 of 8990185%TIkem Ekwonu70.138 of 8994389%GDamien Lewis77.78 of 8098893%G\/CAustin Corbett65.433 of 8067363%CCade Mays61.025 of 3872769%<\/p>\n
When looking only at PFF grades, it\u2019s pretty apparent why the Panthers were a perfectly average team this season, going 8-9 in the regular season and backing in to the playoffs by virtue of being members of the lowly NFC South. Most of Carolina\u2019s key offensive performers have PFF grades that fall somewhere between \u201cdecent\u201d and \u201cgood\u201d, with a few outliers on each end of the spectrum. Here are the key takeaways:<\/p>\n
It feels like PFF nailed their assessment of Bryce Young. As Panthers fans we continue holding out hope that he\u2019ll \u201cmake the leap\u201d at some point, but the third-year quarterback had another below average season in 2025. He\u2019s not a bad quarterback, per se, as the 23rd-ranked signal caller in the league by PFF, but there\u2019s little confidence he will develop into they type of quarterback that can lead Panthers to the promised land one day.<\/p>\n
As evaluated by PFF, Young\u2019s grade of 71.0 this year slightly declined from last year\u2019s 74.4.<\/p>\n
While Rico Dowdle went nuts in Weeks 5-6, memorably rushing for 389 yards in those two glorious weeks, PFF liked Chuba Hubbard\u2019s season best among Carolina\u2019s two running backs. But even then, Chuba graded out as just the 37th best running back in the league<\/p>\n
I take umbrage of PFF ranking Rico Dowdle as the 54th of 59 running backs in the league. That\u2019s hogwash. The guy rushed for 0ver 1,000 yards while averaging 4.6 yards per carry, hauled in nearly 300 receiving yards, and scored seven touchdowns. But, sure, he was one of the worst running backs in the league.<\/p>\n
The Panthers have two outstanding young receivers in rookie Tetairoa McMillan and second-year stud Jalen Coker. PFF ranked Tet among the Top 20 in the league at his position, and Coker came in at 32. Sounds about right.<\/p>\n
Xavier Legette, on the other hand, was graded as one of the worst wide receivers in the league, coming in at No. 123 of 127. The 2024 first round pick has had a slow start to his career and if anything took a step back in 2025 with just 35 receptions for 363 yards in 15 games, catching just 54.7% of his targets.<\/p>\n
One of the most unexpected success stories from Carolina\u2019s 2025 campaign was the emergence of rookie tight end Mitchell Evans. The fifth-round pick had 19 receptions for 171 yards and two touchdowns in his first NFL season, hauling in 76% of balls thrown his way. He earned PFF\u2019s highest grade this year among the Panthers trio of tight ends, finishing the season No. 34 at his position.<\/p>\n
PFF seemed to be awfully harsh on Ja\u2019Tavion Sanders, ranking him among the worst tight ends in the league at No. 72 of 75. While he didn\u2019t light the world on fire with 29 receptions for 190 yards and a touchdown over 13 games, he did catch 85.3% of his targets this year.<\/p>\n
Veteran right tackle Taylor Moton recorded the single best PFF season by any player on the Panthers offense at 81.0, placing him No. 13 in the league at his position. It was the second straight season for Moton to have the Panthers highest PFF score on offense<\/a>. He doesn\u2019t get a lot of praise or Pro Bowl nods, but Moton is a rock.<\/p>\nDamien Lewis finished the season ranked highest at his position by PFF at No. 8 among guards. In 2024 Lewis was the No. 13 guard in the NFL, meaning the investment in the high-priced free agent is paying dividends.<\/p>\n
Left tackle Ikem Ekwonu, guard\/center Austin Corbett, and center Cade Mays all produced perfectly average seasons as evaluated by PFF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The good people at Pro Football Focus spend enormous amounts of time breaking down every player\u2019s performance on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2584,2585,2567,7,781,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-708051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolina-panthers-news","11":"tag-carolina-panthers-roster","12":"tag-carolinapanthers","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-general","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115965151360264514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708051","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=708051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}