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As we have progressed through week 14, some players have been rewarded more playing time, either due to their own accord or the failure of the starter. I did this analysis early in the season, but updating results now to capture a more extended look at performance. I know I promised some other analysis, but hopefully this peaks your curiosity as I'm busy traveling for my real, yet less rewarding job. Sometimes, I just want to football...
I looked at the PFF grades through week 14 for the entire league by position. I converted each grade to a per snap count average This mainly accounts for injuries and starting position changes that limited a player's ability to extend his score.
The "Percentile" rank is another way to say that a player is better than that percent of his given position. Players eligible for ranking have to have played 25% of a team's snaps. For those of you trying to compare to PFF, I'll tell you that their snap filters do not work perfectly, so my information will not match their site. I used snaps counts from NFL.com instead. Anyways, the results below show my attempt to rank our players. This is not necessarily a way to say who makes the biggest impact, but who we're lucky (or not lucky) to have.
| Player | Position | Snaps | Rating | Rank | Total | Percentile |
| Julio Jones | WR | 298 | 7.9 | 4 | 116 | 97% |
| Justin Blalock | G | 882 | 11.2 | 15 | 81 | 81% |
| Desmond Trufant | CB | 835 | 6.9 | 24 | 112 | 79% |
| Jacquizz Rodgers | RB | 398 | 8.8 | 12 | 52 | 77% |
| Drew Davis | WR | 273 | 3.7 | 29 | 116 | 75% |
| Garrett Reynolds | G | 690 | 3.3 | 23 | 81 | 72% |
| Tony Gonzalez | TE | 811 | 1.7 | 20 | 62 | 68% |
| Matt Ryan | QB | 870 | 8.8 | 14 | 40 | 65% |
| Steven Jackson | RB | 304 | 3.3 | 21 | 53 | 60% |
| Robert Alford | CB | 404 | 0.7 | 49 | 112 | 56% |
| William Moore | S | 877 | -0.3 | 40 | 90 | 56% |
| Robert McClain | CB | 489 | 0.4 | 53 | 112 | 53% |
| Joe Hawley | C | 312 | 0.8 | 19 | 37 | 49% |
| Asante Samuel | CB | 510 | -0.2 | 58 | 112 | 48% |
| Osi Umenyiora | DE | 680 | 0.4 | 52 | 96 | 46% |
| Corey Peters | DT | 599 | 4.2 | 37 | 68 | 46% |
| Jonathan Babineaux | DT | 757 | 4.8 | 39 | 68 | 43% |
| Jeremy Trueblood | T | 639 | -2.0 | 51 | 81 | 37% |
| Joplo Bartu | OLB | 625 | -1.9 | 50 | 78 | 36% |
| Paul Worrilow | ILB | 295 | -4.0 | 39 | 58 | 33% |
| Paul Worrilow | OLB | 309 | -2.7 | 56 | 79 | 29% |
| Harry Douglas | WR | 748 | -2.7 | 83 | 116 | 28% |
| Jonathan Massaquoi | DE | 397 | -4.4 | 71 | 96 | 26% |
| Roddy White | WR | 582 | -2.4 | 88 | 116 | 24% |
| Peria Jerry | DT | 560 | -8.3 | 58 | 68 | 15% |
| Thomas DeCoud | S | 793 | -11.2 | 77 | 90 | 14% |
| Lamar Holmes | T | 857 | -25.9 | 75 | 81 | 7% |
| Darius Johnson | WR | 349 | -4.9 | 109 | 117 | 7% |
| Sean Weatherspoon | OLB | 360 | -7.5 | 74 | 79 | 6% |
| Akeem Dent | ILB | 362 | -10.5 | 54 | 57 | 5% |
| Peter Konz | C | 591 | -15.1 | 35 | 36 | 3% |
I want to make a few notes. Paul Worrilow is listed twice because of his split time between ILB and OLB. Garrett Reynolds comes in pretty high on the chart, but the total PFF grades don't show the trends in performance. He has obviously been worse, which lead to his demotion. On the flip side, we have Roddy White, who has been playing injured for a majority of the season.
There are just examples to say that the overall PFF grade doesn't capture everything. Other players have little idiosyncrasies, as well. However, I'd like to see what you think about the general rankings of the players. I'll update this on conclusion of the season, as well, where we can factor in contract amounts, age, and anything else that may help us play General Manager.
Do you think anyone here is under appreciated or overvalued? Does anyone jump out or surprise you? Let me know your thoughts and ideas on how we can pretend to manage the roster during the off-season.