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Oct 19, 2020 3 mins, 44 secs
After stumbling to a 42.4 passing grade with the Miami Dolphins in 2018 — one of the worst-graded seasons we have ever recorded — Tannehill came off the bench in relief of Marcus Mariota and posted a 91.0 passing grade over the remainder of the regular season with the Titans last year.

He and Derrick Henry helped generate more expected points added (EPA) per play than any offense in a single game this season, at 0.42.

That brings their EPA per play mark for the year up to 0.22, which is on pace to be the most efficient offense in a season since the 2007 New England Patriots — who went 16-0.

On top of that, he came into Week 6 as the only quarterback in the league without a turnover-worthy play.

Rodgers then proceeded to fall apart against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 6, sputtering to the fourth-worst passing grade of his NFL career (45.8) while turning his turnover-worthy play count from a goose egg to three.

He was all over the map as a passer, and after entering the week as the league's most accurate passer, just 33% of his passes were deemed accurate in Week 6, the worst rate of the week.

The Buccaneers picked apart Rodgers and the Packers in Week 6 and now have allowed -0.15 EPA per play this season — the best in the NFL by a good margin (second is at -0.09) and on pace to be the fifth-best in the last five years.

All told, the mighty Aaron Rodgers managed just a 10.1 passer rating on throws into their coverage.

He had five big-time throws to just one turnover-worthy play en route to the third-best passing grade of the week at 84.4.

In addition, Rivers helped the Colts passing offense generate seven 20-plus-yard plays on the day (their most in a single game since Week 5 of 2016) and dropped some beautiful passes downfield all game long, like so:.

Hitting those throws has been Burrow’s bread and butter in his rookie campaign, and he now has a 92.2 passing grade on throws of under 19 yards downfield.

Not only does that lead the NFL, but that’s on pace to be the fourth-best grade in a single season on such throws in the last 10 years.

They generated the lowest successful play rate (plays that generated positive expected points added) among all offenses on Sunday and now have produced -0.2 EPA per pass play on the year, which currently stands as the seventh-worst mark in the last 10 years.

Jets fans, if you want some positive reading about the franchise, your quarterback of the future — Trevor Lawrence — just won PFF College Offensive Player of the Week for the third time this season.

He showed some promise in a limited rookie campaign in 2014 with the Chargers, earning an 85.1 PFF grade on 223 coverage snaps, then came out in Year 2 and was the league’s second-highest-graded corner.

He then played in just four games in that next season due to a torn ACL and would go on to play just 67 snaps from 2017 to 2019 due to injuries.

The cornerback produced a 94.0 PFF grade for the game.

He did not allow a single catch on his three targets in coverage, recorded an interception and forced two incompletions.

Verrett has now played four games this season and has allowed just 0.18 yards per coverage snap at outside corner.

The offensive line combined to be the highest-graded run-blocking unit of the week and helped give the ground game on average 2.8 yards before contact (second-highest of the week)

He was the second-highest-graded left tackle of Week 6, bringing his season PFF grade to 90.1 — the best among all tackles

His 93.0 coverage grade on the day trailed only the PFF Defensive Player of the Week Jason Verrett

Safety Marcus Maye, who had been struggling entering the week with a coverage grade of just 58.7, made a play with his keister that is the early frontrunner for interception of the year

That helped him earn a 93.2 PFF grade for the game, the second-best of the week at the position

The Steelers are fresh off a dominant defensive outing in Week 6 as they held Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns to -0.5 EPA per play — the best mark a Pittsburgh has achieved in a single game since Week 17 of 2008

While the Bears are better off with Nick Foles leading the offense than Mitchell Trubisky, the passing attack has still ranked in the bottom quarter of the league in EPA per pass play generated

PFFELO Ratings are PFF’s NFL power rankings based on weekly player grades in each facet of play

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