Tag: Buffalo Bills Pro Football Focus

PFF: Bills’ Tre’Davious White impresses vs. Commanders

Tre White’s PFF metrics vs. the Commanders were impressive (via @TejasVemparala):

Buffalo Bills’ cornerback Tre’Davious White impressed many as part of the fantastic defensive outing against the Washington Commanders on Sunday.

The defender has been part of the Bills’ organization since 2017, but tore his ACL in 2021. He started last season on the physically unable to perform list.

In Week 3, the talented defender picked off Commanders’ QB Sam Howell in the end zone to prevent a touchdown:

The cornerback, who has received plaudits in the past, was tasked with pass coverage of Washington’s strong receivers–Namely Terry McLaurin–and excelled. While and Bufffalo’s secondary allowed the pass rush time to pressure Howell into multiple bad throws.

According to Pro Football Focus metrics, the cornerback was excellent. In the 32 coverage snaps he played in, he was targeted six times and only allowed three receptions for 19 yards in addition to the interception he corralled.

When Commanders QB Howell targeted the Washington receiver that White was covering, he had a 17.4 passer rating. For context, an average passer rating is 66.7.

That’s a great day at the office for the veteran cornerback. We are looking forward to seeing more of him when he is tasked with coverage of the talented Miami Dolphins wide receivers.

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PFF: Where the Bills offensive line ranks after Week 1

PFF: Where the #Bills offensive line ranks after Week 1 (via @TejasVemparala):

Buffalo Bills fans expected to see improvement by the Bills offensive line from last year. Despite center Mitch Morse’s Pro Bowl nod along with Dion Dawkins and Rodger Saffold, the unit were ranked 23rd in the 2022 NFL season.

As the preseason ended, the Bills’ season opener was the first chance to see whether the offensive line had indeed progressed from last year. However, following Monday’s overtime loss to the New York Jets, the stats highlight that the Bills offensive line was more of what we have seen – not any worse but not any better.

According to Pro Football Focus, who ranked the performance of all 32 NFL teams’ offensive line units during Week 1 of the 2023 NFL season, the Bills ranked No. 23  after Week 1. PFF listed the ranking of each team in order from best to worst performing, and the Bills are sandwiched in between the Arizona Cardinals and Cincinnati Bengals, both of whom lost on Sunday.

Here is the full excerpt from the football analytics outlet:

Projected Week 2 starters:

LT Dion Dawkins
LG Connor McGovern
C Mitch Morse
RG O’Cyrus Torrence
RT Spencer Brown

Rookie right guard O’Cyrus Torrence was solid in his NFL debut, letting up three pressures on 50 dropbacks and earning the highest run-blocking grade on the Bills’ offensive line.
The Bills needed right tackle Spencer Brown to take a step forward in 2023; however, the third-year player gave up five pressures against the Jets, which was tied for the fourth most he has allowed since the start of the 2022 season.

Best player: Dion Dawkins
Dawkins was the only Buffalo offensive lineman not to allow either a sack or a quarterback hit against the Jets.

For each team, Pro Football Focus highlighted players that were determined to be the weakest links. The three for the Bills, Morse, Torrence, and Brown, were highlighted by PFF as the Bills’ weakest links in WEek 1.

It is only one game, but the first impressions of the offensive line seem to be more of what we saw last season. The Bills offensive line unit should have an easier time in Week 2 with a Las Vegas Raiders defense that many predict will not be good.

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PFF: Josh Allen is Bills ‘best value draft pick’

PFF: Josh Allen is Bills ‘best value draft pick’

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From the time he finished his college career through his draft process and first seasons in the NFL, QB Josh Allen had been viewed by front offices, members of the press, and player analysts as a development project.

A prospect with power and arm strength who could eventually make the transition to a pro-level of play.

But that was then, and this is now.

Allen enters the upcoming 2022 NFL season as one of the premier young talents and quarterbacks in the league.

And this past week, Michael Renner of Pro Football Focus picked the young QB in his selection for Buffalo in his “Every NFL team’s best value draft picks since 2006” list.

Here is Renner’s preface of his list and analysis on Allen for PFF:

In a league with a salary cap, value is — quite literally — everything.

Because every NFL team works with more or less the same amount of money each season, the Super Bowl champions have to find a way to use their dollars more efficiently than everyone else. That’s where these guys come in — the players who outperform their draft slots in such a way that the team can overpay for players elsewhere.

BUFFALO BILLS: QB JOSH ALLEN, WYOMING (SEVENTH OVERALL IN 2018)

Move over Kyle Williams, as defensive tackle value doesn’t come close to that of a franchise quarterback. Allen’s 7.16 WAR over the past two seasons ranks third in the entire NFL — not bad for the third quarterback selected in his draft class.

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PFF: Buffalo Bills RB room is 21st best in NFL

PFF (@pff_bills) call #Bills RBs the 21st best group in NFL:

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Pro Football Focus, like many, see room for improvement in the Buffalo Bills’ backfield. In ranking every NFL running back room head-to-head, the Bills, headlined by Devin Singletary and Zack Moss, slotted in at only No. 21 overall.

After slow production out of Buffalo’s running game in 2020, it’s not all that surprising.

Here’s the football analytics outlet’s breakdown on the Bills’ running backs:

There was talk about the Bills adding another running back to push for a starting job this offseason, but it looks as if they are going to run things back with Zack Moss and Devin Singletary in 2021. There are certainly worse running back tandems than that in the league right now.

Last season, Singletary ranked in the 89th percentile in missed tackles forced per rushing attempt, while Moss finished in the 62nd percentile. It’s an area in which both excelled in college. Moss could even earn a larger role in 2021, given his edge over Singletary’s size and ability as a receiver.

Early in the offseason, the Bills, namely general manager Brandon Beane, said a goal of the team this spring was to improve their rushing attack. As PFF notes, Buffalo did not add a running back to challenge for starting time. Not only that, the entire same offensive line returns as well.

Beane and the Bills are banking on some chemistry building to improve the rushing attack, as of now.

But on the bright side, the duo of Singletary and Moss are ranked much higher than a couple of divisional foes. The Jets were named the NFL’s worst backfield by PFF, and the Dolphins were second-worst.

But the Patriots take the top-AFC East spot at No. 14.

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