Tennessee football outlasted Mississippi State in a back-and-forth overtime thriller Saturday evening in Starkville, scoring a late touchdown to force the game to overtime before securing the 41-34 win.
If you need a reminder on how Pro Football Focus works, read the opening of the Syracuse grades.
Let’s see how the Vols graded out.
Elite grade = 90-100, All-Conference = 85-89, Starter = 70-84, Backup = 60-69, Replaceable = 60 >
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Offensive Grades (minimum 14 plays — 20% of offensive plays)
QB Joey Aguilar — 86.6 (74 plays)
WR Chris Brazzell — 72.0 (71 plays)
C Sam Pendleton — 68.7 (74 plays)
RG Wendell Moe Jr — 66.1 (74 plays)
WR Mike Matthews — 63.9 (74 plays)
RT Jesse Perry — 62.5 (63 plays)
RB DeSean Bishop — 61.9 (37 plays)
LG Sham Umarov — 60.6 (74 plays)
LT Lance Heard — 60.2 (74 plays)
RB Star Thomas — 57.6 (28 plays)
TE Miles Kitselman — 56.3 (73 plays)
WR Braylon Staley — 52.9 (70 plays)
We talked about it on the RTI Press Pass Postgame Podcast that Joey Aguilar was better then his stat sheet indicated and PFF certainly viewed it that way. A dropped long touchdown, a phantom offensive pass interference on a long touchdown and two interceptions that could have been caught by his Kitselman made for a stat sheet that didn’t tell the whole story.
Some notes on the offensive line, the pass block grades were generally better than the run block grades. That was especially true for Lance Heard who earned a fantastic 90.2 pass block grade and a 49.4 run block grade. I don’t really understand how his overall grade ended dup being 60.2 given he was in pass protection more plays than run blocking.
Also on the offensive line, David Sanders earned a 45.2 grade in 11 snaps. Tight end Jack Van Dorselaer played seven snaps with Ethan Davis out. Peyton Lewis played nine snaps and Travis Smith Jr played one snap.
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Defensive Grades (minimum 17 plays — 20% of defensive plays)
DE Tyre West — 90.3 (29 plays)
STAR Boo Carter — 81.5 (31 plays)
STAR Jalen McMurray — 79.9 (56 plays)
LB Arion Carter — 73.6 (65 plays)
LEO Caleb Herring — 71.9 (27 plays)
LEO Josh Josephs — 71.4 (42 plays)
CB Colton Hood — 69.3 (87 plays)
DE/DT Dominic Bailey — 68.8 (55 plays)
LB Edwin Spillman — 67.5 (48 plays)
CB Ty Redmond — 66.6 (83 plays)
DT Bryson Eason — 66.7 (55 plays)
S Andre Turrentine — 64.8 (79 plays)
DE Tyree Weathersby — 63.7 (19 plays)
DE Jordan Ross — 63.3 (24 plays)
DT Isaiah Campbell — 63.2 (19 plays)
S Edrees Farooq — 62.6 (80 plays)
DT Jaxson Moi — 61.5 (40 plays)
LB Jeremiah Telander — 58.1 (40 plays)
DT Nathan Robinson — 56.2 (28 plays)
Tyre West is slowly developing into one of Tennessee’s best defensive player. He was awesome against Georgia and turned around with another stellar performance.
And how about Tennessee’s STARS? Boo Carter keeps playing better-and-better football while Jalen McMurray also turned in a strong showing. Also a nice bounce back from Ty Redmond after the tough showing against Georgia, he allowed three catches for 36 yards on five targets.
On the snap count front, Edwin Spillman played more snaps than Jeremiah Telander. Isaiah Campbell also jumped Ethan Utley. Kaleb Beasley (8 snaps) played just one more snap than Sidney Walton (7 snaps). Jordan Burns played 13 snaps and Ben Bolton played eight snaps.
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