Browns Week 8 top, bottom 5 PFF grades

The Cleveland Browns had very little going for them in Week 8 against the Pittsburgh Steelers. That much was obvious watching the game live and on replay. The offense was adequate in some areas but poor in others while the defense had one very good player and a bunch of players that struggled.

One benefit of looking at Pro Football Focus’ grades is to quantify what was already seen with the naked eye. At times, those two things don’t match up but many times they do.

We already covered that PFF gave Myles Garrett their Defensive Player of the Week award. Garrett, not responding to the award but to the loss, still noted that he must do more.

Here are the top five and bottom five grades from PFF on both sides of the ball from Sunday:

Top 5 Offense

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Scoring only 10 points, there wasn’t a lot of positives for the Browns offense. As we discussed in our game breakdown Sunday, Baker Mayfield played okay but not great while David Njoku and Harrison Bryant were the highest graded skilled players.

Only Wyatt Teller graded higher than an 80 overall and was the top-rated Browns offensive player.

1. Wyatt Teller – 82.4 – Teller struggled in pass protection but had a good 83.4 grade in run blocking.

2. David Njoku – 77.7 – Njoku was graded above 70 in the passing game as well as both blocking grades.

3. Harrison Bryant – 74.5 – Bryant had the highest pass gaming grade, 81.9, but his poor run blocking brought his overall grade down.

4. Baker Mayfield – 71.5 – Far from great, Mayfield was quite average with the 16th best quarterback grade for the week.

5. Joel Bitonio – 66.6 – Demetric Felton graded higher but only had nine snaps. Bitonio struggled in pass protection and wasn’t his usual self in run blocking either. A lot of credit goes to the Steelers defense.

Bottom 5 Offense