Final Vikings PFF Grades: Highest and Lowest Graded Players from Week 12 vs Bears

By Cole Smith

·Updated: November 25, 2024

Jordan Addison, Minnesota Vikings — Credit: Daniel Bartel-Imagn Images

Pro Football Focus (PFF) released its grades for Sunday’s matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears. The 30-27 victory was likely to draw high grades on offense after accumulating 452 yards and lower grades after allowing the Bears to amass 398 total yards.

Three offensive players had grades that exceeded 80. Of players that took at least half of the offensive snaps (71 total), three had grades below 60, which is considered average on PFF’s scale of 1-100.

Only one player exceeded that threshold on defense, and only two players who played at least half the snap counts had grades higher than 70. Four players, including three starters, were graded below 60.

Minnesota Vikings highest-graded offensive players (min. 35 snaps)

WR Jordan Addison: 87.4 (67 snaps)

QB Sam Darnold: 84.7 (69 snaps)

TE T.J. Hockenson: 80.7 (38 snaps)

Key PFF Stat: 4.38 yards per route run by Addison; 3.56 by Hockenson

Just a beautiful throw by Sam Darnold pic.twitter.com/q8u2gg2UAt
— Will Ragatz (@WillRagatz) November 25, 2024

Vikings lowest-graded offensive players

LG Blake Brandel: 56.7 (71 snaps)

RG Dalton Risner: 53.0 (71 snaps)

LT David Quessenberry: 53.0 (62 snaps). Replaced an injured Cam Robinson after nine snaps.

Key PFF Stat: 11 of 12 quarterback pressures were allowed by these three players.

Highest-graded defensive players (min. 38 snaps)

EDGE Jonathan Greenard: 87.2 (70 snaps)

CB Stephon Gilmore: 75.0 (75 snaps)

S Harrison Smith: 67.2 (76 snaps)

Key PFF Stat: Greenard and Smith had five “stops” each, accounting for 10 of the defense’s 27 total stops. PFF categorizes “stops” as tackles that constitute an offensive “failure.”

Here is the all 22 angle of Caleb’s sack in OT. He absolutely cannot take that there but I hate this call. A 3 man route concept against drop 8 that only works one side of the field. The Vikings caught them here. Caleb can’t extend to other side bc no one is there. Still needs to… pic.twitter.com/0BBAkCZOns
— We are back Ben Johnson (@TommyK_NFLDraft) November 25, 2024

Lowest-graded defensive players

LB Kamu Grugier-Hill: 46.2 (45 snaps). Replaced an injured Ivan Pace, Jr. after five snaps.

S Cam Bynum: 45.1 (70 snaps)

LB Blake Cashman: 42.9 (76 snaps)

Key PFF Stat: Two total “stops” between Cashman and Grugier-Hill. Cashman entered the game with at least two stops in every game he played this season.

Other notable grades and stats

Despite only catching two passes for 27 yards, PFF was kind to Justin Jefferson. His 67.1 grade ranked sixth among qualifying players on offense.
DT Jonathan Bullard notched five stops on 31 snaps. Much has been made about the Vikings lacking a dominating presence on the interior defensive line, but Bullard has been a force against the run this year. He finished with a grade of 74.2.
The Vikings’ run game found most of its success running outside. The Vikings ran off the left and right ends (outside the tight end) 11 times, picking up 85 yards. Their other 15 runs picked up 41 yards.