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Pro Football Focus | ESPN Insider
After two incredible conference championship games that resulted in wins in overtime, we're left with Pro Football Focus' two highest-graded teams battling for the Lombardi trophy.
We ranked the top 53 players from the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams on both sides of the ball using PFF's play-by-play grading. While going strictly by the grades can work for positional rankings, certain positions impact the game more; as a result, you'll see those positions ranked a bit higher.
Sticking with the starters on either side of the ball got us to 44 total players, and we added rotational players to get to 53, in honor of it being Super Bowl LIII. Let's dive in.
6. Trey Flowers, Edge, Patriots
Grade: 89.7 | Pos. rank: 6
While Flowers doesn't quite have the sack numbers to fit the billing of the traditional elite pass-rusher, he has done his fair share of disruption on the pass rush to warrant his spot as one. Through the regular season, Flowers dominated the line of scrimmage with 64 QB pressures on 462 attempts, and he put forth an above-average grade in run defense while missing just two of his 49 tackle attempts all season.
29. Austin Blythe, RG, Rams
Grade: 72.4 | Pos. rank: 10
Blythe went the whole season without allowing a sack in pass protection, seeing 657 pass-blocking snaps and allowing just 31 total hits or hurries. He finished the regular season as the league's 12th-highest-graded guard.
