Trevor Penning is PFF’s top graded Saint; Penning is highest graded NFL OT in Week 10
TP blocks 2 guys and bails out Fuaga and still gets a 61 pff grade
I wish they kept their original grading system. When PFF started, players would accumulate pluses and minuses to net out a total score for their performance. At some point, they figured out that grades would have more mass appeal, so they changed to the current system that converts those pluses and minuses to a grade.
The grades do help for comparison purposes to some extent, but people get hung up on grades like a 61 even though that is considered an average grade (is it so bad for a player some considered a bust to have an average NFL-level performance for one game?).
With the old system, his score would have been close to zero, which means the positives netted out the negatives and/or most plays were graded neutral (did his job, nothing special or terrible). A zero is nothing to get excited about, but it tells you that he played well enough as a starter.