Our position-by-position look at Virginia Tech’s PFF grades through the years was cut off abruptly by the start of spring practice, but today we’ll pick back up with a look at the grades of the defensive ends throughout the years.
PFF grades go back to 2014, and our list includes the top 20 player grades since that year at a minimum of 100 snaps in a season.
Year | Player | Grade |
---|---|---|
2020 | Emmanuel Belmar | 77.8 |
2017 | Trevon Hill | 76.1 |
2018 | Trevon Hill | 75.0 |
2016 | Ken Ekanem | 71.6 |
2015 | Dadi Nicolas | 69.9 |
2019 | Emmanuel Belmar | 69.6 |
2019 | TyJuan Garbutt | 69.5 |
2014 | Dadi Nicolas | 67.8 |
2020 | Amare Barno | 67.2 |
2014 | Ken Ekanem | 67.0 |
2018 | Houshun Gaines | 66.0 |
2020 | Justus Reed | 65.9 |
2015 | Ken Ekanem | 65.3 |
2019 | Eli Adams | 64.7 |
2017 | Houshun Gaines | 64.4 |
2018 | TyJuan Garbutt | 63.5 |
2016 | Trevon Hill | 63.3 |
2016 | Vinny Mihota | 61.3 |
2017 | Emmanuel Belmar | 60.8 |
2018 | Emmanuel Belmar | 60.5 |
2017 | Vinny Mihota | 60.5 |
Historically Virginia Tech has been known as a school that gets excellent production from defensive ends at the college level, and to this day the Hokies have ends who make plenty of plays in the backfield. However, overall those grades are simply solid rather than good, great or spectacular.
A Virginia Tech defensive end has recorded a grade of 70+ just four times since 2014, but even that small number comes with an asterisk. Emmanuel Belmar in 2020 and Trevon Hill in 2018 played a limited number of snaps (fewer than 200) for various reasons, and we have no way of knowing whether their grades would have maintained that high level the entire season. That applies to Belmar in particular, who had never graded out above a 70 in any of his previous seasons in Blacksburg.
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