New for the 2025 NFL season, PFSN is grading players at every position with our series of Impact Grades. These metrics are crafted for each position and seek to measure how a player’s individual contributions impacted the game.
Using a traditional grading system scale, players are ranked at their position based on a weighted average of a series of position-specific metrics. An exactly average performance will get a 75 overall grade, which translates to a C on the grading scale.
QB: Jaxson Dart, New York Giants
PFSN NFL QBi: 84.2, B
Jaxson Dart had the best game by any rookie QB this season based on our QB Impact metric (QBi) in the New York Giants’ Thursday night upset over the defending Super Bowl champs. Surprisingly, given their recent dearth of quality quarterback play, the Giants have had one week-leading QB Impact performance each of the past 3 seasons before Dart:
- 2024: Drew Lock in Week 17 vs the Colts (92.7)
- 2023: Daniel Jones in Week 2 vs the Cardinals (83.8)
- 2022: Daniel Jones in Week 17 vs the Colts (85.3)
A big reason Dart graded out so well was that he converted 71.4% of the 3rd- and 4th-down plays he was involved in. That’s tied for the 3rd-best conversion rate in a qualifying QBi game this season. It’s also the best by a Giants QB in a game since Eli Manning in 2015 vs the 49ers.
RB: D’Andre Swift, Chicago Bears
PFSN NFL RBi: 91.7, A-
The Rico Dowdle Revenge Game was on track to be the highest-graded running back game of the week. However, while Dowdle’s 239 scrimmage yards came on 34 touches, D’Andre Swift piled up 175 scrimmage yards on just 16 touches, giving him the edge for the top-ranked RB of Week 6.
Swift flummoxed Washington defenders on Monday night, recording a 71.4% Elusive Rate (% of carries gaining 4 yards before or 5 yards after contact). That’s the fifth-highest in a game this season and the third-highest of Swift’s career. From Weeks 1-5, Swift ranked 21st in Elusive Rate at 32.1%.
WR: George Pickens, Dallas Cowboys
PFSN NFL WRi: 90.4, A-
In CeeDee Lamb’s absence, George Pickens has stepped up to capably fill the WR1 void. For Week 6, Pickens was the WR1 across the entire league, with his 90.4 WR Impact Grade representing the second-highest of his career (behind a 92.8 grade in 2023 Week 16 vs. the Bengals).
Pickens generated 51.7 yards after the catch over expected (third-best in a game this season). It’s also the most by a Cowboys WR in a game since Lamb in 2023 Week 17 vs. the Lions. Pickens joined Lamb (three times) and Brandin Cooks (2023 Week 10) as the only Cowboys wideouts to lead the league in WRi for a week since 2019.
TE: Dallas Goedert, Philadelphia Eagles
PFSN NFL TEi: 86.1, B
While the Philadelphia Eagles’ offense was largely dysfunctional on Thursday night, tight end Dallas Goedert had his most productive game of the season with nine receptions for 110 yards (nearly matching his total of 133 yards over his first four games).
Goedert accounted for 38.9% of the Eagles’ receiving yards against the Giants, the ninth-highest rate in a game in his career. Goedert’s 86.1 TEi grade was his season-high and his highest since Week 3 vs. the Saints last season (95.8). The game bumped Goedert up to 12th in the season-long TE rankings and was his first grade above a C-level mark.
OT: Colton McKivitz, San Francisco 49ers
PFSN NFL OLi: 83.8, B
The San Francisco 49ers tied their season-high with 17 pressures allowed in their Week 6 defeat at Tampa Bay. So while it might seem odd that one of their offensive linemen would earn Player of the Week honors, right tackle Colton McKivitz only conceded one of those 17 pressures on his 47 pass-blocking snaps.
It was a strong bounce-back for McKivitz, who allowed a season-high four pressures the prior game against the Rams. The West Virginia product has improved in each of his three years as a starter, going from a 72.0 grade in 2023 to 80.0 last year and 87.2 so far in 2025.
G: Andrew Vorhees, Baltimore Ravens
PFSN NFL OLi: 88.2, B+
While the Baltimore Ravens continue to struggle mightily on offense sans Lamar Jackson, guard Andrew Vorhees was one of the few bright spots in the team’s three-point outing in Week 6. Vorhees allowed just a single pressure on 40 pass-blocking snaps, while also going the whole game without a penalty.
Overall, the 2023 seventh-rounder has been fairly steady in his first stint as a starter. Vorhees has allowed between one and three pressures in every game so far, and has yet to commit a penalty all season. He’s graded out as a slightly above-average starter for the season (76.6), which comes out to 28th among all guards.
C: Tanor Bortolini, Indianapolis Colts
PFSN NFL OLi: 86.2, B
The Indianapolis Colts have been a machine on offense, with the offensive line performing well as a unit. Center Tanor Bartolini was the star of that O-line in the Week 6 win, recording the third-highest grade among all offensive linemen.
Bortolini allowed no pressures on 33 pass-blocking snaps against the Cardinals, his first game without a pressure allowed this season. The second-year pro has thrived as a starter in the wake of Ryan Kelly’s free agent departure, ranking 13th among centers with an 81.4 season-long grade. For reference, Kelly recorded an 80.5 grade during his final Colts campaign in 2024.
EDGE: Jared Verse, Los Angeles Rams
PFSN NFL EDGEi: 89.1, B+
Jared Verse led the league in EDGE Impact Grade for the second straight week after recording an 89.1 grade in Week 6. Verse has two of the top six EDGE games this season and ranks third in the season-long rankings. He’s second among healthy players, given that the current EDGEi leader, Nick Bosa, will likely fall off the qualifying leaderboard after next week.
Jared Verse has recorded a sack and forced fumble in three of his last four games. His 8 pressures on Sunday are tied for the third-most for any defender in a single game this season and matched a career-high. pic.twitter.com/BM069XQe63
— Los Angeles Rams PR (@TheLARamsPR) October 15, 2025
Verse had 8 pressures, tied with K’Lavon Chaisson for most of any EDGE this week. His three run tackles also held the Ravens to an average gain of 0.3 yards per carry. For the season, his 31 pressures rank third among EDGEs behind Aidan Hutchinson (36) and George Karlaftis (32).
DT: Deone Walker, Buffalo Bills
PFSN NFL DTi: 90.3, A-
Until Monday night, Jeffery Simmons was on track to repeat as the highest-graded defensive tackle for the third straight week. Instead, the Buffalo Bills usurped him with the two highest-graded DTs in their loss to the Atlanta Falcons.
Seeing Ed Oliver near the top of the charts is no surprise, but he was actually surpassed by fourth-round rookie Deone Walker. Walker played a season-high 53 snaps after starter DaQuan Jones got hurt in pregame warmups.
He took advantage of his opportunity by generating 5 TFLs in the run game, more than any defensive tackle in a game in the last 20 years. The only defensive lineman with at least 5 run TFLs in a game over that span is DeMarcus Lawrence in 2018 vs the Commanders.
LB: Nate Landman, Los Angeles Rams
PFSN NFL LBi: 89.5, B+
Verse wasn’t the only Rams front-seven defender to repeat as the highest-graded player at his position. Nate Landman had the highest LB Impact Grade, and the fourth-year pro leads the season-long linebacker rankings as well, with a season grade of 94.6 (which would be the highest grade by a linebacker over the last two years).
Landman made 17 tackles and missed only one. That includes 13 run tackles and a 37.1% tackle rate, both of which ranked top-two at the position this week. Landman’s 35 run tackles rank fourth through Week 6, but his volume has come with an above-average mark of 3.6 yards allowed per run tackle.
CB: D.J. Turner II, Cincinnati Bengals
PFSN NFL CBi: 89.9, B+
The much-maligned Cincinnati Bengals defense might have a cornerstone in the secondary. Former first-rounder D.J. Turner II had the highest Cornerback Impact grade this week at 89.9. Turner had a remarkable 5 forced incompletions on 8 targets, allowing a total of 22 yards in coverage.
Turner is the second Bengals CB to have the highest CBi grade in a week (Mackensie Alexander had an 88.8 in 2020 Week 12). For the season, the third-year pro leads all cornerbacks with 10 forced incompletions, three more than any other CB entering MNF. He also has the highest season-long grade at 99.8.
S: Camryn Bynum, Indianapolis Colts
PFSN NFL SAFi: 86.6, B
Camryn Bynum has been a rock-solid free agent addition to Lou Anarumo’s secondary. The Indianapolis Colts’ safety was targeted twice and allowed one completion for two yards while recording a PBU on the other target.
The grade is Bynum’s season-high and sixth-highest in 60 career qualifying games. Bynum was the first Colts safety to have the highest SAFi grade in a week since 2023 Week 7, when Rodney Thomas II had an 88.0 vs. the Browns.
