Week two of the preseason is in the books as the Minnesota Vikings lost to the Tennessee Titans by a score of 24-16.
The best part of the preseason is gaining context for what the back end of the roster is set to look like. They play more snaps in the preseason than they will once the regular season starts barring injury.
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One of the easiest ways to get a synopsis of a player’s performance is the grades from Pro Football Focus. It doesn’t tell the entire story, but it does give a baseline for their performance.
Here are the offensive PFF grades for the Vikings against the Titans.
Top 5 overall
- TE Ben Sims: 81.3
- TE Colin Thompson: 79.4
- LT Vederian Lowe: 78.4
- WR Thayer Thomas: 70.8
- RB Aaron Dykes: 70.6
Bottom 5 overall
- WR Blake Proehl: 45.5
- QB Jaren Hall: 46.9
- LG Jack Snyder: 48.8
- WR Trishton Jackson: 52.9
- RT Christian DiLauro: 53.3
Passing grades
- QB Nick Mullens: 56.8
- QB Jaren Hall: 43.3
Rushing grades
- RB DeWayne McBride: 48.9
- RB Ty Chandler: 67.0
- RB Aaron Dykes: 66.6
- QB Nick Mullens: 65.6
- QB Jaren Hall: 62.2
- RB Abram Smith: 59.4
Receiving grades
- TE Ben Sims: 89.6
- TE Colin Thompson: 78.0
- RB Aaron Dykes: 74.7
- WR Thayer Thomas: 70.8
- TE Nick Muse: 66.2
- RB DeWayne McBride: 66.1
- WR Jalen Reagor: 57.9
- WR Lucky Jackson: 55.0
- WR Brandon Powell: 54.4
- WR Blake Proehl: 53.7
- WR Trishton Jackson: 53.0
Pass blocking
- RG Blake Brandel: 87.8
- LG Jack Snyder: 80.4
- LT Vederian Lowe: 80.3
- C Austin Schlottmann: 77.8
- RT Christian DiLauro: 76.9
- RT Oli Udoh: 63.5
- TE Nick Muse: 55.7
- C Josh Sokol: 54.5
- TE Colin Thompson: 46.0
- RB Ty Chandler: 42.6
- LG Alan Ali: 35.2
Run blocking
- RT Oli Udoh: 85.3
- LG Alan Ali: 80.0
- LT Vederian Lowe: 73.8
- RG Blake Brandel: 69.2
- TE Colin Thompson: 68.7
- C Josh Sokol: 66.3
- C Austin Schlottmann: 66.1
- TE Ben Sims: 57.8
- TE Nick Muse: 49.1
- LG Jack Snyder: 45.9
- RT Christian DiLauro: 45.2
