Lions Week 2 Pro Football Focus grades highs and lows, Brian Branch has a big bounce back game

The Detroit Lions lost a hard one to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, but there were some notable things to pay attention to from this one. Pro Football Focus put out their grades for the game. Here's the highs and lows for you: Highest Grade It should be absolutely no surprise at all that […]

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The Detroit Lions lost a hard one to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, but there were some notable things to pay attention to from this one. Pro Football Focus put out their grades for the game. Here's the highs and lows for you:

Highest Grade

It should be absolutely no surprise at all that Aidan Hutchinson got the highest grade for the Lions in this one. He had 4.5 sacks and six pressures. He got a 90.6 grade. It honestly feels like it should be higher. 

Highs

  • Brian Branch, 86.1: A huge bounce back from Branch after a down game in Week 1. He had a pick and a pass breakup. He did miss one tackle though. 
  • Kevin Zietler, 78.8: Here's your highest performing offensive player. It was not a great day for the Lions offense. 
  • Amon-Ra St. Brown, 76.3: St. Brown jumped right back into being St. Brown. He's the Lions best guy as we know. Hopefully he doesn't miss time. 

Lows

  • Terrion Arnold, 33.2: He's a rookie and he's feeling all the rookie pains. There's stuff that looks good, but he needs to clean some other things up. 
  • Sam LaPorta, 42.3: This is exactly what I was worried about happening. Rookie tight ends with big seasons always dip down in year two and it's because they're getting more attention paid to them. He'll bounce back, but it might take a minute. 
  • Jared Goff, 49: A really bad game from Goff. I don't think we really need to say anymore than that. 

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