PPF Grades for Michigan State's win over Boston College

Michigan State survived a challenging Week Two test again ACC opponent Boston College on Saturday night. Many players shined in the win, while others struggled.

Let's look at the grades provided by Pro Football Focus to better understand to get a better feel about each individual's performance. Let's kick things off with the offense:

Table 1: Pro Football Focus snap counts and grades for the offense Michigan State in the Week Two win over Boston College

For the offensive players with more than two snaps, the Spartans had four total players on offense score over 70.0. Those players were:

• Matt Gulbin (C) = 77.3

• Aidan Chiles (QB) = 76.7

• Michael Masunas (TE) = 76.4

• Chrishon McCray (WR) = 73.7

Masunas graded out poorly in run blocking with a score of only 44.8. But his contribution to the passing game was huge. Chiles and Gulbin were also the only Spartan that played all 70 offensive snaps

The trio of MSU running backs all in the lower to mid 60s. Overall, Brandon Tullis (66.4) had the best grade, and he also was tops in pure running (78.6). However, he had a shocking grade of ZERO in pass blocking. Makhi Frazier was not much better in pass protection (28.1). Elijah Tau-Tolliver only played six snaps but graded out much better in pass pro at 74.6. That said, the pass protection numbers seem to be on very small volume, so we probably should not read too much into them.

As for the offensive line beyond Gulbin, the Spartans used a four-man rotation at guard and a three-rotation at tackle.

Conner Moore had another solid performance at mostly right tackle, playing 50 snaps and grading out over 60 on both run and pass plays. Ashton Lepo played just 31 snaps was OK overall. Stanton Ramil, on the other hand, played 59 snaps and wound up with a very poor grade of 34.2 overall. He once again struggled in pass protection (34.8), but his run blocking grade of 41.5 is well below his excellent grade of 91.9 in Week One.

At the guard position, Luka Vincic saw his first action of the year and split snaps almost evenly with Kristian Phillips on the right side. Both players had solid overall grades with Phillips excelling at pass blocking (84.1) and with Vinic being a bit better run blocking. On the left side, Caleb Carter took most of the snaps (53) and had a very average grade of 55.3. Gavin Broscious played only 17 snaps and graded out slightly worse (51.9). But, Broscious did much better on pass protection (83) compared to last week's dismal performance (29.8) against Western Michigan.

Now let's take a look at the defense: