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Offense

Best: Kyle Cook (+2.5; +1.8 run block)

Other good grades: Kevin Zeitler (+1.5), A.J. Green (+1.4)

Worst: Clint Boling (-3.9)

Other bad grades: Andy Dalton (-3.6), Andre Smith (-2.4), Jermaine Gresham (-2.0; +1.4 pass, -2.9 run block), Orson Charles (-1.2; -1.4 run block)

Defense

Best: Terence Newman (+3.4)

Other good grades: Wallace Gilberry (+2.2), Geno Atkins (+2.0), Reggie Nelson (+1.9), Manny Lawson (+1.4), Robert Geathers (+1.3), Vontaze Burfict (+1.2), Emmanuel Lamur (+1.2)

Worst: Michael Johnson (-1.4)
Other bad grades: Rey Maualuga (-0.9; -0.9 penalty)

Other performances of note:

-I'm sure no one needs a PFF grade to tell them this, but it was a bad day for the offense overall (-7.5 cumulative). The run game graded well (+1.6 rush; +2.8 run block), but the pass game graded exactly how it looked (-4.4 pass; -6.4 pass block).

-Clint Boling has now had two consecutive very poor games (-7.4 cumulative) after not grading lower than -0.7 overall in any previous game this season. He did at least make it out of this game with a positive run block grade (+0.2).

-Center battle update: Cook easily takes the cake in this one (44 snaps), although Trevor Robinson (-0.1 overall in 42 snaps) did nothing to embarrass himself. The PFF folks reported that Cook played a handful of snaps at RG as well.

-In his NFL debut, Dan Herron graded +0.4 on his 9 offensive snaps in addition to +1.5 for his special teams play.

-Encouragingly, the linebackers stepped up in pass coverage with Burfict leading the way (+1.7 pass coverage) with his highest graded game since week 6, followed by Lawson (+0.6), and Maualuga (0.0, in 27 coverage snaps). Weirdly, the only linebacker to grade below zero in pass coverage was Lamur (-0.8).