[Quesadilla Joe]

Everybody may have crowned Houston’s J.J. Watt defensive MVP already this season, but hold fire a little given the season Von Miller is having. Last season we thought he was as good as any defensive player in football before injuring his thumb and this season he is every bit as good if not better. In this game his grade of +12.3 breaks the scale of the PFF player pages thanks to a day in which he dominated at the point of attack with speed, power and quickness.

He notched a pair of sacks, but had three near instant hurries as well, and finished with seven defensive stops in the game. On the few occasions where the Patriots found their running lanes blocked, it was usually because Miller had just jacked his man deep into the backfield and blocked it, blowing it up before it got going. The key to his big performance was only having to drop into coverage 7 times this game, because that is the weakest area of his game by a distance.

https://www.profootballfocus.com/blo...triots-week-5/