{"id":1930907,"date":"2026-09-02T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930907"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:23:55","slug":"pff-grades-reveal-some-surprises-on-nc-states-defense-against-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930907","title":{"rendered":"PFF Grades Reveal Some Surprises on NC State\u2019s Defense Against Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While NC State\u2019s agonizing season-opening 26-point loss to Virginia still lingers in our brains, let\u2019s take a look at how the Wolfpack\u2019s defensive players graded out according to PFF. For starters, the defenders with the highest grades weren&#8217;t any of the 11 starters. Asaad Brown and LaCorian Hodge Lead the Way Third-year Safety Asaad Brown [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/09\/02\/nc-state-defensive-pff-grades-virginia-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While NC State\u2019s agonizing season-opening 26-point loss to Virginia still lingers in our brains, let\u2019s take a look at how the Wolfpack\u2019s defensive players graded out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1930907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1930907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930908,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930907\/revisions\/1930908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}