{"id":1934520,"date":"2026-09-22T20:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T00:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934520"},"modified":"2026-09-22T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:02:07","slug":"nc-state-defensive-pff-grades-vs-vanderbilt-several-wolfpack-defenders-shined-despite-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934520","title":{"rendered":"NC State Defensive PFF Grades vs. Vanderbilt: Several Wolfpack Defenders Shined Despite Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NC State&#8217;s defense surrendered 28 points over the final 21 minutes of Saturday&#8217;s 35-31 loss at Vanderbilt, so you might expect the PFF grades to be ugly across the board. They weren&#8217;t. In fact, quite a few Wolfpack defenders earned high marks. Among players who logged at least 15 snaps, two earned overall grades above [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/09\/22\/nc-state-defensive-pff-grades-vs-vanderbilt-several-wolfpack-defenders-shined-despite-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State&#8217;s defense surrendered 28 points over the final 21 minutes of Saturday&#8217;s 35-31 loss at Vanderbilt, so you might expect the PFF grades to be&#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-1934520","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\/1934520","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=1934520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934521,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934520\/revisions\/1934521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}