PFF created an All-PFF team based on the last 25 years and multiple Ravens earned a spot
With the 2025 season on the cusp, the analytic outlet Pro Football Focus (PFF) has released its All-PFF team for the last 25 years of play. Hate them or swear by them, PFF has been a consistent grading platform for NFL play since they began grading games in 2006.
I find that PFF is generally pretty accurate between both trenches and offensive play, but it’s harder to accurately grade defensive plays without knowing the call — making their grading system on defensive players a little more subjective.
Either way, PFF is a respected and fun part of the NFL media space. The All-PFF team had the expected greats such as Tom Brady at quarterback, Rob Gronkowski at tight end, Aaron Donald at interior defensive line, and many others. The Ravens themselves had four players make the team as starters and an ex-Raven make the team as an honorable mention.
Running Back: Derrick Henry (96.8 Career PFF Grade)
Henry’s inclusion as the highest-graded running back in PFF history is made all the more impressive by the fact that he is still going at 30 years old and just engineered the best-graded season of his career in Year 9.
In his first year with the Baltimore Ravens in 2024, Henry led the league in both PFF overall grade (94.1) and PFF rushing grade (93.5) for his position while posting a career-high 6.0 yards per carry on 367 attempts. His 3.6 yards after contact per attempt in his career is the second-best mark of all time among 159 qualifying running backs behind only Nick Chubb (3.8), though Henry has handled nearly double the number of carries.
Right Guard: Marshall Yanda (93.6 Career PFF Grade)
Across 13 NFL seasons — all with the Baltimore Ravens — Yanda never posted a PFF blocking grade or PFF overall grade below 72.2 in a season, standing out as a poster child of high-end consistency.
Yanda’s best pass-blocking campaign came in 2016, when he allowed the lowest pressure rate in a season (1.0%) for his position (minimum 450 pass-blocking snaps) and didn’t let up a single sack or quarterback hit. He stands as the only offensive guard to rank in the top five in career PFF overall grade (93.6), career PFF run-blocking grade (91.7) and career PFF pass-blocking grade (91.3) among 274 qualifying players since 2006.
Linebacker: Ray Lewis (91.8 Career PFF Grade)
Lewis’ career dates back further than PFF grading, beginning in 1996, though he is deserving of making the quarter-century team when projecting the start of his career — five first-team All-Pro appearances and two Defensive Player of the Year awards — to the PFF era.
Once PFF’s grading began, Lewis produced one of the best career grades for the position, ranking among the top five linebackers since 2006. His 2009 season was his best captured by PFF, as he delivered a 91.4 PFF overall grade — the top mark that year and tied for the third-best season all time for the position.
Safety: Ed Reed (92.3 Career PFF Grade)
Much like Lewis, Reed began his career before PFF grading commenced. We missed out on his 2004 Defensive Player of the Year season and two All-Pro and Pro-Bowl performances.
In the years that followed, Reed delivered the second-highest career forced incompletion rate (19.3%) of the PFF era among 116 qualifying safeties. His 93.4 PFF coverage grade in 2009 was the third-best mark ever captured for the safety position by PFF, while his 91.8 PFF overall grade that year is tied for the fourth-best single-season mark.
Former Ravens safety Eric Weddle was also named as an honorable mention for the safety position. One of the biggest takeaways I have from this is Marshall Yanda’s spot. This PFF team is filled with current and definite future Hall of Famers. While Yanda missed out last year during his first year of eligibility, he was a finalist and his time is coming.
You can read the rest of The All-PFF 25-Year Team here.