Pro Football Focus has released their 2022 All-Rookie Team and a pair of Detroit Lions made the cut.
According to PFF, both Alim McNeill and Penei Sewell are worthy of a spot on this year’s team.
Here is what PFF has to say about St. Brown and Sewell.
T PENEI SEWELL, DETROIT LIONS
Sewell didn’t have the ideal start to his NFL career. He followed up being the fourth-lowest graded tackle to play at least 50 snaps during the 2021 preseason with a 58.8 PFF grade over the first five weeks of the regular season, 32nd among 39 qualifying left tackles.
Sewell started to settle in once he switched back over to that right side in Week 10 with Taylor Decker returning from injury. Sewell ended the 2021 regular season as PFF’s sixth-highest graded right tackle. The arrow should only be pointing up for the 21-year-old as he continues to get more comfortable on the right side.
DI ALIM MCNEILL, DETROIT LIONS
There is no obvious candidate for the second interior defender spot, but McNeill earns the nod as PFF’s second-highest graded rookie at the position with a 60.3 overall grade.
McNeill earned the second-highest PFF run-defense grade of any rookie interior defender to play at least 100 run-defense snaps, and he flashed some of the quickness that gave him intriguing pass-rush potential coming out of North Carolina State.
