Pro Football Focus, a national analytics group, has a strong emphasis on the recent WVU football transfer commitment.
Although WVU football’s 2024 transfer portal class hasn’t drawn much national notice, one player in the class has lately received a good amount of attention from a significant football data analysis company.
This winter, Pro Football Focus (PFF), which collaborates with every FBS and NFL football programme to provide data and analytics, has been disseminating their assessment of the additions to the transfer portal. The team praised a recent addition to the WVU roster as one of the top safeties who entered the portal this offseason and found new homes at the FBS level, which they highlighted this week.
PFF ranked graduate transfer Jaheem Joseph as the fourth-highest graded transfer safety in college football this week. Joseph committed to WVU this week. Joseph notably finished four spots ahead of Hershey McLaurin, a former Mountaineer safety who also made the portal this winter before joining Big 12 rival Houston.
Furthermore, PFF College tweeted about Joseph specifically, hyping up his 2023 performance against a defence that was ranked 15th in the country in terms of passing yards allowed. The tweet from the company includes some statistics that most fans are probably unaware of, but they show how much of a lockdown threat Joseph can be.
The article claims that Joseph had an 81.1 pass coverage grade and gave up just a 32.6 passer rating to opposing quarterbacks. Over the course of 13 games, he also prevented the giving up of a single touchdown in pass coverage.
In his 2023 campaign, Joseph amassed 24 tackles and three interceptions, two of which came in Northwestern’s 14-7 bowl victory over Utah, a future Big 12 rival of WVU. He will probably be a valuable addition to WVU’s secondary, which had trouble containing the pass the previous year. And if PFF’s analysis of Joseph is accurate, he might serve as the centrepiece of Neal Brown’s and the Mountaineers’ resurgent defence come fall.
