https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2015/06/01/2015-depth-chart-updates/
The charts may be a little out of date even though they were done only a month ago; e.g., they still show A. Davis as RT. Of course, these "grades" are based on PFF's evaluation of the players which is probably pretty good in general but I take their grade for any one individual player with a grain of salt. But since the grades are probably generally pretty good, I think they can give an overall sense of the talent on a given team.
What I did was count up the number of "starters" that they put in each of their categories - Elite, High Quality, Good, Average, Below Average, Poor, Not Enough Information - for each of the teams in the NFC West. There was some fairly arbitrary things that I did in the counting, though, because of things like should I count the run defense starters rather than pass defense starters or should I count two tight ends as starters rather than a second outside wide receiver. Also in a couple of cases PFF had people below the starters that were significantly more highly graded than the starters, perhaps because of injuries to the better players (in those cases I counted the players with the higher ratings even if they weren't listed as the starters). Anyway, these numbers are pretty crude but maybe they can give a blurry snapshot of the basic talent on each of the NFC West teams relative to the other teams. (Sorry about the format; I wish I knew how to put this in a spreadsheet and paste the spreadsheet into the posting.)
Offense Elite
49ers: 1
Hawks: 2
Cards: 0
Rams:0
Defense Elite
49ers: 1
Hawks: 2
Cards:1
Rams: 1
- - - - - -
Offensive High Quality
49ers: 0
Hawks: 1
Cards: 1
Rams: 0
Defensive High Quality
49ers: 1
Hawks: 5
Cards: 3
Rams: 1
- - - - - -
Offensive Good
49ers: 5
Hawks: 1
Cards: 4
Rams: 0
Defensive Good
49ers: 5
Hawks: 2
Cards: 0
Rams: 2
- - - - - -
Offense Average
49ers: 4
Hawks: 3
Cards: 4
Rams: 6
Defensive Average
49ers: 1
Hawks: 3
Cards: 4
Rams: 6
- - - - - -
Offensive Below Average
49ers: 0
Hawks: 3
Cards: 0
Rams: 1
Defensive Below Average
49ers: 2
Hawks: 1
Cards: 2
Rams: 1
- - - - - -
Offense Poor
49ers: 0
Hawks: 0
Cards: 0
Rams: 1
Defense Poor
49ers: 1
Hawks: 0
Cards: 0
Rams: 0
- - - - - -
Offense Not Enough Information
49ers: 1
Hawks: 1
Cards: 2
Rams: 3
Defense Not Enough Information
49ers: 0
Hawks: 0
Cards: 0
Rams: 0
- - - - - - - - - -
One thing that surprised me is how low in general the grades were for the Rams. I had thought with the large number of first round picks (several of them relatively high picks) that they would have a stronger starting roster than PFF seems to think they have. Maybe that is just because of youth, though, and in a couple of years those young draft choices will be rated noticeably higher than they are now.
What stands out is that the Seahawks have two defensive starters that are Elite and five that are considered High Quality and two more that are rated Good. Wow.
What also stands out to me is that the 49ers have five offensive and five defensive players rated as Good. To me that indicates the 9ers have a generally very solid line up of starters. Based on these PFF scores, it's a little hard to understand why there is such widespread inclination to think that the 9ers will likely end up at the bottom of the NFC West.
[ Edited by 49erphan on Jul 5, 2015 at 9:24 AM ]