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We're going to talk a lot about Julio Jones and Ben Roethlisberger in this week's NFL1000, and justifiably so. But there are a few other special players whose Week 4 performances deserve specific mention.

There are some who would prefer to discount the Buffalo Bills' upset win over the New England Patriots on Sunday since Rex Ryan beat up on a rookie quarterback in Jacoby Brissett, and there's some truth to that.

But one Bill really stood out in this week's rankings—linebacker Zach Brown put up a career-high 18 tackles, forced two fumbles, had a sack and a quarterback hit, and compiled an amazing 11 total stops. Not bad against a team that had to focus on the run, and Brown won AFC Defensive Player of the Week for his efforts. Moreover, this is no fluke, as Brown has been playing at a very high level all year.

Tackle Cordy Glenn and guard Richie Incognito were also standouts for the Bills, and their grades show that.

Another standout for his winning team was Zack Martin of the Cowboys, our highest-graded guard this week. Dallas' usually excellent offensive line has been in flux this season with left tackle Tyron Smith injured and guard La'el Collins on injured reserve, but Martin has been everything expected of him through his stellar NFL career—agile, nasty and technically proficient. Martin allowed no quarterback pressures against the San Francisco 49ers and was an absolute force in the run game.

Just when you thought the Minnesota Vikings defense couldn’t get any scarier, their young cornerbacks are coming of age. Not only did Xavier Rhodes get inside Odell Beckham's head Monday night, he shut Beckham and everybody else down. Rhodes was targeted seven times, allowing three receptions for 23 yards with one interception, one pass defensed and an opposing quarterback rating of 11.9.

We already know how good Aqib Talib is, and the Denver Broncos' star cornerback made life miserable for his ex-team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Jameis Winston had a quarterback rating of 0.0 (cue the Animal House memes) when throwing in Winston's area. Talib has allowed a quarterback rating of 22.9 this season; as Sam Monson of Pro Football Focus pointed out, that's more than 15 points worse than just throwing the ball away on every snap (cue the Brandon Weeden memes).

Part of Bleacher Report's NFL1000 player rating methodology that matters is the ability to look at our grades from week to week (as you, dear reader, can) and suss out which patterns are turning into trends and which are flukes in the relatively small sample size of an NFL season.

There are many ways to dissect and learn from what the NFL presents on the field every week, and the NFL1000 goes as deep as any to tell you just what's going on out there.

With a 17-person crew of experienced evaluators, we'll comb through the game tape each week to bring you concise, clear evaluations of every player in the NFL. We'll tell you which rookies are rising and which undrafted players are coming out of nowhere to make an impact. We'll tell you which players are rising and falling in performance and why.

There is no predetermined narrative with these grades. No mysterious "clutch factor." No tweaked-out quarterback ratings that defy explanation. Our grades are based on pure scouting, and lots of it. We grade the key criteria for each position based on a series of attributes and add in a score for positional importance.

In the case of a tie, our scouts ask, "Which player would I want on my team?" and adjust accordingly.

Is it a subjective process? Of course—that's what scouting is, and as we like to say, ties are no fun.

Each player is evaluated and graded by our crack team of scouts, who possess more than 100 combined years of experience in playing, front-office work, coaching and media. Cian Fahey, John Middlekauff, Alex Kirby, Mark Schofield, Duke Manyweather, Ethan Young, Joe Goodberry, Justis Mosqueda, Charles McDonald, Zach Kruse, Derrik Klassen, Jerod Brown, Ian Wharton, Kyle Posey, Mark Bullock, Chuck Zodda and Doug Farrar have watched tape for months to bring you these grades, and we'll be bringing you player grades based on the game action every week.

Here are the NFL1000 player grades for Week 4 of the 2016 NFL season.

All advanced stats are courtesy of Pro Football Focus.