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The 5-0 Minnesota Vikings are the lone undefeated team remaining in the 2016 NFL season, and our top player in this week’s NFL1000 should give the rest of the league pause. We know that head coach Mike Zimmer’s team has a stellar defense with playmakers at every level—defense is Zimmer’s stock in trade, and he has done a brilliant job in that regard. But it’s quarterback Sam Bradford, acquired by Minnesota after it lost Teddy Bridgewater for the season, who could be the difference when playoff time comes around.

Bradford’s history is well-known. He was amazing at Oklahoma but struggled to find his feet in a series of restrictive offenses in St. Louis. His move to Philadelphia in 2015 allowed him to start to show the kind of quarterback he could be. And when Vikings general manager Rick Spielman traded two draft picks, including his 2017 first-rounder, for Bradford in early September, the perfect marriage of player and scheme was on.

Offensive coordinator Norv Turner merged his vertical passing and play-action concepts with ideas Bradford found familiar from his days with Chip Kelly, and Bradford’s efficient showing against the Houston Texans last Sunday in a 31-13 home win was the latest iteration of that perfect match.

Bradford completed 22 of 30 passes for 271 yards and two touchdowns, making fill-in receiver Adam Thielen a star in the process, and he made mincemeat of Houston’s highly regarded secondary with a series of pinpoint passes. Turner has set up a passing game in which Bradford eyes his targets and gets the ball out in a hurry, compensating for Minnesota’s subpar offensive line. The results have been arguably better than what the Vikings would have enjoyed with Bridgewater—also a very good quarterback but not blessed with Bradford’s deep arm.

Bradford was one of five Vikings to make the top 50 in NFL1000 this week. The others were defensive players (safeties Harrison Smith and Andrew Sendejo; defensive end Everson Griffen; and linebacker Eric Kendricks), and this Vikings squad looks like the best team in the NFL on both sides of the ball right now.

The Green Bay offense didn’t look quite as efficient in the Packers' 23-16 home win over the New York Giants on Sunday night, but quarterback Aaron Rodgers' offensive line ranks quite highly in this week’s metrics, with left tackle David Bakhtiari, right guard T.J. Lang and center JC Tretter all in our top 50.

Tretter’s performance was particularly strong. He had to deal with a Giants interior front, led by Damon Harrison, that has beaten up a lot of centers to this point in the season. He and his linemates availed themselves well. Now, if head coach Mike McCarthy can forward the passing playbook into the 21st century and throw a few designed openings for his receivers into the mix, the Packers might be in good shape.

The return of quarterback Tom Brady opened up the Patriots' passing game, with tight end Martellus Bennett grabbing three touchdowns in a 33-13 beatdown of the Cleveland Browns. But Bennett isn’t the only New England tight end in our top 50 this week. Rob Gronkowski had the more complete game. He was able to constantly win his battles to establish position on defenders and make catches in every receiving area.

Something else you’ll notice in this week’s NFL1000: There are two Dallas Cowboys players in the top five, and neither of them is Dak Prescott or Ezekiel Elliott. The rookies both had strong games in their team’s 28-14 win over the Cincinnati Bengals, but guard Zack Martin was dominant in opening gaps for Elliott against Cincinnati’s excellent defensive front, and safety Barry Church was adept both in run support and as a zone defender on shorter passes. The best teams are able to depend on top performances from their less buzzy players, and the Cowboys are starting to resemble such a team.

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With a 17-person crew of experienced evaluators, we'll comb through the game tapes 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.

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Here are the NFL1000 player grades for Week 5 of the 2016 NFL season.

All advanced stats are courtesy of Pro Football Focus.