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Deep Dig OL Grading Scale (each snap by each player is graded as its own independent event)
OL Grades (Spring Game)
LT Kelvin Banks - 28 snaps
No disruption allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 81
LT Trevor Goosby - 31 snaps
1 sack, 1 TFL allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 77.58
LT Jayden Chatman - 27 snaps
No disruption allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 77.85
LG/C Hayden Conner - 47 snaps
2 run-stuffs allowed
1 false start penalty
1 knockdown
DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.28
LG Cole Hutson - 23 snaps
1 run-stuff, 1 TFL allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 73.83
LG Malik Agbo - 21 snaps
1 QB hit, 1 run-stuff allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 74.05
C Jake Majors - 28 snaps
No disruption allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.5
C Conner Roberston - 34 snaps
1 QB hit, 1 pressure, 1 TFL allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 74.41
C Daniel Cruz - 17 snaps
No disruption allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: N/A
RG DJ Campbell - 44 snaps
No disruption allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.18
RG Neto Umeozulu - 23 snaps
2 TFLs, 1 run-stuff, 1 QB hit, 1 sack allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 70.22
RG/LG Connor Stroh - 15 snaps
1 TFL allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: N/A
RT Cam Williams - 46 snaps
1 sack allowed
1 knockdown, 1 pin
DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.57
RT/RG Andre Cojoe - 44 snaps
1 sack, 1 TFL, 1 pressure allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 75.68
RT Brandon Baker - 36 snaps
No disruption allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.89
Hayden Conner played in this game about like he played in the 2023 season, which isn't exactly encouraging. 2023 was a down year for Conner because of the constant run-stuffs allowed (18 allowed in the 2023 regular season versus only 5 allowed for the entirety of 2022). The hope is that 2023 was a one-year-type of outlier for Conner who could have been playing hurt or simply ended up on the wrong side of variance. That could still be the case, but he'll need to play better this fall than he did in the spring game in order to match the level of play we'll see from the other four guys. It's pretty clear at this point that Conner is the weakest link of the Texas starting OL.
You can take that however you'd like, but we'd suggest that it should be encouraging that a player of Conner's level (who scored perfectly fine in the Deep Dig grading) is the weak link of the Texas OL. Heck, in recent years, scoring a 76-ish score on the week might have landed a guy at the top of that week's best-graded players. Things were bad and Texas didn't get back to the position it is currently in by playing at that level. Clearly the OL has come a long way.
And as Texas fans, you wonder how it can be improved even further and you'll ask about Neto Umeozulu who worked in with the first group at LG during some of spring ball. To that we'd say that Neto seems to be working (based on the spring game) exclusively at RG for now. And that shouldn't matter if a player needed to step in and replace Conner for any reason -- guards can easily move from side to side. That's the least of any issues anyone might have with Neto entering into the starting lineup any time soon. The biggest issue is that he doesn't look ready and never has. He had trouble moving laterally in the spring game, gave up leverage in the run game constantly, got his body weight out over the balls of his feet in pass protection and he still needs to really work on his punch placement.
There are some things to really like about Neto, but he doesn't look that much different in the spring of 2024 than he did in the fall of 2023 where he played 47 snaps in mop-up duty and allowed four run stuffs and committed one penalty. That's disruption allowed at a once-per-every-9.4-snap clip. Over the course of an entire season, that would be the most disruption allowed per snap ever charted in the Deep Dig out of 76 total Texas OL who played at least 100 snaps in a season. It would have been nice to see a spring game out of Neto that led you to believe he had worked his way through a lot of that stuff, but it isn't the case. We're going to have to keep waiting on him to come around, and if anything were to happen to one of the starting guards, Cole Hutson, at this time, would likely be the better option to step in.
And we've already seen one player who's showing he's the better option at a key position on the two-deep: Brandon Baker. He wasn't the second-team RT behind Cam Williams to start the spring game (he was working at RT3 all spring), but through the game, it felt like Baker simply morphed into the primary backup at right tackle. Andre Cojoe moved inside to right guard early in the scrimmage, and that's likely where he'll stay, taking over the role of Payton Kirkland who has transferred to Colorado. Cojoe's foot speed is better suited to play at guard for now. Once he moved inside, he didn't allow any more disruption -- and coupled with Baker over there (who played a very clean game and really looked the part technique-wise for a player who some thought was a little "raw" to start spring ball), it made for a much more stable unit.
It's going to be tough losing Kelvin Banks after the 2024 season, but with guys like Trevor Goosby and Brandon Baker looking like they are taking the kinds of steps forward that they are, the offensive line should continue to have bedrock pieces to lean on, even in a time coming soon when guys like Kelvin Banks and DJ Campbell are playing in the NFL.
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