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Skill Player Snap Counts and Game-by-Game Percentages of Offensive Snaps (2022 Regular Season - FINAL)
Personnel-Grouping Frequency Overall and by Game (2022 Regular Season - FINAL)
Tight End Total Snap Counts and Alignment Data (2022 Regular Season - FINAL)
Deep Dig OL Grading Scale (each snap by each player is graded as its own independent event)
OL Grades (Baylor)
LT Kelvin Banks - 63 snaps
1 pressure allowed
1 knockdown
DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.33
LG Hayden Conner - 63 snaps
1 run-stuff allowed
3 false-start penalties
DEEP DIG GRADE: 74.84
C Jake Majors - 63 snaps
1/2 sack, 1/2 TFL allowed
1 knockdown
DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.11
RG Cole Hutson - 20 snaps
1/2 sack, 1 run-stuff allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 74
RG DJ Campbell - 43 snaps
1 sack, 1 run-stuff, 1/2 TFL allowed
2 knockdowns
DEEP DIG GRADE: 77.09
RT Christian Jones - 63 snaps
1 QB hit allowed
1 knockdown, 1 pin
DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.17
OL Grades by Week (2022 - FINAL) - Individual player grades across the season are color coded from RED (WORST) to WHITE (MEDIAN) to BLUE (BEST)
OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed (2022 - FINAL)
2022 OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed Versus Historical Precedent (Last 10 seasons)
FINAL THOUGHTS
Just like that, the regular season has come and gone.
Every year, we enter the new campaign never quite knowing what to expect. Indeed, if recent years have taught us anything, it's that heaping any real expectations on the Texas offense (and offensive line specifically) has been a fool's errand. Unfortunately, our expectations are almost always of the optimistic variety that, in turn, get dashed within a game or two of real bullets flying.
Oh, we've seen our share of big-time offensive line commits come through the program. Guys like Patrick Hudson and Jean Delance and Tyler Johnson and Jaylen Garth and Kent Perkins and Darius James and Kennedy Estelle and all the rest.
Don't even get us started on Desmond Harrison.
We've pinned our hopes on the idea that, at some point, things will have to coalesce. That, when you have this much talent in the pipe and the resources of a school like Texas, it would be impossible to keep putting those two high-quality ingredients together to produce the same sh*t sandwich.
Unfortunately, the last decade has shown us that is, in fact, possible. Moreover, it's been our constant reality. The Deep Dig has written these columns over the coaching tenures 6 (six!) different offensive line coaches at the University of Texas: Stacy Searels, Joe Wickline, Matt Mattox, Derek Warehime, Herb Hand and Kyle Flood. A bunch of different chefs, a variety of different high-profile, quality ingredients, and yet, the result until 2022 has always been the same stomach-turning dish. Every year.
Sure, we've had silver linings around the dark cloud that has been Texas offensive line play for the last decade: surprise stars like Connor Willliams and Samuel Cosmi. The problem with those guys, though (or we should say the overall problem with the situation they found themselves in) is that the rest of the offensive line around them was terrible. It's not entirely true that an offensive line is only as strong as its weakest link, but when almost every other link is so weak, one very strong player on the line can't erase the collective.
Well, enough sh*t sandwiches. Enough was finally enough.
In 2022, we had a new dynamic at play: Yes, the OL had its weak links. They were the center and right guard positions. You could also be fair in any criticism of Hayden Conner's play down the stretch at left guard. It's actually a little shocking to look at, and tells a pretty clear story. The OL grades by week above go to show that Conner has many questions to answer going into the offseason as to why his play seemed to fall off such a cliff as the season wore on. His most recent game in a Longhorn uniform has basically been his worst starting about halfway through the season. Was it due to injury? We think it is likely to be so, and you'll have a whole offseason to decipher and discuss among yourselves these topics soon enough when we return to our dark basement for a long-awaited hibernation.
Which begins to remind us that this is supposed to be a wrap-up column. So, here's the TL/DR version (admittedly, the Deep Dig in its entirety has been way too long for most to read).
Kelvin Banks is the best tackle prospect Texas has had in the last decade at least, and is already playing at a level that is at least reasonably comparable to guys like Connor Williams, Sam Cosmi, Donald Hawkins and Trey Hopkins in their best years. His true freshman season was a sensation, and barring unforeseen circumstances, he should be here in Austin for another two years. Seeing it this early was as easy as identifying other transcendent Big 12 players very early on like Creed Humphrey or Bijan Robinson.
Christian Jones is second-fiddle as far as storylines, but his is every bit as important as the other bookend of the best two-tackle tandem Texas has had in the Deep Dig's history. He's played well enough to garner some NFL interest at the very least. Whether he gets drafted is a total unknown, but the fact that he really outkicked anyone's reasonable expectations coming into his final season is undeniable. There were calls for him to be replaced by a true freshman even coming out of fall camp. This will be our lasting image of Christian Jones' terrific 2022 season at Texas.
The interior line-play was lacking at times, but adequate. Every player who logged at least 100 snaps scored an average grade that was at least acceptable. It is also where the biggest areas for opportunity exist when thinking of the ways the line can actually improve coming into 2023. DJ Campbell and Cole Hutson at right guard is going to be a discussion that certainly animates the old basement over the coming months. Campbell has flashed a level of upside that Hutson, at this time, simply seems incapable of in the run game, but Campbell looks, to the eyeballs, more prone to making bone-headed mistakes. Here's the rub, though: The mistakes Cole Hutson makes are not as bone-headed, but they are -- undeniably -- more frequent on a per-snap basis due to his physical limitations. As Campbell's understanding of the schemes comes online, there will not be much of a competition as to who should be starting, as one player (Hutson) is getting by on his understanding of schemes and fundamentals, while the other (Campbell) is a bull in a china shop that needs refining. In short, Campbell has what you can't teach.
Does Jake Majors have what you can't teach? Perhaps that's yet to be seen. Still, we're likely to have another year of him as the OL's QB at center. Offensive line coaches aren't big on change and a presence like Majors along an offensive line that will be on the upswing (but still young) in 2023 does make for an appealing piece of the mix. He knows every call and as cliche as it is today, he's sort of a coach on the field for those younger guys. And remember, with no Jones next season, we'll be injecting at least one new, younger guy -- likely Cam Williams -- into the fold. Just a monster of a man who can do windmill basketball dunks and who's sheer length represents an opportunity to absolutely swallow opposing edge-rushers.
So who starts where? What happens at RG? Can Majors -- the elder statesman -- actually be pushed by younger players with more upside? What is the next step for Kelvin Banks? How good can he be? Can he start scoring in the 85-point range like peak Connor Williams -- or even higher like peak Joel Bitonio, Zack Martin or Jake Matthews?
Only time will tell, and now that the Deep Dig shutters up for a long winter and spring, one thing we do have is all the time in the world. As always, and in the words of TEX, the voice of the telephone enrollment exchange at the University of Texas at Austin,
Goodbye ... and Good Luck.
Find Your Perfect Franchise at MyPerfectFranchise.Net
Orangebloods Owned! Contact Andy Luedecke (aka @MyPerfectFranchise.Net) anytime at:
aluedecke@myperfectfranchise.net
(404) 973-9901
www.myperfectfranchise.net
Click Images to Enlarge
Skill Player Snap Counts and Game-by-Game Percentages of Offensive Snaps (2022 Regular Season - FINAL)
Personnel-Grouping Frequency Overall and by Game (2022 Regular Season - FINAL)
Tight End Total Snap Counts and Alignment Data (2022 Regular Season - FINAL)
Deep Dig OL Grading Scale (each snap by each player is graded as its own independent event)
OL Grades (Baylor)
LT Kelvin Banks - 63 snaps
1 pressure allowed
1 knockdown
DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.33
LG Hayden Conner - 63 snaps
1 run-stuff allowed
3 false-start penalties
DEEP DIG GRADE: 74.84
C Jake Majors - 63 snaps
1/2 sack, 1/2 TFL allowed
1 knockdown
DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.11
RG Cole Hutson - 20 snaps
1/2 sack, 1 run-stuff allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 74
RG DJ Campbell - 43 snaps
1 sack, 1 run-stuff, 1/2 TFL allowed
2 knockdowns
DEEP DIG GRADE: 77.09
RT Christian Jones - 63 snaps
1 QB hit allowed
1 knockdown, 1 pin
DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.17
OL Grades by Week (2022 - FINAL) - Individual player grades across the season are color coded from RED (WORST) to WHITE (MEDIAN) to BLUE (BEST)
OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed (2022 - FINAL)
2022 OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed Versus Historical Precedent (Last 10 seasons)
FINAL THOUGHTS
Just like that, the regular season has come and gone.
Every year, we enter the new campaign never quite knowing what to expect. Indeed, if recent years have taught us anything, it's that heaping any real expectations on the Texas offense (and offensive line specifically) has been a fool's errand. Unfortunately, our expectations are almost always of the optimistic variety that, in turn, get dashed within a game or two of real bullets flying.
Oh, we've seen our share of big-time offensive line commits come through the program. Guys like Patrick Hudson and Jean Delance and Tyler Johnson and Jaylen Garth and Kent Perkins and Darius James and Kennedy Estelle and all the rest.
Don't even get us started on Desmond Harrison.
We've pinned our hopes on the idea that, at some point, things will have to coalesce. That, when you have this much talent in the pipe and the resources of a school like Texas, it would be impossible to keep putting those two high-quality ingredients together to produce the same sh*t sandwich.
Unfortunately, the last decade has shown us that is, in fact, possible. Moreover, it's been our constant reality. The Deep Dig has written these columns over the coaching tenures 6 (six!) different offensive line coaches at the University of Texas: Stacy Searels, Joe Wickline, Matt Mattox, Derek Warehime, Herb Hand and Kyle Flood. A bunch of different chefs, a variety of different high-profile, quality ingredients, and yet, the result until 2022 has always been the same stomach-turning dish. Every year.
Sure, we've had silver linings around the dark cloud that has been Texas offensive line play for the last decade: surprise stars like Connor Willliams and Samuel Cosmi. The problem with those guys, though (or we should say the overall problem with the situation they found themselves in) is that the rest of the offensive line around them was terrible. It's not entirely true that an offensive line is only as strong as its weakest link, but when almost every other link is so weak, one very strong player on the line can't erase the collective.
Well, enough sh*t sandwiches. Enough was finally enough.
In 2022, we had a new dynamic at play: Yes, the OL had its weak links. They were the center and right guard positions. You could also be fair in any criticism of Hayden Conner's play down the stretch at left guard. It's actually a little shocking to look at, and tells a pretty clear story. The OL grades by week above go to show that Conner has many questions to answer going into the offseason as to why his play seemed to fall off such a cliff as the season wore on. His most recent game in a Longhorn uniform has basically been his worst starting about halfway through the season. Was it due to injury? We think it is likely to be so, and you'll have a whole offseason to decipher and discuss among yourselves these topics soon enough when we return to our dark basement for a long-awaited hibernation.
Which begins to remind us that this is supposed to be a wrap-up column. So, here's the TL/DR version (admittedly, the Deep Dig in its entirety has been way too long for most to read).
Kelvin Banks is the best tackle prospect Texas has had in the last decade at least, and is already playing at a level that is at least reasonably comparable to guys like Connor Williams, Sam Cosmi, Donald Hawkins and Trey Hopkins in their best years. His true freshman season was a sensation, and barring unforeseen circumstances, he should be here in Austin for another two years. Seeing it this early was as easy as identifying other transcendent Big 12 players very early on like Creed Humphrey or Bijan Robinson.
Christian Jones is second-fiddle as far as storylines, but his is every bit as important as the other bookend of the best two-tackle tandem Texas has had in the Deep Dig's history. He's played well enough to garner some NFL interest at the very least. Whether he gets drafted is a total unknown, but the fact that he really outkicked anyone's reasonable expectations coming into his final season is undeniable. There were calls for him to be replaced by a true freshman even coming out of fall camp. This will be our lasting image of Christian Jones' terrific 2022 season at Texas.
The interior line-play was lacking at times, but adequate. Every player who logged at least 100 snaps scored an average grade that was at least acceptable. It is also where the biggest areas for opportunity exist when thinking of the ways the line can actually improve coming into 2023. DJ Campbell and Cole Hutson at right guard is going to be a discussion that certainly animates the old basement over the coming months. Campbell has flashed a level of upside that Hutson, at this time, simply seems incapable of in the run game, but Campbell looks, to the eyeballs, more prone to making bone-headed mistakes. Here's the rub, though: The mistakes Cole Hutson makes are not as bone-headed, but they are -- undeniably -- more frequent on a per-snap basis due to his physical limitations. As Campbell's understanding of the schemes comes online, there will not be much of a competition as to who should be starting, as one player (Hutson) is getting by on his understanding of schemes and fundamentals, while the other (Campbell) is a bull in a china shop that needs refining. In short, Campbell has what you can't teach.
Does Jake Majors have what you can't teach? Perhaps that's yet to be seen. Still, we're likely to have another year of him as the OL's QB at center. Offensive line coaches aren't big on change and a presence like Majors along an offensive line that will be on the upswing (but still young) in 2023 does make for an appealing piece of the mix. He knows every call and as cliche as it is today, he's sort of a coach on the field for those younger guys. And remember, with no Jones next season, we'll be injecting at least one new, younger guy -- likely Cam Williams -- into the fold. Just a monster of a man who can do windmill basketball dunks and who's sheer length represents an opportunity to absolutely swallow opposing edge-rushers.
So who starts where? What happens at RG? Can Majors -- the elder statesman -- actually be pushed by younger players with more upside? What is the next step for Kelvin Banks? How good can he be? Can he start scoring in the 85-point range like peak Connor Williams -- or even higher like peak Joel Bitonio, Zack Martin or Jake Matthews?
Only time will tell, and now that the Deep Dig shutters up for a long winter and spring, one thing we do have is all the time in the world. As always, and in the words of TEX, the voice of the telephone enrollment exchange at the University of Texas at Austin,
Goodbye ... and Good Luck.
