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Skill Player Snap Counts and Game-by-Game Percentages of Offensive Snaps (2023 Through Week 8)
***please note that exact snap-count numbers may differ from other sources at times, as the Deep Dig does not count plays as offensive player snaps that are blown dead due to penalty, punts, extra points, field goals, spiked balls, victory formations, kneel-downs, etc.***
Personnel-Grouping Frequency Overall and by Game (2023 Through Week 8)
Tight End Total Snap Counts and Alignment Data (2023 Through Week 8)
Team Target Share By Week (2023 Through Week 8)
Deep Dig OL Grading Scale (each snap by each player is graded as its own independent event)
OL Grades (BYU)
LT Kelvin Banks - 59 snaps
1 run stuff, 1 TFL allowed
2 knockdowns
DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.45
LG Hayden Conner - 59 snaps
2 QB hits, 1 sack, 1 run-stuff, 1 TFL allowed
2 knockdowns
DEEP DIG GRADE: 73.14
C Jake Majors - 59 snaps
2 run-stuffs, 2 TFLs, 1 QB pressure allowed
1 knockdown
DEEP DIG GRADE: 74.55
RG DJ Campbell - 41 snaps
No disruption allowed
1 knockdown
DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.68
RG Cole Hutson - 18 snaps
No disruption allowed
2 knockdowns
DEEP DIG GRADE: N/A
RT Christian Jones - 59 snaps
1 QB pressure allowed
1 false-start penalty
DEEP DIG GRADE: 77.2
OL Grades by Week (2023 Through Week 8)
OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed (2023 Through Week 8)
OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed BY WEEK (2023 Through Week 8)
2023 OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed Versus Historical Precedent (2023 Through Week 8)
QUICK FINAL THOUGHTS
Maalik Murphy needs more help than he got versus BYU. If this offense, as Steve Sarkisian said last week, was focused on making sure they played their very best in order to support their first-time starting QB, then a few guys apparently didn't get that memo.
Xavier Worthy dropped at least three very catchable passes while Hayden Conner and Jake Majors both played at their lowest or second-lowest levels of the season. And that is saying something considering the absolute disaster the interior offensive line was against Rice in the season opener. At least it wasn't all three interior OL who decided to take the day off versus BYU as they did versus Rice.
DJ Campbell, as you can see in the snaps/disruption comparison charts and game-by-game logs above, is one player on the Texas OL who has had a predictable and steady uphill climb all season. For the first time in his career as a starter, in fact, he played all his offensive snaps without allowing any direct disruption. Now, he didn't play the entire game, as Cole Hutson mixed in at the right guard, and that's a little extra bit of nuance we'll get to here in a second.
Last week, we celebrated the fact that Hayden Conner, in the win versus Houston, finally looked unencumbered by whatever ailment had been keeping him at less than 100% to start the season per Steve Sarkisian. We figured that the bye week was the anecdote in order to get back to full strength. After watching him give up 2 QB hits, 1 sack, 1 run-stuff and1 TFL against a defense that was fine, but not among the most talented Texas has faced or will face during this 2023 campaign (including Kansas State on Saturday), we're beginning to wonder if he's doomed to be consistently inconsistent this season. The part that is hardest to understand is that the main issue and area of blown blocks through the first half of the year was one you could set your clock by: outside-zone runs to the left. However, in this game, Conner was only graded negatively on 3 of 16 outside-zone concepts, allowing one run-stuff. Not great but certainly not completely terrible. It was an overall mish-mash of bad (a lot of it coming in pass pro) and Jake Majors wasn't much better.
We're willing to give Majors a little grace as he's been awesome this year compared to expectations, and it's probably harder for the center than anyone else to adapt to a new QB he has to snap to while also running the ship as usual. He's also, of course, coming off an injury of his own from the OU game. It didn't help that Christian Jones played one of his worst games of the year (again, mainly in pass-pro) while Kelvin Banks continues to play really well despite a few issues with his hips that have cropped up a little bit in his kick set.
Here are the good bits of news:
1) Cole Hutson played awesome. The Deep Dig can't give a "True" score for anyone that plays under 18 snaps, but if we were to cheat and manually give him a grade for being so close to the threshold it would have, for the record, been a team-best 80.44. If Conner is seriously banged up, they should consider playing Hutson at LG.
2) After the last time the interior offensive line played this badly, they went on to turn things around in a total 180 the next week and win in the toughest game of the season versus Alabama.
3) Maalik Murphy and the Horns, in the end, blew out BYU despite the lack of help Murphy was getting from certain key players in his first start.
Imagine what we might see if everyone shows up to work as planned this week ...
Onward to K State.
