The Deep Dig
Iowa State Part I: Defense
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Market Shares and Futures (fine print and scoring details)
Here’s how the productivity rankings are tallied, as always, Deep Dig data and statistics are likely to differ from “official” statistics kept by the university:
Solo Tackles: 1 point
Assisted and Boundary-Assisted Tackles: .5 points
Touches-Down and Untouched Force-Outs: 0 points
Sacks: 2 points
QB Hits: 1 point
QB Pressures: 1 point
TFL: 2 points
Batted Passes: 1 point
Fumbles Caused: 3 points
Fumbles Recovered: 1.5 points
Run-Stuffs: 1 point (on top of tackle if applicable)
Pass Break-Ups: 1 point
Blowups (a PBU that ‘blows up’ the opposing WR): 2 points
Interceptions: 3 points
Defensive Touchdowns: 6 points
Missed Tackles: -1 point
FOR DBs ONLY (new in 2016)
Lockdown Bonus: A bonus awarded (3 points for CB, 2 points for S and Nickel*) that can be whittled down by the following negatives stats:
Completions allowed: -.5 points
Burns: -2 points
* points per total snaps in the game. If a player was only a 50% snap participant as an outside cornerback, the lockdown bonus he’d start out with would be only 1.5 points.
Standings in the Deep Dig’s Productivity Market Share Rankings represent the number of points the player has scored to this point in the season per the Deep Dig’s official records.
The rankings will be updated weekly through the season as players move in and out of the Top 10 and market-shares shift toward the future. For now, it's new second-straight week of a new leader in the clubhouse ... and his lead isn't doing anything but increasing on the field ...
THE TOP 10 RANKINGS (through six games)
(Player) (% total team productivity created) (movement in ranking from last week)
1. LB/FOX Breckyn Hager - 9.70% (even)
2. LB Malik Jefferson - 7.41% (even)
T3. FOX Malcolm Roach - 7.09% (even)
T3. DT Chris Nelson - 7.09% (+6)
5. LB Anthony Wheeler - 6.99% (-1)
T6. DE Charles Omenihu - 6.57% (+2)
T6. DT Poona Ford - 6.57% (even)
8. S Jason Hall - 6% (-3)
9. DT Paul Boyette - 4.8% (-2)
10. S Dylan Haines - 3.93% (even)
Falling out of the Top 10: none
Defensive Snap Counts and Quick Hits
Click here for the official participation chart
NOSE
97 Chris Nelson - 38 snaps (26 at NT, 12 at DT)
93 Paul Boyette - 34 snaps (28 at NT, 6 at DT)
55 Jordan Elliott - 13 snaps
TACKLE
95 Poona Ford - 41 snaps (34 at DT, 7 at NT)
98 D’Andre Christmas - 15 snaps
- The Chris Nelson Monster Part II. After exploding onto the scene versus Notre Dame to play a Hassan Ridgeway-like role, Nelson quieted down for the next four games before going bananas against ISU. We saw the same explosion, balance, anchoring power and hand violence from Nelson that we’d been so impressed with in the opener. Perhaps most impressive was Nelson’s ability to absolutely implode a pocket from the one-technique by causing damaging inside penetration on passing downs that don’t allow the QB to step up and into throws.
- In all Nelson moved up an astounding six spots in the overall (season) rankings, which shows two things:
1) Nelson had a monster game (2.5 points for tackles, 1.5 sacks, 2 QB pressures, 1 TFL, 1 caused fumble, 2 run-stuffs and no missed tackles!)
2) Just how close the rankings really are through the middle of our Top 10 within the 6.0-7.5% market-share club. Anyone planning to stay atop that group will have to keep his foot on the gas through the remainder of the season as things could easily see big shakeups with big games or regression from any involved.
- One of a few interesting personnel twists we’ll discuss in this transmission of the Deep Dig was true FR Jordan Elliott, who had played somewhat out-of-position all season at the SDE was moved inside to play nose for the entirety of his snaps versus Iowa State.
- It was always a question with Elliott as to why he was bumped out to SDE at nearly 330 pounds; and whether it was out of depth necessity or whether the staff just liked him better off the edge despite seeming too big. With true SDEs Bryce Cottrell and Charles Omenihu now both healthy and fellow freshmen DL Gerald Wilbon ailing coming into ISU, the move for Elliott to the nose now gives us clarity in the staff’s view of him: versatile enough to play at any number of positions (for now) with long-term plans of playing inside. It reminds us of Charles Omenihu’s 2015 season spent playing mostly FOX for depth reasons when it was clear his future was at SDE. If nothing else, this should stand to help Elliott develop a more versatile skill-set for his eventual final position. Unfortunately, Elliott injured his MCL during the game and will miss at least some time in the coming weeks.
- One of our basement’s regulars posed a question about what would happen moving forward at the DL’s interior with Elliott on the shelf and Gerald Wilbon banged up from the Oklahoma game. The answer is clear to us (should both miss more time), and it doesn’t involve any burning of redshirts worn by Chris Daniels and/or Marcell Southall. We’d expect to see an uptick in snap percentage for D’Andre Christmas with the “Big 3” of Nelson, Ford and Boyette carrying the vast majority of the load. Remember, there have been games this season where those three alone have handled over 80 snaps of action with no one else even substituting in.
END
90 Charles Omenihu - 34 snaps
91 Bryce Cottrell - 24 snaps
41 Erick Fowler - 9 snaps
FOX
32 Malcolm Roach - 28 snaps
40 Naashon Hughes - 21 snaps
SAM/“Double Fox”/Overhang
44 Breckyn Hager - 33 snaps
23 Jeffery McCulloch - 26 snaps (7 at OLB, 19 at mike)
- A normally sure-tackling Hager had missed only one tackle all season until the ISU game, but added on two versus the Cyclones.
- Still, let’s all take a step back and realize that Breckyn Hager is pulling away to what is now becoming a major lead on Malik Jefferson, the player who, until just last week, had held the top spot in these very rankings since their inception in Week 1 of 2015. The most amazing part is that Hager leads the team in productivity but has less snaps on the season (203) than any other player in the Top 10 not named Malcolm Roach (170). When considering guys like LBs Malik Jefferson and Anthony Wheeler have over 340 snaps each and are naturally in better position to make plays from down to down due simply to alignment, it’s clear that Breckyn Hager isn’t only the defense’s best player, he’s a superstar-in-the-making.
- Another possible future superstar is Jeffrey “The Shark” McCulloch. More than a few regulars in our dark basement actually said what most of us can only think from the darkest and most secret recesses of our minds: “Shark should start at mike over Malik!”
- We don’t know why he’s nicknamed the shark, but anyone who’s ever had any close encounters of the sharky variety knows that sharks are basically long hunks of muscle that react with urgent, twitchy movements of extreme power, acceleration and unbelievable speed in changing direction. Jeffrey McCulloch finds the ball-carrier and reacts to him like a shark. It is the perfect nickname. On 19 snaps, the Shark (as he’ll be referred to from here on out at the Deep Dig) generated 3 points for tackles, 1 sack and two separate QB hits. That’s unbelievable.
- The Shark had its most snaps of the season, by far, but only seven of them came during meaningful time in the new speed-package Charlie Strong has begun to employ over the last two weeks. The final 19 snaps came as the backup mike in garbage time versus scrubs. We don’t know whether the Shark’s production is tied to the situation and the level of competition (it has to be to some degree, because the level of play is entirely unsustainable), but what a nice surprise the Shark was in its first chance to show off some traits in extended action.
- Speaking of first bit of extended action, we were thrilled to take in an ever-elusive Erick Fowler sighting on defense for a much-anticipated nine snaps of action. During those nine snaps, Fowler did not make quite the splash that McCulloch did during his short time on the field, but was still effective, showing some nice things.
- On top of generating one TFL on so few plays, Fowler also came very close to converting a QB pressure and had one QB hit taken off the scoreboard as the play was nullified by penalty when Fowler was called for (a *cough* bullshit) roughing-the-passer penalty. The most interesting takeaway from Fowler's time on the field was that he was utilized from the SDE position. Coming in, Fowler was labeled as a FOX candidate, and once enrolled, Strong said he'd start out working at the mike. So of course, he saw his first action at neither position.
MIKE
46 Malik Jefferson - 47 snaps
30 Tim Cole - 8 snaps
WILL
45 Anthony Wheeler - 47 snaps
35 Edwin Freeman - 23 snaps
LB Cameron Townsend - 4 snaps
- Death, taxes, Malik Jefferson missing tackles behind the line of scrimmage when he’s been put in position to make sacks and/or TFL’s.
- Speaking of Malik Jefferson’s “sack,” it doesn’t count here at the Deep Dig. Read the rules above and read them carefully. And we QUOTE: “Touches-Down and Untouched Force-Outs: 0 points.” That’s right, the Deep Dig does not reward patty-caking, hand-clapping and/or ass-grabbing. Malik Jefferson got credit for a sack from UT’s “stat department” because a QB ran out of bounds behind the line of scrimmage, untouched by Jefferson, who was not even the primary reason the QB fled the pocket in the first place. He’ll receive no points from the Deep Dig and we won’t be fooled by such misleading accolades.
- Jefferson did not play as horribly versus ISU as he did versus Oklahoma (we at the Deep Dig are of the impression it’s impossible for any player at any level of football to play worse than Malik did against OU), but he wasn’t the Malik Jefferson that most fans likely just assume he still is. It’s time we come to realize things for what they are and reset a few long-held viewpoints. The most important being realistic 2016 expectations for Jefferson. Unfortunately, the most positive of these would be Malik finally getting back to the player he was in … the first game of his Texas career.
- Isn’t Coach Charlie Strong’s whole deal supposed to be about making players … you know … better? It certainly gives a different meaning to the cries of Strong supporters for “more time” so Charlie can develop his own. “More time” for Malik Jefferson has led to nothing but regression and it’s hard to say much different about lots of players on defense, most certainly including virtually all of the …
SECONDARY
NICKEL
11 PJ Locke - 39 snaps
25 Antwuan Davis - 34 snaps
CORNER
2 Kris Boyd - 52 snaps (30 at RCB, 22 at LCB)
24 John Bonney - 52 snaps (30 at LCB, 22 at RCB)
9 Davante Davis - 22 snaps at LCB
1 Sheroid Evans - 22 snaps at RCB
SAFETY
14 Dylan Haines - 43 snaps
4 Deshon Elliott - 31 snaps
8 Kevin Vaccaro - 31 snaps
19 Brandon Jones - 22 snaps
31 Jason Hall - 21 snaps
- It was the first time the Texas defense did not use a mishmash platoon of 30 different CBs through the game as one was pulled out here or there for allowing 70-yard bombs on coverage breakdowns, which is a positive.
- Another positive .. gulp … John Bonney. It was clear that the staff wanted to keep No. 2 Kris Boyd on ISU’s No. 5 Lazard and so the players switched sides all game, but there were no substitutions all game long until garbage time getting any other personnel in at the corners. It certainly made our jobs a little easier. Bonney allowed three completions into his coverage responsibility of the day, but generated 2.5 points for tackles (very uncharacteristically not missing a single one) and also getting a TFL.
- Jason Hall? What happened? Coming off his best few games in recent memory as a box-safety for the Horns, he was the one of the group who played the least snaps of all.
Here are the downfield coverage stats for the Texas DBs versus ISU (as always, these are only counted on passing attempts downfield and into DB coverage, flanker screens and flats-concepts, etc. are not counted and neither are attempts into linebacker coverage).
Davante Davis - .89 lockdown bonus, no completions allowed no burns
Kris Boyd - 1.27 lockdown bonus, 1 completion allowed, no burns
Antwuan Davis - .59 lockdown bonus, no completions allowed no burns
John Bonney - 2.11 lockdown bonus, 3 completions allowed, no burns
PJ Locke - 1.05 lockdown bonus, 1 completion allowed, no burns
Brandon Jones - .59 lockdown bonus, no completions allowed, no burns
Dylan Haines - 1.16 lockdown bonus, no completions allowed, no burns
Jason Hall - .57 lockdown bonus, no completions allowed, no burns
Kevin Vaccaro - 1.16 lockdown bonus, no completions allowed, no burns
Snaps per production generated (through six games)
players who have not yet caused 2016 production not included; *players with under 100 total defensive snaps in 2016 not included
FOX B Hager
203 total defensive snaps in 2016
4.37 snaps per production caused
FOX M Roach
170 total defensive snaps in 2016
5.00 snaps per production caused
DT C Nelson
223 total defensive snaps in 2016
6.56 snaps per production caused
DE C Omenihu
255 total defensive snaps in 2016
8.10 snaps per production caused
DT P Ford
260 total defensive snaps in 2016
8.25 snaps per production caused
S D Elliott
125 total defensive snaps in 2016
8.29 snaps per production caused
S J Hall
261 total defensive snaps in 2016
9.08 snaps per production caused
LB M Jefferson
344 total defensive snaps in 2016
9.69 snaps per production caused
LB A Wheeler
347 total defensive snaps in 2016
10.36 snaps per production caused
FOX N Hughes
192 total defensive snaps in 2016
11.64 snaps per production caused
DT P Boyette
269 total defensive snaps in 2016
11.70 snaps per production caused
S D Haines
228 total defensive snaps in 2016
12.11 snaps per production caused
NCB P Locke
188 total defensive snaps in 2016
12.45 snaps per production caused
CB K Boyd
190 total defensive snaps in 2016
13.48 snaps per production caused
CB H Hill
182 total defensive snaps in 2016
15.54 snaps per production caused
CB D Davis
195 total defensive snaps in 2016
19.74 snaps per production caused
DB J Bonney
141 total defensive snaps in 2016
20.64 snaps per production caused
CB S Evans
202 total defensive snaps in 2016
23.54 snaps per production caused
S K Vaccaro
159 total defensive snaps in 2016
24.57 snaps per production caused
Did He Play on Defense? No He Didn’t …
scholarship players on defense that have played at least a defensive snap in 2015, but did not against ISU in Week 6
CB Holton Hill (182 snaps on defense in 2016)
DT Gerald Wilbon (22 snaps on defense in 2016)
This Week in Missed Tackles …
Same number of missed tackles as last week; much better result!
FOX B Hager - 2 missed tackles
CB K Boyd -1 missed tackle
DT P Boyette -1 missed tackle
FOX M Roach -1 missed tackle
FOX N Hughes -1 missed tackle
LB M Jefferson -1 missed tackle
S D Elliott -1 missed tackle
S D Haines -1 missed tackle
S J Hall -1 missed tackle
For a total of missed tackles on defense versus ISU, in case Vance Bedford asks.
As we turn our attention to Part II: Offense, we thank you, once again, for reading.
Iowa State Part I: Defense
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all images versus ISU courtesy of Texas Football
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all images versus ISU courtesy of Texas Football
Market Shares and Futures (fine print and scoring details)
Here’s how the productivity rankings are tallied, as always, Deep Dig data and statistics are likely to differ from “official” statistics kept by the university:
Solo Tackles: 1 point
Assisted and Boundary-Assisted Tackles: .5 points
Touches-Down and Untouched Force-Outs: 0 points
Sacks: 2 points
QB Hits: 1 point
QB Pressures: 1 point
TFL: 2 points
Batted Passes: 1 point
Fumbles Caused: 3 points
Fumbles Recovered: 1.5 points
Run-Stuffs: 1 point (on top of tackle if applicable)
Pass Break-Ups: 1 point
Blowups (a PBU that ‘blows up’ the opposing WR): 2 points
Interceptions: 3 points
Defensive Touchdowns: 6 points
Missed Tackles: -1 point
FOR DBs ONLY (new in 2016)
Lockdown Bonus: A bonus awarded (3 points for CB, 2 points for S and Nickel*) that can be whittled down by the following negatives stats:
Completions allowed: -.5 points
Burns: -2 points
* points per total snaps in the game. If a player was only a 50% snap participant as an outside cornerback, the lockdown bonus he’d start out with would be only 1.5 points.
Standings in the Deep Dig’s Productivity Market Share Rankings represent the number of points the player has scored to this point in the season per the Deep Dig’s official records.
The rankings will be updated weekly through the season as players move in and out of the Top 10 and market-shares shift toward the future. For now, it's new second-straight week of a new leader in the clubhouse ... and his lead isn't doing anything but increasing on the field ...
. . .
THE TOP 10 RANKINGS (through six games)
(Player) (% total team productivity created) (movement in ranking from last week)
1. LB/FOX Breckyn Hager - 9.70% (even)
2. LB Malik Jefferson - 7.41% (even)
T3. FOX Malcolm Roach - 7.09% (even)
T3. DT Chris Nelson - 7.09% (+6)
5. LB Anthony Wheeler - 6.99% (-1)
T6. DE Charles Omenihu - 6.57% (+2)
T6. DT Poona Ford - 6.57% (even)
8. S Jason Hall - 6% (-3)
9. DT Paul Boyette - 4.8% (-2)
10. S Dylan Haines - 3.93% (even)
Falling out of the Top 10: none
. . .
Defensive Snap Counts and Quick Hits
Click here for the official participation chart
NOSE
97 Chris Nelson - 38 snaps (26 at NT, 12 at DT)
93 Paul Boyette - 34 snaps (28 at NT, 6 at DT)
55 Jordan Elliott - 13 snaps
TACKLE
95 Poona Ford - 41 snaps (34 at DT, 7 at NT)
98 D’Andre Christmas - 15 snaps
- The Chris Nelson Monster Part II. After exploding onto the scene versus Notre Dame to play a Hassan Ridgeway-like role, Nelson quieted down for the next four games before going bananas against ISU. We saw the same explosion, balance, anchoring power and hand violence from Nelson that we’d been so impressed with in the opener. Perhaps most impressive was Nelson’s ability to absolutely implode a pocket from the one-technique by causing damaging inside penetration on passing downs that don’t allow the QB to step up and into throws.
- In all Nelson moved up an astounding six spots in the overall (season) rankings, which shows two things:
1) Nelson had a monster game (2.5 points for tackles, 1.5 sacks, 2 QB pressures, 1 TFL, 1 caused fumble, 2 run-stuffs and no missed tackles!)
2) Just how close the rankings really are through the middle of our Top 10 within the 6.0-7.5% market-share club. Anyone planning to stay atop that group will have to keep his foot on the gas through the remainder of the season as things could easily see big shakeups with big games or regression from any involved.
- One of a few interesting personnel twists we’ll discuss in this transmission of the Deep Dig was true FR Jordan Elliott, who had played somewhat out-of-position all season at the SDE was moved inside to play nose for the entirety of his snaps versus Iowa State.
- It was always a question with Elliott as to why he was bumped out to SDE at nearly 330 pounds; and whether it was out of depth necessity or whether the staff just liked him better off the edge despite seeming too big. With true SDEs Bryce Cottrell and Charles Omenihu now both healthy and fellow freshmen DL Gerald Wilbon ailing coming into ISU, the move for Elliott to the nose now gives us clarity in the staff’s view of him: versatile enough to play at any number of positions (for now) with long-term plans of playing inside. It reminds us of Charles Omenihu’s 2015 season spent playing mostly FOX for depth reasons when it was clear his future was at SDE. If nothing else, this should stand to help Elliott develop a more versatile skill-set for his eventual final position. Unfortunately, Elliott injured his MCL during the game and will miss at least some time in the coming weeks.
- One of our basement’s regulars posed a question about what would happen moving forward at the DL’s interior with Elliott on the shelf and Gerald Wilbon banged up from the Oklahoma game. The answer is clear to us (should both miss more time), and it doesn’t involve any burning of redshirts worn by Chris Daniels and/or Marcell Southall. We’d expect to see an uptick in snap percentage for D’Andre Christmas with the “Big 3” of Nelson, Ford and Boyette carrying the vast majority of the load. Remember, there have been games this season where those three alone have handled over 80 snaps of action with no one else even substituting in.
END
90 Charles Omenihu - 34 snaps
91 Bryce Cottrell - 24 snaps
41 Erick Fowler - 9 snaps
FOX
32 Malcolm Roach - 28 snaps
40 Naashon Hughes - 21 snaps
SAM/“Double Fox”/Overhang
44 Breckyn Hager - 33 snaps
23 Jeffery McCulloch - 26 snaps (7 at OLB, 19 at mike)
- A normally sure-tackling Hager had missed only one tackle all season until the ISU game, but added on two versus the Cyclones.
- Still, let’s all take a step back and realize that Breckyn Hager is pulling away to what is now becoming a major lead on Malik Jefferson, the player who, until just last week, had held the top spot in these very rankings since their inception in Week 1 of 2015. The most amazing part is that Hager leads the team in productivity but has less snaps on the season (203) than any other player in the Top 10 not named Malcolm Roach (170). When considering guys like LBs Malik Jefferson and Anthony Wheeler have over 340 snaps each and are naturally in better position to make plays from down to down due simply to alignment, it’s clear that Breckyn Hager isn’t only the defense’s best player, he’s a superstar-in-the-making.
- Another possible future superstar is Jeffrey “The Shark” McCulloch. More than a few regulars in our dark basement actually said what most of us can only think from the darkest and most secret recesses of our minds: “Shark should start at mike over Malik!”
- We don’t know why he’s nicknamed the shark, but anyone who’s ever had any close encounters of the sharky variety knows that sharks are basically long hunks of muscle that react with urgent, twitchy movements of extreme power, acceleration and unbelievable speed in changing direction. Jeffrey McCulloch finds the ball-carrier and reacts to him like a shark. It is the perfect nickname. On 19 snaps, the Shark (as he’ll be referred to from here on out at the Deep Dig) generated 3 points for tackles, 1 sack and two separate QB hits. That’s unbelievable.
- The Shark had its most snaps of the season, by far, but only seven of them came during meaningful time in the new speed-package Charlie Strong has begun to employ over the last two weeks. The final 19 snaps came as the backup mike in garbage time versus scrubs. We don’t know whether the Shark’s production is tied to the situation and the level of competition (it has to be to some degree, because the level of play is entirely unsustainable), but what a nice surprise the Shark was in its first chance to show off some traits in extended action.
- Speaking of first bit of extended action, we were thrilled to take in an ever-elusive Erick Fowler sighting on defense for a much-anticipated nine snaps of action. During those nine snaps, Fowler did not make quite the splash that McCulloch did during his short time on the field, but was still effective, showing some nice things.
- On top of generating one TFL on so few plays, Fowler also came very close to converting a QB pressure and had one QB hit taken off the scoreboard as the play was nullified by penalty when Fowler was called for (a *cough* bullshit) roughing-the-passer penalty. The most interesting takeaway from Fowler's time on the field was that he was utilized from the SDE position. Coming in, Fowler was labeled as a FOX candidate, and once enrolled, Strong said he'd start out working at the mike. So of course, he saw his first action at neither position.
MIKE
46 Malik Jefferson - 47 snaps
30 Tim Cole - 8 snaps
WILL
45 Anthony Wheeler - 47 snaps
35 Edwin Freeman - 23 snaps
LB Cameron Townsend - 4 snaps
- Death, taxes, Malik Jefferson missing tackles behind the line of scrimmage when he’s been put in position to make sacks and/or TFL’s.
- Speaking of Malik Jefferson’s “sack,” it doesn’t count here at the Deep Dig. Read the rules above and read them carefully. And we QUOTE: “Touches-Down and Untouched Force-Outs: 0 points.” That’s right, the Deep Dig does not reward patty-caking, hand-clapping and/or ass-grabbing. Malik Jefferson got credit for a sack from UT’s “stat department” because a QB ran out of bounds behind the line of scrimmage, untouched by Jefferson, who was not even the primary reason the QB fled the pocket in the first place. He’ll receive no points from the Deep Dig and we won’t be fooled by such misleading accolades.
- Jefferson did not play as horribly versus ISU as he did versus Oklahoma (we at the Deep Dig are of the impression it’s impossible for any player at any level of football to play worse than Malik did against OU), but he wasn’t the Malik Jefferson that most fans likely just assume he still is. It’s time we come to realize things for what they are and reset a few long-held viewpoints. The most important being realistic 2016 expectations for Jefferson. Unfortunately, the most positive of these would be Malik finally getting back to the player he was in … the first game of his Texas career.
- Isn’t Coach Charlie Strong’s whole deal supposed to be about making players … you know … better? It certainly gives a different meaning to the cries of Strong supporters for “more time” so Charlie can develop his own. “More time” for Malik Jefferson has led to nothing but regression and it’s hard to say much different about lots of players on defense, most certainly including virtually all of the …
SECONDARY
NICKEL
11 PJ Locke - 39 snaps
25 Antwuan Davis - 34 snaps
CORNER
2 Kris Boyd - 52 snaps (30 at RCB, 22 at LCB)
24 John Bonney - 52 snaps (30 at LCB, 22 at RCB)
9 Davante Davis - 22 snaps at LCB
1 Sheroid Evans - 22 snaps at RCB
SAFETY
14 Dylan Haines - 43 snaps
4 Deshon Elliott - 31 snaps
8 Kevin Vaccaro - 31 snaps
19 Brandon Jones - 22 snaps
31 Jason Hall - 21 snaps
- It was the first time the Texas defense did not use a mishmash platoon of 30 different CBs through the game as one was pulled out here or there for allowing 70-yard bombs on coverage breakdowns, which is a positive.
- Another positive .. gulp … John Bonney. It was clear that the staff wanted to keep No. 2 Kris Boyd on ISU’s No. 5 Lazard and so the players switched sides all game, but there were no substitutions all game long until garbage time getting any other personnel in at the corners. It certainly made our jobs a little easier. Bonney allowed three completions into his coverage responsibility of the day, but generated 2.5 points for tackles (very uncharacteristically not missing a single one) and also getting a TFL.
- Jason Hall? What happened? Coming off his best few games in recent memory as a box-safety for the Horns, he was the one of the group who played the least snaps of all.
Here are the downfield coverage stats for the Texas DBs versus ISU (as always, these are only counted on passing attempts downfield and into DB coverage, flanker screens and flats-concepts, etc. are not counted and neither are attempts into linebacker coverage).
Davante Davis - .89 lockdown bonus, no completions allowed no burns
Kris Boyd - 1.27 lockdown bonus, 1 completion allowed, no burns
Antwuan Davis - .59 lockdown bonus, no completions allowed no burns
John Bonney - 2.11 lockdown bonus, 3 completions allowed, no burns
PJ Locke - 1.05 lockdown bonus, 1 completion allowed, no burns
Brandon Jones - .59 lockdown bonus, no completions allowed, no burns
Dylan Haines - 1.16 lockdown bonus, no completions allowed, no burns
Jason Hall - .57 lockdown bonus, no completions allowed, no burns
Kevin Vaccaro - 1.16 lockdown bonus, no completions allowed, no burns
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Snaps per production generated (through six games)
players who have not yet caused 2016 production not included; *players with under 100 total defensive snaps in 2016 not included
FOX B Hager
203 total defensive snaps in 2016
4.37 snaps per production caused
FOX M Roach
170 total defensive snaps in 2016
5.00 snaps per production caused
DT C Nelson
223 total defensive snaps in 2016
6.56 snaps per production caused
DE C Omenihu
255 total defensive snaps in 2016
8.10 snaps per production caused
DT P Ford
260 total defensive snaps in 2016
8.25 snaps per production caused
S D Elliott
125 total defensive snaps in 2016
8.29 snaps per production caused
S J Hall
261 total defensive snaps in 2016
9.08 snaps per production caused
LB M Jefferson
344 total defensive snaps in 2016
9.69 snaps per production caused
LB A Wheeler
347 total defensive snaps in 2016
10.36 snaps per production caused
FOX N Hughes
192 total defensive snaps in 2016
11.64 snaps per production caused
DT P Boyette
269 total defensive snaps in 2016
11.70 snaps per production caused
S D Haines
228 total defensive snaps in 2016
12.11 snaps per production caused
NCB P Locke
188 total defensive snaps in 2016
12.45 snaps per production caused
CB K Boyd
190 total defensive snaps in 2016
13.48 snaps per production caused
CB H Hill
182 total defensive snaps in 2016
15.54 snaps per production caused
CB D Davis
195 total defensive snaps in 2016
19.74 snaps per production caused
DB J Bonney
141 total defensive snaps in 2016
20.64 snaps per production caused
CB S Evans
202 total defensive snaps in 2016
23.54 snaps per production caused
S K Vaccaro
159 total defensive snaps in 2016
24.57 snaps per production caused
. . .
Did He Play on Defense? No He Didn’t …
scholarship players on defense that have played at least a defensive snap in 2015, but did not against ISU in Week 6
CB Holton Hill (182 snaps on defense in 2016)
DT Gerald Wilbon (22 snaps on defense in 2016)
. . .
This Week in Missed Tackles …
Same number of missed tackles as last week; much better result!
FOX B Hager - 2 missed tackles
CB K Boyd -1 missed tackle
DT P Boyette -1 missed tackle
FOX M Roach -1 missed tackle
FOX N Hughes -1 missed tackle
LB M Jefferson -1 missed tackle
S D Elliott -1 missed tackle
S D Haines -1 missed tackle
S J Hall -1 missed tackle
For a total of missed tackles on defense versus ISU, in case Vance Bedford asks.
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As we turn our attention to Part II: Offense, we thank you, once again, for reading.
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