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Skill Player Snap Counts and Game-by-Game Percentages of Offensive Snaps (2023 Through Week 5)
***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 5)
Tight End Total Snap Counts and Alignment Data (2023 Through Week 5)
Team Target Share By Week (2023 Through Week 5)
Deep Dig OL Grading Scale (each snap by each player is graded as its own independent event)
OL Grades (Kansas)
LT Kelvin Banks - 81 snaps
1 run-stuff, 2 pressures allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.58
LG Hayden Conner - 81 snaps
2 run-stuffs, 1 QB hit allowed
1 knockdown, 1 pin
DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.21
C Jake Majors - 81 snaps
1 run-stuff, 1 QB hit allowed
1 bad snap
1 knockdown
DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.21
RG DJ Campbell - 81 snaps
1 holding penalty
2 knockdowns, 1 pin
DEEP DIG GRADE: 80.19
RT Christian Jones - 81 snaps
2 QB pressures allowed
3 knockdowns
DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.94
Reserves
RT Cam Williams - 5 snaps
No disruption allowed
RG Neto Omeozulu - 5 snaps
1 run-stuff allowed
C Conner Robertson - 5 snaps
No disruption allowed
LG Sawyer Goram Welch - 5 snaps
No disruption allowed
LT Trevor Goosby - 5 snaps
No disruption allowed
OL Grades by Week (2023 Through Week 5)
OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed (2023 Through Week 5)
OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed BY WEEK (2023 Through Week 5)
2023 OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed Versus Historical Precedent (2023 Through Week 5)
QUICK FINAL THOUGHTS
We'd say that DJ Campbell looks like he's cleared for takeoff but the fact of the matter is, he might already be at cruising altitude. Campbell played the best game of any Texas offensive lineman so far this season, turning in a big 80-plus score on the Deep Dig scale, which, at six regular-season starts into his career at Texas, feels about as absurd as when Kelvin Banks ventured into the 80s-range as a true freshman last season. That game, versus Oklahoma where Banks scored an 80.69, coincidentally was Banks' sixth start as well.
The snaps-per-disruption allowed chart by week (above) shows one of the most clear trend lines you could imagine regarding Campbell. It doesn't take a data analyst or even a particularly bright person to see (and you can trust us on this as we have quite a few folks who are on the "dimmer" end of the old lightbulb-scale here in our filthy basement) that Campbell is cutting out the mistakes. We always said that in between mistakes ... those plays that Coach Sark says he looks at Campbell with such frustration, thinking "You're better than that!", were flashes of elite play. Generating violent movement off the football, natural strength like a bull, a great motor and nasty ability to finish in the run game. Good enough instincts in pass protection and an obvious physical anchor and massive center of gravity to build upon. Once the mistakes got cut out, all you were going to be left with was the REALLY good stuff.
And that's what we saw versus Kansas. This is one week where you really don't need this column as much if we're being honest. (Not that we want to convince you that our jobs here are meaningless). No, what we're trying to say is that you watched the football game. You saw what happened. How many replays were there of wide open holes and running lanes for Jonathan Brooks and CJ Baxter to dash, dodge and weave through?
What is the most common rejoinder when football fans are asked how they knew the offensive line played well? It's that they didn't notice them, of course. It's just like the refs. If you go through a football game where neither your team's offensive line nor the men in stripes become the focus of your attention, it probably means you came out of that game faring relatively well in those areas. You weren't yelling at the TV or throwing your hands up in the air over anything, it was probably fine.
But what about when the offensive line is so GOOD that you simply had to notice? Well, that's what a game like Kansas was, and we can't say enough about the development job Kyle Flood, the best OL coach of the Deep Dig era by far, has done for this group of players.
The lowest score on the Deep Dig scale -- the lowest scoring player in the game -- was a tie a 78.21 with Hayden Conner and Jake Majors. Another common phrase in the world of the offensive line is that you are only as strong as your weakest link. Texas' weakest link scored a ridiculous 78.21? That was the WORST score? We at the Deep Dig have seen weeks where -- and it will sound absurd now, but it really wasn't that long ago -- when not one single player got a grade higher than 74.84!
Remember that game? Arkansas 2021? Kyle Flood's second game at Texas? Junior Angilau scored 74.38, Derek Kerstetter was the best of the bunch with a completely unacceptable 74.84. Jake Majors busted out a signature 72.5, Christian Jones a 73.44 and Denzel Okafor put the cherry on top with an utterly pathetic 71.25.
It will be quite the task, but if the Texas offensive line plays like this in every game moving forward, it would take monumental screw-ups in other phases of the offense to get things off-track regarding the desired game plan and outcome.
Onward to the Red River Shootout.
