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Skill Player Snap Counts and Game-by-Game Percentages of Offensive Snaps (Through Week 2)
***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 (Through Week 2)
Tight End Total Snap Counts and Alignment Data (Through Week 2)
Team Target Share By Week (Through Week 2)
Deep Dig OL Grading Scale (each snap by each player is graded as its own independent event)
OL Grades (Michigan)
LT Kelvin Banks - 64 snaps
No disruption allowed
1 knockdown
DEEP DIG GRADE: 82.41
LG/C Hayden Conner - 64 snaps
1 TFL allowed
1 knockdown
DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.13
C Jake Majors - 64 snaps
2 run-stuffs, 1 pressure allowed
1 knockdown
DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.28
RG DJ Campbell - 41 snaps
No disruption allowed
1 knockdown, 1 pin
DEEP DIG GRADE: 82.34
RG Cole Hutson - 23 snaps
1 QB hit, 1 pressure allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.3
RT Cam Williams - 64 snaps
3 false-start penalties, 1 holding penalty
1 knockdown, 1 pin
DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.53
OL Grades by Week (Through Week 2)
OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed (Through Week 2)
OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed BY WEEK - Through Season (Through Week 2)
2024 OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed Versus Historical Precedent (Through Week 2)
QUICK FINAL THOUGHTS
- DJ Campbell put the much ballyhooed Kenneth Grant on his back twice, but he's still the only Texas OL who has someone rotating in with him. Cole Hutson once again played a decent number of snaps in this game which gives the idea that Campbell (or Hutson) might be doing something in practice or in the meeting rooms that leads the staff to believe this is their best bet: to platoon the right guard spot. However, the on-field results in this game heavily favored Campbell as you can see.
- One dweller of our dark basement asked this week if we could calculate what Cam Williams' grade would be if he did not commit the penalties, as he said he thought they came from the jitters and not indicative of future performance. To answer that question, Williams' grade if we wiped those four plays from the universe would have been 82.17. It would have been the first game in Deep Dig history with three players in the same game scoring in the 80s, but that is indeed another universe as the grade will stand with the penalties included.
- We did not count the cockamamie offsetting penalties for the players protection Quinn Ewers when the refs didn't want to do their own jobs. Pure, shameful poppycock.
- Jake Majors won SEC co-offensive lineman of the week and it's easy to see the logic in that, but he did not play at his tip-top level versus Michigan. He did play very well, though, and as mentioned, we understand the sentiment. He's the QB of the Texas offensive line and right in the thick middle of two truly tough players to face in Mason Graham and Kenneth Grant and neither player was allowed to have a sizable impact on the football game, much less take it over.
- Every member of the starting offensive line had at least one knockdown and/or pin block in this game. We can't remember the last time that happened, but it surely isn't a common occurrence. To have this happen versus such a vaunted defensive front has to be a little telling. Texas came to play on the offensive line and were not intimidated. That was made even more obvious on the play where they rushed to defend Ewers on the egregious no-call when he gave himself up in the backfield on a miscommunication down in the red zone. As a side note: Twice down at the goal line, runners ran to the wrong side of where Ewers was presenting the football. Sark constantly talked about eliminating self-inflicted injuries in the red zone, and Texas was lucky in this game that a few of those hiccups didn't come back to bite them.
- Additional runs in the man/power/gap/counter scheme were helpful when the running game sputtered. This was also true of runs that flowed like outside zones but included and pin-and-pull wrinkle. This often gave the uncovered blockers easier down-block angles on the talented interior DLs of Michigan and, as you'll as evidenced in the clip below (Thanks again to @Nash Talks Texas for the great Youtube cut-ups), the line as a whole was awfully good with their open-field targeting and leverage in space and at the second level when on the move as pullers.
- Is Gunnar Helm a more impactful tight end than Ja'Tavion Sanders? Because man, does that guy look awesome and we can't say we really saw it coming. We really hadn't had any glimpses of the absolute dog this guy has been in the past due to his usage primarily as a No.2 TE who only really played inline as a blocker. He still spends most of his time as an attached TE, but based on the first two games, he is absolutely a complete TE prospect and one who may be rounding his way into Day 2 NFL draft potential due to his dynamism in the receiving game. (Again, words we -- shamefully -- never thought we would write).
If we're just talking about a 12-game regular season, Helm is on pace to catch 54 passes for 840 yards and 6 receiving TDs.
In just the regular season!
That would blow Sanders' 2023 out of the water. Heck, in 14 games last year (not 12), Adonai Mitchell went for 55 receptions, 845 yards and 11 TDs. Helm is on pace (and again it's only been two games, but it has to mean something) to have a better season at Texas than Jermichael Finley ever did (by far), better than David Thomas ever had (best season was 2005 where he went 50/613/5), Well over double Bo Scaife's best season yardage-wise, better than Keith Cash in 1990 (33/605/6), and going back much further than that, we really don't see anything that pops up. Coming to this realization is like a bolt of lightning to the old ticker. Helm will go historically big if he comes closes to keeping this up.
- Speaking of TEs, Amari Niblack is sort of on the milk carton. He has to still be adjusting to the system after coming in with such hype, but we did make note of his first rep of the game (at the H back to the top of the screen). We saw some similar struggles to this out of JT Sanders last season as far as being an inconsistent blocker, and another reason that Helm (and to some degree Davis) have been nice surprises is because this sort of effort from the TE position really jumped off the screen when it happened as opposed to being a more common occurrence.
Onward to UTSA.
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