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As always, we'll give some quick analysis along with the tiered rankings (Now through Week 10 of 2023) and are derived via a proprietary scoring formula, and based on the following advanced charting statistics (please note the distinctions in how tackles, etc. are counted and why these stats will always differ from the official university stats):
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DEEP DIG DEFENSIVE LEGEND
***Also, Please note: -1 point is been added for any defensive penalty outside of defensive pass interference which is always considered a coverage burn and is not double-counted. Also, please note that missed tackles that result in blown contains are counted as blown contains (-1) and are not double-counted as both a blown contain and a missed tackle.
Also, please note that exact snap-count numbers may differ from other sources at times, as the Deep Dig does not count plays as defensive player snaps that are blown dead due to penalty, punts, opponent victory formations, opponent kneel downs, opponent spiked balls, extra points or other plays where the player is not technically playing on defense***
Defensive Snap Counts By Week and Percentage of Total Defensive Snaps Played Through Week 10
Defensive Productivity Market-Share Percentages and Snaps per Production Caused Metrics Through Week 10 (snaps per disruption caused is colored coded from blue/best to white/median to red/worst - the number next to the name indicates movement in the rankings since last week):
Snaps per Production Caused Metrics By Week (AGGREGATE, POST-WEEK) Through Week 10
Quick Hits and Thoughts
There are few things we could hit on here in the quick recap that caught our eyes this week as we watched the Longhorns hold on to win what, somehow, became another close game in the end versus TCU.
For the record, we'll take a team that lets its opponents back into games that can still find a way to win close ones over a team that lets opponents back into games and loses. Or one that never even controls the games, period. But that is all fodder for a different time as Texas controls its own destiny in regard to the Big 12 championship with two games remaining on the regular season schedule. Words that haven't been uttered in our filthy and, more often than not in recent years, completely miserable basement since who knows when.
We could talk about Anthony Hill, who is now not just *barely* getting more work than David Gbenda at the inside will linebacker spot while also eeking out a slightly higher snap percentage due to involvement in sub-packages, but is now rather a dominant, full-blown starter. We could talk about the fact that Alfred Collins seems to now be playing behind Trill Carter of all people, which is either a complete indictment of Collins' play this season (which would be fair) or is an indication that he is still not completely healthy from suffering a minor injury a few games back. (It is almost surely a combination of both).
On that subject, how about we talk about one of two major revelations we've had this week ... with all the talk about whether Quinn Ewers should come back for another season of college football, perhaps the player who could benefit the most on the entire team from one more year is Alfred Collins, assuming the good old COVID extra-year rule is still a card these guys can play, or a similar waiver could be granted for a fifth season of eligibility. He simply hasn't been good, and as far as Texas is concerned, they're losing the very heart of the defense next season who happen to play those two interior DL positions. Even for his lack of productivity this season, he would surely be welcomed back with open arms if that were a possibility given the hole that will be left on the roster after Byron Murphy and T'Vondre Sweat leave.
T'Vondre Sweat, who is quite possibly the best defensive player in the history of the Deep Dig, dating back to the year 2013.
And we don't like to be hyperbolic around here about this kind of stuff. But, with only two games left in the season, it's starting to really become a thing to consider. T'Vondre Sweat is generating production in the Deep Dig formula once every 5.3 snaps, the clear leader on the team among guys who've played any real snap volume. Get this: If the refs wouldn't have been idiots on this play (which is a technical impossibility in the Big 12, we understand, but bear with us), Sweat would BE TIED WITH JAYLAN FORD as the most productive player on the team, pure volume of snaps be darned.
That's right. He'd have picked up two points for the TFL and also gained back one point that the Deep Dig had to (ever so painfully) take away from him.
A penalty is a penalty and it wouldn't be fair to players of the past who we use this tool as a gauge for establishing precedent regarding across seasons to not count it as such. That would quite simply be three extra points and he'd have as much productivity on his 342 total snaps as Jaylan Ford has on his 568.
Just incredible.
Sweat has been more productive on a per-snap basis than even the better-version of Jaylan Ford from last season (6.83 snaps per production caused); Better than freshman year 2021 breakout Byron Murphy (5.87); Joseph Ossai in his final 2020 season (6.28); Demarvion Overshown (6.01) or Brandon Jones (8.77) in 2019; Charles Omenihu (8.14), Brandon Jones (10.02), Malcolm Roach (10.08), Kris Boyd (10.47), and Caden Sterns (10.47) in 2018; Holton Hill (6.11), Poona Ford (6.30), Deshon Elliott (6.57) or Malik Jefferson (7.11) in 2017; Breckyn Hager (5.83). Malcolm Roach (6.36), and Malik Jefferson (8.09) in 2016; and as of this writing, even slightly better than even Hasan Ridgeway (5.31) in 2015. The sheets for 2013 and 2014 were not kept on the same template and the data taken from those years are stored simply as images used in the old Deep Dig columns before we knew this would become a decades-long endeavor where a standard template would eventually become imperative. But in looking through those previously, you can generally see the only other player we'd highlight as being similarly EFFICIENT regarding snaps/production to T'Vondre Sweat would have been Malcom Brown (an eventual late first-round pick) who hovered in-season between 5.5 and the low sixes. Jordan Hicks was very productive during that time as well, but on much larger snap volume, as is typically the case with inside LBs.
A monster season for a monster of a man.
Onward to the offense.
