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Skill Player Snap Counts and Game-by-Game Percentages of Offensive Snaps (2022 Regular Season)
Personnel-Grouping Frequency Overall and by Game (2022 Regular Season)
Tight End Total Snap Counts and Alignment Data (2022 Regular Season)
Deep Dig OL Grading Scale (each snap by each player is graded as its own independent event)
OL Grades (Alabama)
LT Kelvin Banks - 66 snaps
2 run-stuffs allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.39
LG Hayden Conner - 66 snaps
1 illegal blindside block
DEEP DIG GRADE: 77.42
C Jake Majors - 66 snaps
2 run-stuffs, 1 QB hit, 1 TFL allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 75
RG Cole Hutson - 66 snaps
1 QB hit, 1 QB pressure, 1 run-stuff allowed
1 false-start penalty
DEEP DIG GRADE: 75
RT Christian Jones - 66 snaps
1 QB hit, 1 QB pressure allowed
1 pin
DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.82
OL Grades by Week (2022)
OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed (2022)
2022 OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed Versus Historical Precedent (Last 9 seasons)
Quick Hits and Thoughts
It's really hard to believe that coming into Week 3 of the 2022 Longhorns season, we're trying to talk ourselves into excitement over Charles Wright's debut as a starter ... or in the best-case scenario, the return of Hudson Card who will still not be operating at 100%.
What a difference two weeks make. And during those two weeks, have we ever learned a lot about this football team? When Quinn Ewers went down at the end of the first quarter versus Alabama, we couldn't have been more deflated. Ewers was 9-of-12 to start the game and was just coming off throwing his longest pass of the day (46 yards) on a dime before suffering the game-ending injury to his non-throwing shoulder-area. Sark said earlier this week that Ewers was "day-to-day" but that was, of course, a lie. It will be weeks before we see Ewers again, and our only hope is that he can pick up RIGHT where he left off, because the beginning of the Alabama game felt like the beginning of the Quinn Ewers era in earnest. The arm strength, the arm angles, the timing and the touch were all coalescing in ways we'd hoped for, but had yet to see with our own eyes. It was a bittersweet pill (which was admittedly more bitter than sweet) to have to swallow, given the circumstances.
And, also extremely importantly, we've learned about the offensive line.
Moving forward into the future, focus on the OL in recruiting must always be at peak intensity. You cannot sustain a winning culture in the trenches at any major school if you do not treat line recruiting like a life-or-death endeavor. You don't need to be Texas circa November of 2021 to be so worried about OL recruiting that it gives you diarrhea and makes you wake up in the middle of the night with cold sweats.
Because that is about the future and you always have to plan for it.
But what about today? At this moment, for the first time ... (ever)? We're not overly concerned with the play of the Texas offensive line. The unit will be fine in 2022 with upside to actually be good barring major injuries. Elite (or even VERY good) will be a stretch, given the deficiencies of some of the current starters, but even those "weak link"-type players (Namely Cole Hutson and Jake Majors) bring an adequate floor.
This is a state of being that we have not had the opportunity to chronicle through this, the 10th season of the Deep Dig.
Christian Jones is basically the Christian Jones that we've always known with a little more intensity in the run-game and a little less time spent on an island in pass-pro given the nature of Texas' slide protections. The way the average viewer can tell on their own that Christian Jones is much more comfortable and fits so much better on the right side of the line than on the left (as he was last year) can be answered by this question: how much have you noticed him?
We're going to guess you really haven't if you're like the 95% of people who watch the game of football by following where the football goes. Your eyes used to be drawn to the left side of the Texas OL, though, away from your primary focus, because Christian Jones was getting put in a blender. Your eyes haven't drifted to the right side of the Texas OL this season in such a way, have they? It's truly surreal to us, especially given the types of athletes that No.15 and No.31 are off the edges for Alabama. Jones didn't play a perfect game versus the Tide, but it was certainly acceptable and even above-average.
Cole Hutson resides at the very bottom of the snaps/disruption-caused historical log through 2 games and we'll say these few things:
1) He apparently got the best pass-protection grade of the OL unit via Pro Football Focus this week, and we'd like to know what genius put Hutson's performance over that of Kelvin Banks (who is off to the hottest start of any OL of the last decade -- against those same two monsters we referenced when speaking about Jones in Anderson and Turner), Hayden Conner (who didn't allow any disruption, although he did have a penalty called against him), or even a moderately improved senior in Jones, himself?
2) Hutson's not a bad player and the sample of snaps is too small to take too much away from that number only 100-ish total plays. He will not stay at such a low snaps/disruption number all season just like Hayden Conner will not stay at such an absurdly high number.
3) He's not a good enough player to be thought of as above being replaced.
DJ Campbell is on the roster behind Hutson and brings better upside and more athleticism. Hutson can improve, but if his backup improves at his same speed, there is zero reason not to try out Campbell at Hutson's right guard spot.
We will admit that Hutson's struggles do come mainly in the run game, and Jake Majors, for his part, does very little to help the guy out. Texas ran a lot of zone-runs to the left side of the offensive line versus Alabama, because the two guys you want to run behind are obviously Banks and Conner. With this said, for those plays to work, Hutson has to get his backside cutoff blocks or players at good schools like Alabama are just going to pursue down the line of scrimmage and really gunk up the play by the moment the running back is just coming into his cutback.
Hutson has a hard time establishing play-side leverage against DLs lined up inside of him and toward the play-side. He doesn't get his body across well and when he does, he often gets his feet tangled and goes to the ground. Jake Majors needs to be much better in helping with that before bailing to leave for the second level, because, the fact is, Majors ain't getting to the second level a whole heck of a lot of the time, anyway. If we were his coaches, we'd make him run hills for every time he left Hutson stranded to go after a linebacker and never even touched the linebacker.
But here we are, nitpicking certain plays and certain techniques within certain schemes that become more pressing and clear when juxtaposed with actual good play. AGAINST ALABAMA, no less.
There have been times over the last decade where analyzing this offensive line would just make us throw our hands up in the air and say "they all suck, it's all terrible." We wouldn't even know where to start.
At least for now, though, Texas has its starting point offensively. It's time to stop worrying about the Texas offensive line until we are given reason to believe otherwise.
It's a good thing the worry-warts out there have a QB injury crisis burning hot to occupy their fevered minds in the meantime.
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Orangebloods Owned! Contact Andy Luedecke (aka @widespread panic) anytime at:
aluedecke@myperfectfranchise.net
(404) 973-9901
www.myperfectfranchise.net
Click Images to Enlarge
Skill Player Snap Counts and Game-by-Game Percentages of Offensive Snaps (2022 Regular Season)
Personnel-Grouping Frequency Overall and by Game (2022 Regular Season)
Tight End Total Snap Counts and Alignment Data (2022 Regular Season)
Deep Dig OL Grading Scale (each snap by each player is graded as its own independent event)
OL Grades (Alabama)
LT Kelvin Banks - 66 snaps
2 run-stuffs allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.39
LG Hayden Conner - 66 snaps
1 illegal blindside block
DEEP DIG GRADE: 77.42
C Jake Majors - 66 snaps
2 run-stuffs, 1 QB hit, 1 TFL allowed
DEEP DIG GRADE: 75
RG Cole Hutson - 66 snaps
1 QB hit, 1 QB pressure, 1 run-stuff allowed
1 false-start penalty
DEEP DIG GRADE: 75
RT Christian Jones - 66 snaps
1 QB hit, 1 QB pressure allowed
1 pin
DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.82
OL Grades by Week (2022)
OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed (2022)
2022 OL Snaps-per-Disruption Allowed Versus Historical Precedent (Last 9 seasons)
Quick Hits and Thoughts
It's really hard to believe that coming into Week 3 of the 2022 Longhorns season, we're trying to talk ourselves into excitement over Charles Wright's debut as a starter ... or in the best-case scenario, the return of Hudson Card who will still not be operating at 100%.
What a difference two weeks make. And during those two weeks, have we ever learned a lot about this football team? When Quinn Ewers went down at the end of the first quarter versus Alabama, we couldn't have been more deflated. Ewers was 9-of-12 to start the game and was just coming off throwing his longest pass of the day (46 yards) on a dime before suffering the game-ending injury to his non-throwing shoulder-area. Sark said earlier this week that Ewers was "day-to-day" but that was, of course, a lie. It will be weeks before we see Ewers again, and our only hope is that he can pick up RIGHT where he left off, because the beginning of the Alabama game felt like the beginning of the Quinn Ewers era in earnest. The arm strength, the arm angles, the timing and the touch were all coalescing in ways we'd hoped for, but had yet to see with our own eyes. It was a bittersweet pill (which was admittedly more bitter than sweet) to have to swallow, given the circumstances.
And, also extremely importantly, we've learned about the offensive line.
Moving forward into the future, focus on the OL in recruiting must always be at peak intensity. You cannot sustain a winning culture in the trenches at any major school if you do not treat line recruiting like a life-or-death endeavor. You don't need to be Texas circa November of 2021 to be so worried about OL recruiting that it gives you diarrhea and makes you wake up in the middle of the night with cold sweats.
Because that is about the future and you always have to plan for it.
But what about today? At this moment, for the first time ... (ever)? We're not overly concerned with the play of the Texas offensive line. The unit will be fine in 2022 with upside to actually be good barring major injuries. Elite (or even VERY good) will be a stretch, given the deficiencies of some of the current starters, but even those "weak link"-type players (Namely Cole Hutson and Jake Majors) bring an adequate floor.
This is a state of being that we have not had the opportunity to chronicle through this, the 10th season of the Deep Dig.
Christian Jones is basically the Christian Jones that we've always known with a little more intensity in the run-game and a little less time spent on an island in pass-pro given the nature of Texas' slide protections. The way the average viewer can tell on their own that Christian Jones is much more comfortable and fits so much better on the right side of the line than on the left (as he was last year) can be answered by this question: how much have you noticed him?
We're going to guess you really haven't if you're like the 95% of people who watch the game of football by following where the football goes. Your eyes used to be drawn to the left side of the Texas OL, though, away from your primary focus, because Christian Jones was getting put in a blender. Your eyes haven't drifted to the right side of the Texas OL this season in such a way, have they? It's truly surreal to us, especially given the types of athletes that No.15 and No.31 are off the edges for Alabama. Jones didn't play a perfect game versus the Tide, but it was certainly acceptable and even above-average.
Cole Hutson resides at the very bottom of the snaps/disruption-caused historical log through 2 games and we'll say these few things:
1) He apparently got the best pass-protection grade of the OL unit via Pro Football Focus this week, and we'd like to know what genius put Hutson's performance over that of Kelvin Banks (who is off to the hottest start of any OL of the last decade -- against those same two monsters we referenced when speaking about Jones in Anderson and Turner), Hayden Conner (who didn't allow any disruption, although he did have a penalty called against him), or even a moderately improved senior in Jones, himself?
2) Hutson's not a bad player and the sample of snaps is too small to take too much away from that number only 100-ish total plays. He will not stay at such a low snaps/disruption number all season just like Hayden Conner will not stay at such an absurdly high number.
3) He's not a good enough player to be thought of as above being replaced.
DJ Campbell is on the roster behind Hutson and brings better upside and more athleticism. Hutson can improve, but if his backup improves at his same speed, there is zero reason not to try out Campbell at Hutson's right guard spot.
We will admit that Hutson's struggles do come mainly in the run game, and Jake Majors, for his part, does very little to help the guy out. Texas ran a lot of zone-runs to the left side of the offensive line versus Alabama, because the two guys you want to run behind are obviously Banks and Conner. With this said, for those plays to work, Hutson has to get his backside cutoff blocks or players at good schools like Alabama are just going to pursue down the line of scrimmage and really gunk up the play by the moment the running back is just coming into his cutback.
Hutson has a hard time establishing play-side leverage against DLs lined up inside of him and toward the play-side. He doesn't get his body across well and when he does, he often gets his feet tangled and goes to the ground. Jake Majors needs to be much better in helping with that before bailing to leave for the second level, because, the fact is, Majors ain't getting to the second level a whole heck of a lot of the time, anyway. If we were his coaches, we'd make him run hills for every time he left Hutson stranded to go after a linebacker and never even touched the linebacker.
But here we are, nitpicking certain plays and certain techniques within certain schemes that become more pressing and clear when juxtaposed with actual good play. AGAINST ALABAMA, no less.
There have been times over the last decade where analyzing this offensive line would just make us throw our hands up in the air and say "they all suck, it's all terrible." We wouldn't even know where to start.
At least for now, though, Texas has its starting point offensively. It's time to stop worrying about the Texas offensive line until we are given reason to believe otherwise.
It's a good thing the worry-warts out there have a QB injury crisis burning hot to occupy their fevered minds in the meantime.
