ShotgunDawg
08-16-2015, 07:41 PM
With the Jonathan Williams injury news today, I wanted to sit down and see just how big of a problem this is for Arkansas & if our perception of who runs the ball in the SEC is true.
Here is what I got:
Plays PPG R ATT R ATT/G Rush%
ARK 916 70.46 557 42.85 60.81%
MSU 1001 77.04 578 44.46 57.74%
AUB 939 72.23 607 46.69 64.64%
LSU 897 69.00 621 47.77 69.23%
BAMA 1018 72.71 567 40.50 55.70%
TAMU 935 71.92 421 32.38 45.03%
OM 904 69.54 476 36.62 52.65%
- LSU runs the ball ALL THE TIME... Almost at a 70% rate. Of course, this is because they can't throw it, and also because they usually have 3 good backs
- MSU averages the most plays per game by a pretty wide margin at 77 & the next closest being Bama at 72.7
- Surprisingly, Alabama didn't run the all that much, compared to the perception. Only 55.7% of the time. Only A&M & Ole Miss ran less. Will they run more this year? The loss of Sims & Cooper may have been a bigger deal than we thought.
- Auburn ran it a lot in 2014, at a 64% rate. I expect this to fall by close to 10% this season.
- Arkansas ran the ball at a 60% rate, which is the 3rd most in the SEC, but unlike Auburn & like LSU, Arkansas doesn't use their QB in the run game. Therefore, without Williams, Arkansas will have to make up for about 30% of their offense. The candidates to replace Williams are JR Kody Walker, who was a 3 star, 85 rated RB out of high school that ran for 149 yards last year, walk-on, white boy Conner McPherson, & 89 composite rated, 247 3 star, true freshmen Rawleigh Williams. Needless to say, losing Williams is a major problem, particularly because they have a game manager at QB that you really can't ask to pass all that much more often.
Here is what I got:
Plays PPG R ATT R ATT/G Rush%
ARK 916 70.46 557 42.85 60.81%
MSU 1001 77.04 578 44.46 57.74%
AUB 939 72.23 607 46.69 64.64%
LSU 897 69.00 621 47.77 69.23%
BAMA 1018 72.71 567 40.50 55.70%
TAMU 935 71.92 421 32.38 45.03%
OM 904 69.54 476 36.62 52.65%
- LSU runs the ball ALL THE TIME... Almost at a 70% rate. Of course, this is because they can't throw it, and also because they usually have 3 good backs
- MSU averages the most plays per game by a pretty wide margin at 77 & the next closest being Bama at 72.7
- Surprisingly, Alabama didn't run the all that much, compared to the perception. Only 55.7% of the time. Only A&M & Ole Miss ran less. Will they run more this year? The loss of Sims & Cooper may have been a bigger deal than we thought.
- Auburn ran it a lot in 2014, at a 64% rate. I expect this to fall by close to 10% this season.
- Arkansas ran the ball at a 60% rate, which is the 3rd most in the SEC, but unlike Auburn & like LSU, Arkansas doesn't use their QB in the run game. Therefore, without Williams, Arkansas will have to make up for about 30% of their offense. The candidates to replace Williams are JR Kody Walker, who was a 3 star, 85 rated RB out of high school that ran for 149 yards last year, walk-on, white boy Conner McPherson, & 89 composite rated, 247 3 star, true freshmen Rawleigh Williams. Needless to say, losing Williams is a major problem, particularly because they have a game manager at QB that you really can't ask to pass all that much more often.