PFF: ND will have the nation's best O-line in 2020.

PFF: ND will have the nation's best O-line in 2020.
by G.K.Chesterton (2020-05-15 10:19:05)
Edited on 2020-05-15 10:19:39

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Most of the article is pay-walled, but there is still some good info even in the free part.

Excerpt from College football: Notre Dame will continue to churn out NFL-caliber offensive line talent with the country’s best OL in 2020:

Of these schools, the Wisconsin offensive linemen actually produced the highest combined WAR value — and it really isn’t close. In fact, Wisconsin offensive linemen who have played in the NFL since 2006 have produced more than double the amount of WAR than 116 of the 130 FBS teams. You can thank Joe Thomas, Travis Frederick, Kevin Zeitler and Ryan Ramczyk for a large majority of that. There is, however, a college program that has rivaled the Badgers for the top spot as of late: the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Notre Dame is in the next tier as far as the total WAR value its offensive linemen have produced in the NFL since 2006 (ninth among FBS teams, to be exact). But over the last five years in particular, they’re second in that metric — right behind Wisconsin. The Fighting Irish have had six linemen produce a positive WAR value, tying for the most with the Badgers. And in 2019 specifically, Notre Dame had the most total NFL offensive line WAR among all colleges by a landslide.

The trio of Fighting Irish alum — Quenton Nelson, Ronnie Stanley and Zack Martin — all ranked among the 10 most valuable offensive linemen in the entire NFL (first, fifth and ninth, respectively). No college had more than one in the top 10, nor did another college have three in the top 25.

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if age and experience matter, then this should be an...

... excellent line. Next year, however, it's the opposite situation. It's a similar story for the DLine.

SMH. WTF are DBU, WAR? IDK. OMG, POS! BBIAB. *

If serious

I assume DBU refers to which school can claim to be Defensive Back University - the sort of ESPN / Sports Talk Radio / Sports Twitter discussion of which ACross cannot get enough...

I'd wager that WAR refers to Wins Above Replacement. Presumably, Pro Football Focus has tried to create some football analogue to the widely known baseball analytic statistic. Unlike baseball, I don't know how you could possibly quantify much of what an offensive line does to know which school's lineman produce the greatest WAR in the NFL.

and again still won't run the ball enough *

Do you have 30 years of football coaching experience!?

They'll stack 8 in the BOX! I'd rather ND give up football forever then run the ball 55% of the time with a power scheme.

EDIT: Well that was an embarrassing misspelling, some degree I have.

But the kids just love Quinn

Who will be taking direction from veteran OC Tom Rees.

Juggernaut and a rich tapestry of the Kelly coaching philosophy.

That's just it. Opponents, knowing we have the best OL,

will be thinking that we should also have the best running game - and, therefore, they'll be wasting all their precious practice time leading up to our game defending the run.

But that's where we trick them. Come gametime, we'll just pass and pass and pass and pass - until we run out of air to pass through! They'll never know what didn't hit them.

even in a hurricane *

Exactly.

Never in a million years would they expect us to pass!