https://www.pff.com/news/college-football-ranking-all-130-college-football-offensive-line-situations
Only 8 sacks allowed this year according to PFF.
Only 8 sacks allowed this year according to PFF.
PFF ranks NU's offensive line 47th best in FBS
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Helps that NU only attempted 210 passes. That's down from 510 in 2018. They'd have 20 sacks if they passed at the 2018 rate......still not a bad number though.
This leaves me dazed and confused.(nothing to do with Illinois Law change)....If somebody had asked me I would have said we had 30 and up....and also does this help us better define where the problem was? Aiden Smith ranked 123/130 but had better ranking than Hunter Johnson. I am guessing that Marty did not have enough snaps to be mentioned.
We threw a LOT of short routes last year. Ball was coming out pretty quickly. I bet Hunter was involved in half of our sacks.
It’s better than “83rd worst”.
Given that conference play is what mostly matters: if these rankings are to be believed, we were 8th in the B1G based on my quick scan.
So it’s likely an improvement over 2018. Let’s hope Anderson keeps the unit trending upwards.
Any part of Northwestern's offense that ranks in the top half of FBS deserves credit
Take PFF's O-line grades/rankings w/ a grain of salt (esp. when considering the limited # of pass attempts), but nonetheless, things are looking brighter when it comes to the O-line.
Colter had one of the higher sack rates.
Colter had one of the higher sack rates.
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They were bad all year although they improved. Slater is the outlier of an OL group which had at least 2 and likely 3 OL starters that would not have started for any other team in the Big Ten.
Stats never tell the whole story. That being said, it doesn’t take much expertise to reach the same conclusion about our OL play last year. They went from terrible to just plain bad.
My thought on that is that as good as Slater is....he is still getting good coaching to be #1....lot of guys with all the physical tools that do not come close to being #1....I guess my point is that while the whole offensive line did not have the physical tools or experience Slater did....his ranking are still an indication that getting Anderson as offensive line coach has been and will be a plus
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