Express Data Driven--Purdue-Iowa

by Brian Neubert

Each week after a Purdue game, we’ll take a look back at the game through PFF data and analytics. This week, Purdue’s 24-3 loss to Iowa.

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PURDUE OFFENSE

Snap Counts

Aidan O’Connell 73

Austin Burton 5

Offensive Line

Mahamane Moussa (LT) all 78

Gus Hartwig (C) all 78

Eric Miller (RT) all 78

Spencer Holstege (LG) 68

Sione Finau (RG) 51

Marcus Mbow (RG) 39

Wide Receiver

Charlie Jones 62

TJ Sheffield 55

Tyrone Tracy 24

Abdur-Rahmaan Yaseen 23

Deion Burks 19

Andrew Sowinski 19

Mershawn Rice 15

Running Back

Devin Mockobee 37

Dylan Downing 27

Kobe Lewis 12

Tristan Cox (FB) 12

Tight End

Payne Durham 70

Paul Piferi 19

GRADES AND SUCH

• Guard Spencer Holstege was the offense’s highest-graded player, but there were no real exemplary grades.

• This was not even close to being Aidan O’Connell’s worst grade of the season. But without giving you context-less numbers here, we’ll boil PFF grades down to three tiers: Excellent, good and average. This was his fifth average game of the season to go along with two excellents on and one good.

• There were no awful individual grades, either, but Purdue’s five lowest-graded offensive players were all wide receivers and varying snap totals. Seven of Purdue’s nine-lowest grades were wide receivers. Everybody but Charlie Jones.

PURDUE PASSING GAME

• Aidan O’Connell’s passing details …

Clean: 19-35, 156 yards, INT

Pressure: 1-8, 12 yards, INT

No Blitz: 16-35, 2 INT

Blitz (9): 4-8, 18 yards

Concept …

Playaction: 6-10, 100 yards, INT

No playaction: 14-33, 68, INT

Screen: 5-6, 18

No screen: 15-37, 150, 2 INT

• O’Connell was 1-for-7 throwing the ball 20-plus yards in the air and 0-for-7 throwing the ball to his left and 3-for-7 to his right. Translation: Iowa did a great job keeping everything in the middle of the field.

• Iowa was credited with nine pressures on O’Connell, two of Marcus Mbow (and a sack) on limited snaps for him.

• Eighteen targets for Charlie Jones. No one else with more than three. That’s 46 percent of Purdue’s dropbacks resulting in targets for Jones.

• Three drops by Purdue.

• Only 3.9 yards after the catch for Purdue.

• Iowa missed only six tackles, about half Purdue’s total.

PURDUE DEFENSE

Snap Counts

Defensive Line

Branson Deen 43

Kydran Jenkins 32

Lawrence Johnson 32

Jack Sullivan 31

Khordae Sydnor 28

Nic Caraway 21

Scotty Humpich 17

Sulaiman Kpaka 14

Cole Brevard 13

Mo Omonode 9

Prince Boyd 8

Linebacker

Jalen Graham 50

Kieren Douglas 30

Semisi Fakasiieiki 30

Jacob Wahlberg 24

OC Brothers 19

Clyde Washington 10

Secondary

Reese Taylor 53

Sanoussi Kane 48

Bryce Hampton 39

Cam Allen 35

Cory Trice 32

Jamari Brown 31

GRADES AND SUCH

• Nothing really good and nothing really terrible worth noting from the grades to be honest. OC Brothers was the highest grade and Scotty Humpich the lowest but their snap counts were kinda limited, so …

Based on the grades, Cory Trice did not play well.

• Thirteen missed tackles for Purdue by 11 different players, the big one really being by Semisi Fakasiieki on the long TD run.

• Pass protection has been a huge issue for Iowa, and Purdue wound up with 10 pressures and four sacks but no real high-impact plays in that regard.

• Iowa averaged 5.09 yards after contact in the run game. No bueno.

• Spencer Petras’ passing chart …

Clean: 11-18, 160 yards, TD

Pressure: 2-5, 32, TD

No Blitz: 9-16, 122, TD

Blitz (7): 4-7, 70, TD, 0 sacks

Concept …

P/A: 4-6, 50, TD, 8.3 yards per attempt

No P/A: 9-17, 142, TD, 8.4

Screen: 3-4, 21, 5.3

No screen 10-19, 171, 2 TD