ND Football Player "Snaps" Totals 2023 Through Week 3

[chaseball]

I think "snaps" is the best way to get past all the coach speak and really drill down to who the coaches believe are the most critical players on the team.

• No surprise that Liufau is leading the team in snaps by a large amount after 3 weeks. He's the only LB being relied on to play nearly every defensive snap. The guy is the bonafide alpha through week 3. His emergence has been great to see. He's also just a lot of fun to watch.
• Watts & DJ Brown are getting a TON of burn (probably more to lack of depth at the position than anything else). I remember back during Watts recruitment when he was a 3 star WR prospect, a lot of prognosticators had him pegged as a guy that was way underrated by the recruiting industry and after several years he's proving those prognosticators correct.
• Freshman Christian Gray is a nice name to see getting burn; there are some really nice veteran CBs on this team and Gray is competing on the depth chart with those guys and has carved out a nice role
• On offense Ricco Flores (freshman) clearly emerging as the #3 WR on the team having surpassed veteran former Top 100 prospect Chris Tyree after 3 weeks. Also interesting to see the RB hierarchy forming with Payne getting the 2nd most snaps at RB thus far.

Ran into a character limit so deleted the guys at the bottom with only 1 or 2 snaps. Source at bottom of post to see the rest of the data.

Defense:

Player	Position	Games	Snaps	Run D Snaps	Pass rush Snaps	Coverage Snaps
Marist Liufau	LB	3	147	78	22	47
Xavier Watts	S	3	133	67	0	66
DJ Brown	S	3	133	73	1	59
Benjamin Morrison	CB	3	132	68	1	63
Howard Cross III	DT	3	120	61	59	0
Jordan Botelho	VYP	3	113	58	41	4
Cam Hart	CB	3	113	57	0	56
Rylie Mills	DT	3	106	64	42	0
Javontae Jean-Baptiste	SDE	3	104	50	54	0
Ramon Henderson	S	3	92	34	0	58
Thomas Harper	NCB	3	92	41	4	47
Jack Kiser	LB	3	86	50	4	32
Nana Osafo-Mensah	SDE	3	75	44	30	1
Jaylen Sneed	LB	3	70	40	10	20
Jaden Mickey	CB	3	70	39	0	31
Jason Onye	DT	3	63	36	27	0
Clarence Lewis	NCB	3	53	22	1	30
Junior Tuihalamaka	VYP	3	49	27	22	0
Christian Gray	CB	3	48	24	0	24
Donovan Hinish	DT	3	41	22	19	0
Joshua Burnham	VYP	3	39	21	17	1
Antonio Carter II	S	3	22	11	1	10

Offense:

Player	Position	Games	Snaps	Pass Snaps	PBLK Snaps	Run Snaps	RBLK Snaps
Pat Coogan	LG	3	164	0	83	0	81
Joe Alt	LT	3	164	0	83	0	81
Blake Fisher	RT	3	164	0	83	0	81
Rocco Spindler	RG	3	164	0	83	0	81
Zeke Correll	C	3	164	0	83	0	81
Mitchell Evans	TE	3	158	71	7	1	79
Sam Hartman	QB	3	148	75	0	2	71
Jayden Thomas	WR	3	116	55	0	0	61
Tobias Merriweather	WR	3	102	59	0	0	43
Holden Staes	TE	3	93	30	4	0	59
Audric Estimé	RB	3	76	22	7	44	3
Rico Flores Jr.	WR	3	60	25	0	0	35
Chris Tyree	SWR	3	47	31	0	1	15
Gi’Bran Payne	RB	3	45	25	4	16	0
Jaden Greathouse	WR	3	43	31	0	0	12
Deion Colzie	WR	3	43	24	0	0	19
Davis Sherwood	TE	3	36	12	0	0	24
Steve Angeli	QB	3	32	13	0	0	19
Jeremiyah Love	RB	3	25	8	1	14	2
Jadarian Price	RB	3	23	9	1	13	0
Tosh Baker	LT	3	22	0	7	0	15
Billy Schrauth	LG	3	21	0	7	0	14
Aamil Wagner	RT	3	21	0	7	0	14
Ashton Craig	C	3	21	0	7	0	14
Andrew Kristofic	RG	3	21	0	7	0	14
Matt Salerno	WR	2	19	7	0	0	12
Cooper Flanagan	TE	2	15	5	0	0	10
Devyn Ford	RB	2	9	5	2	2	0

Any thoughts?

Source:
Offense: https://www.on3.com/teams/notre-dam...tate-snap-counts-participation-chart-offense/
Defense: https://www.on3.com/teams/notre-dam...tate-snap-counts-participation-chart-defense/

 

[NotreDomer1]

Ramon Henderson with way more snaps than I would’ve guessed. Wouldn’t have guessed Flores Jr over Greathouse either.

Would love to see Burnham and Onye’s snap’s increase and try to keep Cross’s down a bit.

 

[Granite45]

Note that JD Bertrand not listed. Mistake in making table? Error in count?

 

[chaseball]

Note that JD Bertrand not listed. Mistake in making table? Error in count?

it's an error on their end.

Good catch.

 

[chaseball]

Another interesting factoid: Jack Kiser doesn't have as many defensive snaps as a number of guys on this list but is still leading the team in tackles regardless through 3 games. He's been very efficient

Tackles totals:
1. Jack Kiser, 16
2. Liufau, 15
3. Howard Cross, 15

rest of team: http://cfbstats.com/2023/team/513/tackle/index.html