Derrion Grim's Season - WOW

[HUSKERBILL]

96 catches - #10 in the Country

1928 yards - #2 in the Country (by 8 yards to a kid who played an extra game)

20.1 YPC - unreliable rankings due to incorrect stats. One kid had 118 YPC because they only added one catch to go with his 118 yards of total receiving yards. Very impressive.

192 YPG (receiving) - #1 in the Country

34 TDs - #1 in the Country

Add 2 KO returns and 1 Punt return for a TD. Averaged around 27 yards per KR and PR.

That's insane.

What a steal. How is he only a 5.6 rated 3 star??

 

[litespeedhuskerfan]

Wowzers. Awesome stuff, thanks for posting it.

 

[HUSKERBILL]

Compare that to Westerkamps numbers his senior year. And look at what Westerkamp is doing in Rileys offense. If we can get KJ Jr, we will be set at WR for years.

 

[chicolby]

Really need to land the big uglies up front to make the system work to its fullest. I've had very little problem with our skill positions but I haven't seen a truly dominant O Line out of Nebraska in several years.

 

[ReuniteGondwanaland]

What a steal. How is he only a 5.6 rated 3 star??

And it's not just Rivals. 247 has him as the #118 WR in the country, so there has to be some reason.

He's not playing top-level competition, but those are quite literally video game numbers he put up. I'm skeptical that there are 100 better receivers out there.

Whatever. Glad he's a Husker.

 

[Archie Graham]

He should be ranked higher…but screw it. Kid is a stud and I can't wait to get him to campus.

 

[Lincoln100]

posted something on him yesterday. Just saw some video of him that I hadn't seen before and he looks electric. Great change of direction and looks like good speed.

 

[Cornicator]

Really need to land the big uglies up front to make the system work to its fullest. I've had very little problem with our skill positions but I haven't seen a truly dominant O Line out of Nebraska in several years.

Nebraska's offensive line certainly hasn't always been quote, "dominant," but the criticsm they've received this season is a bit over the top.

Nebraska is 3rd in the league in total offense at 445 yards per game.
They are 2nd in the leauge in yards per play at 6.3. Ohio State is averaging 6.5
Nebraska is 2nd in the league in touchdowns scored, and 3rd in Scoring offense.
Nebraska is 3rd in the league in yards per carry, at 4.8. The 2014 team with Ameer, averaged 5.0 yards per carry.
Nebraska is 1st in the league in passing.
Nebraska has allowed the fewest sacks in the leauge.
The Huskers have attempted 145 MORE passes than Iowa and have allowed 5 fewer sacks.

The offensive line certaintly needs to improve and they need consistent play from year to year.

But... quite honestly, Nebraska will never be Nebraska again until defense is played a higher level.

There is enough talent on Nebraska's roster to be a good offensive line for the forseeable future.

 

[CC_Lemming]

Awesome stats. He and DPE on the field together? Yes please!

 

[headcard]

Don't forget Spielman, he is unreal.

 

[Archie Graham]

Don't forget Spielman, he is unreal.

Totally agree. Can't wait to get these two cats in the program.

 

[barney44]

Nebraska's offensive line certainly hasn't always been quote, "dominant," but the criticsm they've received this season is a bit over the top.

Nebraska is 3rd in the league in total offense at 445 yards per game.
They are 2nd in the leauge in yards per play at 6.3. Ohio State is averaging 6.5
Nebraska is 2nd in the league in touchdowns scored, and 3rd in Scoring offense.
Nebraska is 3rd in the league in yards per carry, at 4.8. The 2014 team with Ameer, averaged 5.0 yards per carry.
Nebraska is 1st in the league in passing.
Nebraska has allowed the fewest sacks in the leauge.
The Huskers have attempted 145 MORE passes than Iowa and have allowed 5 fewer sacks.

The offensive line certaintly needs to improve and they need consistent play from year to year.

But... quite honestly, Nebraska will never be Nebraska again until defense is played a higher level.

There is enough talent on Nebraska's roster to be a good offensive line for the forseeable future.

Something tells me that if our defense was good through the season then we wouldn't have much to complain about with the offense aside from some boneheaded decision making by both players and coaches as well as the random sputter mode they go in to.

 

[dockentwo]

Nebraska's offensive line certainly hasn't always been quote, "dominant," but the criticsm they've received this season is a bit over the top.

Nebraska is 3rd in the league in total offense at 445 yards per game.
They are 2nd in the leauge in yards per play at 6.3. Ohio State is averaging 6.5
Nebraska is 2nd in the league in touchdowns scored, and 3rd in Scoring offense.
Nebraska is 3rd in the league in yards per carry, at 4.8. The 2014 team with Ameer, averaged 5.0 yards per carry.
Nebraska is 1st in the league in passing.
Nebraska has allowed the fewest sacks in the leauge.
The Huskers have attempted 145 MORE passes than Iowa and have allowed 5 fewer sacks.

The offensive line certaintly needs to improve and they need consistent play from year to year.

But... quite honestly, Nebraska will never be Nebraska again until defense is played a higher level.

There is enough talent on Nebraska's roster to be a good offensive line for the forseeable future.

This is what you call a GREAT day to day post.
I have to say the last couple games a team has started to emerge; a big part led by the players, but the coaches have had to deal with a lot of locker room / attitude / other things issues and seem to have made big progress. I think our o-line coach can be exceptional; i have had real issues with his talk of not rotating, I think this may be being dealt with; with all the recent criticisms , the other coaches stress rotating players.
As usual you are point on; I am thrilled the d-backs have actually started to play the ball the last few games - we were being killed and targeted on that escort the receiver and throw up your arms b s. Despite the losses, a lot of the kids were trying to keep their version of a Blackshirt attitude; a big improvement over the recent past. I think we have multiple very good assistants and they are / seem ; to be getting the traction to drive as a great staff. GBR

 

[chicolby]

Nebraska's offensive line certainly hasn't always been quote, "dominant," but the criticsm they've received this season is a bit over the top.

Nebraska is 3rd in the league in total offense at 445 yards per game.
They are 2nd in the leauge in yards per play at 6.3. Ohio State is averaging 6.5
Nebraska is 2nd in the league in touchdowns scored, and 3rd in Scoring offense.
Nebraska is 3rd in the league in yards per carry, at 4.8. The 2014 team with Ameer, averaged 5.0 yards per carry.
Nebraska is 1st in the league in passing.
Nebraska has allowed the fewest sacks in the leauge.
The Huskers have attempted 145 MORE passes than Iowa and have allowed 5 fewer sacks.

The offensive line certaintly needs to improve and they need consistent play from year to year.

But... quite honestly, Nebraska will never be Nebraska again until defense is played a higher level.

There is enough talent on Nebraska's roster to be a good offensive line for the forseeable future.

Really good point about our statistics. I agree the offensive line has performed well this year, and seemingly takes a lot of heat here maybe more than other schools across the country.

My intent was more based on what some of the coaches had insinuated earlier this year that they wanted to run more efficiently but they didn't trust our ability to pick up the 3-4 yards on basic plays. That can either mean the running backs aren't having good vision, hitting the hole fast enough, or the O line wasn't creating holes. I took it to mean the O line, but clearly could have been wrong.

Regardless, I'm happy to hear that there is enough talent on the roster to be good for the foreseeable future. While I get excited around recruiting times, I don't follow it closely enough to know who is young, being redshirted, etc.

 

[burkek]

And it's not just Rivals. 247 has him as the #118 WR in the country, so there has to be some reason.

He's not playing top-level competition, but those are quite literally video game numbers he put up. I'm skeptical that there are 100 better receivers out there.

Whatever. Glad he's a Husker.

At 6'4" he would be a Rivals 4 star, or possibly a 5 star. His recruitment would be different and Nebraska's odds of getting him, less

 

[timnsun]

At 6'4" he would be a Rivals 4 star, or possibly a 5 star. His recruitment would be different and Nebraska's odds of getting him, less

So this is a thread about how excited we are to get this guy and you say we're lucky... nice.

 

[huskerhomie]

Nebraska's offensive line certainly hasn't always been quote, "dominant," but the criticsm they've received this season is a bit over the top.

Nebraska is 3rd in the league in total offense at 445 yards per game.
They are 2nd in the leauge in yards per play at 6.3. Ohio State is averaging 6.5
Nebraska is 2nd in the league in touchdowns scored, and 3rd in Scoring offense.
Nebraska is 3rd in the league in yards per carry, at 4.8. The 2014 team with Ameer, averaged 5.0 yards per carry.
Nebraska is 1st in the league in passing.
Nebraska has allowed the fewest sacks in the leauge.
The Huskers have attempted 145 MORE passes than Iowa and have allowed 5 fewer sacks.

The offensive line certaintly needs to improve and they need consistent play from year to year.

But... quite honestly, Nebraska will never be Nebraska again until defense is played a higher level.

There is enough talent on Nebraska's roster to be a good offensive line for the forseeable future.

Thanks for posting these stats, however I caution people not to read too much into our 4.8 YPC rushing the football. For the most part we have broken a few long runs in games which is skewed the YPC data. Just some examples:

Vs Purdue, in our first 20 carries if you take away our 3 long runs, we only averaged 2.34 YPC for the other 17 rushes. AKA poor rushing stats.

Vs Rutgers, if you take away Imanis 30 plus yard run, he only averaged 2.7 YPC on his other 15 carries or whatever he had. AKA not very good.

Sure we may end up having a YPC that is decent, but that is more due to us breaking a long run or two in a game which helps our rush stats rather than us having a consistent or good running game.

Things to consider on the other end: Our rush game could be improved if we could get a QB (or have TA) be a more accurate passer this would stop opposing defenses from stacking the box as much as they do to make an inconsistent QB beat them like they do now.

Getting a RB that has good field vision as Newby has left a lot of yards on the field that would have given us a higher YPC in games had he hit holes or seen holes and hit them during the times when he was getting the bulk of the carries.

Just for a comparison: The offenses that a lot of our fans want us to run, the run heavy ones at Michigan and Stanford those QB's are hitting on 64% (Michigan) and 69% (Stanford) of their passes which tremendously helps their running games by not allowing teams to stack the box as much. If we are going to go to try and rely more on our run game in games, we sorely need better and more consistent QB play.

 

[chicolby]

My only comment to the last poster about YPC is that at this time of year, EVERY team has the benefit of throwing in some large and short runs to get to their averages. You can't simply say "remove the long ones" to get our true average. They are part of the equation. So at the end of the day, if a YPC average is 2nd in a conference, it's pretty good.

 

[huskerhomie]

My only comment to the last poster about YPC is that at this time of year, EVERY team has the benefit of throwing in some large and short runs to get to their averages. You can't simply say "remove the long ones" to get our true average. They are part of the equation. So at the end of the day, if a YPC average is 2nd in a conference, it's pretty good.

If we take it individually as in ball carriers from games last weekend We dont compare very favorably to other teams if we take away the long run from the RB's here is how we compare:

TOSU Ez Elliot take away his long run of 17 yards 6.30 YPC


MSU Langford take away his long run of 25 yards he still averaged 4.71 YPC


Iowa Daniels Iowa take away his long run of 51 yards he still averaged 5.76 YPC


Minny Brooks take way 27 yard run still averaged 4.54 YPC


Indy Howard take away his 24 yard run he still averaged 6.30 YPC


Cross NU: Take away his 32 yard run, he only averaged 2.73 YPC...

Notice the differences here? Even if we take away the long runs from these B10 backs, they still had a pretty good YPC average..Take aways Cross' long run and his YPC is not very good.

So again, I will contend that our YPC is more a product of smoke and mirrors from having a long run or two sprinkled in instead of actually having a good running game especially when compared to other teams in our league. Thus this is why the whole: "We should run the ball 50 times per game" folks on here are just off base. We simply can not do that at this point in time. Not with this O line, not with these Backs, and not with this QB as he stands with all his inconsistencies.

 

[kcopsker]

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My only comment to the last poster about YPC is that at this time of year, EVERY team has the benefit of throwing in some large and short runs to get to their averages. You can't simply say "remove the long ones" to get our true average. They are part of the equation. So at the end of the day, if a YPC average is 2nd in a conference, it's pretty good.

This. We've had very few long runs this year compared to past.

 

[Husker.Wed.]

Back to Grim - he signed his paperwork today according to OWH and will be here with POB in January.

 

[TwinsRRUs]

So now POB and Grim have signed financial paperwork...

Okay, I have never heard of this until POB signed his the other day... is this something that has been done at Nebraska before? If so, who has actually signed financial paperwork this early?

Is this a recruiting tool that the new staff has always used or just figured out?

Whichever it is, I like it, even if it is not binding on the players side of it.

 

[huskerhomie]

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This. We've had very few long runs this year compared to past.

This further proves my point. I mean...lol If we have very few long runs, but if you take out those few long runs, the rest aka the bulk of our rushing is just simply not very good on a yard per carry average. This is further proven by looking at the jet sweeps that we are running for good yards on top of regular rushes which has helped our YPC totals this year. If you look at the post I made above when comparing B10 RB's from last weekend it further proves my point. Even when you take away their longest run of the day, they are still averaging far better YPC than Cross did if you take away his longest run, and By a lot.

Our run game is not good this year, and has not been the whole year. Our YPC has been bolstered immensely by a few long runs we have been fortunate to get in some games because if you take the rest of the rushes in those games, our YPC is quite bad.