Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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10 MARCH 2020 BLUE & GOLD ILLUSTRATED UNDER THE DOME Pro Football Focus Snap Count Totals Vs. Iowa State Running Backs Iowa State 2019 Total Tony Jones Jr. 44 480 Jafar Armstrong 18 193 C'Bo Flemister 11 120 Jahmir Smith — 115 Avery Davis — 70 Kyren Williams — 15 Mick Assaf 1 11 Cameron Ekanayake — 2 Note: Jones' 37 snaps per contest were nearly two and a half times more than any other running back on the roster. Tight Ends Iowa State 2019 Total Cole Kmet 57 707 Tommy Tremble 31 316 Brock Wright 9 148 George Takacs 5 55 John Lager — 6 Jack Henige — 4 Xavier Lezynski — 2 Note: Kmet nearly doubled his snap count from his sophomore year (358). BY MIKE SINGER Here is the snap count breakdown for Notre Dame's 33-9 victory versus Iowa State in the Camping World Bowl Dec. 28. Quarterbacks Iowa State 2019 Total Ian Book 62 825 Phil Jurkovec 4 79 Brendon Clark — 19 Nolan Henry — 2 Wide Receivers Iowa State 2019 Total Chase Claypool 46 726 Chris Finke 55 631 Lawrence Keys III 6 263 Braden Lenzy 33 259 Javon McKinley — 231 Michael Young — 85 Joe Wilkins Jr. 11 81 Micah Jones — 43 Arion Shinaver 3 37 Greg Mailey — 6 Leo Albano — 3 Matt Salerno — 3 Note: Lenzy had 100 of his 259 snaps this year come in the final two games this season. Offensive Line Iowa State 2019 Total Jarrett Patterson 66 854 Liam Eichenberg 66 845 Aaron Banks 66 844 Trevor Ruhland 66 507 Joshua Lugg 66 480 Robert Hainsey — 423 Tommy Kraemer — 378 Dillan Gibbons — 88 Colin Grunhard — 57 John Dirksen — 43 Logan Plantz — 40 Andrew Kristofic — 25 Cole Mabry — 24 Zeke Correll — 13 Note: After redshirting as a freshman in 2018, Patterson ended up with the most snaps of any- one on the team. After redshirting as a freshman in 2018, sopho- more center Jarrett Patterson finished the 2019 season with the most snaps (854) of any player on the team. PHOTO BY MIKE MILLER Defensive Linemen Run Snaps Pass Snaps Iowa State Total 2019 Total Khalid Kareem 10 22 32 561 Myron Tagovailoa-Amosa 9 25 34 477 Kurt Hinish 10 16 26 433 Julian Okwara — — — 406 Jamir Jones 14 29 43 377 Adetokunbo Ogundeji 7 26 33 348 Jacob Lacey 7 6 13 247 Jayson Ademilola 10 16 26 228 Ovie Oghoufo 5 12 17 118 Ja'Mion Franklin 2 7 9 114 Daelin Hayes — — — 97 Justin Ademilola 2 5 7 92 Howard Cross III — — — 65 Hunter Spears — — — 25 Isaiah Foskey — — — 54 NaNa Osafo-Mensah — — — 10 Kofi Wardlow — — — 9 Note: The quality depth at this position was reflected with eight different linemen taking anywhere from 228 to 561 snaps … Kareem's 43.1 average per contest ranked as the highest, though Okwara was at 45.1 before suffering a season-ending ankle injury in game nine. Linebackers Run Snaps Pass Snaps Iowa State Total 2019 Total Asmar Bilal 19 41 60 684 Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah 19 29 48 683 Drew White 19 29 48 621 Paul Moala — — — 104 Bo Bauer — — — 91 Shayne Simon — — — 90 Jack Lamb — — — 87 Jordan Genmark Heath — — — 78 Note: The trio of Bilal, White and Owusu-Koramoah monopolized the playing time at their position group, starting all 13 games and accounting for roughly anywhere from 77 to 87 percent of the snaps. Defensive Backs Run Snaps Pass Snaps Iowa State Total 2019 Total Troy Pride Jr. 15 28 43 724 Alohi Gilman 13 36 49 708 Jalen Elliott 14 32 46 683 TaRiq Bracy 7 30 37 467 Kyle Hamilton 11 26 37 421 Shaun Crawford 12 23 35 388 Donte Vaughn 4 13 17 309 Houston Griffith — — — 104 DJ Brown — — — 75 KJ Wallace — — — 18 Temitope Agoro — — — 17 Patrick Pelini — — — 9 Cam Hart — — — 3 Note: Pride joined Gilman as the lone Irish defenders the past two seasons to record more than 700 snaps on defense each year.