COLUMBUS \u2014 Like last year\u2019s last meeting between Ohio State and Maryland, things were close until they weren\u2019t Saturday afternoon. The Buckeyes once again didn\u2019t have a lead entering intermission but still won by double digits.<\/p>\n
This time, Ohio State left the Horseshoe with a frontdoor cover and a 20-point win.<\/p>\n
Pro Football Focus has released its snap counts and game data from the 37-17 Ohio State victory<\/a>. Lettermen Row<\/a>\u00a0is breaking down those participation reports.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s get into it.<\/p>\n Note: The number listed next to each player\u2019s name is that player\u2019s PFF-reported offensive\/defensive snap count from this particular game.<\/em><\/p>\n C Carson Hinzman \u2013 63 TAKEAWAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n Tight end Cade Stover played the most offensive snaps of any skill player not named Kyle McCord. Stover finished with two catches for 66 yards \u2014 44 of which came on his catch and run touchdown in the fourth quarter that gave the Buckeyes much-needed breathing room.<\/p>\n Marvin Harrison Jr.\u2019s 53 offensive snaps are more than he recorded against FCS Youngstown State (50) and Western Kentucky (36). He played the most snaps of any Buckeyes wideout despite playing on a less-than-100% right ankle that he injured two weeks ago at Notre Dame. Harrison stayed in that game in South Bend, logging 66-of-69 possible offensive snaps. You wouldn\u2019t know of Harrison\u2019s injury from the box score Saturday: He caught eight passes for 163 yards and a score.<\/p>\n With top running back TreVeyon Henderson out, Chip Trayanum was the Buckeyes\u2019 work horse against Maryland. Rather than splitting time with Miyan Williams, who led Ohio State in rushing last season, Trayanum registered 20 carries Saturday, 14 more than Williams. And, of Williams\u2019 six carries, all but one came in the final five and a half minutes of the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n Wide receiver Xavier Johnson notched 16 offensive snaps versus Maryland, his second most in a game this season. When Emeka Egbuka left the game in the second half with an apparent lower-leg injury, Johnson took his place. He lined up in the slot, Egbuka\u2019s spot, for seven of his 10 pass snaps, according to PFF. Johnson also lined up at running back in a 10-personnel look.<\/p>\n Tight end Gee Scott Jr. played a career-high 37 offensive snaps in the three-score win over the Terps. After recording a reception in each of the Buckeyes\u2019 first three contests, Scott wasn\u2019t targeted for the second game in a row. That said, he was a key part of their 12-personnel packages.<\/p>\n CB Davison Igbinosun \u2013 77 TAKEAWAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n Boy, did the Ohio State secondary get a workout in. Four defensive backs played all 77 defensive snaps, according to PFF: cornerbacks Davison Igbinosun and Denzel Burke and safeties Lathan Ransom and Josh Proctor. Ransom and Proctor both picked off Maryland quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa, with Proctor taking his interception 24 yards back to the house. Led by that group of four \u2014 plus a strong defensive front \u2014 Ohio State held the Big Ten\u2019s leading passer to just 196 yards through the air.<\/p>\n Linebacker Tommy Eichenberg didn\u2019t have his best day, but he did mount a game-high 13 total tackles, at least five more than any other defender on the field Saturday. He also logged 74 defensive snaps. That was 15 more than fellow starting linebacker Steele Chambers. For the fourth game in a row, fellow veteran Cody Simon notched at least 15 defensive snaps, per PFF. Simon actually registered a season-high 21 snaps against the Terps.<\/p>\n Defensive tackle Tyleik Williams continues to take the lion\u2019s share of defensive snaps at his position. Ohio State has played five games this season, and Williams has reset his career high for defensive snaps in each one of them: 30 at Indiana, 35 against Youngstown State, 50 against Western Kentucky, 56 at Notre Dame and 70 against Maryland. Williams had only three tackles this time out, but one of them went for a loss, not to mention his batted down pass in the second quarter.<\/p>\n At Notre Dame, top Buckeyes defensive ends J.T. Tuimoloau and Jack Sawyer played all 65 possible defensive snaps. They didn\u2019t max out Saturday versus the Terps. But Tuimoloau came pretty close, playing all but eight defensive snaps. He made quiet an impact, too, finally recording his first sack of the season and then, later, putting the nail in Maryland\u2019s coffin with a 4th-and-3 stop in the fourth quarter. Sawyer (53 defensive snaps) wasn\u2019t as disruptive as Tuimoloau (69), who had a team-high six pressures, per PFF.<\/p>\n The post Breaking down PFF snap counts from Maryland game<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COLUMBUS \u2014 Like last year\u2019s last meeting between Ohio State and Maryland, things were close…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Offense<\/h2>\n
LG Donovan Jackson \u2013 63
RT Josh Fryar \u2013 63
LT Josh Simmons \u2013 63
RG Matthew Jones \u2013 63
QB Kyle McCord \u2013 63
TE Cade Stover \u2013 56
WR Marvin Harrison Jr. \u2013 53
RB Chip Trayanum \u2013 49
WR Julian Fleming \u2013 38
TE Gee Scott Jr. \u2013 37
WR Emeka Egbuka \u2013 33
WR Xavier Johnson \u2013 16
RB Miyan Williams \u2013 14
WR Carnell Tate \u2013 9
WR Jayden Ballard \u2013 9
FB (DE) Caden Curry \u2013 1<\/p>\nDefense<\/h2>\n
CB Denzel Burke \u2013 77
S Lathan Ransom \u2013 77
S Josh Proctor \u2013 77
LB Tommy Eichenberg \u2013 74
DT Tyleik Williams \u2013 70
DE J.T. Tuimoloau \u2013 69
LB Steele Chambers \u2013 59
DE Jack Sawyer \u2013 53
CB Jordan Hancock \u2013 53
DT Mike Hall Jr. \u2013 40
DT Ty Hamilton \u2013 30
S Sonny Styles \u2013 29
LB Cody Simon \u2013 21
DE Caden Curry \u2013 16
DE Kenyatta Jackson \u2013 13
DT Jaden McKenzie \u2013 6
DT Hero Kanu \u2013 3
DE Mitchell Melton \u2013 3<\/p>\n