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OU offensive grades and snap counts spoilered below.

Highlights:

-3 of OUs OL starters graded out around 50 or less via PFF.

-They tried to only play the five starters on the OL all game, but Fasusi's late injury spoiled that.

-They have no running game and limited running talent, outside of Mateer himself. 

-Michigan blitzed the guy more than 50% of the time and failed to spy while doing so until the late 3rd quarter.

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PFF review: Snap counts, grades and advanced stats from Oklahoma's 24-13 win against Michigan

Reviewing the snap counts, player grades and other advanced stats, via Pro Football Focus data, from Oklahoma football's Week 2 win against Michigan.

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NORMAN — Oklahoma made an emphatic statement Saturday night at Owen Field.

In a 24-13 win against Big Ten powerhouse Michigan, Oklahoma's defense — led by Brent Venables as play-caller — smothered five-star freshman quarterback Bryce Underwood, limiting him to 9-of-24 passing for 142 yards as the Wolverines had fewer than 300 total yards on the night. The Sooners' offense, led by dynamic dual-threat quarterback John Mateer, dissected the Wolverines' defense through the air early before pounding them into submission thanks to a run-heavy, 16-play, 8 ½-minute scoring drive that took up more than half of the final period at Owen Field.

It all culminated in a signature early-season win for Oklahoma and Venables, as the Sooners passed their first big test of the season while improving to 2-0 heading into next weekend's visit to Temple.

As we did last season, Sooners Illustrated will use the day after Oklahoma games to review Pro Football Focus data to glean more from the Sooners' performance each week. This will include snap counts, player grades and other notable metrics from that week's game.

If you're unfamiliar with Pro Football Focus, the scouting analytics site relies on a staff of 300-plus experts to review game film of every single team and player across college football. PFF assigns to players based on per-play success rate, from 0 to 100. This year we will again add in some of the advanced statistics provided by PFF from each game, with the aim of reflecting a more tangible impact on how the Sooners fared against that week's opponent.

 

With that in mind, let's dive into the Week 2 review, with grades, snap counts and other advanced stats from Oklahoma's 24-13 win against Michigan...

 

 

OVERALL OFFENSIVE GRADES

 

 

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Logan Howland: 77.0

John Mateer: 76.8

Deion Burks: 72.3

Michael Fasusi: 69.2

Jaren Kanak: 67.9

Jovantae Barnes: 66.1

Tory Blaylock: 65.2

Ryan Fodje: 60.0

Ivan Carreon: 60.0

Jake Maikkula: 58.0

Keontez Lewis: 57.8

Jer'Michael Cater: 57.5

Isaiah Sategna: 57.4

Jaydn Ott: 52.8

Heath Ozaeta: 52.7

Febechi Nwaiwu: 51.5

Derek Simmons: 46.9

Will Huggins: 39.8

SNAP COUNTS (75 offensive plays)

 

 

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Quarterback

John Mateer: 75

Running back

Tory Blaylock: 27

Jaydn Ott: 23

Jovantae Barnes: 22

Wide receiver

Keontez Lewis: 73

Deion Burks: 70

Isaiah Sategna: 66

Jer'Michael Carter: 8

Ivan Carreon: 1

Tight end

Jaren Kanak: 60

Will Huggins: 24

Left tackle

Michael Fasusi: 66

Logan Howland: 9

Left guard

Heath Ozaeta: 75

Center

Jake Maikkula: 75

Right guard

Febechi Nwaiwu: 75

Right tackle

Derek Simmons: 75

Advanced stats

 

 

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Average depth of target (yards)

Will Huggins: 17.0

Keontez Lewis: 11.3

Deion Burks: 10.5

Jaren Kanak: 9.7

Isaiah sategna: 7.0

Jovantae Barnes: 0.0

Tory Blaylock: minus-1.0

Pressure rate

John Mateer: 28.6% (10-of-35 dropbacks)

Yards after contact

John Mateer: 33

Jovantae Barnes: 15

Tory Blaylock: 15

Isaiah Sategna: 5

Jaydn Ott: 3

Catches/targets

Deion Burks: 7/12 (58.3%)

Jaren Kanak: 5/6 (83.3%)

Isaiah Sategna: 4/5 (80%)

Keontez Lewis: 3/4 (75%)

Jovantae Barnes: 1/1 (100%)

Tory Blaylock: 1/1 (100%)

Will Huggins: 0/1 (0%)

Other offensive notes

 

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-- After zero drops in Week 1, Oklahoma's pass-catchers were dinged for one dropped pass against Michigan: Isaiah Sategna's third-down drop in the first quarter. Jaren Kanak's missed touchdown opportunity in the fourth quarter did not go down as a drop, according to PFF.

-- John Mateer, who led OU with 74 yards and two touchdowns on 19 carries, had three runs of 10-plus yards and forced a team-high two missed tackles in the run game. Jovantae Barnes and Isaiah Sategna each also forced a missed tackle on rushing attempts.

-- Oklahoma tightened up its wide receiver rotation, primarily playing three receivers (Sategna, Deion Burks and Keontez Lewis) for most of the game. Jer'Michael Carter was a distant fourth in the rotation, while sophomore Ivan Carreon logged one snap.

-- It was a true time share in the backfield this week, with Barnes (22), Jaydn Ott (23) and Tory Blaylock (27) receiving a relatively even distribution of snaps.

-- Oklahoma's new-look offensive line was entrusted for the entire game, with no real rotations. Jake Maikkula, Heath Ozaeta, Febechi Nwaiwu and Derek Simmons played every snap. Michael Fasusi played all but nine snaps, with Logan Howland filling in late after Fasusi exited with a minor injury.

-- When working from a clean pocket, Mateer completed 17-of-25 passes (68%) for 170 yards and a touchdown, as well as an interception. He was 4-of-9 passing for 99 yards while under pressure, with a passing grade of 89.4 on those 10 dropbacks, while Michigan brought a blitz on 19 of his 35 dropbacks (54.3%)

-- Mateer was 3-of-5 for 99 yards on deep balls (passes thrown 20-plus yards downfield), with each of those completions pegged as Big Time Throws (passes with "excellent ball location and timing, generally thrown further down the field and/or into a tighter window"). The three Big Time Throws were tied for fourth most in the FBS in Week 2. He had five pass plays of 20-plus yards, giving him 12 on the season.

-- In the short passing game (passes within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage), Mateer completed 14-of-18 passes for 97 yards and a touchdown.

-- Mateer did not attempt a pass to the left third of the field.

-- Twelve of Mateer's 21 completions resulted in a first down or touchdown.

-- Mateer finished with an adjusted completion rate of 73.3%, when accounting for drops and throwaways.

-- Oklahoma allowed seven total pressures against Michigan. While Mateer was sacked twice, none of his offensive linemen were credited with giving up a sack (meaning they were likely coverage sacks). Six of the seven total pressures were allowed by the offensive line, with two each given up by Fasusi, Simmons and Ozaeta.

-- Maikkula had the highest pass-blocking grade on the team (86.1), while Ozaeta had the lowest (58.5). Howland (75.7), Simmons (73.7) and Nwaiwu (72.2) all posted pass-blocking grades above 70.

-- After playing 23 offensive players in the opener, Oklahoma only used 18 offensive players against Michigan. Two of those 18 (Ivan Carreon and Ryan Fodje) logged just one snap.

 

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Defensive grades and snap counts spoilered below.

Highlights:

-Guillory looks really good so far. They don't play legitimate WRs until Auburn, so everyone should pause on anointing him a king, but I doubt anyone in the media will.

-They are struggling to get home in the pass rush. 

-The vaunted DL isn't scoring as well as the hype would suggest. 

-They're keeping things really tight on who they're letting on the field now. They played 21 guys and the majority of that rotation came with the front 4. 

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Overall defensive grades

 

 

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Owen Heinecke: 75.2

David Stone: 72.0

Kip Lewis: 70.2

Jayden Jackson: 69.7

Adepoju Adebawore: 69.4

Gracen Halton: 67.4

Courtland Guillory: 65.8

Robert Spears-Jennings: 65.7

Reggie Powers III: 64.9

Sammy Omosigho: 64.3

Kobie McKinzie: 63.6

R Mason Thomas: 63.5

Peyton Bowen: 62.9

Devon Jordan: 62.7

Michael Boganowski: 60.0

Kendal Daniels: 59.6

Marvin Jones Jr.: 58.1

Taylor Wein: 57.7

Damonic Williams: 50.9

Markus Strong: 48.7

Gentry Williams: 47.6

SNAP COUNTS (59 defensive plays)

 

 

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Defensive end/edge

R Mason Thomas: 48

Marvin Jones Jr.: 27

Taylor Wein: 24

Adepoju Adebawore: 19

Defensive tackle

Gracen Halton: 24

Damonic Williams: 20

Jayden Jackson: 18

David Stone: 18

Markus Strong: 3

Nose tackle

Damonic Williams: 13

Jayden Jackson: 11

David Stone: 7

Gracen Halton: 2

Markus Strong: 1

Linebacker

Kendal Daniels: 50 (Cheetah)

Kobie McKinzie: 36

Kip Leiws: 36

Owen Heinecke: 23

Reggie Powers III: 16 (Cheetah)

Sammy Omosigho: 16

Cornerback

Courtland Guillory: 59

Gentry Williams: 34

Devon Jordan: 25

Safety

Peyton Bowen: 59

Robert Spears-Jennings: 56

Michael Boganowski: 3

Advanced stats

 

 

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Solo stops (individual play that constitutes offensive failure)

Kip Lewis: 5

David Stone: 3

Kobie McKinzie: 3

Sammy Omosigho: 2

Marvin Jones Jr.: 2

Owen Heinecke: 2

Robert Spears-Jennings: 2

Damonic Williams: 2

Kendal Daniels: 2

Devon Jordan: 1

Taylor Wein: 1

Adepoju Adebawore: 1

R Mason Thomas: 1

Gracen Halton: 1

Pressures

Gracen Halton: 3

Jayden Jackson: 2

Sammy Omosigho: 2

R Mason Thomas: 2

Kip Lewis: 2

Courtland Guillory: 1

Kobie McKinzie: 1

Kendal Daniels: 1

Reception rate (catches allowed/targets)

Peyton Bowen: 100% (3/3)

Devon Jordan: 100% (2/2)

Taylor Wein: 100% (1/1)

Robert Spears-Jennings: 100% (1/1)

Gentry Williams: 50% (1/2)

Kendal Daniels: 25% (1/4)

Courtland Guillory: 0% (0/5)

Reggie Powers III: 0% (0/1)

Adepoju Adebawore: 0% (0/1)

Owen Heinecke: 0% (0/1)

Other defensive notes

 

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-- After playing 29 defensive players in the opener, Oklahoma tightened its rotation to 21 players against Michigan. Two players—Peyton Bowen and Courtland Guillory—played every defensive snap, while two more played at least 50 snaps (Kendal Daniels and Robert Spears-Jennings).

-- Oklahoma had 14 total pressures for the second week in a row but just one sack this time around. Gracen Halton led the team with three pressures, while Jayden Jackson, Sammy Omosigho, R Mason Thomas and Kip Lewis had two apiece.

-- Halton had the best pass-rush grade (72.1) among OU's defensive players. Thomas had the best pass-rush win rate (17.6%), followed by Halton (15.4%), while Omosigho had the highest pass-rush productivity metric (50.0).

-- Oklahoma had a dozen missed tackle against Michigan, with two apiece from Guillory, Daniels and Kobie McKinzie.

-- Spears-Jennings (74.9), David Stone (74.7), Owen Heinecke (74.0), Lewis (73.9) and Adepoju Adebawore (73.8) had the best run defense grades for the Sooners against the Wolverines.

-- Thomas and Heinecke both posted average depth of tackles of minus-2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage in the run game.

-- Guillory was targeted five times in the passing game and did not allow a reception against Michigan. The Wolverines were 0-for-4 when attempting to throw to Donaven McCulley with Guillory in coverage, while they were 0-for-1 on passes intended for Channing Goodwin with Guillory defending. The freshman has allowed one catch for 6 yards on eight targets through two games, as opponents have completed just 12.5% of their passes against him.

-- Brent Venables dialed up blitzes against Michigan freshman quarterback Bryce Underwood on 61.5% of his dropbacks (16-of-26). That's well above the Sooners' average blitz rate (41.4%) since Venables took over as head coach in 2022.

-- Underwood completed just 4-of-14 passes for 71 yards when blitzed. The Sooners got pressure on Underwood on just 10 of his 26 dropbacks (38.5% of the time), but he completed just 1-of-8 passes (12.5%) for 9 yards when under duress. Even when Underwood worked from a clean pocket, Oklahoma limited him to 8-of-16 passing for 133 yards. He was just 3-of-9 passing for 103 yards on throws 10-plus yards beyond the line of scrimmage.

-- Underwood posted an overall grade of 42.9. Since 2014, when PFF began tracking data, only one freshman quarterback has posted an overall grade better than 65.0 against a Venables defense (Wake Forest's Kendall Hinton in 2015).

 

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13 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

Barnes is a good back.  Hard to tackle.  It’s dumb that he’s not the starter.  Probably will be by Texas.

Huh? He’s been average and overrated for years. He’s not fast enough to get to the edge and not tough enough to run well up the middle. He had a couple of good carries against Michigan and that’s it. He’s had a chance to lock down the starting role for years. 

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3 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Huh? He’s been average and overrated for years. He’s not fast enough to get to the edge and not tough enough to run well up the middle. He had a couple of good carries against Michigan and that’s it. He’s had a chance to lock down the starting role for years. 

Yep. He's averaged less than 3.5 ypc in 13 out of 27 (48%) career games. Running for less than 3.5 ypc in half your games is hard for a "good" running to do in CFB. His 3.87 ypc for his career is bolstered by his 11.3 ypc against Maine last year.  

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Looks like Fasusi graded out ok and looked pretty solid the handful of snaps I focused on him.  That's a recruiting loss really going to bite us next year if/when Goosby goes prop.

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On 9/6/2025 at 5:45 PM, Hank_Hill said:

Commence pants pissing

 

17 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

OU's a fucking problem, and any of you assholes that don't think so are in for a big shock. 

 

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