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DE Chase Young (Nagurski, Hendricks, Bednarik, Silver Football, NFL DROY, New Orleans Saints)

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https://theathletic.com/1333412/2019/10/29/ohio-state-football-chase-young-heisman-trophy-contender/

Feldman: The case for Chase
By Bruce Feldman

Let’s start with this. Chase Young is different.

Ohio State has had a ridiculous amount of prime NFL talent come through Columbus, especially in recent years. But your eyes are drawn to their 6-foot-6, 270-pound freak of an edge rusher from the time OSU comes out in warm-ups to the time he’s been pulled out of the game to cheer on his backups. This team, a focused yet free-flowing bunch, seems to feed off his energy. He’s like a video game creation running roughshod through over-matched opponents.

For the first month of this season, this seemed to be an exceptional year for quarterbacks with Tua Tagovailoa, Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow and Young’s own teammate Justin Fields putting up mind-boggling numbers. Yet it was an easy choice if you were asking who was the most dominant player at his position. Chase Young.

The other QBs were in a bunch, all vying the best. Was there any defensive end in the same stratosphere as Young? Not. Even. Close.

Still, it wasn’t until last weekend when Young’s own Heisman hopes really came into focus. Ohio State faced its toughest challenge of the season, against a top-15 Wisconsin team. The Badgers had allowed only 10 sacks in their first seven games. Ohio State got half of that in its 38-7 blowout win. Young had four of those sacks and five TFLs in the most-watched game of the weekend.

Quarterbacks, by the inherent nature of the position, are usually the most valuable to their team. Burrow, along with LSU’s new passing game coordinator Joe Brady, have completely changed the vibe of the Tigers program. Hurts is putting up numbers that surpass those of Oklahoma’s last two Heisman winners, Kyler Murray and Baker Mayfield. But the Heisman is supposed to go to the nation’s most outstanding player and the view from here, at least through this part of the season, is that should be Young.

For now, the more intriguing question isn’t whether Young should win the Heisman, it’s can he, as a defensive lineman?

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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ohio-states-chase-young-is-playing-like-a-heisman-contender/

OCT. 29, 2019, AT 4:33 PM
Ohio State’s Chase Young Is Playing Like A Heisman Contender
By Josh Planos
Filed under College Football

The most dominant college football player on one of the nation’s best teams is a 6-foot-5, 265-pound defensive end. Although the Heisman Trophy is typically reserved for players who score touchdowns, rather than those who prevent them,1 Ohio State’s Chase Young has made a strong case for front-runner status.

“In a day and age when people get caught up in what’s next, he really wants to leave a legacy here,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day told Yahoo’s Pete Thamel. “That makes him special.”

That legacy will no doubt include last weekend, when Young turned a rain-soaked Saturday afternoon into his masterpiece. In the Buckeyes’s 38–7 dismantling of a Wisconsin program that has become Offensive Line U in recent years, Young tied a program record with four sacks,2 five tackles for loss and two forced fumbles. His position coach, Larry Johnson, told ESPN afterwards that it was the best single-game performance he’s ever seen. LeBron James — no stranger to being more physically imposing than his peers — called Young an “absolute monster.”

Young has 13.5 sacks on the season, 3.5 clear of anyone else in the country. The next time he registers one, it will set a new school record. He is second in the nation in forced fumbles with five. Among Power Five defenders, he’s tied for the national lead in tackles for loss (15.5), tied for second in disrupted dropbacks (14.5) and tied for third in defensive pressures (34).3 .

And while these box score metrics are noteworthy, they fail to encapsulate or appropriately contextualize his influence on a game, which is reminiscent of South Carolina’s Jadeveon Clowney and Nebraska’s Ndamukong Suh. Young’s versatility is critical to Ohio State’s success: Against Wisconsin, he lined up at linebacker, defended tight ends in coverage and was moved around on the line. He’s so fast that the Buckeyes don’t even need to blitz to turn a quarterback inside out: Only 11 Power Five teams have blitzed less than the Buckeyes, yet just Pittsburgh has accounted for more total sacks.

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Dryden said:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ohio-states-chase-young-is-playing-like-a-heisman-contender/

OCT. 29, 2019, AT 4:33 PM
Ohio State’s Chase Young Is Playing Like A Heisman Contender
By Josh Planos
Filed under College Football

The most dominant college football player on one of the nation’s best teams is a 6-foot-5, 265-pound defensive end. Although the Heisman Trophy is typically reserved for players who score touchdowns, rather than those who prevent them,1 Ohio State’s Chase Young has made a strong case for front-runner status.

“In a day and age when people get caught up in what’s next, he really wants to leave a legacy here,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day told Yahoo’s Pete Thamel. “That makes him special.”

That legacy will no doubt include last weekend, when Young turned a rain-soaked Saturday afternoon into his masterpiece. In the Buckeyes’s 38–7 dismantling of a Wisconsin program that has become Offensive Line U in recent years, Young tied a program record with four sacks,2 five tackles for loss and two forced fumbles. His position coach, Larry Johnson, told ESPN afterwards that it was the best single-game performance he’s ever seen. LeBron James — no stranger to being more physically imposing than his peers — called Young an “absolute monster.”

Young has 13.5 sacks on the season, 3.5 clear of anyone else in the country. The next time he registers one, it will set a new school record. He is second in the nation in forced fumbles with five. Among Power Five defenders, he’s tied for the national lead in tackles for loss (15.5), tied for second in disrupted dropbacks (14.5) and tied for third in defensive pressures (34).3 .

And while these box score metrics are noteworthy, they fail to encapsulate or appropriately contextualize his influence on a game, which is reminiscent of South Carolina’s Jadeveon Clowney and Nebraska’s Ndamukong Suh. Young’s versatility is critical to Ohio State’s success: Against Wisconsin, he lined up at linebacker, defended tight ends in coverage and was moved around on the line. He’s so fast that the Buckeyes don’t even need to blitz to turn a quarterback inside out: Only 11 Power Five teams have blitzed less than the Buckeyes, yet just Pittsburgh has accounted for more total sacks.

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That chart is hilarious
 
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Dryden said:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ohio-states-chase-young-is-playing-like-a-heisman-contender/

OCT. 29, 2019, AT 4:33 PM
Ohio State’s Chase Young Is Playing Like A Heisman Contender
By Josh Planos
Filed under College Football

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The article goes on to note that, with Young on the field, "...the Buckeyes allow 3.0 (the best mark through eight games since at least 2004)".

Edit: That 3.0 is referring to yards per play, made clear in the part of the sentence I elided with the ellipsis.

Counting only when Young is on the field is a pretty good definition for "non-garbage-time", and I expect a fair few teams would have similar numbers in non-garbage-time since 2004.

But...

That is, nevertheless, a remarkable number. There have been some incredible defenses since 2004 (2010 Alabama come to mind), and to be putting up numbers in that portion of the stratosphere is amazing.

Even more amazing is that Chase is the difference between an outstanding defense and a best-in-the-last-two-decades-of-ncaa-football defense.
 
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DaddyBigBucks said:
Even more amazing is that Chase is the difference between an outstanding defense and a best-in-the-last-two-decades-of-ncaa-football defense.
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The fact that other coaches combined to take the same guys and make them the worst defense in OSU history is also, no matter how much we discuss it, hard to wrap your head around.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
The fact that other coaches combined to take the same guys and make them the worst defense in OSU history is also, no matter how much we discuss it, hard to wrap your head around.
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What's even worse is there's absolutely no reason to believe a healthy Nick Bosa and a healthy Chase Young make any appreciable difference. The Oregon State game is proof of that.

Just absolutely mind boggling.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
The fact that other coaches combined to take the same guys and make them the worst defense in OSU history is also, no matter how much we discuss it, hard to wrap your head around.
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Systems_id said:
What's even worse is there's absolutely no reason to believe a healthy Nick Bosa and a healthy Chase Young make any appreciable difference. The Oregon State game is proof of that.

Just absolutely mind boggling.
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Every good CFB team has a mobile QB. Everybody has athletes that can burn you. Playing Cover-0 and having the back 7 turning their backs to the LOS is suicide in today's game. On a good day you have an Oregon St performance. On a bad day you lay a turd like in West Lafayette or College Park.

It's really not a surprise that Ash's Quarters D and Mattison's 4-3 Under are the two best defenses OSU has fielded this decade.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
The fact that other coaches combined to take the same guys and make them the worst defense in OSU history is also, no matter how much we discuss it, hard to wrap your head around.
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It is unbelievably mind boggling. I lost a lot of respect for Schiano last year. Same guys, total garbage. We had some on here thinking it was the players. NOPE! Coaching matters in football. A Lot.
 
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