With the preliminary 53-man roster cutdown within the rearview mirror, rookie CB Beanie Bishop Jr. at present stands as the first slot nook for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He performed substantial first-team slot reps this offseason, justifying a number of of my prior offseason research on the cornerback place.
To comply with up articles on Bishop in 2022 and 2023, I wished to dive into his 2021 season with Western Kentucky, the one one in every of his school profession when his predominant alignment was within the slot.
In the present day, let’s have a look at and supply some information context in run protection from Professional Soccer Focus (PFF), together with CBs with at the least 175 common season run snaps and 10 run tackles for comparative context.
Let’s begin with 2021 run snaps and common depth of sort out for amount of performs and yardage comparatively:
First, we see that Bishop’s run snap alternatives had been low among the many 174 qualifying CBs, rating 166th. A 3.2 ADOT was wonderful high quality, rating ninth-best. If pressured to decide on, it’s at all times high quality over amount after all, and Bishop supplied that in spades in these phrases.
Let’s add context with the Bishop’s alignment charges:
As I said earlier, 2021 was Bishop’s solely 12 months the place slot led his snap charges. We see there was nonetheless an in depth cut up to outdoors reps. You’d assume a a lot larger slot share for such a robust ADOT, however this makes that quantity much more spectacular.
Now let’s have a look at sorts of run tackles, solo versus assisted:
Attending to the ball on assisted run tackles was an above-average asset to Bishop’s run protection with six (T-Thirty sixth). This factors to pursuing the soccer, and never assuming a teammate’s ‘bought this’. That high quality is extraordinarily valued in Pittsburgh. The opposite facet of the coin was a under common 13 solo run tackles, tying for 153rd. We noticed this capability in his first NFL motion within the preseason although, so it’s not overly regarding for my part.
Subsequent, I wished to see how the gamers fared in a ‘hit and miss’ kind view with cease share, which makes use of the profitable play charges system (lower than 40-percent on first down, 50-percent or much less on second down, and third or fourth down performs saved from a primary down or landing) and missed sort out share:
Encouragingly, Bishop offered a robust 4.2 cease fee that tied for 14th, anticipated after his even higher ADOT rank. Additionally nice to find out about his above common 13.6 missed sort out fee, tying for 93rd out of the 174 qualifiers. This quantity additionally improved in his ultimate two seasons, so fairly a protracted pattern dimension of being a plus tackler towards the run.
Listed here are PFF grades in general protection, and run protection:
Right here, we see nice balanced grades in comparison with his friends. In complete protection, Bishop had a 75.3 grade, tying for thirty seventh out of 174 gamers. That’s robust in itself, however an 82.6 run protection grade ranked even higher, tying for an amazing sixteenth rank. Although it was a couple of seasons in the past, that is all good to see, notably in his season when he performed essentially the most slot, his anticipated position in Pittsburgh.
Right here’s to hoping Bishop can have an analogous affect within the Black and Gold, offering stable run protection from the slot nook place.
To shut, right here’s a wrap up desk:
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