Mizzou football snapshots: Snap counts, PFF grades from Tigers' loss at Alabama

Thirty-four to zilch.

Who needs more advanced numbers than that? You do, or else you wouldn't be here for a breakdown of Missouri's, well, breakdown that happened in Saturday's shutout defeat to Alabama.

Win, loss or beatdown, Pro Football Focus grades them all, which means there are a handful of statistics to sift through that go beyond the lopsided final score.

In case you aren't already aware: These grades come from PFF not this writer.

They're at times misaligned with what happened on the field.

They're certainly not worth getting worked up about.

Offensive line LT Marcus Bryant, 63 snaps, 63.8 RG Cam'Ron Johnson, 63 snaps, 68.2 RT Armand Membou, 63.8 C Connor Tollison, 62 snaps, 59.4 LG Mitchell Walters, 58 snaps, 64.1 LG Cayden Green, 6 snaps, 55.5 OL Tristan Wilson, 1 snap, 60.0 C Drake Heismeyer, 1 snap, 60.0 Walters handled the majority of the workload at left guard after Green was sat down.

They'd split snaps against UMass a few weeks ago, but Green kept his job against Auburn.

After spending the week on the injury report, Green's afternoon was a short one as MU rolled with Walters, the second highest-graded offensive lineman of the game for the visitors.

Walters, Tollison and Membou were the only linemen blamed for allowing a pressure, with one each.

No linemen were called for any penalties.

Quarterback Drew Pyne, 40 snaps, 40.8 Brady Cook, 21 snaps, 43.9 JR Blood, 2 snaps, 59.2 Well, if you combine Pyne and Cook's grades, you get...

something that isn't how this works.

Cook didn't produce much before leaving with a hand injury, and Pyne produced three interceptions, which oddly grade out rather similarly in PFF's eyes more reason why the grades aren't everything.

The two quarterbacks attempted similar depths of throws: Cook's average target depth was 8.5 yards while Pyne's was 8.2.

Pyne released the ball about half a second quicker than Cook did on average.

Cook struggled when pressured, which occurred on four of his 13 dropbacks.

He completed just one pass for a single yard in those situations.

Pyne was only under pressure twice but didn't complete a pass on those dropbacks, throwing one of his interceptions with a defender chasing him down.

Alabama blitzed Pyne less than it did Cook 30.8% of Pyne's dropbacks compared to 46.2% of Cook's.

What that meant is partially up for interpretation: Maybe the Tide wanted to force Cook to scramble on an injured ankle, maybe they didn't need to go after Pyne after establishing a lead, maybe they were content to let him throw recklessly there was no blitz on any of his three picks.

Running back Jamal Roberts, 36 snaps, 74.7 Marcus Carroll, 25 snaps, 64.3 Tavorus Jones, 2 snaps, 59.8 With primary tailback Nate Noel once again sidelined, the committee expanded for this rushing effort.

Roberts and Carroll both ran the rock well.

And while the former was on the field for more snaps mostly because of his pass protection abilities they had the same number of carries.

The duo each ran the ball 17 times, with Roberts picking up 71 yards and Carroll earning 80.

That's more than 4 yards per carry for each, with nearly 2 yards each coming after contact.

Mizzou, per usual, ran twice as many zone plays as it did gap runs.

The Tigers' runs were almost exclusively between the tackles.

Carroll only had one carry to the edge.

Roberts ran the ball to either side of the center nine times and to the other gaps and the edge only eight times, combined.

Wide receivers/tight ends WR Luther Burden III, 42 snaps, 60.3 WR Joshua Manning, 39 snaps, 55.4 WR Theo Wease Jr., 36 snaps, 59.4 WR Marquis Johnson, 28 snaps, 55.8 TE Jordon Harris, 28 snaps, 51.3 TE Brett Norfleet, 22 snaps, 69.3 WR Mehki Miller, 21 snaps, 47.7 WR Daniel Blood, 17 snaps, 54.5 TE Tyler Stephens, 17 snaps, 56.0 With only 72 receiving yards to go around 15 of which went to running backs there wasn't much to note for these two position groups.

Manning, as expected, was the primary fill-in with Mookie Cooper sidelined.

Harris was on the field more often than Norfleet, which isn't surprising since the latter was listed on the injury report in the days leading up to the game.

Defensive line DE Zion Young, 42 snaps, 55.2 DE Johnny Walker Jr., 42 snaps, 63.3 DT Kristian Williams, 39 snaps, 46.7 DT Chris McCellan, 37 snaps, 50.7 DT Sterling Webb, 26 snaps, 69.9 DE Jahkai Lang, 24 snaps, 60.6 DE Eddie Kelly Jr., 18 snaps, 54.6 DT Jalen Marshall, 18 snaps, 45.0 DT Marquis Gracial, 14 snaps, 45.7 DE Jaylen Brown, 4 snaps, 40.5 DT Sam Williams, 4 snaps, 34.4 Mizzou went back to its "rhino package," or five down linemen, at times, with Marquis Gracial moving back off special teams duty to play nose tackle.

The Tigers rotated heavily at defensive tackle.

Of note in who didn't get on the field: Five-star freshman Williams Nwaneri, who is still on track to redshirt.

Walker led the team with two pressures.

Lang and Webb also registered a hurry each.

Linebackers Corey Flagg Jr., 50 snaps, 69.5 Triston Newson, 33 snaps, 53.8 Chuck Hicks, 30 snaps, 55.8 Nicholas Rodriguez, 9 snaps, 68.9 Jeremiah Beasley, 4 snaps, 65.3 Flagg continues to get more middle linebacker work than Hicks the starter at that position when the season began.

He finished second on the team in tackles.

Defensive backs S Marvin Burks Jr., 59 snaps, 59.4 CB Toriano Pride Jr., 48 snaps, 56.8 STAR Daylan Carnell, 47 snaps, 55.2 CB Nicholas Deloach Jr., 40 snaps, 73.1 S Joseph Charleston, 35 snaps, 56.0 S Tre'Vez Johnson, 26 snaps, 54.7 STAR Sidney Williams Sr., 59.2 CB Marcus Clarke, 21 snaps, 41.0 CB Dreyden Norwood, 19 snaps, 67.0 CB Shamar McNeil, 4 snaps, 64.1 CB Ja'Marion Wayne, 4 snaps, 60.3 S Caleb Flagg, 2 snaps, 60.5 S Trajen Greco, 1 snap, 60.0 Cornerback usage looked different with Pride getting more of a role once Norwood left the game with an injury though Pride and Deloach continued to rotate at the start of the game.

Deloach finished the day as Missouri's highest-graded defensive player.

Pride made no solo tackles but missed three.

He was targeted seven times, allowing three catches with one pass breakup.

Carnell and Williams, from the hybrid safety position, were the only defensive backs to rush the passer..

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