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Dec 3, 2024
11:27:44am
DieHarder Intervention Needed
A look at TE usage under ARod:

In the 2024 regular season, BYU ranked 13th in TE usage in the Big 12. 

Team TE Receiving Yards Net Passing Yards TE Passing Yards Share
Utah 744 2393 31.1%
Cincinnati 561 2838 19.8%
WVU 466 2406 19.4%
UCF 454 2396 18.9%
K State 473 2553 18.5%
Iowa State 551 3096 17.8%
Kansas 391 2505 15.6%
Arizona 453 2975 15.2%
Baylor 442 2952 15.0%
TT 528 3577 14.8%
Houston 240 1832 13.1%
ASU 305 2698 11.3%
BYU 248 2856 8.7%
TCU 328 3811 8.6%
Oklahoma State 111 3147 3.5%
Colorado 65 3926 1.7%

In the Big 12, the average team's TEs accounted for 14.6% of their receiving yards, so BYU was pretty far below average in TE usage. 

Big 12 Average 398 2873 14.6%

In ARod's four years as the BYU OC, BYU TEs are accounting for 14.5% of BYU's passing yards, pretty much exactly at the 2024 Big 12 average. 

Team TE Receiving Yards Net Passing Yards TE Passing Yards Share
2024 BYU 248 2856 8.7%
2023 BYU 476 2465 19.3%
2022 BYU 462 3246 14.2%
2021 BYU 544 3433 15.8%
Arod Average 433 3000 14.5%

If you compare that to the three years that Jeff Grimes was our OC, TE usage is down. However, I think a lot of that can be attributed to Matt Bushman being awesome, and BYU's WRs being worse under Grimes than ARod.

Team TE Receiving Yards Net Passing Yards TE Passing Yards Share
2020 BYU 666 3985 16.7%
2019 BYU 843 3701 22.8%
2018 BYU 631 2753 22.9%
Grimes Average 713 3480 20.8%

It's also worth pointing out that while ARod wasn't the OC from 2018-2020, he obviously had a role in the offense. 

My conclusion: BYU's 2024 TE usage was quite a bit level than that of our peers, but TE usage under ARod is at worst average compared to other Big 12 teams. If someone wants to argue that we don't use our TEs enough, that is obviously something I can't really argue against with data. BYU isn't Utah with our TE usage, but we also definitely aren't Colorado either. 

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