[washingtonismoney]

I think we've argued previously about whether Stanford truly is a laggard or not in terms of true freshmen playing. At least for this year, ProFootballFocus can settle the debate: Stanford was in the bottom ten of snaps from true freshmen.

(Here's the bottom ten: https://twitter.com/PFF_Vinnie/status/82...6935043073
Here's the top ten: https://twitter.com/PFF_Vinnie/status/82...5078746113)

Now, the other question I have is: to what degree does playing true freshmen equate to success? The bottom ten won games at a .659 clip, while the top ten won games at a .563 clip. Of course, Alabama is in the top ten most-snaps-played list, so you can certainly have success playing true freshmen -- but it seems it's easier to win keeping true freshmen off the field, in general.

[washingtonismoney]

I think we've argued previously about whether Stanford truly is a laggard or not in terms of true freshmen playing. At least for this year, ProFootballFocus can settle the debate: Stanford was in the bottom ten of snaps from true freshmen.

(Here's the bottom ten: https://twitter.com/PFF_Vinnie/status/82...6935043073
Here's the top ten: https://twitter.com/PFF_Vinnie/status/82...5078746113)

Now, the other question I have is: to what degree does playing true freshmen equate to success? The bottom ten won games at a .659 clip, while the top ten won games at a .563 clip. Of course, Alabama is in the top ten most-snaps-played list, so you can certainly have success playing true freshmen -- but it seems it's easier to win keeping true freshmen off the field, in general.