Who Did What In Notre Dame's Offense In 2016?

Here is a look at Notre Dame's offensive participation and production in 2016. This statistical breakdown takes a look at playing time, how often individual players got the ball and who accounted for the team's final offensive tally.

For a wider look at Notre Dame's 2016 offense, you can find the complete chart HERE.

PERCENTAGE OF SNAPS (player snaps / total team snaps)

Sophomore running back Josh Adams obviously received a bulk of the workload, playing 59.1 percent of Notre Dame’s offensive snaps. Senior backup Tarean Folston played 31.3 percent, while sophomore Dexter Williams was in on just 15 percent of snaps.

In the receiving corps, sophomore Equanimeous St. Brown saw a major uptick in playing time. He led all wideouts at 75.2 percent, followed by senior Torii Hunter Jr. (55.3), sophomore C.J. Sanders (45.7) and freshman Kevin Stepherson (41.5).

The other backups finished as follows: junior Corey Holmes (22.2), sophomore Miles Boykin (18.6), sophomore Chris Finke (14.7) and freshman Chase Claypool (11.8).

Senior tight end Durham Smythe led the way at his position, playing 75.5 percent of snaps. Junior backup Nic Weishar was in on 31.3 percent of snaps.

TARGET PERCENTAGE (rushes + rec. targeted / total team touches)

There were 684 offensive touches by Notre Dame players in 2016. At Blue & Gold Illustrated, we’ve broken that down.

Adams finished with 179 touches in 2016 (158 rushes and 31 receiving targets), the most of any player on the team. Folston finished second with 137 (129 rushes, eight targets) while junior quarterback DeShone Kizer — due to his 104 rushing attempts — finished third at 15.5 percent.

Among receivers, St. Brown led the way at 12.9 percent (58 touches). Hunter Jr. (8.9), Stepherson (7.3) and Sanders (6.3) rounded out the top receivers for the Irish.

RELIANCE PERCENTAGE (rushes + rec target / player snaps)

When he was in the game for his 262 snaps this season, Folston had the highest percentage on the team of the ball coming his way. He finished the season with a reliance percentage of 52.3 percent), followed by Adams (38.2 percent) and Williams (35.7).

Kizer was able to distribute the way fairly evenly over the course of the season, though he went through periods when he targeted individual receivers.

When he was in the game, Stepherson was looked to on 14.4 percent of his 348 snaps, the most of any receiver. He was followed closely by St. Brown (14 percent). Hunter Jr. was looked to on 13.2 percent of his 463 snaps, while Sanders had the ball come his way on 11.2 percent of his 383 snaps.

Among others: Finke (12.2), Holmes (11.3), Claypool (10.1) and Boykin (9.0).

Though he played 633 snaps — the most of any Notre Dame skill player — Smythe had the ball come his way just 3 percent of the time.

PRODUCTION PERCENTAGE (player yards / total team yards)

When assessing the production of the Notre Dame offense, Adams finished with the largest hand in the team’s 5,312 total yards.

Adams finished with 1,126 total yards, or 21.2 percent of the offensive production. St. Brown finished second at 18.1 percent (961 yards), while Kizer’s running accounted for 11.5 percent of the offense.

Folston finished third with 10.1 percent (538 yards). Hunter Jr. (521 yards, 9.8 percent), Stepherson (462, 8.7) and Sanders (315, 5.9) were the only other players to account for more than 5 percent.

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