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Decoding Langsdorf: Charting The Nebraska Run Game vs. Arkansas State

You saw a lot of things on Saturday that the Huskers haven’t done in a while.

Each Tuesday this season, the Decoding Langsdorf series will expand a bit to include charting the running game to get a better idea of Nebraska’s core running concepts that I broke down over the summer. We will look at attempts, yardage totals, and average yards per carry (ypc), in addition to contextualizing some of the plays to see why they worked or why they didn’t. This won’t take away from the typical Decoding Langsdorf articles, which will continue to run on the Thursday of each week.

Over the summer, I broke down the Gap-Duo, Counter Trap, and G/T Lead plays which I had asserted the former two would be the core running game for the Husker offense this season. Against Arkansas State, we ran all three of those concepts, but the real bell cow was the Pin & Pull series, “Steeler” in Riley & Langsdorf’s parlance, which allowed Nebraska to utilize the Sweep component in the running game. Before we delve into the finer details of “Steeler”, let’s first take a look at the charts from Saturday night.

Gap-Duo: NU ran Gap-Duo out of Bunch and Zip to Bunch sets 9 times for 60 yards, an average of 6.6 ypc.

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