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Looking back on the West Virginia Mountaineers Football true freshman class

The West Virginia Mountaineers football team played several freshmen.
The West Virginia Mountaineers football team played several freshmen.

Rivals.com has teamed with Pro Football Focus and as part of that we can provide incredibly detailed statistics on the West Virginia football team.

Today, we take a look at how the true freshmen graded out against during the 2021 season. We tracked this all season and provide the updates.

In this article, we use the PFF grades to show you how the true freshmen Mountaineers performed to date as well as statistics.


But first, an explanation from PFF on how the grading scale works:

On every play, a PFF analyst will grade each player on a scale of -2 to +2 according to what he did on the play.

At one end of the scale you have a catastrophic game-ending interception or pick-six from a quarterback, and at the other a perfect deep bomb into a tight window in a critical game situation, with the middle of that scale being 0-graded, or ‘expected’ plays that are neither positive nor negative.

Each game is also graded by a second PFF analyst independent of the first, and those grades are compared by a third, Senior Analyst, who rules on any differences between the two. These grades are verified by the Pro Coach Network, a group of former and current NFL coaches with over 700 combined years of NFL coaching experience, to get them as accurate as they can be.

From there, the grades are normalized to better account for game situation; this ranges from where a player lined up to the dropback depth of the quarterback or the length of time he had the ball in his hand and everything in between. They are finally converted to a 0-100 scale and appear in our Player Grades Tool.

Season-level grades aren’t simply an average of every game-grade a player compiles over a season, but rather factor in the duration at which a player performed at that level. Achieving a grade of 90.0 in a game once is impressive, doing it (12) times in a row is more impressive.

It is entirely possible that a player will have a season grade higher than any individual single-game grade he achieved, because playing well for an extended period of time is harder to do than for a short period, Similarly, playing badly for a long time is a greater problem than playing badly once, so the grade can also be compounded negatively.

Each week, grades are subject to change while we run through our extensive review process including All-22 tape runs and coaching audit, so you may notice discrepancies among grades published in earlier articles compared with those in the Player Grades tool until grade lock each week.

Game 1: Maryland: Total Snaps 8 | Grade of 53.9
Game 2: Long Island Total Snaps 41 | Grade of 72.7
Game 3: Virginia Tech Total Snaps 23 | Grade of 60.6|
Game 4: Oklahoma
Total Snaps 29 | Grade of 68.1
Game 5: Texas Tech Total Snaps 12 | Grade of 61.1
Game 6: Baylor Total Snaps 0 | Grade of 0.0
Game 7: TCU Total Snaps 74 | Grade of 66.2
Game 8: Iowa State Total Snaps 81 | Grade of 63.5
Game 9: Oklahoma State Total Snaps 59 | Grade of 41.5
Game 10: Kansas State Total Snaps 72 | Grade of 61.4
Game 11: Texas Total Snaps 87 | Grade of 70.6
Game 12: Kansas Total Snaps 75 | Grade of 75.6
Game 13: Minnesota Total Snaps 61 | Grade of 52.9

Milum started eight games for West Virginia in 2021 and claimed the right tackle role from one-time starter Parker Moorer. The true freshman should be primed for a much larger role in year two as he has established himself as a key piece up front. Appeared in all 12 games this season and showed a lot of promise.

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