Freshmen Participation Tracker after 13 Games (and historical comparison)
After 13 victories in a row, here are the freshmen participation numbers:
Seven freshmen played in every single game of the season! (M had 31 players overall participate in all 13 games this season)
What amazing work by the players themselves with help from the Strength and Conditioning staff, the medical team, nutritionists, and coaches,
Seven seemed like a lot so I used mgoblue.com to look back through the Harbaugh era and checked into freshmen who played in every game of the season.
2015: Grant Perry
2016: Devin Asiasi, Ben Bredeson, Devin Bush, Chris Evans, Rashan Gary, Eddie McDoom
2017: Ben Mason, Donovan Peoples-Jones, Ambry Thomas, Aubrey Solomon
2018: Ronnie Bell, Aidan Hutchinson, Jake Moody
2019: Zach Charbonnet, Dax Hill, Giles Jackson, Mike Sainristil
2020: didn't look
2021: Junior Colson
These young men are in pretty good company.
December 4th, 2022 at 10:46 PM ^
Hoping Hill-Green will be available for the CFP games.
This next month is critical for a lot of guys on this list. The vets who play will be resting up, there will be plenty of 2nd team reps for some of these guys to hold it down for 2-3 weeks.
December 4th, 2022 at 10:59 PM ^
Yeah I'm super curious to see the development. The long break before bowl games is perfect for guys like JJ to get a little sharper or for freshman to break into the rotation.
Interesting that Zeke Berry only played in a few games. Seth was all about him and thought he would crack the 2 deep by mid-season. The guy is a freak athlete and I look forward to seeing what he can do next season. As good as this team is now, I think they'll be even better next season.
December 4th, 2022 at 10:52 PM ^
Man, this class was truly outstanding. That DB class has the potential to go down as historic.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:37 AM ^
Sabb, Berry, Jones, Pollard, Dent all redshirt eligible. Will be interesting to see how that plays out.
December 5th, 2022 at 1:05 AM ^
Were Will Johnson, Mason Graham, Derrick Moore and Jimmy Rolder ever on the field together against Purdue? I vaguely remember counting at least three true freshmen on the field at the same time on a number of occasions (I think the first three all started). Even better, were there ever five on the field at once?
This is a crazy young defense...
December 5th, 2022 at 7:25 AM ^
Anyone know why the previously inactive Lorenzetti played against OSU? I meant to ask about that last week. Seemed odd.
December 5th, 2022 at 10:14 AM ^
Because one of the coaches told him to go in, I suspect.
December 5th, 2022 at 8:04 AM ^
“Seven freshmen played in every single game of the season!”
Maybe I’m missing something obvious, but there are just six guys on your chart who have played in all 13 games:
Johnson, Moore, Loveland, Rolder, Graham, Grant
December 5th, 2022 at 8:57 AM ^
Nope - you didn't miss anything - I counted wrong and then didn't notice until I had hit "save" and then I couldn't change it. I was hoping no one would notice but the eagle-eyed readers here pick up on everything.
I'l try to do better after games 14 and 15 :)
December 5th, 2022 at 8:34 AM ^
Anyone know what's up with CJ stokes? He seemed geared up ready to rock this weekend and I'm not sure he got in at all? Or maybe a couple plays?
December 5th, 2022 at 11:02 AM ^
Rumor is he is in concussion protocal.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:06 AM ^
Interesting that out of 19 players in those six years, that 5 of them transferred out.
I believe three would be due to playing time and getting passed by younger teammates, and two were “homesick”.
In the new portal world, this may become much more common throughout college football.
December 5th, 2022 at 6:08 PM ^
Nice work, thanks for posting. The future is very bright when you look at how well guys like Will Johnson and Mason Graham played. Loveland seems to have come on lately, too. First things first, let's go win it all this year!