I was looking at their stats last week and noticed they ran 25 times out of 100 plays. But they run the shovel pass so much, which is basically a inside pitch play, a run, that counts as a pass. They feature a heavy dose of the shovel pass. I can’t help but thinking part of the reason they run it is to pad stats. The qb gets the pass yards and touchdown pass if one breaks to a td and the rb still gets yards just not rushing yards. Is this a way to promote a player like jt barret for awards at the end of the year. Can they use it as a recruiting tactic saying look at all these yards our players get? If it was classified as a run, would they do it as often? Just a random thought I ponder ever time I see them run a one yard pass behind the line of scrimmage that is essentially a run. I believe that is also how Tim tebow was able to rack up all his yards in his heisman run.
