All aboard the Aranda train. Hes a graduate of BGSU and works as an auditor for Google content curation products. This was a big component of their 38-35 win over OU in Norman, forcing Dillon Gabriel into 3 first half interceptions, even though OUs offense was otherwise humming along. Subscribe to The Athletic for in-depth coverage of your favorite players, teams, leagues and clubs. For more NCAA football news, analysis, opinion and unique coverage by FanSided, including Heisman Trophy and College Football Playoff rankings, be sure to bookmark these pages. Theyre certainly at their best running free on play action shots. That could make picking the 14-team Big 12 an absolute madhouse with so many variables. Follow Sam on Twitter @skhanjr, Baylor quarterback Blake Shapen set an AT&T Stadium collegiate record with 17 straight completions en route to going 23-of-28 for 180 yards and a career-best three touchdowns against Oklahoma State in the Big 12 title game. Baylors one-two punch of Abram Smith and Trestan Ebner left the program. Texas safeties and linebackers cant get caught up in trash and must fit the cutback lanes. All advice, including picks and predictions, is based on individual commentators opinions and not that of Minute Media or its related brands. It takes trust and a sense of safety to put yourself out there to die and then to be born again.. (Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports). Its worth noting that while Baylor started the year rock-ribbed against the run with their massive interior Tite front, theyve surrendered 179 yards per game rushing over their last three games. It sets the tone for everything.. Breaking down the five best futures bets, picks, and predictions for the 2022 season. Baylor Head Coach Scott Drew Named Coach Wooden Keys to Life Award Winner, Iowa States Ashley Joens, Oklahomas Madi Williams Named Finalists for the Cheryl Miller Award, Niners GM John Lynch Updates Brock Purdys Status, Surgery Timeline, Oklahoma TE Brayden Willis Announces 2022 Return, K-State Promotes Collin Klein to Offensive Coordinator. Starters Gabe Hall, Siaki Ika and Cole Maxwell and rotational linemen TJ Franklin, Chidi Ogbonnaya and Brayden Utley return. Redshirt freshman Tyrone M. Brown is also a potential reserve option. Returning that kind of experience should give Baylor the best offensive line in the Big 12, and possibly the country, in 2022. This team went 2-3 in one-score games in the regular season; getting another win or two this year certainly wouldnt be a shock. Whoever wins the job should have plenty of talent to utilize, but will need the offensive line to come together. He knows a thing or two because hes seen a thing or two over the course of his collegiate career. After helping the Bears reach the semifinalist phase for the Joe Moore Award, he could target individual honors in 2022. The Big 12 Conference lays claim to two of the top five small forwards in the country. Quinn Ewers should become more consistent in his second year as a starter, and getting a healthy Isaiah Neyor to catch passes next to Xavier Worthy could bring an impact newcomer who technically doesnt count as a newcomer. The Bears enter the season ranked No. Baylor has to settle its quarterback situation, and Grimes doesnt have a Zach Wilson to work with. This year it could be the playoff by avoiding another loss like that pesky one against TCU. Baker played receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Florida Gators, winning championships with each. The 2021 second-team All-AAC selection should thrive being back in his hometown of Waco. We did some decent things last year at times, but we were just inconsistent, Grimes said. And they found some young pieces along the way, adding a few pretty good transfers as well. Roberts will evaluate multiple options there, including returning safety Lorando Johnson, who backed up Pitre last year. Last year it was the Big 12 title. 2021 stats: 91 tackles (second most), 8.5 TFL (second most), scored two offensive TDs (rushing and receiving). Hes the smallest guy out there but maybe the toughest guy, Grimes said. I act like this. Texas and Oklahoma are both in the middle of their respective builds: Steve Sarkisian heading into year three, Brent Venables in year two. The stuff youre battling, especially if youre a young team, is, Im cool. "I thought football had to be part of it, somehow." Related: College Football's Top Quarterbacks on the Rise for 2023 4. Hes going to be filling some big shoes. But there are worse bets to take than a Kansas State team with a returning starter at quarterback in Will Howard, playing behind the bulk of his offensive line returning. Offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes hopes Shapen gives the offense a higher ceiling. At jack, Baylors edge rusher, Garmon Randolph returns. Doyle was second on the Bears defense with 90 tackles, adding 8.5 tackles for loss. UW, of course, finished an 11-2 season with a No. No one should expect to make money from the picks and predictions discussed on this website. LT Connor Galvin, RG Grant Miller, RT Kahlil Keith, and C Jacob Gall are all seniors who were eligible to return for another season in 2022. If Shapen can take the passing game to another level, that adds another dimension to an already good team. Preseason prognosticators that looked at 14 returning starters and picked the Bears to win the league are being punished for not understanding that Baylor losing six players to the NFL Draft 4 of them in the first first 3 rounds isnt something that can be replaced. Breakdown: Gall is as dependable as they come. The Longhorns could go as far as the quarterback position will take them this year, whether thats Hudson Card, who started two games last year, or Quinn Ewers, the former top-ranked overall prospect in the 2021 247Sports Composite. While they lost to Oklahoma State and suffered a two-point defeat at TCU, they punched a ticket to the conference title game where they avenged their loss to the Cowboys for the crown. Craig Sqwirl Williams, 5-foot-8, 173 pounds, has battled injuries but was healthy this spring. Find more Baylor coverage from The Dallas Morning News here. With Connor Galvin making the announcement that he will come back next season on Friday, the Bear will bring back all four of those guys. The top three tight ends on the 2021 depth chart return. It finished fourth in the Big 12 in total D and tenth in the nation in scoring defense, but the it was really, really good at was taking the ball away. Iowa State enters 2022 without OT Derek Schweiger (67.1 The school president and athletic director each signed 10-year extensions. Related: Early 2022 Big 12 QB Preview and Rankings 3. A veteran leader on the back end, Baylor will rely on Morgan to make an impact in 2022. Defensively, the Texas DL will match up just fine against Baylors experienced offensive line. Outside of those scheme induced meltdowns, theyve actually proven fairly susceptible to the passing game, giving up steady gains to Will Howard and Max Duggan in recent weeks. He will put the ball in peril and he isnt shy about taking deep shots, even on 3rd and forever. Projected defensive starters: DE Lonnie Phelps DT Kenean Caldwell DT Caleb Sampson* DE Malcolm Lee* LB Taiwan Berryhill* LB Gavin Potter* LB Rich Miller Baylor tabbed a new starting quarterback. The pass rush will be good, the run D will be great, and 2022 College Football Returning Production Rankings Team Ret. Despite the change, theres a sense of stability.

WebThe official 2022 Football schedule for the Baylor University Bears Baylor struggles to get an honest pass rush at times and they rely heavily on deceptive coverages on the back end to confound QBs and force sucker throws. In the three games Shapen saw significant action Kansas State, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State Shapen completed 71 percent of his passes and averaged 190 passing yards. The 2022 class, which includes 21 signees, finished 36th. On average, Baylor opponents had 8 yards to go on third downs, the longest average distance in the Big 12 and seventh best in the nation, according to PFF. At safety, the Bears will be inexperienced but talented. Ranking 77th nationally in returning production, the Sooners are somewhat middle of the pack in the Big 12 in that category. We looked at not just the numbers for each team, but breakdowns on each side of the ball and whether teams return starters at the most important positions on the football field as well. With Connor Galvin The Bears have a three-headed running back group comprised of two scatbacks and one power runner. Zeno (transferred to UAB) and Brown both entered the portal last September. With who they return upfront, expect the road-grading to continue in 2022. Guess you have to call 2022 a disappointment for Coach Billy Hawthorne entering his sixth season in 2023 off a .500 season when 16 starters returned including four OLers and a TE. Replacing some of the losses on defense will be a bigger challenge, though Joey McGuires first year saw the Red Raiders play with physicality and toughness on that side of the ball, and Texas Tech added four defenders through the transfer portal, including three players up front. Dykes inherits six offensive starters and seven defensive starters, and theres plenty of room for growth on both sides. He creates openings for himself that maybe others dont. 247Sports writer Kevin Flaherty joined Athlon Sports That has turned each team's returning starter count into one of the most panned metrics heading into a given season. This makes the Bears The biggest piece were moving through right now is probably just immaturity, Aranda told The Athletic. UFC 278: Kamaru Usman vs. Leon Edwards fight card, start time, channel guide, Mets: Buck Showalter pours cold water on potential call-ups, Oregon football 2022 season prediction, preview, awards, 2022 bowl game, Jake Paul Is Hilariously Bad at Taking Batting Practice, Sorry Calipari, Paul Finebaum has spoken: Kentucky is a football school, Oklahoma football 2022 season prediction, preview, awards, 2022 bowl game, Nebraska WR Decoldest Crawford debuts in coolest HVAC ad possible. STAR Al Walcott is of the Big Nickel variety (6-2, 220) and he can be exploited if Texas can hunt formations to put him 1 on 1 in the slot. 6 overall recruiting class, ranking in the top 10 both in incoming high school and junior college talent (fourth) and in 247Sports transfer class rankings (eighth). Fleeks has all the ability in the world, and Baldwin is a dynamic player with really good speed. Other receivers could get looks at returner. With Texas and Oklahoma moving their Big 12 ousters to 2024 rather than 2025, this season will mark the only one that includes the two departing conference schools along with the four new additions: BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF. Bohanon, who started the other 12 games, hit the transfer portal after the coaches gave Shapen the nod and landed at South Florida. However, this years group will have some major absences to contend with, including Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year Jalen Pitre and All-Big-12 first-team linebacker selection Terrel Bernard. Aranda pointed to Fleeks and Baldwin as possibilities. Somebody has to be last. Grimes said Sims has improved as a blocker and Drake Dabney as a receiver. I always win. And while Nebraska quarterback transfer Adrian Martinez couldnt give it a go in the spring, hes certainly an experienced option and would seem to be the frontrunner to take over for the graduated Skylar Thompson at quarterback. There will be more on the QBs shoulders this season with reading rushers Abram Smith and Trestan Ebner gone. Baylor has added two more super-seniors to the list of returning players, as defensive linemen Cole Maxwell and Chidi Ogbonnaya have announced that they will be back in 2022. The Bears will ride the hot hand the 175 pound Reese has two games where he had 30+ carries, the 170 pound Sqwirl has a 25 carry game and theyre not going to worry about work load in a season finale. At middle linebacker, returning starter Dillon Doyle second on the team with 90 tackles in 2021 should be even better. If he can avoid making mistakes, the Cougars should be physical enough a trait BYU has shown in recent matchups with Big 12 teams to at least compete. The 6-5 Baylor Bears represent one of the most physical teams that Texas has seen this season, but meeting the other teams physicality hasnt been a problem for the Longhorns. before going out with a concussion. Ive watched them go through stretches where theyre utterly dominated by aggressive corner and nickel play. The Bears badly miss Jalen Pitre and JT Woods. While talent and certainly coaching are major indicators, perhaps nothing is quite as important as having good players who have already seen the field. Expect Baylor to give Texas a wake-up call in the regular season finale but settle for a 9-3 campaign. He and his wife, Karina, got married last January and have a 4-month-old daughter, Zoe. Morgan, the one returning starter in the group, will be deployed either at safety or star, depending on need. They have 150+ combined starts in aggregate. Related: College Football's Top Quarterbacks on the Rise for 2023 4. That was a full yard improvement over 2020, which was seventh in the Big 12 and 62nd nationally. Theyre veteran, older players and thats really where you want your leadership to come from. So some regression to the mean could occur. I expect an all conference season.6 TD catches in 21 pic.twitter.com/gOOF8Armmd. But those are all a far cry from a year ago, when it wasnt certain if Baylor could block consistently and installed a whole new offense. Baylor Bear Insider One of seven returning starters from a 31-20 Baylor team, sophomore infielder Tre Richardson didn't like that aching feeling last May when the Bears were the "first team out" when the NCAA Regional selections were announced. Per PFF, Baylor QBs were pressured 35.2 percent of the time in 2020 (8th in the Big 12, 96th in the FBS) but only 29.1 percent of the time in 2021 (first in the conference, 45th nationally). WACO, Texas Baylor football head coach Dave Aranda announced the signings of 20 student-athletes to the class of 2022 on Wednesday. On the other side of the ball, West Virginia will need some of the younger players it has landed in recent classes to pan out sooner rather than later. And will Iowa States reluctance to fully embrace the transfer portal mean that the Cyclones wont fill the holes they do have? Ben Sims is the teams returning leader in receptions (31), receiving yards (361) and touchdown catches (six). That makes for a wide open race where it seems like the 12 teams that don't reach the Big 12 championship game are likely to finish somewhere between 8-4 and 4-8, decided by a bounce here or there. Key stat to know: Baylors offensive line improvement from 2020 to 2021 was significant. The next group of schools Iowa State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, and TCU lost two starters. 240 pound interior linebacker Dillon Doyle leads them in tackles and is also solid dropping into zone coverages (2 interceptions). Each team's returning starter count comes from Athlon's look at the conference. The wild card at linebacker is LSU transfer Josh White, who just arrived on campus this month. His physical talent has always been there, but his improved maturity and preparation have readied him this season for the No. Baylor Bears Preview 2022: Defense Dave Aranda knows how to get a defense to produce, and this one should be more than fine. Those are some pretty big haymakers to take, and with Cincinnati bringing in 247Sports 11th-rated transfer class, Scott Satterfield could have a bit of an uphill climb to keep things where theyve been. Redshirt freshman Kyron Drones was thrust into the backup role after Bohanons November hamstring injury. The good is that Brent Venables may be just the coach to deal with that kind of roster turnover and has already drawn rave reviews for the way hes circled the wagons and begun building culture. Hes an athletic and ridiculously strong 0-tech NT thats very light on his feet for his size. Josh Cameron, a former walk-on who was awarded a scholarship, gives the group some size (6-2, 210 pounds). Note: the 3 Bear runners have combined for a healthy 41 total catches, but they average just over 7 yards per reception. Thats the bad. March 1, 2023 12:56 pm CT. College football writers are taking notice of the Longhorns loaded returning roster. But perhaps the single biggest reason to believe in Oklahoma: When we looked at how teams fared in one-score games, the Sooners went 0-5 (0-4 in the article, then lost a one-score bowl game). (Kevin Jairaj / USA Today), Baylor linebacker Dillon Doyle finished second on the team in tackles with 90 and second with 8.5 tackles for loss. Will the Bears scratch and claw for progress the way the 2021 team did? Except for that group, every Baylor signing class since 2017 has ranked either fourth or fifth in the Big 12. Breakdown: Another grizzled veteran, Morgan is stepping into a bigger role after playing alongside former Bear and current Los Angeles Charger JT Woods. The challenge for Texas wont be physicality. Iowa State ranks 28th in returning production on offense, and while the defense looks vastly different in returning production, Jon Heacock gets a bit of benefit of the doubt there. Newman-Johnson will play in the 2022 East-West Shrine Bowl in February and should have his name called at the 2022 NFL Draft in April. On defense, the second coach sees Baylors defensive line as the deepest in the Big 12. Key stat to know: Baylors stout defense forced the second-most third downs (200) in the Big 12 and 11th most in the Power 5 last season, a result of good early down defense. in returning offensive production theres reason to believe some of those close games are going to go the other way in 2023. Explosive Florida State running back transfer Treshaun Ward is among the Big 12s most exciting transfer additions, and hell join DJ Giddens in making sure the Wildcats can still run the ball. And with seven of 11 starters returning on defense, the Red Raiders could bow up on that side of the ball with increased experience and the toughness that McGuire is attempting to instill. He joins an elite group of established, veteran O-lineman that are hoping to pound the rock en route to another successful season. Baylor ranked 10th in the country and first in the Big 12 in rushing offense in 2021, averaging 219.3 yards per game, leading the way to a Big 12 Championship. Lorando Johnson, S Lorando Johnson likely wont declare in the 2023 NFL Draft cycle, but his name is one to keep in the memory banks. Returning starters on offense: 7 Quarterback Spencer Sanders returns and brings 35 career starts with him. Hill is among a number of players who could have breakout seasons in 2023. Aranda stressed the need for reps among the candidates to get comfortable. The average sack allowed by the Baylor line in 2021 took 4.6 seconds from snap to sack, the second-longest average in the FBS. 2023 On3 Media, Inc. All rights reserved. There are also five transfers combined from those two cycles still around. The Bears O-line was the most improved unit in 2021, becoming a true strength as the Bears led the Big 12 in rushing and allowed the third-fewest sacks. Things could take a turn for the worst early if the defense isnt quite up to their 2021 form in the first half of the season. Sophomore quarterback Baylor Romney, brother of wide receiver Gunner Romney, announced Friday on Twitter that he will not return to the Cougars in 2022. There may be inexperience at those key offensive spots, but sufficient talent exists. Besides Alabama or Georgia, I dont know whos got a better front scheme-wise than Baylor.. Theyre headlined by OT Connor Galvin and C Jacob Gall. But he questions the quarterback depth. In run blocking in 2020, the Bears averaged 1.4 yards per rush before first contact, which was last in the Big 12 and 111th in the FBS. It certainly helps that one of the offensive starters is Deuce Vaughn. Im perfect. The buildup to the 2021 season was full of change. Can a transfer class that brings in a few potential impact players turn the tide? Texas has to press their advantages here and not concede confidence building throws to Shapen. And it wont get too much easier in the second half. Though none of those classes have been in the top 25, it doesnt mean they wont yield quality results. But Texas Tech also just couldnt get healthy quarterback play with some downright awful injury luck at the position. 17 Baylor Bears football team kicks off week four with a Big 12 Conference showdown against the undefeated Iowa State Cyclones in Ames, 2022 Alan Bowman transferred in to potentially take over the quarterback spot after Spencer Sanders departure, but Bowman struggled to stay healthy at Texas Tech and he attempted all of 11 passes over the last two years at Michigan combined. 8 national ranking last fall and has Pac-12 title and CFP aspirations in 2023. With a solid crop of returning players, the question will be whether that talent can start delivering results on the field. Dave Aranda enters Year 3 in Waco in considerably better shape than last year, with a Big 12 Championship in the trophy case. Run blocking has improved, Aranda said. Almost a third of the league has less than 10 returning starters, and seven of the Big 12's teams have 12 or fewer. Still, he said, players wondered: Why are we doing this? Much like Morgan, he is stepping into an expanded role. Pass protection improved immensely, too. True freshman Kyron Drones might be a factor in the fall camp battle for the open gig. Baylor has been one of the least active teams in the transfer portal nationally. Battling, especially if youre a young team, is based on individual commentators opinions and not that of Media. Much easier in the transfer portal nationally or star, depending on need claw for progress way... 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