How Julian Sayin, the offensive line and the rest of Ohio State’s offense graded vs. Miami in the Cotton Bowl

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Julian Sayin was sacked 16 times successful his first twelvemonth arsenic Ohio State’s starting quarterback, and 2 teams are responsible for much than half of them.

After watching Indiana get to Sayin 5 times successful nan Big Ten Championship Game, Miami repeated that feat successful nan Cotton Bowl. That power upfront paved nan measurement for a 24-14 win.

Sayin being nether changeless duress against nan Hurricanes was why he completed a season-low 62.8% of his passes 35, turning that into 287 yards, a touchdown and 2 interceptions. That earned him a Pro Football Focus people of 77.4.

That people was 2nd only to Jeremiah Smith, who, for nan 2nd consecutive game, was his champion and astir accordant weapon. Smith turned 8 targets into 7 catches for 157 yards and a touchdown to spell pinch an 81.6 grade, nan highest of immoderate Buckeye.

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Here’s really nan remainder of nan discourtesy graded out:

(PFF grades each subordinate connected each play and uses a standard of 0-100, pinch higher grades indicating amended play. PFF has explained its grades this way: 100-90 elite; 89-85 Pro Bowler; 84-70 starter; 69-60 backup; 59-0 replaceable. In different words, it’s akin to really we would lucifer up percentages pinch accepted missive grades successful school.)

NOTE: Snap counts successful parentheses.

QUARTERBACK

Julian Sayin: 77.4 (60)

RUNNING BACKS

Bo Jackson: 70.6 (28)

CJ Donaldson: 60.7 (19)

Isaiah West: 60.0 (1)

WIDE RECEIVER

Jeremiah Smith: 81.6 (60)

Brandon Inniss: 67.0 (34)

Mylan Graham: 59.5 (1)

Carnell Tate: 56.0 (59)

TIGHT END

Will Kacmarek: 77.3 (33)

Bennett Christian: 59.8 (2)

Max Klare: 54.8 (51)

OFFENSIVE LINE

Luke Montgomery: 63.3 (60)

Carson Hinzman: 62.1 (60)

Ian Moore: 60.6 (31)

Joshua Padilla: 59.8 (42)

Phillip Daniels: 53.9 (60)

Gabe VanSickle: 53.4 (18)

Austin Siereveld: 52.4 (29)

Stephen Means covers Ohio State shot for Cleveland.com while besides serving arsenic nan big of nan Buckeye Talk podcast. Prior to covering nan Buckeyes, he sewage acquisition moving astatine nan Akron Beacon Journal...