Alex Vansumeren

So we get seven minutes of Lincoln Riley after the game.

Alex Van Sumeren's on one side of him.

Jade Maiava's sitting on the other side of him.

Now, that's a long way for the media to be, well, you get seven minutes.

It's not a Mike linebacker.

I've watched that Penn state game now, like three times over and, in addition to watching it live and i'm watching him come back from being a week off getting to see things from the sideline coming back and making the same mistakes and still being flat-footed on his reads not being decisive and being a bit of an achilles heel for the interior run game even though the run game has improved i think the run game has improved because the defensive line and the defensive line interior has improved and you're getting some good reps from Alex Van Sumeren, and now you've got Danielson there.

And Jakeem Stewart, again, with his penetration, is able to disrupt things enough that it makes a running back have to change his line, and everything gets kind of thrown up into a little bit of a blender.

And your other players are able to clean up the play.

Uh, it's usually good for one nice deep catch a game again, not super flashy, but he is contributing incredibly in a significant way for this offense as that number kind of four wide receiver.

So Zacharias Williams, who's coming off, you know, that injury riddled season, and he's beginning to kind of go into his, I won't say a breakout, but you know, he's being impactful this year.

And then the third one, I would say, is Alex Van Sumeren.

If you look at the PFF grades, you look at the stats, they're not great, but that's not what he's here for.

Instead, it is Elijah Vaikona, Alani Noah, Willie Washer as my center, Brett Kolajay, as my right guard, and Hayden Treeder, thanks to his flexibility, as my right tackle.

My defense, starting from defensive end, is Cameron Crawford, Tom Tom Tapui, Alex Van Sumeren, and Luke Wayfull to round out my defensive line.

My linebackers are Jaden Walker, Talanoa Ely, and my safety and secondary begins with Alex Graham, Madden Reardon, Kendarius Reddick, Chasen Johnson, and Albert Hill.

Shotgun, what do you have? So

I don't think that there's going to be something just like someone in a new position or something like that, and you're just like, whoa, whoa, what just happened here? But hopefully you do get some guys back healthy.

I mean, Jaday Abasiri, getting him back.

If you have Jaday Abasiri, Alex Van Sumeren, and Jakeem Stewart, This is potentially the healthiest all three of them will be together.

so far this season.

I mean, Aiden Giles, for example.

There's no Alex Van Sumeren, Aiden West, Stanton Ramil.

I mean, Jalen Thompson is another one.

David Santiago.

But one of those one shades, the younger guys that you're bringing in like Stewart or like Winfield, who I think next to Stewart is probably the only other guy that really has that explosiveness off the stat.

You know, right now, Alex Van Sumeren.

He's tough, he's a utility guy, but he's definitely much more Gavin Meyer than he is a guy that's going to be able to beat a lot of blocks one-on-one in a pass rush situation.

So, man, you get Stewart next to a guy like Jamie-Ann Winfield or Tom-Tom Tapui, and those guys get older, they get stronger, they're able to do more.

Scratch, claw, up against the wall.

Can't explain it, what I'm feeling right now, guys.

I can't believe it.

Let's open up that rave line.

He forces the game-winning strip, uh, late in the fourth quarter, which was massive.

Uh, the rest of the defense, uh, pretty much all over the place.

You had guys who were solid.

Cameron Crawford, 78.2. Jaquim Stewart, 74.2.

So is there a setback potentially there? If you don't have him, you don't have Jaday Abasiri, you're in some trouble because you haven't relied on any of those other guys.

This past game, Alex Van Sumeren, Jaday Abasiri, and Jakeem Stewart played 116 of the 124 snaps by defense tackles.

You didn't rely on anybody.

You didn't let anyone else get a chance in there.

And so are those guys ready to step up? You're going to need somebody to if one of those guys is injured because you have a series been playing a ton of snaps the last couple of weeks.

The same thing with Jakeem Stewart, even coming back from injury, he played a lot more than I anticipated with coming into that game.

And part of it was that Alex Van Sumeren did go down in the Oregon game.

So you saw him.

And then the last one I had was the defensive line rotation.

That's stocked down for rotating because Alex Van Sumeren, Jaday Abasiri, Jakeem Stewart.

Jaday Abasiri and Jakeem Stewart both left the game, right? Still, those three guys played 116 of the 124 defensive tackle snaps in this game.

So you trusted Floyd Picard, Jamie-Anne Winfield, Tomahuda Tapoi, and Jamal Jarrett to play eight combined snaps.