The Pittsburgh Steelers started the 2024 NFL Draft by selecting Washington tackle Troy Fautanu, and today I wanted to start my examinations series looking at and providing stat context for the position using Sports Info Solutions (SIS).
The data in this study looks at their final college season in 2023, focusing on the players who heard their names called in the draft, and some players were excluded due to SIS not tracking their stats. The goal is to see how Fautanu stacked up amongst his peers.
First, let’s look at snap totals for the offensive tackles last year:
Right away, we see Fautanu had the second most snaps among qualifiers in 2023 (924), trailing his former teammate in Roger Rosengarten by only one snap.