Notre Dame’s run game had a brand new look in 2020 with Kyren Williams emerging from relative obscurity to star status and an offensive line that returned all five starters from 2019. By the end of the season Notre Dame had four linemen heading to the NFL with Williams and Jarrett Patterson looking to join them shortly. However, it’s unclear that all these personnel improvements had an overall positive impact on Notre Dame’s running game outside of short-yardage and goal line situations. As usual we’ll be viewing this through the lens of expected points added (EPA), so for an explanation of EPA and all other advanced statistics we use please check out our primer at this link.
Notre Dame Football Advanced Stats: Were the Irish better running the football in 2020 than 2019?
