11 Days Until Kansas Football: Video Game All-Stars – Hakeem Adeniji

The return of the NCAA Soccer online game is scheduled for subsequent summer season, and that provides us the right alternative to focus on some gamers that did not get a possibility to look within the collection throughout it is hiatus.

Due to a score system that features individualized scores of faculty gamers that we mentioned on the Rock Chalk Podcast, we’re capable of appropriate that oversight. This score combines their base expertise stage with their precise school manufacturing to give you an total have a look at their efficiency.

A reminder that our Video Recreation All-Stars collection will have a look at latest Kansas gamers who performed nicely at Kansas however by no means obtained a possibility to be captured with a digital model of themselves. We are going to look again at their careers, and embrace a projection of what their total score would have been had the video games been round.

We’re nearing the tip of our collection, and I knew that we could not finish it with out a single offensive lineman. And whenever you assume latest Kansas offensive lineman who starred on the school stage, it is arduous to think about anybody else earlier than you get to Hakeem Adeniji. 

Different Participant Spotlights on this collection:

Daniel Sensible
Mike Lee
Joe Dineen
Andrew Parchment
Pooka Williams
Hasan Protection
Dorance Armstrong
Bryce Torneden

Recruiting Bio

A 6’4″, 290-lb offensive deal with out of Garland Excessive College in Garland, TX, Adeniji was initially dedicated to america Air Power Academy. Nevertheless, he was unable to get a medical waiver for a cashew allergy, and he rapidly dedicated to the Jayhawks.

Although the strategy by which he got here to Kansas was unorthodox, there was loads of optimism for what he may deliver to David Beaty’s offense, and it did not take lengthy for Jayhawk followers to see what he may do, as he began all 48 video games in his time in school.

Manufacturing at Kansas

Adeniji made a direct impression for the Jayhawks, first as a swing deal with after which as the first left deal with. He constantly improved all through his time with the Jayhawks, nevertheless it’s truthful to say that his greatest statistical season was truly in 2017, when his Professional Soccer Focus blocking grade was 72.0 total.

Finest Recreation

It is tough to select a “greatest” sport in the case of lineman, as a result of as is usually the case, the very best statistical performances for a lineman depend on good play in so many different locations as a way to flip into a great final result. And that is abundantly clear right here, since statistically Adeniji’s greatest sport got here in a 38-9 drubbing by Baylor in 2017. However whereas he was nice, the remainder of the road was subpar at greatest, and the Jayhawks could not get something going.

So as an alternative, I selected to focus on two video games the place Adeniji performed very well, and the Jayhawks had been capable of placed on no less than a decent efficiency.

November 17, 2018: 55-40 Loss at #6 Oklahoma

Stat line: 1 QB Hit, 1 QB Stress, no penalties on 67 offensive snaps.

It was a reasonably clear sport for Adeniji, as he did not enable a lot strain and rated out spectacularly on go blocking. However what turns this right into a memorable sport was the run blocking turning right into a 252-yard day for Kansas operating again Pooka Williams.

September 13, 2019: 48-24 Win at Boston School

Stat line: No hits/pressures/sacks/penalties on 70 offensive snaps.

It’s actually not potential for Adeniji to have had a greater sport statistically, and he had a pair key blocks to spring huge runs for a number of Jayhawks. Carter Stanley threw for 238 yards behind a incredible go blocking efficiency, and Khalil Herbert rushed for 187 yards and Pooka Williams ran for 121 yards for a dominant offensive efficiency by the Jayhawks.

After Kansas

Adeniji was drafted a hundred and eightieth total by the Cincinnati Bengals within the sixth spherical of the 2020 NFL Draft. His first profession begin got here in week 8 of the 2020 season, and he has been a constant performer since then. He performed in 15 video games in the course of the 2020 season, beginning in 5.

Adeniji began the 2021 season on the injured record, having torn a muscle throughout offseason exercises. Nevertheless, he returned to the lineup on November 4th, 2021, beginning in every sport the remainder of the season, together with the primary postseason win for the Bengals in 31 years and within the Tremendous Bowl towards the Los Angeles Rams.

He’s anticipated to be a mainstay within the offensive line in Cincinnati for the forseeable future.

Video Recreation Ranking

Base Ranking: 70
Manufacturing Bonus: 18
Complete Ranking: 88

Having initially dedicated to the Air Power Academy, there’s loads of query about what Adeniji’s score ought to have been popping out of highschool. However there isn’t a denying the impression that he had on the sphere, which translated to a excessive manufacturing bonus and simply sneaks him previous the cutoff for automated inclusion on this record.

Whereas the scores we’ve should not damaged down into the person attributes that you’d usually see in a sport just like the Madden collection, it’s potential to guess which attributes can be the very best. Lineman might be tough to search out talents aside from energy, however I must embrace his agility in there as nicely, given his potential to get better after a missed preliminary block and nonetheless make a considerably optimistic play.

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