45 Days Until Kansas Football: Video Game All-Stars – Joe Dineen

The return of the NCAA Soccer online game is scheduled for subsequent summer time, and that offers us the proper alternative to spotlight some gamers that did not get a chance to look within the sequence throughout it is hiatus.

Due to a ranking system that features individualized rankings of faculty gamers that we mentioned on the Rock Chalk Podcast, we’re capable of take right that oversight. This ranking combines their base expertise degree with their precise school manufacturing to give you an total take a look at their efficiency.

A reminder that our Video Sport All-Stars sequence will take a look at current Kansas gamers who performed nicely at Kansas however by no means acquired a chance 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 ranking would have been had the video games been round.

Different Participant Spotlights on this sequence:

Daniel Clever
Mike Lee

Recruiting Bio

A 6’2″, 230-lb linebacker out of Lawrence Free State Excessive College in Lawrence, KS, Dineen was recruited to Kansas as a part of the 2014 class by linebacker coach Clint Bowen. He was a 3-star prospect who was not extremely recruited, with solely one other provide from Rice. Nonetheless, that lack of curiosity from different faculties was at the very least partly because of the pull of the hometown Jayhawks.

Manufacturing at Kansas

Dineen redshirted in his first season on campus in 2014, the identical season the place Charlie Weis was fired 4 video games into the season. Dineen performed the following 4 seasons beneath head coach David Beaty, though his 2016 season was reduce quick by a hamstring damage.

His finest season got here in 2018, which he entered with Preseason First Group All-Massive 12 Honors. He was named Massive 12 Defensive Participant of the Week twice, and ended the season with Second Group All-American and First Group All-Massive 12 honors.  He led the Massive 12 and was fourth in all of FBS for complete tackles, and led all of FBS in solo tackles.

Greatest Sport

Dineen was so constant in his closing two seasons that it’s tough to select the most effective video games for him. Nonetheless, there are two that I keep in mind watching as a Kansas fan dwelling on the east coast on the time.

September 8, 2018: 31-7  Win over Central Michigan

Stat line: 14 complete tackles, 8 solo, 1 QB hurry, 0.5 tackles for loss, 1 interception

Dineen was the standout participant on the defensive finish, main the crew in tackles and pulling in certainly one of 4 interceptions of Chippewa quarterback Tony Poljan. The Jayhawks snapped a 46-game street dropping streak with this victory.

November 23, 2018: 24-17 Loss to Texas

Stat line: 14 complete tackles, 11 solo,  1 deal with for loss, 1 move defended

Dineen was everywhere in the subject within the first half, and the Longhorns entered halftime with solely a single landing. Sadly, Texas broke via within the third quarter, and the Jayhawks went on to lose. It was a masterful efficiency for Dineen in his closing sport on Senior Night time, as he almost tripled the variety of tackles of the following closest participant. 

After Kansas

Dineen was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Denver Broncos after the 2019 NFL Draft, however a hand damage on the finish of the preseason led to him being launched a number of weeks into the season with an damage settlement. He signed onto the apply squad with the Jacksonville Jaguars for the ultimate two weeks of that season.

He spent the 2020 season as a graduate assistant on the SMU teaching employees.

Video Sport Ranking

Base Ranking: 76
Manufacturing Bonus: 19
Whole Ranking: 95

Joe Dineen charges very excessive within the online game rankings, and his excessive degree of manufacturing is the massive purpose why. His recruiting rankings have been nothing particular, however offered sufficient of a baseline to present him a chance to earn his approach to a excessive ranking. And the constant manufacturing allowed him so as to add manufacturing factors shortly. Whereas these rankings aren’t damaged right down to the varied attributes you’ll discover in Madden, given his strengths on the sector, I might think about that his consciousness and acceleration rankings must be his high attributes.

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