As promised, here is our second Inside The Numbers article of the week. In this edition, we’ll take a closer look at parts of the Virginia Tech offense.

Injuries To The Playmakers

Virginia Tech’s two highest-grading offensive players through two games are wide receiver Kaleb Smith and running back Keshawn King.

Kaleb Smith: 79.3
Keshawn King: 72.6

King’s running grade is higher than that, but his blocking grades have held his overall grade down. Still, you’ve seen the impact he’s made with the ball in his hands, and playing over half the Boston College game without him certainly hurt the offense. Meanwhile, Smith was injured in the first half of the ODU game and did not return. He gutted through the BC game and made a couple of big plays, but he played fewer than half of the snaps in that contest.

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