Rueben Bain is the top graded defender on the Miami Hurricanes and the top graded freshman defensive lineman in the country through four games.
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00:00 So Ruben Bain with his 84.1 pro football focus grade through these first four games, as mentioned,
00:07 literally he is the highest graded freshman defensive lineman in the country.
00:13 Really not too surprising if you followed Ruben's high school career.
00:18 It's still a mystery to me why he wasn't a five star coming out of high school, why he
00:22 was a four star.
00:23 I think if he was a couple of inches taller, would have been a consensus five star.
00:27 He's got that five star productivity.
00:30 He's got that five star work ethic.
00:32 So it really shouldn't surprise anyone.
00:34 And Bain has seen his role increased over the past few weeks with so many injuries on
00:39 the defensive line.
00:40 We haven't seen Branson Dean or Akeem Mesidor or Nigel E. Kelly over the last couple of
00:46 weeks.
00:47 So Bain has stepped in next man up and he's been fantastic.
00:50 I mean, most teams in the country would be, you know, very thrilled to have a depth option
00:55 like Ruben Bain is a true freshman coming off your bench.
00:58 He has made the most of it.
01:00 And as we've talked about on the show over these last couple of days, not only has Bain
01:04 been productive statistically, but he gets held a lot and it just, it doesn't get called
01:10 because he's a true freshman.
01:12 He's not going to get that kind of respect yet from the officials.
01:15 So again, I'm not surprised that Bain has been the most productive freshman defensive
01:22 lineman so far this year.
01:23 You watch the games.
01:24 That's an easy thing to spot.
01:26 Here's what does surprise me.
01:29 Huge shout out and props to Jason Cain's chief on X or Twitter or whatever you want to call
01:34 it for this crazy stat comparison.
01:37 So far, believe it or not so far, four games in, I know four games.
01:41 Don't tell the entire story.
01:43 Ruben Bain, according to pro football, focuses metrics has been better so far this season
01:50 than Florida States.
01:51 Jared verse.
01:53 I don't mean that to tear down verse in any way.
01:55 That's an awesome player.
01:57 I mean this to show you how productive Ruben Bain has been so far with the snaps he's gotten
02:02 because Jared verse consensus, first round draft pick in this coming NFL draft and experienced
02:08 guy has been in college since 2019.
02:12 And so far this season, Ruben Bain, 119 snaps versus play 204 snaps.
02:18 So he has been on the field more to be fair.
02:21 Bain has an 84.1 pro football focus score.
02:25 Verse has a 76.0 PFF score.
02:29 Bain has 10 pressures.
02:31 Verse has 13.
02:32 Bain has one sack.
02:34 Verse has zero so far.
02:36 Bain has four total tackles.
02:38 Verse has nine.
02:39 So how crazy is that to think that Ruben Bain has been so efficient and so productive with
02:46 the amount of snaps he's gotten so far and one 19 is a lot of snaps.
02:50 This is not the 200 that versus played that Ruben Bain is grading out higher than a guy
02:57 who's part of one of the better defenses in the country and is expected to be a first
03:01 round pick in this coming NFL draft.
03:03 That's crazy.
03:04 Now, as far as how Bain is doing compared to his Miami teammates, he grades out higher
03:09 on defense than anyone else on the football team right now who's played at least 100 snaps.
03:15 Okay, with his 84.1 defensive grade, he's actually surprisingly enough at 119 snaps
03:22 on the year.
03:23 Bain has played more snaps than Leonard Taylor, who's played about 100 for Ruben Bain.
03:28 Most of his snaps have come on the edge, but 22 of his defensive snaps.
03:31 By the way, kudos to David Lake of inside the U for compiling these stats.
03:35 22 of Bain's snaps have been played on the interior in passing downs.
03:41 So Ruben Bain, and again, I love how he represents this city.
03:47 Stand out at Miami Central, set sack records left and right.
03:52 He won that Nat Moore trophy during his senior year, which is always a great thing for any
03:58 South Florida high school player to have on the trophy case.
04:01 He kept his talents in the 305 and now he's out there doing really, really big things
04:05 out there.
04:06 I love to see this from Ruben Bain.
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