How accurate is this?Most locks just pass the ball as the link man now - it doesn’t have to be that way - but it is fact ..
Cam Murray is an awesome player - even he did too much of this - partly because his half back is so very limited ..
Lock runs possessions (I'll get to this)
Here they are in order of most to least average runs per game
Carrigan 13 16
Gilbert 13 16
Hopgood 12 20 (38)
Harris 12 27 (36)
Horse 12 20 (34)
Yeo 11 36 (34)
Cotter 11 17
Elliot 11 22
King 11 14 (35)
McInnes 10 23 (35)
Finucane 10 14
Tevaga 10 12
Jurbo 10 25 (37)
Murray 9 26 (37)
De Belin 9 22 (38)
Pole 9 11
Radley 8 30 (36)
Bolded are the ones who run the ball less than half as much as they have possessions.
Too time consuming to do more accurately and be more concrete about stats only playing lock but I think most of these guys would be considered locks primarily last season. About half pass more than they run.
Other than Yeo and Radley, Murray was one of the most prolific passers from lock. Quite a few locks run plenty still though.
The bracketed number beside 10 of them is the top 10 per game number of tackles for this group - decent correlation that the guys who make more tackles are more likely to pass than run at a higher rate. Perhaps some consideration that locks who tackle more are less likely to take hitups, or locks who play more as a link man have more energy to take a greater defensive workload?