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The Kansas City Chiefs played 21 more offensive snaps compared to defense on Monday night. A lot of that had to do with the defense forcing five punts, an interception and a turnover on downs during this game.
What else can we learn from this week’s snap counts? Here’s a look at how the snaps played out in Week 8:
*Snap counts via NFL Game Statistics and Information System
Observations
- Byron Pringle, not Demarcus Robinson or Mecole Hardman, saw the most offensive snaps by a WR behind Tyreek Hill this week. That’s a departure from the norm and I’m not sure if it speaks to the matchup, or if Pringle was being rewarded with snaps for a good week of practice.
- Josh Gordon saw the most snaps of his Chiefs career this week with 32. He was only targeted once, but he did a fine job blocking in the running game for Kansas City.
- Blake Bell saw 24 snaps to Noah Gray’s 10 snaps, a role reversal from the previous week for both tight ends.
- In his NFL debut, Derrick Gore saw 16 snaps, with 11 carries for 48 yards and a touchdown. Jerick McKinnon played 13 snaps, but didn’t get a carry and wasn’t targeted during the game. Do the Chiefs have an RB3 controversy on their hands?
- Michael Burton saw four offensive snaps and eight special teams snaps in his first game back from a pec injury.
- Tyrann Mathieu was the only defensive player to play 100% of the snaps this week.
- Ben Niemann saw the most snaps at the linebacker position this week, but the differences between him, Nick Bolton and Willie Gay Jr. were negligible. They were likely based on personnel groupings.
- For only playing 27 defensive snaps, Daniel Sorensen sure seemed to be involved in quite a few frustrating plays.
- Mike Hughes played season-low in defensive snaps with just 2 defensive snaps on Monday. The return of Charvarius Ward and the emergence of Rashad Fenton has relegated him to a lesser role.
- Six non-specialists played only special teams snaps on Monday. Laurent Duvernay-Tardif and Austin Edwards were both active for this game, but neither played a single snap on offense, defense or special teams.
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