Pride of Detroit
The Detroit Lions (3-1) are rolling now. On a short week, after beating the Ravens in Week 3, the Lions took on the Cleveland Browns at Ford Field and increased their winning streak to three games. After a 34-10 win over the Browns, the Lions have now scored 126 points over the last three weeks, while holding their opponents to just 61 points.
Let’s take a look at this week’s snap counts to see how the Lions adjust their personnel for the Browns game.
With the game in hand, the Lions once again pulled their starters at the end of the game, giving Allen one series, where he led the team to a first down, and then kneel downs.
The Lions running backs’ split continues to be Gibbs-heavy, and after four games of snap distribution examination, it feels safe to say this is what we should expect moving forward. Saylors got his first NFL snaps as a runner—rushing two times for 11 yards—which was a bit surprising considering Reynolds was active and did not see any snaps. Now, this could just be the Lions’ end-of-game personnel, but it’s worth wondering how the depth chart behind the co-starters is actually stacked.
Not much has changed with this group, with the only notable change being that Meeks saw his first NFL game action in the Lions’ end-of-game offense.
LaPorta was on the field for every offensive snap with the starters, which is a bit higher than is typical but certainly within his range. Dwelley only saw game action in the Lions’ end-of-game scenarios.
Glasgow looks like he is really settling in at center. After a rough Week 1, we’ve seen his performances get slightly better each game, with this being his best of the season. When the Lions pulled their starters, we saw Manu take over at left tackle, Colon snap the ball, and Awosika line up at right tackle,...
