Eagles-Rams snap counts: Nakobe Dean makes his impact felt

Playing time analysis.

The official snap counts from the Philadelphia Eagles’ Week 12 road win over the Los Angeles Rams are in! Let’s take a look and run through some analysis.

OFFENSE

• Jordan Mailata hasn’t missed a snap since returning from his hamstring injury.
• Jalen Hurts, Landon Dickerson, Mekhi Becton, and Lane Johnson didn’t have to take the field for the Eagles’ two victory formation snaps.
• A.J. Brown: seven targets, six catches, 109 yards, 1 TD. Very efficient. The rest of the Eagles’ wide receivers combined in this game: two targets, one catch, four yards.
• Dallas Goedert saw the second-most targets on the Eagles with five. He had four catches for 19 yards.
• Interesting to see that Johnny Wilson actually outsnapped Jahan Dotson, albeit by the difference of one snap. They each logged one target.
• Saquon Barkley logged 30 touches for 302 yards from scrimmage on his 50 total snaps played. This was actually Barkley’s fourth-lowest snap count percentage this season.
• Grant Calcaterra saw one target on his 40 snaps played.
• C.J. Uzomah saw a bigger offensive role as TE3 this week than he did last week.
• We saw more of Ben VanSumeren as the team’s fullback in this game.
• Britain Covey only logged three offensive snaps in his first game back from injury. Covey did have a good block on Barkley’s touchdown run coming out of halftime.
• Kenny Pickett, Jack Driscoll, Fred Johnson, and Tyler Steen saw two victory formation snaps.

DEFENSE

• Quinyon Mitchell was the only Eagles defender to play the entire game.
• Reed Blankenship missed some snaps early in the game after colliding with Darius Slay.
• Jalen Carter saw another big workload. This was his fourth-highest snap count percentage this season. The box score shows Carter only logged one tackle but he stood out on tape and commanded double teams at a career-high rate, according to Next Gen Stats (via Cris Collinsworth).
• Nakobe Dean made his impact felt with a team-high eight total tackles, a team-high five solo tackles, one sack, two TFLs, and a fumble recovery. Dean absolutely stream-rolled Kyren Williams in pass protection at one point, further proving to be a force when he’s operating downhill.
• Nolan Smith led all Eagles edge rushers in playing time with both Josh Sweat and Brandon Graham getting banged up. Smith had two QB hits.
• In what might end up as his last game as an Eagle (hopefully not), Graham filled up the stat sheet with one sack, two TFLs, and three QB hits. BG forever.
• Isaiah Rodgers had to play most of the game with Slay getting hurt early on and then ultimately leaving the game due to a concussion. Rodgers might have to start against the Baltimore Ravens in Week 13.
• Jalyx Hunt saw an increased role due to the edge rusher injuries. He logged zero stats outside of one QB hit.
• Career game for...