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There were a bunch of injuries in Sunday’s game against the New York Giants, so there’s probably not going to be a Green Bay Packers depth chart update as long as this one for the remainder of the season. We’ll take you through what’s changed with this Packers roster, position-by-position, based on what the team did this weekend.
As always, the snap counts below do not include plays with pre-snap penalties (like false starts), spikes or kneel, but they do include plays with post-snap penalties (like holding). Cells in red mean that a player was unable to play the game due to injury. Cells in yellow mean that a player was unable to finish the game due to injury. Cells in black mean that a player was a healthy scratch in the game.
So much for that short-lived 11-personnel revolution in Green Bay. When tight end Tucker Kraft went down with his ACL tear, many expected the Packers to live in three-receiver sets for the remainder of the season. While that was the case in Week 9 and Week 10, the games in which Green Bay played their highest rate of 11 personnel looks (71 percent and 81 percent) all season, the script flipped this past week.
With the emergence of tight end Josh Whyle, who was brought up to the active roster from the practice squad in Week 10, and the usage of offensive lineman Darian Kinnard at tight end in six-lineman looks, the Packers played just 53 percent of their offensive snaps against the Giants out of three-receiver sets. That’s the second-highest rate of multiple-back or multiple-end looks that the team has played since Week 2.
At the end of the day, this Green Bay team wants to play bully ball. They want to be heavy. They want to run the ball. Even a season-ending injury to Kraft won’t stop them from their long-term goal. It’s how they’ve built this team.
Hey, Malik Willis finally got some action this week when Jordan Love went out for half a series with an injury to his left shoulder. Willis went two of two for six yards and a score, along with a carry for 16 yards, to finish that drive.
Some were speculating whether Willis was actually trying to throw the ball to Romeo Doubs on his touchdown, instead of Christian Watson, but head coach Matt LaFleur told the press on Monday that Willis said that he didn’t even see Romeo when he made the throw. Good for Watson for pulling that one down.
Josh Jacobs left the Giants game after the Packers’ first touchdown drive, and it’s uncertain whether he’ll be able to play this week against the Minnesota Vikings. If Jacobs is out, expect a healthy dosage of Emanuel Wilson, who out-snapped Chris Brooks 35-5, despite the Jacobs injury.
Those Brooks snaps also include when he was in the backfield as a fullback for another back, a common way he’s...
