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In the win over the New York Giants, it felt like at least one Green Bay Packers player was dropping out of the game per drive, even if they later returned to action. Let’s take a look at the Packers’ snap counts from Week 11 to make sense of the team’s depth chart, as we got a good amount of information from all the changes that happened to the team due to injury.
Love missed a half-series against the Giants this week with an injury to his left shoulder. After the game, Love said the injury was “manageable” but “not fun.” He cleared the X-rays, though, and came back to finish the game.
After the first touchdown drive, the one where Love was injured, starting running back Josh Jacobs went to the locker room with a knee injury. By halftime, he was ruled out of the game entirely.
Even with Jacobs out of the mix, Chris Brooks only played five offensive snaps in the game, including a carry for eight yards and an elite blocking performance on the Savion Williams 33-yard reception. Free him.
Speaking of Savion, he only played two snaps in this game, but made it count with the long catch on third and ten. Bo Melton only got on the field once on offense, a 17-yard carry. Last week, 22 of Melton’s 25 offensive snaps came in the second half. This week, there was no bump up after halftime.
Dontayvion Wicks out-snapped Matthew Golden here, but I wouldn’t make too much of it. Golden, like Williams, came into the weekend listed as questionable on the Packers’ final injury report of the week. Also, head coach Matt LaFleur gave us a nothing burger on why Malik Heath didn’t travel with the team this week.
Last week, Luke Musgrave looked like the Tucker Kraft replacement, coming in to play 77 percent of the offense’s snaps against the Philadelphia Eagles. This week, though, he was the third tight end in the rotation, a brutal indication of what the Packers think of the former second-round pick.
In the second half against the Giants, John FitzPatrick played 16 snaps, Josh Whyle played 11 and Musgrave played only 2. It’s never been more over.
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