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Welcome to the most chaotic snap count breakdown of the season. With 17 players on the injured reserve and physically unable to report list, three more inactive due to injury, four starters being healthy scratches, two players who dropped out of action on Sunday with injury and the Green Bay Packers trying to sit difference-makers as much as possible, the data this week is inverted.
Really, based on how the Packers played their players in Week 18, the more snaps that a player got against the Minnesota Vikings, the lower that person is on the depth chart. With that out of the way, let’s get into what happened in the season finale.
The Packers will be in the market for a quarterback in the NFL draft (I wouldn’t count the team using as early as a fourth-round pick at the position). Clayton Tune made his second start in his NFL career, his first with Green Bay, on Sunday.
Tune had -7 passing yards on the night after you include the four sacks he took for 41 yards. In his NFL career, he’s now completed 21 of 38 passes (55 percent) for 112 yards (2.9 yards per pass), no touchdowns, three interceptions and has taken 12 sacks for 85 yards. His net passing yards per attempt is 0.7 yards, before ever including his interceptions.
Head coach Matt LaFleur said after the game that Jordan Love, who had to play backup in this game because of Malik Willis’ injuries, would have handed the ball off on every single play, had been forced into game action.
The Packers only went into this game with two running backs, even though the team ran the ball 70 percent of the time in this game — despite being down on the scoreboard for over 50 minutes.
Rookie first-round pick Matthew Golden only had eight receiving yards in this game, but he was on the field for every single offensive snap against the Vikings. His former college quarterback, Tune, just couldn’t get him the ball.
The leading receiver in the game was practice squad call-up Jakobie Keeney-James, who had two receptions for 15 yards. He also handled kickoff and punt return duties, to varying success. Keeney-James let several punts hit the ground and roll. He also kneeled a kickoff for a 20-yard touchback when his foot was outside of the goal line. He did get a 26-yard return, though.
Jayden Reed was sidelined throughout the first half until cornerback/receiver Bo Melton went down with a knee injury. That forced Reed into...
