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The Green Bay Packers have swept the Detroit Lions, and finished the sweep in a nationally televised game in their own building. I’m consuming as much Lions cope as possible (please share when you find new cope), but it’s also worth looking internally at what the Packers did to earn this Week 13 win. So let’s go position-by-position for Green Bay and break down the team’s snap counts, noting any significant changes from recent weeks.
He’s him.
Chris Brooks has never played this many snaps in a game that Josh Jacobs was available for. Obviously, Jacobs was dealing with his nagging knee/thigh injury from the New York Giants game, but it was clear that the Packers’ plan for Brooks today was to use him more as a blocking back in passing situations. Finally, they got to play against some man coverages, because Detroit actually blitzed Green Bay instead of sitting in two-high shells.
Assume Wilson is still the second primary ball-carrier, at least until MarShawn Lloyd is back, but Brooks will get heavy usage in specific game plans.
With Jayden Reed, Matthew Golden and Savion Williams out, cornerback Bo Melton cracked double-digit snaps for the second time this season. For reference, Melton has a season high of 26 offensive snaps played this year against the Philadelphia Eagles. Prior to this game, Melton’s second-highest rate was three snaps against the Cleveland Browns in Week 3.
Will Sheppard, who returned punts for the Packers this preseason, didn’t play a single snap for Green Bay, offense or special teams, today.
Luke Musgrave was arguably the team’s fourth tight end last week, considering that all of offensive lineman Darian Kinnard’s snaps were at the tight end position. Now, he’s jumped back up to be the team’s primary tight end. We’ll see if this sticks or whether this is just something that’s going to be gameplanned each week.
There was no rotation on the offensive line this week, as Rasheed Walker, Aaron Banks, Sean Rhyan, Anthony Belton and Zach Tom (left to right) played all 60 snaps. Darian Kinnard played 14 snaps at tight end while Jordan Morgan only came on the field for field goal protection.
