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The Green Bay Packers’ 27-18 win over the Cincinnati Bengals wasn’t exactly as clean as many Packers fans were hoping, but a win is a win, and now the team is sitting atop the NFC North going into Week 7. Today, we’re going to dive into who played where and why for that Green Bay win.
As always, these are snap counts that we personally have tracked throughout the year. The number in each cell corresponds to the number of snaps played, be it a personnel grouping or an individual player’s snaps, in specified weeks. Cells highlighted in yellow mean that a player dropped out of the game due to injury. Cells highlighted in red mean that a player missed the game entirely due to injury. Cells highlighted in black mean that a player was a healthy scratch for the game.
Offensively, the Packers dipped back into their three-tight-end and two-back sets in this game, after virtually abandoning them in Weeks 3 and 4. Overall, Green Bay played three-receiver sets on 53 percent of their snaps, their fewest since Week 2.
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The Packers have really put the brakes on the Chris Brooks snaps recently. Even though they had a lot of success blocking up blitzes with Brooks out of single-back looks and throwing deep shots earlier on in the season, Brooks has only played seven total snaps out of the backfield over the last two weeks — as few as any single game in Weeks 1 through 3. Meanwhile, Emanuel Wilson has played 35 snaps in the backfield over the last two games. Of Brooks’ seven running back snaps in the last two games, four were out of two-back looks where he’s basically playing a fullback role.
For the second game in a row, rookie Matthew Golden has primarily played in the slot for the Packers. Following Jayden Reed’s injury, the team first played Dontayvion Wicks in the slot in Week 3, before moving Wicks outside and Golden into the slot. When Wicks went down with an injury in Week 6, Malik Heath stepped up and played a lot of outside snaps in his place.
Overall, the Packers have seen a significant uptick in playing Tucker Kraft, Josh Jacobs and Luke Musgrave on the outside, too. Before Week 4, the team only used those non-receivers as outside players on just 11 total snaps (3.7 per game). In the last two games, they’ve played 17 combined (8.5). This allows other players, namely Romeo Doubs, to get some slot reps. Doubs had received 18 slot reps over the last two games (9 per game) compared to just 13 in the previous three (4.3).
Savion Williams continues to be a gadget player for Green Bay’s offense. He played just 2 of the Packers’ first 48 plays on offense: a carry out of the backfield and a fake end-around on a play action shot.
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