Chiefs-Packers: Making sense of snap counts

The Kansas City Chiefs lost to the Green Bay Packers 31-24 on Sunday night, dropping their record to 5-3. How did Chiefs players contribute?

Starters (offensive): WR Tyreek Hill, LT Cameron Erving, LG Martinas Rankin, C Austin Reiter, RG Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, RT Mitchell Schwartz, TE Travis Kelce, WR Sammy Watkins, RB LeSean McCoy, QB Matt Moore and WR Demarcus Robinson.

Starters (defensive): LDE Alex Okafor, RDT Khalen Saunders, LDT Derrick Nnadi, RDE Emmanuel Ogbah, MLB Anthony Hitchens, SLB Damien Wilson, WLB Reggie Ragland, RCB Charvarius Ward, LCB Bashaud Breeland, FS Juan Thornhill and SS Tyrann Mathieu.

Did not play: QB Kyle Shurmur.

Inactive: QB Patrick Mahomes, CB Kendall Fuller, DE Frank Clark, T Greg Senat, T Eric Fisher, G Andrew Wylie and DT Chris Jones.

Editor’s note: Arrowhead Pride obtains snap count data from the NFL’s game stats and information system, which allows us to break out snap counts by run or pass on offensive and defensive plays. Because GSIS data ignores plays that were nullified by penalties, total offensive and defensive snap counts will vary from other sources, which get their data from NFL Gamebooks

Offensive takeaways

• TE Travis Kelce played every single snap (58 snaps for 100 percent) on offense for the Chiefs on Sunday night.
• OL Stefen Wisniewski entered the game for 10 offensive snaps in relief of RG Laurent Duvernay-Tardif when he left due to his ankle injury.
• RB Damien Williams out-snapped RB LeSean McCoy on offense, 25-23. It seemed like the Chiefs played Williams after McCoy’s fumble. He made those fantasy owners still playing him happy with a rushing touchdown.
• WR Mecole Hardman made the most of his nine snaps — catching two passes (including the shovel) for 55 yards and a touchdown.

Defensive takeaways

• The iron men on defense for the Chiefs this week were S Tyrann Mathieu and CB Charvarius Ward (all 64 snaps). S Juan Thornhill only missed one play (63).
• DL Tanoh Kpassagnon (48) saw increased playing time due to an injury to DE Alex Okafor (33).
• LB Reggie Ragland’s resurgence continued with 31 defensive snaps.

Special teams takeaways

• The special-teams winners this week were LB Dorian O’Daniel and S Jordan Lucas, who each had 22 snaps. FB Anthony Sherman was on for 19 special-teams snaps.