Chiefs-Titans: Making sense of snap counts

The Kansas City Chiefs fell to the Tennessee Titans 35-32 on Sunday, falling to 6-4 on the season — and 1-3 against the AFC South.

Let’s see how Chiefs players contributed to the loss.

Starters (offensive): WR Tyreek Hill, LT Cameron Erving, LG Martinas Rankin, C Austin Reiter, RG Andrew Wylie, RT Mitchell Schwartz, TE Travis Kelce, WR Sammy Watkins, QB Patrick Mahomes, RB Damien Williams and WR Demarcus Robinson.

Starters (defensive): LDE Emmanuel Ogbah, LDT Derrick Nnadi, RDT Chris Jones, RDE Tanoh Kpassagnon, LB Anthony Hitchens, LB Damien Wilson, LB Reggie Ragland, LCB Bashaud Breeland, RCB Charvarius Ward, FS Juan Thornhill and SS Tyrann Mathieu.

Did not play: QB Matt Moore.

Inactive: QB Chad Henne, RB LeSean McCoy, CB Kendall Fuller, DT Mike Pennel, T Eric Fisher, G Laurent Duvernay-Tardif and DE Alex Okafor.

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

• RT Mitch Schwartz missed three offensive snaps, ending his snap streak of 7,894. Schwartz hadn’t missed a snap in his career before Sunday.
• Because of offensive line injuries, OL Steven Wisniewski had 39 offensive snaps.
• With RB LeSean McCoy a healthy scratch, Damien Williams saw 57 offensive snaps, Darrel Williams had 15 and Darwin Thompson had 5.
• WR Mecole Hardman saw 18 snaps, his most since Week 7 against the Denver Broncos.
• The offense as a whole had a higher snap count than the defense, which is somewhat unusual for a losing effort.
• TE Travis Kelce led all skill-position players with 73 snaps (95 percent).

Defensive takeaways

• The two iron men for the Chiefs defense were S Tyrann Mathieu and CB Charvarius Ward (50 defensive snaps for 100 percent).
• DE Frank Clark played 40 defensive snaps in his return to the lineup. Clark missed the previous two games with a neck issue.
• LB Reggie Ragland came back for just 17 defensive snaps after a season-high 44 against the Vikings.
• DL Mike Pennel, who had been good in recent weeks as run stopper, was inactive. DL Khalen Saunders saw just 13 defensive snaps.

Special teams takeaways

• FB Anthony Sherman (24), S Jordan Lucas (23) and LB Dorian O’Daniel (23) were the special teams leaders for the Chiefs.