Chiefs-Bears: Making sense of snap counts

The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Chicago Bears 26-3 on Sunday night, advancing to 11-4 on the season.

Let’s see how individual Chiefs players contributed to the dominating win.

Starters (offensive): WR Tyreek Hill, LT Eric Fisher, LG Stefen Wisniewski, C Austin Reiter, RG Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, RT Mitchell Schwartz, TE Travis Kelce, WR Sammy Watkins, QB Patrick Mahomes, RB Spencer Ware and TE Blake Bell.

Starters (defensive): RDE Tanoh Kpassagnon, LDT Chris Jones, RDT Derrick Nnadi, LDE Frank Clark, LB Anthony Hitchens, LB Damien Wilson, RCB Charvarius Ward, LCB Bashaud Breeland, CB Daniel Sorensen, FS Juan Thornhill and SS Tyrann Mathieu.

Did not play: T Cameron Erving.

Inactive: QB Chad Henne, CB Morris Claiborne, RB LeSean McCoy, CB Rashad Fenton, T Jackson Barton, G Andrew Wylie and TE Deon Yelder.

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

• As expected, Stefen Wisniewski stepped in for injured left guard Andrew Wylie, marking the first full game he has played all year. All the starting offensive linemen played every snap.
• In his return to the lineup, Damien Williams led all running back in playing time with 34 snaps (54%). Spencer Ware had 22 snaps (35%). RB Darwin Thompson only saw six plays, the fewest he has seen since Week 10.
• WR Mecole Hardman saw the most playing time he has had since Week 13.

Defensive takeaways

• The Chiefs’ single iron man was CB Charvarius Ward, who played all 59 snaps. CB Kendall Fuller was next up with 53 plays (90%). Fuller saw the most playing time he has had since Week 3.
• DL Terrell Suggs saw 17 plays in his Kansas City debut — 12 pass and five run plays. DE Frank Clark played two-thirds of the game (66%), and he appears to have recovered nicely from his illness.
• DT Mike Pennell played the least amount of snaps (11) he has seen in a game in which he was active since his arrival in October.
• S Daniel Sorensen saw 50 plays, the most for him since Week 10.

Special teams takeaways

• FB Anthony Sherman saw the most special-teams snaps with 18, followed by S Jordan Lucas, LB Ben Niemann, LB Dorian O’Daniel and S Daniel Sorensen, who all had 15 special-teams snaps apiece.