Chiefs-Payments snap counts: Hollywood Brown performs greater than DeAndre Hopkins

On Sunday, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs received their third consecutive AFC Championship, beating the Buffalo Payments 32-29, changing into the primary workforce in NFL historical past to win back-to-back titles after which attain the Tremendous Bowl in an try to three-peat.

Let’s take a look at how the Chiefs used their gamers on this recreation.

Starters (offensive): WR Hollywood Brown, LT Joe Thuney, LG Mike Caliendo, C Creed Humphrey, RG Trey Smith, RT Jawaan Taylor, WR Xavier Worthy, TE Travis Kelce, WR JuJu Smith-Schuster, QB Patrick Mahomes and RB Isiah Pacheco.

Starters (defensive): DE Michael Danna, DT Mike Pennel, DT Chris Jones, DE George Karlaftis, LB Nick Bolton, LB Drue Tranquill, DB Chimarri Conner, CB Trent McDuffie, S Nazeeh Johnson, S Justin Reid and S Bryan Cook dinner.

Didn’t play: QB Carson Wentz.

Inactive: CB Keith Taylor, LB Joshua Uche, OL C.J. Hanson, OL Wanya Morris, OT Ethan Driskell and DE Malik Herring, Justyn Ross.

The massive takeaway

Rookie huge receiver Xavier Worthy continues his ascension — and he has staked his declare because the Chiefs’ No. 1 huge receiver, main the workforce in targets and receiving yards, in addition to snaps, eclipsing the following closest huge receiver in Hollywood Brown by 11 performs. Worthy was second total in snaps for offensive talent place gamers behind tight finish Travis Kelce.

Sunday’s contest additionally noticed DeAndre Hopkins’ numbers proceed to fall, as he solely noticed the sphere for a dozen performs and was out-snapped by JuJu Smith-Schuster by over a three-to-one margin.

It is a continuation of final week’s numbers in opposition to the Houston Texans. In that matchup, Hopkins was disproportionally on the sphere for passing performs solely.

Offensive takeaways

The lone draw back to the AFC Championship recreation might have been that the Chiefs struggled to determine the run constantly on the bottom. Positive, there have been some clutch moments the place runners got here up huge, however on a down-to-down foundation over the course of the sport, you may hardly name it a statistically stellar day for any of the Chief’s ballcarriers, except for quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who had a pair of speeding touchdowns on this contest.

Working Again Isiah Pacheco, particularly, struggled to seek out his footing on this recreation — and never solely was he out-touched 18-7 by Kareem Hunt, however he additionally didn’t do something with the alternatives afforded him, averaging simply 2.4 yards per carry.

Defensive takeaways

On protection, outdoors of cornerback Trent McDuffie and Justin Reid, everyone’s roles appear to be in flux. Defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo opted to go together with a Large Nickel formation to start out the sport, which suggests free security Chamarri Conner acquired the beginning over linebacker Leo Chenal.

However along with getting the beginning, Conner performed in a whopping 77% of the performs, which was the third most for all defensive backs. Fellow security Bryan Cook dinner has seen his enjoying time diminish as properly, showing in solely 59% of snaps, which was the bottom for all safeties — but it surely was nonetheless considerably greater than cornerback Joshua Williams performed since Williams didn’t see the sphere on protection Sunday.

Knowledge

Offense

Participant
Place
Snap Rely
Proportion

C. Humphrey C 66 100%

J. Taylor T 66 100%

M. Caliendo G 66 100%

T. Smith G 66 100%

P. Mahomes QB 66 100%

J. Thuney G 66 100%

T. Kelce TE 61 92%

X. Worthy WR 54 82%

M. Brown WR 43 65%

Okay. Hunt RB 38 58%

J. Smith-Schuster WR 38 58%

N. Grey TE 29 44%

I. Pacheco RB 19 29%

D. Hopkins WR 12 18%

Ju. Watson WR 11 17%

S. Perine RB 10 15%

C. Steele RB 7 11%

P. Hendershot TE 4 6%

N. Remigio WR 3 5%

Okay. Suamataia T 1 2%

Protection

Participant
Place
Snap Rely
Proportion

T. McDuffie CB 73 100%

J. Reid SS 72 99%

N. Bolton LB 71 97%

G. Karlaftis DE 64 88%

C. Jones DT 63 86%

C. Conner FS 56 77%

D. Tranquill LB 54 74%

J. Watson CB 52 71%

J. Hicks SS 50 68%

B. Cook dinner FS 43 59%

C. Omenihu DE 43 59%

M. Danna DE 42 58%

T. Wharton DT 27 37%

L. Chenal LB 25 34%

M. Pennel NT 25 34%

N. Johnson CB 19 26%

D. Nnadi DT 18 25%

F. Anudike-Uzomah DE 6 8%

J. Williams CB

Ca. Jones LB

S. Bozeman LB

C. Roland-Wallace LB

Particular Groups

Participant
Particular Groups Snaps

J. Reid 12 (17%)

C. Conner 12 (50%)

J. Hicks 14 (58%)

B. Cook dinner 8 (33%)

N. Johnson 8 (33%)

J. Watson 4 (4%)

T. Wharton 4 (17%)

M. Danna 4 (17%)

C. Steele 4 (17%)

J. Williams 10 (67%)

Ca. Jones 14 (58%)

S. Bozeman 10 (42%)

P 6 (25%)

C 4 (17%)

T 4 (17%)

All Snaps

Participant
Offense
Protection
Particular Groups
Complete

Complete 66 (100%) 73 (100%) 17 (100%) 156 (100%)

J. Reid 0 72 (99%) 12 (17%) 84

C. Conner 0 56 (77%) 12 (50%) 68

J. Hicks 0 50 (68%) 14 (58%) 64

B. Cook dinner 0 43 (59%) 8 (33%) 51

N. Johnson 0 19 (26%) 8 (33%) 27

J. Watson 11 (17%) 52 (71%) 4 (4%) 67

T. Wharton 0 27 (37%) 4 (17%) 31

M. Danna 0 42 (58%) 4 (17%) 46

C. Steele 7 (11%) 0 4 (17%) 11

J. Williams 0 0 10 (67%) 10

Ca. Jones 0 0 14 (58%) 14

S. Bozeman 0 0 10 (42%) 10

P 0 0 6 (25%) 6

C 0 0 4 (17%) 4

T 0 0 4 (17%) 4

Editor’s Observe: Arrowhead Pleasure obtains snap depend knowledge from the NFL’s recreation stats and knowledge system, which permits us to interrupt out snap counts by run or cross on offensive and defensive performs. As a result of GSIS knowledge ignores performs that had been nullified by penalties, whole offensive and defensive snap counts will fluctuate from different sources, which get their knowledge from NFL Gamebooks.