The Seattle Seahawks performed one thing resembling an precise soccer sport Saturday night, defeating the Los Angeles Chargers 16-3 at SoFi Stadium to open the Mike Macdonald period. As a preseason sport the efficiency won’t carry any weight as soon as the common season arrives, nonetheless, it was a chance for followers to sit down again and benefit from the pleasure and dread of a soccer sport.
With all that stated, because of the elevated dimension of the offseason rosters, the variety of gamers seeing the sphere for prolonged work was far higher than normal, even with many first string gamers not collaborating. Those that didn’t play embody:
Geno Smith
Ken Walker
DK Metcalf
Tyler Lockett
Jerome Baker
Mike Jackson
Darrell Taylor
Dre’Mont Jones
Charles Cross
George Fant
Noah Fant
With that prolonged record of gamers not seeing any sport motion, it opened issues up for a lot of kids to see prolonged enjoying time, which gave followers their an opportunity to attempt to consider the place issues stand from a efficiency perspective. Thus, with out losing any additional time, listed here are the snap counts from the offensive facet of the ball.
One of many issues that jumps out from these numbers is that A.J. Barner led all tight ends in snaps, which nearly doesn’t appear attainable since he had such a quiet sport. Clearly the depth gamers acquired prolonged enjoying time with Noah Fant sidelined resulting from a foot damage, however Barner was successfully invisible despite being on the sphere for 39% of offensive snaps.
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On the defensive facet of the ball, most of the starters had been on the sphere for each of the three and out possessions by the Chargers to open the sport, earlier than giving strategy to these gamers competing for roster spots.
Curiously, a quartet of 26 and older gamers who aren’t starters had been on the sphere for at the very least half of the performs for his or her facet of the ball. These gamers embody:
Stone Forsythe (26): 70%
Myles Adams (26): 68%
Marquise Blair (27): 53%
Jake Bobo (26): 50%
That mixture doesn’t essentially imply something somehow, it’s simply a kind of issues that’s noteworthy sufficient to file away at the back of the mind to be pulled out when the Hawks take the sphere towards the Titans in Week 2 of the preseason to see if it’s a sample or a one off.
Shifting on to particular groups, there was just one non-specialist who didn’t see the sphere on offense or protection, however who was on the sphere for any particular groups performs. That lone gamers was Willie Robert, who simply signed on Thursday, which means his lone particular groups snap was seemingly only a strategy to get him into the sport after not having had significant follow time.
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With that being the case, and with particular groups being such a major think about serving to fill out the spots on the finish of the roster, listed here are the 17 Seahawks who had been on the sphere for 8 or extra particular groups snaps Saturday.
Jon Rhattigan (10)
Kenny McIntosh (10)
Ty Okada (10)
Okay’Von Wallace (10)
Dee Williams (10)
Coby Bryant (9)
Tyrice Knight (9)
Brady Russell (9)
Tyler Mabry (9)
Dareke Younger (8)
Jake Bobo (8)
Cody White (8)
Laviska Shenault (8)
Marquise Blair (8)
Derrick Corridor (8)
Patrick O’Connell (8)
Blake Lynch (8)
There’s clearly much more evaluation that may go into evaluating particular groups snaps, however that’s a unique publish for a unique day. For now, the uncooked snap counts are sufficient to present followers an perception into who to concentrate to within the closing two preseason video games with roster spots on the road.
And now it’s on to Preseason Week 2 and the Tennessee Titans.
