Eagles-Rams snap counts: Nakobe Dean makes his impact felt

Playing time analysis.

The official snap counts from the Philadelphia Eagles’ Week 12 road win over the Los Angeles Rams are in! Let’s take a look and run through some analysis.

OFFENSE

• Jordan Mailata hasn’t missed a snap since returning from his hamstring injury.
• Jalen Hurts, Landon Dickerson, Mekhi Becton, and Lane Johnson didn’t have to take the field for the Eagles’ two victory formation snaps.
• A.J. Brown: seven targets, six catches, 109 yards, 1 TD. Very efficient. The rest of the Eagles’ wide receivers combined in this game: two targets, one catch, four yards.
• Dallas Goedert saw the second-most targets on the Eagles with five. He had four catches for 19 yards.
• Interesting to see that Johnny Wilson actually outsnapped Jahan Dotson, albeit by the difference of one snap. They each logged one target.
• Saquon Barkley logged 30 touches for 302 yards from scrimmage on his 50 total snaps played. This was actually Barkley’s fourth-lowest snap count percentage this season.
• Grant Calcaterra saw one target on his 40 snaps played.
• C.J. Uzomah saw a bigger offensive role as TE3 this week than he did last week.
• We saw more of Ben VanSumeren as the team’s fullback in this game.
• Britain Covey only logged three offensive snaps in his first game back from injury. Covey did have a good block on Barkley’s touchdown run coming out of halftime.
• Kenny Pickett, Jack Driscoll, Fred Johnson, and Tyler Steen saw two victory formation snaps.

DEFENSE

• Quinyon Mitchell was the only Eagles defender to play the entire game.
• Reed Blankenship missed some snaps early in the game after colliding with Darius Slay.
• Jalen Carter saw another big workload. This was his fourth-highest snap count percentage this season. The box score shows Carter only logged one tackle but he stood out on tape and commanded double teams at a career-high rate, according to Next Gen Stats (via Cris Collinsworth).
• Nakobe Dean made his impact felt with a team-high eight total tackles, a team-high five solo tackles, one sack, two TFLs, and a fumble recovery. Dean absolutely stream-rolled Kyren Williams in pass protection at one point, further proving to be a force when he’s operating downhill.
• Nolan Smith led all Eagles edge rushers in playing time with both Josh Sweat and Brandon Graham getting banged up. Smith had two QB hits.
• In what might end up as his last game as an Eagle (hopefully not), Graham filled up the stat sheet with one sack, two TFLs, and three QB hits. BG forever.
• Isaiah Rodgers had to play most of the game with Slay getting hurt early on and then ultimately leaving the game due to a concussion. Rodgers might have to start against the Baltimore Ravens in Week 13.
• Jalyx Hunt saw an increased role due to the edge rusher injuries. He logged zero stats outside of one QB hit.
• Career game for Milton Williams with two sacks (including one forced fumble), two TFLs, and three QB hits. Williams undoubtedly benefited from extra attention shaded to Carter. Still, kudos to Williams for taking advantage. Williams is up to five sacks this season after only logging 6.5 over his first 50 games. Considering he’s set to be a free agent after this season, it’s a good time for him to be heating up. Williams was productive despite playing his second-lowest snap count percentage this season.
• Jordan Davis also played his second-lowest snap count percentage this season. He did not appear in the box score.
• Oren Burks got on the field in garbage time. Ditto for Jeremiah Trotter Jr., though Burks played more.
• It was interesting to see Tristin McCollum and not Sydney Brown on the field when Blankenship got hurt on the Rams’ first drive. Perhaps Fangio doesn’t quite trust Brown yet.

SPECIAL TEAMS

• Kelee Ringo got banged up in this game.

DID NOT PLAY

INACTIVE: DeVonta Smith, Eli Ricks, Nick Gates, Darian Kinnard, Trevon Keegan, Tanner McKee

• It’s unclear if DeVonta will be able to return in Week 13.