LA Rams-Indianapolis Colts Playing Time Breakdown: What The Snap Counts Say About The Blowout

Note: I’ll update the snap counts in this spreadsheet all season including the first tab tracking the season totals. While I’ll paste individual game PT in each week’s recap, I’ll likely refer to the season totals moving forward from that link. So uh, peep it.

The Los Angeles Rams dominated the Indianapolis Colts in Week 1, winning 49-6. Let’s look at who got the PT.

Offense

A bit of a skew here with some of the starters getting some rest late. QB Jared Goff, LT Andrew Whitworth and C John Sullivan all gave up snaps they wouldn’t have otherwise had this not been a blowout. Will be interesting to see the next time we see C Austin Blythe, LT Darrell Williams or QB Sean Mannion in action.

Otherwise, we set the bar at wide receiver, tight end and running back. Yes, the late game action changed things, but bar set nonetheless.

One other bar set? WR Tavon Austin got 7 snaps at just a 10.77% rate.

Defense

Interesting that OLB Robert Quinn was the selectee to come off for nickel snaps.

And hard to buy too much into the hardness of these numbers given the score and the rotation in the second half, but still great to see the NFL debuts of so many rookies.

Have to think the return of DE Aaron Donald will affect numbers of front with a trickle-down effect.

Special Teams

Eight core players topped the 50% mark:

• LB Cory Littleton
• S Cody Davis
• ILB Bryce Hager
• S John Johnson
• RB Malcolm Brown
• OLB Samson Ebukam
• CB Blake Countess
• TE Derek Carrier

Only Johnson was a core member of special teams during the preseason, though Ebukam was hurt and Carrier wasn’t on the team. So much for correlation there.