The Dallas Cowboys defense is where snap counts tend to be the most interesting, because defense tends to use more substitutions and rotations than you have on offense. We’re going to break it down by position group to see what’s going on. This is for week five, a Dallas 28-14 home win over the Bengals that wasn’t as close as the score suggests.
Defense
This was DeMarcus Lawrence’s first game back from his suspension, and while he didn’t get any sacks, the line as a whole looked transformed, with four sacks, nine quarterback hits, and five tackles for loss.