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Chiefs vs. Chargers: Making sense of snap counts

The Kansas City Chiefs deafened the Los Angeles Chargers, 38-28, in game one of the 2018 season on Sunday.

Here were the snap counts for the Chiefs:

Offense

Defense

Special teams (only)

Starters (offense): WR Tyreek Hill, LT Eric Fisher, LG Cam Erving, C Mitch Morse, RG Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, RT Mitch Schwartz, TE Travis Kelce, WR Sammy Watkins, WR Chris Conley, QB Patrick Mahomes, RB

Starters (defense): RDE Chris Jones, NT Xavier Williams, LDE Allen Bailey, LOLB Justin Houston, LILB Anthony Hitchens, RILB Reggie Ragland, ROLB Dee Ford, RCB Steve Nelson, S Eric Murray, S Ron Parker, LCB Kendall Fuller

Active, but did not play: QB Chad Henne

Inactive: S Eric Berry, RB Darrel Williams, CB Charvarius Ward, C Andrew Reiter, G Kahlil McKenzie, G Ike Boettger, DT Justin Hamilton

Takeaways (in no particular order)

  • Sammy Watkins was on the field 91 percent (51 plays) of the time for the Chiefs offense.