The San Francisco 49ers have considerable depth along the defensive line, which provides for an extensive rotation throughout the game. In Week 1, defensive tackle Arik Armstead led the team with 59 snaps, which represented 83 percent of total defensive snaps. Defensive tackle DeForest Buckner followed him with 54 snaps and edge rusher Cassius Marsh was next with 39 snaps. Second year first round pick Solomon Thomas showed up next with 35 snaps.
Thomas is one of the team’s starting defensive ends when they are in their basic 4-3 look, but his work in sub-packages was a little bit all over the place against the Vikings.