This was meant to be a post about how Shaquem Griffin deserves more snaps. Given the nature of the Seattle Seahawks defense, that required me to explain why Griffin is likely better than Jordyn Brooks. Well something happened on my way to a sideways hit job on the rookie. He impressed the hell out of me. First let’s talk about Quem.
Griffin played 17 snaps and 11 of those came in Dallas’s final drive. In those 11 snaps, Shaquem pressured Dak Prescott into a scramble, twice pressured Prescott into targeting his shortest route (both completions actually cost Dallas EPA), landed a hit on the second pressure, snuffed out a screen to Ezekiel Elliott for a loss of two, broke up a pass to Cedric Wilson, and provided decent underneath coverage on the Alton Robinson sack.