The Green Bay Packers made one clear benching against the Pittsburgh Steelers, while they opened up competitions at two other positions. On top of that, the team returned receiver Christian Watson and defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt from injury.<\/p>\n
So how do all of these pieces of the puzzle fit in? Let\u2019s go position-by-position through the Packers\u2019 snap counts against the Steelers to explain where the roster stands right now.<\/p>\n
Jordan Love: 63 snapsMalik Willis: 0Josh Jacobs: 34 (1 SPT)Emanuel Wilson: 26Chris Brooks: 3 (21 SPT)<\/p>\n
More of the same at running back this week, with Emanuel Wilson serving as the RB2 while Chris Brooks is a blocking back and special teams contributor as a blocker. Wilson has seen an uptick in snaps over the last couple of weeks, while Josh Jacobs has been coming off of an illness and a calf injury.<\/p>\n
Romeo Doubs: 50 (4 SPT)Matthew Golden: 41Christian Watson: 35Malik Heath: 21 (6 SPT)Savion Williams: 12 (6 SPT)<\/p>\n
If Christian Watson was on a pitch count in this game, it was a pretty high pitch count. For perspective, he played more snaps than starting running back Josh Jacobs in this one. He looked the part in his return from his 2024 torn ACL.<\/p>\n
Tucker Kraft: 58 (2 SPT)John FizPatrick: 22Luke Musgrave: 12 (1 SPT)<\/p>\n
The Packers had used Luke Musgrave as the team\u2019s TE2 in recent weeks, after John FitzPatrick played that role for a couple of weeks earlier in the season. Now, it seems like it\u2019s flipped back in favor of FitzPatrick, who is more of a blocker than a pass-catcher. When Green Bay is throwing the ball, they usually hit Tucker Kraft anyway<\/a>.<\/p>\n Aaron Banks: 63 (7 SPT)Elgton Jenkins: 63 (7 SPT)Zach Tom: 62 (6 SPT)Rasheed Walker: 61 (7 SPT)Sean Rhyan: 34 (7 SPT)Jordan Morgan: 29 (7 SPT)Anthony Belton: 2Darian Kinnard: 1 (7 SPT)<\/p>\n Last week, the Packers called off the competition at the right guard competition<\/a>, allowing Jordan Morgan to play every snap of the game there for the first time in 2025. This week, the rotation with Sean Rhyan came back, along with Anthony Belton spelling at left tackle for Rasheed Walker and Darian Kinnard coming in at right tackle for Zach Tom due to injuries.<\/p>\n Belton was the only offensive lineman not to play on the field goal protection unit, likely because he just returned to the gameday roster after missing several games with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n Micah Parsons: 51Rashan Gary: 39Kingsley Enagbare: 26 (8 SPT)Barryn Sorrell: 10 (10 SPT)Arron Mosby: 0 (25 SPT)<\/p>\n Last week, Micah Parsons played 71.1 percent of the team\u2019s defensive snaps against the Arizona Cardinals. This week, he was up to almost 90 percent of the Packers\u2019 snaps. In total, he\u2019s played 338 defensive snaps this year to Rashan Gary\u2019s 303, despite starting the season on a pitch count.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t expect Aaron Mosby to play any defense anytime soon. He\u2019s more of a hybrid end-linebacker who really is just here to play special teams.<\/p>\n Colby Wooden: 34 (5 SPT)Karl Brooks: 32 (12 SPT)Devonte Wyatt: 32Nazir Stackhouse: 4 (5 SPT)<\/p>\n Devonte Wyatt, coming off a knee injury, played 18 second-half snaps compared to Karl Brooks and Colby Wooden, who each played 12. Nazir Stackhouse, who is the fourth defensive tackle with Warren Brinson out with an injury<\/a>, only played one snap in the second half.<\/p>\n Edgerrin Cooper: 57 (10 SPT)Quay Walker: 57 (5 SPT)Isaiah McDuffie: 22 (25 SPT)Ty\u2019Ron Hopper: 0 (20 SPT)Nick Nieman: 0 (17 SPT)<\/p>\n Ty\u2019Ron Hopper got on the field on defense, but it was on a two-point conversion that didn\u2019t officially count as a defensive play in the NFL\u2019s book. Nick Nieman, a reserve linebacker who is really a special teamer more than a defense, left the Steelers game with an injury. Without Nieman, the Packers only have four healthy linebackers, but they might be able to have defensive end Arron Mosby play the role of special teams contributor and emergency linebacker in Nieman\u2019s place. Mosby has played off-ball linebacker previously at the NFL level.<\/p>\n Keisean Nixon: 57 (7 SPT)Carrington Valentine: 57 (13 SPT)Nate Hobbs: 1Bo Melton: 0 (1 offense, 14 SPT)Kamal Hadden: 0<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the biggest piece of news from this week. Carrington Valentine played every snap of defense against Pittsburgh, forcing Nate Hobbs, the Packers\u2019 $48 million offseason signing, to the bench. Green Bay head coach Matt LaFleur and defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley were adamant that they weren\u2019t giving up on Hobbs in press conferences this week, despite his recent struggles<\/a>.<\/p>\n That sure seems like a lie now.<\/p>\n Xavier McKinney: 57 (11 SPT)Javon Bullard: 47 (12 SPT)Evan Williams: 44 (11 SPT)Zayne Anderson: 0 (20 SPT)Kitan Oladapo: 0 (9 SPT)<\/p>\n Evan Williams had played all of the Packers\u2019 safety snaps from Week 2 through Week 6, but the team is now rotating in Javon Bullard at the position, instead of just playing in the slot. Since Nate Hobbs returned to the lineup, Green Bay hasn\u2019t consistently played just one defensive back unit throughout a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers made one clear benching against the Pittsburgh Steelers, while they opened up competitions at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10972,10973,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-16329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-green-bay-packers-depth-chart","tag-green-bay-packers-roster","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}