{"id":470391,"date":"2026-10-19T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470391\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:42:10","slug":"packers-week-6-snap-counts-who-played-against-the-dallas-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470391\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers Week 6 Snap Counts: Who played against the Dallas Cowboys?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were a lot of moving parts on the Green Bay Packers\u2019 roster this week, as the team placed three contributors on the injured reserve. Who stepped in their place against the Dallas Cowboys? Let\u2019s take a position-by-position look at who was on the field for the Packers on offense and defense in the team\u2019s Week 6 win<\/a>, explaining what has changed with the group.<\/p>\n

Jordan Love: 73 snapsTyrod Taylor: 0<\/p>\n

Nothing has changed here.<\/p>\n

Pierre Strong Jr.: 41MarShawn Lloyd: 30Kaleb Johnson: 2<\/p>\n

For the second straight week, running back Kaleb Johnson has basically been a non-factor in the offense, following his fumble against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 4. Johnson only had nine snaps, all in the second half in garbage time, against the Chicago Bears in Week 5, while MarShawn Lloyd played 27 and Pierre Strong Jr. played 25. Snaps were split between Strong and Lloyd again this week, with Johnson getting even fewer looks.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, head coach Matt LaFleur has recently said that if Pierre Strong Jr., who was dealing with a hamstring issue earlier in the year, was healthy in Week 1, then Strong would have played for the team \u2014 despite being a member of the practice squad. Don\u2019t be surprised if the Packers end up dropping Strong to the practice squad when Josh Jacobs is activated on Monday<\/a>, but then the team ends up activating Strong as a game-day elevation while Johnson \u2014 who is under a three-year cost-controlled rookie contract \u2014 is scratched as a developmental prospect.<\/p>\n

None of the Packers\u2019 running backs have posted great production this season, which is part their fault and part the fault of the offensive line. Here\u2019s what their unit has produced:<\/p>\n

Lloyd: 48 carries for 122 yards (2.5 YPC)Johnson: 28 carries for 104 yards (3.7 YPC)Strong: 16 carries for 35 yards (2.2 YPC)Chris Brooks: 15 carries for 70 yards (4.7 YPC) \u2014 currently on the injured reserveChristian Watson: 66Matthew Golden: 63Savion Williams: 40Bo Melton: 18J. Michael Sturdivant: 2Coleman Owen: 0<\/p>\n

With Jayden Reed, the team\u2019s preferred starting slot receiver, and Skyy Moore, the team\u2019s next man up at the slot position, now both on injured reserve, the Packers pivoted to mostly playing Savion Williams, himself called up from the injured reserve this week, to play in the slot in Week 6. Bo Melton, who played the position in-game when Moore dropped out last week, also got some looks \u2014 as well as a few opportunities as an outside receiver.<\/p>\n

J. Michael Strudivant and Coleman Owen, who was called up from the practice squad this week, look like special teams contributors who are really on \u201creceivers\u201d in case of emergency. For what it\u2019s worth, Owen was the team\u2019s primary punt returner (mixed results in his first showing, as he fair caught a football around the five-yard line but also had a decent return when given the opportunity), while Sturdivant jumped up to being the \u201coff returner\u201d (essentially a lead blocker) in the kick return game for Melton, who was pushed to the team\u2019s main kick returner. The team had to backfill at both returner positions after Moore\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n

Tucker Kraft: 56Mark Redman: 23Josh Whyle: 15Jonnu Smith: 9<\/p>\n

Josh Whyle getting more snaps than Jonnu Smith is a little surprising here, but Tucker Kraft has been the number one tight end on the team all year, and Mark Redman has been the season-long tight end two by a good margin. It\u2019ll be interesting to see if this Whyle-Smith dynamic is a one-off. Smith has played 101 snaps to Whyle\u2019s 36 on offense this year.<\/p>\n

Jordan Morgan: 73Laken Tomlinson: 73Sean Rhyan: 73Travis Glover: 73Anthony Belton: 73Kevin Zeitler: 0Jacob Monk: 0John Williams: 0<\/p>\n

Nothing surprising here, as the Packers rolled out their line of Jordan Morgan, Laken Tomlinson, Sean Rhyan, Travis Glover and Anthony Belton (left to right) for another full game tonight. The question here is how much longer the team will keep Kevin Zeitler on the bench, as neither Tomlinson or Glover played great against the Cowboys.<\/p>\n

Karl Brooks: 47Devonte Wyatt: 46Chris McClellan: 39Anthony Campbell: 31<\/p>\n

The Packers were very thin on the interior defensive line this week, as they typically play five players at the position. This game, they only had four options, as Jonathan Ford and Javon Hargrave joined Warren Brinson on the injured reserve this week, all while Jordon Riley is working his way off the physically unable to perform list.<\/p>\n

Frequently, the team was in 3-4 looks where Chris McClellan took over as the nose tackle (a role Ford previously played) and the only player at the position on the bench was Anthony Campbell, who had only played nine NFL snaps prior to this game. They lucked out that the Cowboys decided to play a lot of light formations on offense, keeping the 3-4 personnel from being ground out in the running game.<\/p>\n

They might not be so lucky next week against the Detroit Lions. They need another body at the position.<\/p>\n

Lukas Van Ness: 42Barryn Sorrell: 40Brenton Cox Jr.: 38Dani Dennis-Sutton: 35Arron Mosby: 0<\/p>\n

When Arron Mosby was called up from the practice squad, he was obviously going to contribute on special teams. Last season, for example, Mosby played 221 special teams snaps over 12 games for the Packers (18.4 per game) compared to just 17 defensive snaps (1.4 per game).<\/p>\n

Lukas Van Ness played a little less on defense than usual, but Green Bay generally splits snaps between Barryn Sorrell, Brenton Cox Jr. and Dani Dennis-Sutton evenly. Here are the season-long numbers at the position, defensively:<\/p>\n

Lukas Van Ness: 274 snapsBarryn Sorrell: 204 snapsDani Dennis-Sutton: 181 snapsBrenton Cox Jr.: 179 snapsZaire Franklin: 77Isaiah McDuffie: 42Ty\u2019Ron Hopper: 33Nick Niemann: 0Kristian Welch: 0<\/p>\n

Since Edgerrin Cooper\u2019s injury, Ty\u2019Ron Hopper has played 72 snaps of defense to Isaiah McDuffie\u2019s 74. They tend to draft off drives about every two drives, likely to try to keep their legs fresh for special teams. For perspective, McDuffie ranked second on the team in special teams reps going into this week, while Hopper ranked fifth. Nick Niemann (first in special teams) and Kristian Welch are on pretty incredible special teams pace, too, which is why they\u2019re on the game-day roster. Welch has only been on the roster for three weeks, but is basically matching Niemann\u2019s pace when he\u2019s up from the practice squad.<\/p>\n

Keisean Nixon: 77Brandon Cisse: 54Carrington Valentine: 25Kamal Hadden: 0<\/p>\n

The Packers played two snaps of dime defense this week in third-and-long looks, which pushes Carrington Valentine into the slot. They seem to be treating their second slot in dime looks differently than true slot defenders, as Kamal Hadden (who got in at the position late in the Bears game in garbage time) is actually the \u201cnext man up\u201d at the position.<\/p>\n

Brandon Cisse, the team\u2019s right cornerback, suffered a stinger, which pushed Valentine up to outside cornerback in this game, too. Cisse never returned to action, but he stated after the game to Packers.com\u2019s Weston Hodkiewicz that he\u2019s \u201cfine<\/a>.\u201d Cisse was the only player in Week 6 who dropped out and did not return to play. Progress!<\/p>\n

Also: Both Keisean Nixon and Cisse had pretty good games. Cisse was probably having his best game as a Packer before his injury. Valentine almost got two interceptions in his limited playing time, too.<\/p>\n

Xavier McKinney: 77Evan Williams: 77Javon Bullard: 66Kitan Oladapo: 0<\/p>\n

The only notable thing here is that slot defender Javon Bullard played six-sevenths of snaps on defense, meaning that the Packers played a lot of nickel personnel in this game. As we mentioned in the defensive line section, Green Bay wasn\u2019t forced to play their 3-4 base defense often (usually, it\u2019s around one-third of their snaps, but varies a good amount from team to team), which really bailed out their thin line.<\/p>\n

Like the deep linebackers, Kitan Oladapo is here to be a special teams contributor and an emergency defender. Coming into the week, he only played less than the top three linebackers, receiver Bo Melton, edge defender Barryn Sorrell and defensive lineman Karl Brooks (yes, he plays a ton of teams) in the kicking game. This has afforded the Packers the freedom to keep Xavier McKinney off special teams regularly for the first time since he\u2019s been in Green Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were a lot of moving parts on the Green Bay Packers\u2019 roster this week, as the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,159688,159689],"class_list":["post-470391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-green-bay-packers-depth-chart","tag-green-bay-packers-roster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}