Kareem Hunt Takes Over for Carson Steele
It was a short leash for Steele, whose second fumble this season brought Hunt into the game. Hunt totaled 85 yards on 16 touches and should be added on waivers. Samaje Perine seems to have a hold on the passing down role, but the early down role seems to be up for grabs at the moment.
JK Dobbins Continues to Hold On To Larger Role
After receiving only 50% of the rushing attempts in the first two games, Dobbins had 75% last week and then 70% this week. In better game scripts and matchups, Dobbins can have more games with better results than he’s had over the last two weeks. Dobbins also owns the passing down and goal-line role, as well.
Bucky Irving the Usurper
Bucky Irving didn’t stop at just taking some carries away from Rachaad White, he’s moving in on the goal line role, too. They both had 10 carries on Sunday, but Irving had the goal line carries and shared 50% of goal line snaps with White - White previously had this role locked down. White ran only 4 more routes than Irving in Week 4, and his 58% of snaps is down from the 71% of snaps over the first three weeks.
Breece Hall Continues to Share Work
Breece Hall still maintained a solid 69% of snaps for the Jets, but was inefficient on his 10 carries, while Braelon Allen only had 2 fewer carries. Early downs were relatively split, but most came in the second half. While Hall didn’t come through in the conditions at MetLife, I wouldn’t make too much of the split. Hall is still getting almost all the receiving work and will receive 20+ touches most weeks. Opportunity to buy.
Packers' Backfield Moving to a Split?
It’s possible Matt LaFleur is working towards more of the split backfields he’s deployed in the past, but we’d need to see more before making that determination. Josh Jacobs received only 53% of the RB carries on 61% of snaps on Sunday with Emanuel Wilson playing quite a bit. We saw a similar split last week, as well. For now, Jacobs should be treated like a high-end RB2 with Jordan Love back.