Seahawks snaps lost from 2022
Seaside Joe 1165: Which parting players are taking the most snaps with them?
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Pardon me for a brief Joe today—I hope you’re enjoying your Saturday! I wanted to quickly run down which former Seahawks played the most 2022 snaps. Consider what that means for Seattle: In which cases is that bad news? In which cases is that good news?
In 2021, the most snaps that left the team: KJ Wright (991), Jarran Reed (848), Shaquill Griffin (813) represented three of the top-five snap-getters on defense in 2020. The offense had relative continuity, other than two guards (Jordan Simmons, Mike Iupati), David Moore, Greg Olsen, and Jacob Hollister.
Most snaps in 2021 for now-former Seattle Seahawks:
LT - Duane Brown, 970 snaps (97.8%)
QB - Russell Wilson, 788 snaps (79.5%)
TE - Gerald Everett, 650 snaps (65.6%)
C - Ethan Pocic, 601 snaps (60.6%)
RT - Brandon Shell, 551 snaps (55.6%)*
RB - Alex Collins, 257 snaps (26%)*
*still available
ILB - Bobby Wagner, 1,128 snaps (89.1%)
CB - D.J. Reed, 1,000 snaps (79%)
DE - Rasheem Green, 846 snaps (66.9%)
DE - Kerry Hyder, 506 snaps (40%)
DE - Carlos Dunlap, 481 snaps (38%)*
DT - Robert Nkemdiche, 230 snaps (18%)*
Russ was irreconcilable with the FO but the trade haul has been fantastic. Brown is good insofar as we have Cross, hopefully he’s good to go Week 1 else I see Brown coming back (good business not to sign before we know what we got). Fant > Everett. Walker III > Collins. I actually liked Pocic as his price, but Blythe knows the Waldron system, so okay.
I’d put Bobby in the ‘sad’ rather than ‘good’ to see him go, but in cold business terms he isn’t worth $20m now. Nkemdiche and Hyder didn’t do anything to warrant coming back. Still miffed we let Reed walk, irrespective of getting Burns and the CBs in the draft. Green? Guess he doesn’t fit the new scheme. Dunlap I think might come back, and want him to obviously if there was a KNJ or injury-shaped hole for his lack of production for most of the season.
Overall though, with the off-season optimism engine on full, it’s a good thing we’ve lost those snaps. Getting younger, getting hungrier!
Without knowing anything about the 2022 Hawks, one could tell from the QB, C, and RG snap counts alone that the team had problems.