The Denver Broncos gameday inactives against the Carolina Panthers were QB Sam Ehlinger, WR Lil’Jordan Humphrey, S Talanoa Hufanga, TE Dallen Bentley, OL Kage Casey, S Brandon Jones, and CB Kris Abrams-Draine.
Three of the game-day inactives were injured: Hufanga, Jones, and KAD. The rest were all healthy scratches. With Eyioma Uwazurike landing on the IR, Jordan Jackson was active for this game as was Tyler Onyedim.
Offense
Bo Nix and the OL played all 75 offensive snaps. Alex Palczewski played five snaps as
the 6th offensive lineman. This had been a trend with Sean Payton taking back the play-calling. Sean has used more 6OL sets than Davis Webb did.
The three actives on offense who did not play on offense were Alex Forsyth, Matt Peart (who both played on ST), and Jarett Stidham.
Jonah Coleman had a huge workload at RB with 58 snaps. JK Dobbins got 11. Adam Prentice got 15 at fullback. Cody Schrader was active, but did not play on offense. Coleman’s 58 offensive snaps were a career high. He got the ball on 21 of his 58 snaps (36 percent), while Dobbins got the ball 5 times on his 11 snaps (46 percent) – 4 runs and one catch. Dobbins had a run for 11 early in the game. His other four touches generated 11 yards. Both runners were having to dodge defenders in the backfield often against the Panthers.
Courtland Sutton, Pat Bryant, Troy Franklin, Marvin Mims, and Jaylen Waddle played 64, 51, 41, 19, and 14 snaps. I didn’t realize that Waddle was on the field that little during the game, but I had forgotten that he got hurt in the first quarter.
Adam Trautman, Evan Engram, and Nate Adkins played 41, 38 and 18 snaps on offense. Engram tied his season high with 4 catches. Trautman had two catches. Adkins was not targetted.
Defense
The defense only had two players who took every snap: PS2 and Singleton.
Riley Moss got injured after playing 17 snaps. Ja’Quan McMillian played 42, and Jahdae Barron played 52 snaps. Sean Fresch did not play on defense.
JL Skinner played 60 snaps on defense at safety, while Taylor Rapp and Devon Key played 42 and 24 snaps. The defense was on the field for 66 snaps, so we played a few snaps with only one safety on the field.
Justin Strnad played 59 snaps at the other ILB spot.
Nik Bonitto, Jonathon Cooper, Dondrea Tillman, and Que Robinson played 40, 40, 26, and 26 snaps at OLB/edge.
On the DL, Zach Allen, Malcolm Roach, DJ Jones, Sai’vion Jones, Jordan Jackson, and Tyler Onyedim played 50, 39, 27, 23, 13, and 10. Onyedim saw his first game action after being the first player that the Broncos drafted this year. He was credited with a tackle and forced fumble.
Special Teams
Que Robinson, Tycen Anderson, and Karene Reid were the only players who played 80 percent or more of the ST snaps. ST tackles came from Key (2x), Tillman, Skinner, Reid, and Prentice.
