On first blush, Matt Hennessy seemed to be in the game quite a bit Sunday, and Takk McKinley, Dante Fowler Jr., and Grady Jarrett were extremely visible. The snap counts tend to tell us whether our initial impressions of the game are correct or not, at least in terms of how the team has divvied up playing time, and there were a couple of surprises in this week’s report.
Let’s get to it.
Offense
Matt Ryan: 79
Jake Matthews: 79
Alex Mack: 79
Chris Lindstrom: 79
Kaleb McGary: 79
Calvin Ridley: 68
Julio Jones: 65
Hayden Hurst: 62
Russell Gage: 55
Luke Stocker: 25
Brian Hill: 21
Ito Smith: 20
Matt Hennessy: 18
Keith Smith: 13
Brandon Powell: 2
Matt Gono: 2
If there were any doubts that Russell Gage was the third receiver and an integral part of the offense, Sunday ought to have erased them.