Bengals snap count takeaways: Germaine Pratt fueling defensive turnaround

When you beat a team as bad as the Cincinnati Bengals beat the Pittsburgh Steelers did on Sunday you’re able to rest your starters pretty early. Cincinnati has had a few games this year where starters got to rest for a series or two at the end of a game, but we saw most of the starters were out early in the fourth quarter.

That obviously skews some things from looking at the snap counts, but we will decipher how the Bengals deployed their starters in order to put to bed one of this franchise's bigger nightmares from the past couple of decades.

How many snaps did starters get?

The Bengals ran 68 offensive plays while the Steelers ran 62. That doesn’t seem like a huge disparity, but the context…