Below are the offensive personnel packages, play counts and participation chart for the Steelers week 13 win Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Hines Ward saw 20 non-penalty play snaps this week and that is up from last week versus the Kansas City Chiefs. Rookie tight end Weslye Saunders also saw a good amount of snaps with 23 non-penalty plays logged. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, center Maurkice Pouncey and left tackle Max Starks were able to exit the game a bit early because of the blow-out. Right guard Ramon Foster played 31 snaps before exiting with his ankle injury.
Personnel group wise, we saw 4 plays with the 5 wide receiver grouping and all were used with an empty backfield. The one 14 personnel grouping was with Trai Essex in the game as a 4th tight end. Not counting the victory formation plays, the Steelers used two or more tight ends on 32 of 59 non-penalty plays against the Bengals.
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Below also is the personnel packages used on offense and the individual snaps counts for the players that played on offense.
Personell Package Counts
Personnel | RBs | TEs | WRs | Plays |
0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 |
11 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 20 |
12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
13 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 18 |
14 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
V | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Play Counts
# | POS | PLAYER | PLAYS |
7 | Ben Roethlisberger | QB | 50 |
16 | Charlie Batch | QB | 9 |
34 | Rashard Mendenhall | RB | 26 |
33 | Isaac Redman | RB | 22 |
21 | Mewelde Moore | RB | 4 |
27 | Jonathan Dwyer | RB | 6 |
17 | Mike Wallace | WR | 50 |
86 | Hines Ward | WR | 20 |
84 | Antonio Brown | WR | 28 |
88 | Emmanuel Sanders | WR | 16 |
89 | Jerricho Cotchery | WR | 10 |
83 | Heath Miller | TE | 54 |
85 | David Johnson | TE | 32 |
82 | Wesyle Saunders | TE | 23 |
53 | Maurkice Pouncey | C | 50 |
64 | Doug Legursky | G/C | 59 |
68 | Chris Kemoeatu | G | 9 |
73 | Ramon Foster | G | 31 |
78 | Max Starks | T | 53 |
77 | Marcus Gilbert | T | 59 |
79 | Trai Essex | G | 29 |
72 | Jonathan Scott | T | 6 |
43 | Troy Polamalu | VB | 3 |