It’s time for this week’s edition of detailed snap counts, where we go through exactly where players lined up on the field on all live-action plays. This includes plays where there were post-snap penalties, but excludes kneels and spikes.
As always, the numbers in cells correlate to the number of snaps played in each week. Cells highlighted in yellow mean that a player dropped out of the game due to injury. Cells highlighted in red mean that a player missed the game due to injury.
Let’s go position-by-position, breaking down how the Green Bay Packers’ depth chart is changing.
Offensive Personnel
You’d think that the opposite would be true, but since the loss of slot receiver Jayden Reed, the Packers have actually played more three-receiver sets (11 personnel). In Week 1 and Week 2, 56 percent of their offensive snaps involved two or fewer receivers on the field (12 personnel, 21 personnel and 13 personnel). In Week 3 and Week 4, that number dropped to just 34 percent. So about two-fifths of their two-receiver sets have been given up to three-receiver sets in the last two weeks. That’s pretty notable.
It seems like the Packers came into the year wanting to be more of a multiple-tight-end team, but over time, they’ve conceded that their third receiver, even with Reed out, is more valuable to their offense than a second tight end would be. With Christian Watson (knee) and Reed (collarbone, foot) returns likely coming during the regular season, it’s hard to imagine that Green Bay would revert back to its Week 1 and Week 2 mentality anytime soon.
Quarterback
No Savion Williams wildcat snaps this week.
Running Back
There’s pretty significant movement in the running back room. Emanuel Wilson had 20 more snaps than Chris Brooks in this game, more than Wilson’s total snaps from Week 1 through Week 3. The Packers will eventually have to drop one of Wilson or Brooks for MarShawn Lloyd to return to the active roster. Green Bay’s special teams personnel is already less than a loaded deck, and Brooks is one of the team’s key contributors in the kicking game. Meanwhile, Wilson doesn’t contribute at all to teams. It’ll be interesting to see which direction the Packers go.
Green Bay also really leaned into playing receivers in the backfield in split-back gun looks this week, too. Coming into this game, the Packers only played seven reps like that all season. In Week 4, they added six more. Savion Williams, who now has 11 reps out of the backfield this year, is Green Bay’s primary receiver who lines up like a back.
Receiver
Romeo Doubs remains primarily an outside receiver, but he did play 11 snaps in the slot this week compared to just 13 combined over the first three games of 2025. The Packers were able to line him up in the slot more because they played tight ends at outside receiver frequently against the Cowboys. They played just 16 snaps, mostly out of empty looks, with a tight end at outside receiver from Week 1 to Week 3. In Week 4, the Packers played 19 such looks, many of which came out of traditional shotgun sets.
Green Bay’s tight ends didn’t do much when lined up near the sideline, other than draining a cornerback in coverage. This allowed the Packers’ offense to get better matchups with their primary receivers playing in the slot, either against slot defenders, safeties or linebackers.
The other movement we’re seeing at the position is the team flipping Matthew Golden back to being a primary slot receiver. This happened in Week 2, when Reed dropped out with an injury, but Dontayvion Wicks played that role more than Golden in Week 3. Golden outsnapped Wicks 27-10 at outside receiver in Week 3, but was outsnapped 13-35 this week. I’m not sure if we have clarity for where the Packers want to play these guys long-term, but it is worth noting that Christian Watson, who has mostly played outside receiver, is eligible to return off the physically unable to perform list beginning with Green Bay’s next game against the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 6.
Tight End
For weeks, John FitzPatrick had started to shave away Luke Musgrave’s snaps on offense. The door shut on that this week, when Musgrave played a total of 26 offensive snaps, 20 at true tight end spots, compared to FitzPatrick’s 10, 7 at tight end spots.
We’ll have to see if the Packers think that was a good decision. Musgrave is not known for his blocking ability, which was highlighted when he allowed a blocked PAT to be returned for two points against the Cowboys, and despite playing all of those snaps, he only had 6 of the Packers’ 337 receiving yards against Dallas. At this point, he’s being used as more of a decoy than anything else.
Offensive Line
For the first time all year, the set of offensive linemen who started the game for the Packers actually finished the game. Green Bay posted 164 rushing yards against Dallas, easily their best running performance of the 2025 season. They did so down Aaron Banks and Zach Tom, who should hopefully be ready to perform once the Packers come back from the bye week.
Defensive Personnel
On defense, the Packers were pretty basic, playing just three sets: their nickel defense, 4-3 defense and Cheetah nickel package with a third defensive end replacing a second defensive tackle. Green Bay used three sets against the Cleveland Browns in Week 3, three of which they debuted. Those three were nowhere to be seen against the Cowboys, though.
The Packers’ Cheetah package plays came in clusters, four of which were played when Dallas was in two-minute mode at the end of the second half. Besides the two-minute drill, Green Bay only played its Cheetah sets on 14 percent of their defensive plays, compared to 20 percent in Week 1 through Week 3.
Even though the Cowboys scored 40 points, they didn’t have a lot of explosive plays against the Packers. It was a lot of Dallas converting on second and manageable in this game, which made it hard for Green Bay to put the screws to the Cowboys in obvious passing situations — since there weren’t many.
Defensive End
There’s not much to be said here. It’s mostly a three-man rotation at defensive end with Kingsley Enagbare and Barryn Sorrell playing a few snaps here and there when the top three players are completely gassed, which they were at times against Dallas because the defense couldn’t get off the field.
Defensive Tackle
Devonte Wyatt has dropped out of back-to-back games due to knee injuries, but it happened late in Week 3 and didn’t impact the loss to the Cleveland Browns, unless you want to make an argument for the kick block unit. Against the Cowboys, though, Wyatt only played 13 plays, which led to a massive increase in undrafted rookie defensive tackle Nazir Stackhouse’s playing time.
In the first 22 plays of defense in Week 4, Stackhouse played just 2 snaps (9 percent). In the remaining 47, he played 25 (53 percent). To say the least, his performance wasn’t good. I’ll write more about that this week.
Because the Packers couldn’t get off the field quickly, their entire defensive line was worn out by the end of the game. It’s no surprise that it felt like the Cowboys could score at will in the second half.
Before the final drive of the third quarter, Green Bay had allowed just one drive of over 15 yards to Dallas. From that point on, though, the Packers’ defense allowed consecutive drives of 80 (touchdown), 77 (touchdown), 54 (touchdown) and 76 yards (field goal) to end the game.
Linebacker
Nothing too crazy here. Isaiah McDuffie remains the team’s third linebacker in 4-3 sets. Otherwise, it’s the Quay Walker and Edgerrin Cooper show at linebacker.
Cornerback
On the surface, the split between Carrington Valentine and Nate Hobbs looks pretty similar to what it was in Week 3, but that simply is not the case. Hobbs played the first 46 plays of defense, including one snap in the slot. The other 45 looks were at outside cornerback opposite of Keisean Nixon.
Initially, watching live, I thought Hobbs was put in a rotation once he gave up a second receiving touchdown, a slant to tight end Jake Ferguson. In reality, Hobbs dropped out with an injury, one that the Packers never gave an official status for, and Valentine ended up playing the rest of the game at outside cornerback.
I believe that Green Bay still wants Hobbs to be their second starting outside cornerback opposite of Nixon, if they weren’t willing to pull him for play on Sunday. Maybe he’s still recovering from his knee surgery and will get better down the line, but
he’s producing in the range of a bottom-10 cornerback in the league right now. With that being said, it doesn’t help Valentine’s case to be a starter when he slipped on the AT&T Stadium turf and allowed a touchdown late in the game, too.
Slot Defender
Hobbs really only gets in as a slot on pretty long distance downs. Otherwise, the Packers seem to like Bullard at the nickel spot.
Safety
It’s been all Evan Williams at safety since Week 2. In Week 1, he was only a safety in nickel looks, with Bullard playing safety in the team’s 4-3 looks. Maybe that was just a game plan for the Detroit Lions. We’ll have to see when they face off against each other again on Thanksgiving.
