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Browns’ offensive snap counts, stats, and notes: Week 17

Despite the Browns looking for a new head coach, we’re still looking back at the team’s snap counts.

Cleveland Browns v Cincinnati Bengals Photo by Bobby Ellis/Getty Images

Below, we analyze the snap counts and stats on offense for the Cleveland Browns’ Week 17 game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Quarterback

Player Plays % Stats
Player Plays % Stats
Baker Mayfield 54 100% 12-of-27 (44.4%) for 279 yards, 3 TD, 3 INT. 4 rushes, 29 yards.
  • The day started great for Baker Mayfield, who threw a deep touchdown pass on his first attempt of the game. Later in the game, Mayfield also found Jarvis Landry on a deep ball touchdown, something I think we wish we would’ve seen more of from Cleveland this year (run the ball, and then stretch the field deep).
  • With the good also comes the bad. There were a lot of inaccurate passes, more passes tipped, and plenty of sacks taken due to poor offensive line play. One thing that I know pumped some fans up but made me just laugh is how excited Mayfield was after running for a first down. Why was I laughing? Because I kept thinking, “watch us get sacked on the next play.” Sure enough, two of the next three plays were sacks — and then Mayfield and Beckham connected on the great touchdown pass to salvage things.

Running Back

Player Plays % Stats
Player Plays % Stats
Kareem Hunt 36 67% 3 carries, 4 yards (1.3 YPC). 3 catches, 32 yards (4 targets).
Nick Chubb 31 57% 13 carries, 41 yards (3.2 YPC). 1 catch, 1 yard (2 targets).
  • Nick Chubb didn’t win the rushing title in 2019, thanks to Derrick Henry surpassing him with a 200+ yard effort in the afternoon game. The run blocking was not there against a Bengals team that doesn’t defend the run well, and I can only attribute that to a lack of motivation by several members of the team (not the running backs).
  • Kareem Hunt out-snapped Chubb, as has been the case when Cleveland is playing from behind. He really wasn’t involved too much in the offense though either.

Wide Receiver

Player Plays % Stats
Player Plays % Stats
Jarvis Landry 54 100% 2 catches, 82 yards (6 targets). 1 TD.
Odell Beckham 49 91% 3 catches, 81 yards (6 targets). 1 TD.
KhaDarel Hodge 17 31% 1 catch, 19 yards (2 targets).
Damion Ratley 11 20% 2 catches, 64 yards (3 targets). 1 TD.
  • The Browns had three receivers catch touchdown passes, and Odell Beckham surpassed 1,000 yards receiving on the season.
  • Jarvis Landry had a bit of a weird day on the field from a body language standpoint. I have no doubt that he cares and has great passion, but on a few of his routes, it seemed like he wasn’t finishing the play as if it mattered.
  • Despite Damion Ratley catching an early touchdown pass, he only played 11 snaps in the game. It was the first touchdown catch of his NFL career.

Tight End

Player Plays % Stats
Player Plays % Stats
Demetrius Harris 32 59% 0 catches (1 target).
Stephen Carlson 23 43% No stats registered.
Ricky Seals-Jones 11 20% No stats registered.
David Njoku 4 7% No stats registered.
  • The Browns activated four tight ends, but they were targeted only once all game, and that was a bailout dumpoff thrown to Demetrius Harris after a poor block.
  • David Njoku was active but only played four snaps.

Offensive Line

Player Plays % Stats
Player Plays % Stats
Greg Robinson 54 100%
Joel Bitonio 54 100%
JC Tretter 54 100%
Chris Hubbard 54 100%
Justin McCray 47 87%
Wyatt Teller 9 17%
  • I didn’t even realize this, but unless there was an unknown injury, Wyatt Teller was benched early in the game in favor of Justin McCray. McCray played 87% of the snaps.
  • The Browns allowed 6 sacks and 9 quarterback hits.