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Eagles snap counts: Brandon Graham nearly doubles up Bryce Huff originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Vic Fangio didn’t lie last week when he said Bryce Huff was still a starter.
Huff did start the game against the Saints.
But he’s clearly behind in the pecking order these days. And he played just 18 snaps out of 56 in the Eagles’ 15-12 win in New Orleans, while 36-year-old Brandon Graham played 35.
Here’s the breakdown of snap counts from the Eagles’ edge rushers:
Brandon Graham: 35 snaps (62%)
Josh Sweat: 34 snaps (61%)
Nolan Smith: 21 snaps (38%)
Bryce Huff: 18 saps (32%)
It might not be ideal to play the veteran in his 15th and final season as much as the Eagles have early in this season but Graham is playing really well. He didn’t light up the stat sheet on Sunday (2 tackles, 1 QB hit) but Graham was really disruptive against the pass and run. Graham and Sweat had pressure on the final Derek Carr pass that was picked off by Reed Blankenship.
At this point, he is simply the Eagles’ better option over Huff. Huff was primarily a pass-rush specialist with the Jets and he looks lost against the run so far with the Eagles. What might be a bigger problem is that he’s struggling to generate pressure on quarterbacks too.
It’s clear that in this game, the Eagles scaled back Huff’s workload, especially on run downs. Here are some numbers from ProFootballFocus:
Brandon Graham: 20 snaps in run defense, 14 pass rush snaps, 1 coverage snap
Bryce Huff: 5 snaps in run defense, 13 pass rush snaps
This is the second consecutive game for Huff without showing up in the stat sheet. In Week 1, he had one assist on a tackle. So he has now played 80 snaps in the 2023 season after signing a three-year, $51 million contract and has almost nothing to show so far.
It’s still very early in the season so maybe Huff turns it around. He really did have 10 sacks last year with the Jets. But, for now, the Eagles have to keep relying on Graham and hope that Huff starts to do…
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Author : NBC Sports Philadelphia
Publish date : 2024-09-24 11:00:00
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