How many snaps would you look a newcomer to work per game? All of them, or three quarters, or maybe even half? Obviously, this is somewhat of a trick question, as the result will likely differ by position. You'd probably carry your starting quarterback to be in on all offensive snaps, and likely your O-line as well. But the track back is probably to get less, especially if you get a pair of guys rotating in and out like the Cowboys have.
On defense, barring injuries, you'd probably carry your defensive backs to be in for most snaps, but you'd probably expect some degree of rotation on the front seven according to whatever packages would be on the area and whatever scheme the defensive coordinator is running.
In great part due to hurt and in part due to scheme, after 4 games the Cowboys have but four players who've been on the area for every click of their unit. These are the four ironmen: Tyron Smith, Doug Free and Kyle Kosier have been in on every individual one of the 288 offensive snaps, while Abram Elam is the solely defensive player to get played on every one of the 256 defensive snaps so far.
After the better we see at the snap count for the 11 players with the highest snap counts on crime and vindication for the Cowboys so far this year.
Top snap counts through week 5, 2009 Offense Defense POS Player Offensive Snaps POS Player Defensive Snaps RT Tyron Smith 288 S Abram Elam 256 LT Doug Free 288 OLB DeMarcus Ware 247 RG Kyle Kosier 288 LB Sean Lee 233 TE Jason Witten 286 CB Mike Jenkins* 233 C Phil Costa* 269 S Gerald Sensabaugh* 221 QB Tony Romo* 268 OLB Anthony Spencer 215 LG Bill Nagy* 218 CB Alan Ball 206 WR Dez Bryant* 177 NT Jay Ratliff 203 WR Kevin Ogletree 165 CB Terence Newman* 121 RB Felix Jones* 153 RE Marcus R. Spears* 107 WR Miles Austin* 129 LE Kenyon Coleman 103 * denotes players who have missed snaps due to injuries
Couple of thoughts on the data:
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