Denver Broncos snap analysis for the big win over the Eagles

The game-day inactives were Sam Ehlinger, Jaleel McLaughlin, Que Robinson, Frank Crum, and Sai’vion Jones.

The only active offensive player who did not play was Jarrett Stidham.

We had one offensive lineman who didn’t take all of the snaps. That was Mike McGlinchey who missed two snaps and was replaced by Alex Palczweski. AP also played eight other snaps as the sixth offensive lineman. Bo Nix and the other four starting offensive linemen all played every offensive snap.

Courtland Sutton, Troy Franklin, Pat Bryant, Marvin Mims, and Trent Sherfield played 70, 44, 40, 27 and 16 snaps. Bryant set another career high after getting 27 snaps in game four, he got 40 in game five, jumping Marvin Mims as WR3 at least for this game. Despite the 40 snaps, Bryant was not targetted. Ten Broncos were targetted during the game.

The split for the snaps for our three RBs was 37, 19, 15, but RJ Harvey got the 15 and Tyler Badie got the 19. This a dramatic shift from the first four games. Badie had 10 total snaps in games three and four and he entered the game with 37 total offensive snaps on the season. I would assume that his pass blocking is better than Harvey’s so that is why he was on the field more than RJ. Adam Prentice only got four snaps at FB.

The TE snap distribution was pretty even at 31, 30 and 27 - Trautman, Engram and Adkins.

The defense had four players who played every snap: Talanoa Hufanga, Patrick Surtain II, Riley Moss, and Alex Singleton.

Brandon Jones came off the field for one snap on defense. Devon Key and JL Skinner both got four snaps on defense, which was a surprise since I would have expected KAD or PJ Locke to get those snaps, but maybe both players have improved recently.

Patrick Strnad played 47 of 61 snaps at the other ILB spot.

Zach Allen played 52 of 61 snaps (85%) which was a season high % for him. He did play more snaps in two other games where our defense was on the field for many more plays than 61.

At nickel CB, Ja’Quan McMillian 42 snaps. Jahdae Barron played only 10 snaps but made the most of them.

Other DL guys got 31, 25, 19 and 10 snaps: D.J. Jones, John Franklin-Myers, Eyioma Uwazurike, and Jordan Jackson. Jordan Jackson got his active spot this week after Jones was active last game. The Eagles ran 61 plays and our two DL guys played a total of 137 snaps, meaning that we had 15 plays were we used three DL guys on the field against the run-heavy Eagles, who only ran the ball 11 times.

Our OLB Nik Bonitto, Jonathon Cooper, Jonah Elliss and Dondrea Tillman 42, 46, 19 and 16 snaps. Elliss was also in on 90% of the special teams snaps along with Devon Key.

Analyst predicts Panthers-Cowboys game becomes Bryce Young-Dak Prescott shootout

It's been a while since the Panthers got into a high-scoring QB duel. This weekend's matchup could change that.

Oct 5, 2025; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young (9) fakes a hand off during the fourth quarter against the Miami Dolphins at Bank of America Stadium. / Cory Knowlton-Imagn Images

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The last time the Carolina Panthers got into a high-scoring shootout was their 2024 finale against the Atlanta Falcons. That one came out alright, but since then the Panthers have gone back and forth between blowing out bad teams and getting blown out themselves.

This weekend's matchup with the Dallas Cowboys might represent a change in pace, though. At least one analyst is expecting that game to turn into a duel between Bryce Young and Dak Prescott. Here's Andrew Buller-Russ at Sportsnaut predicting Young will out-battle Prescott thanks to a bad Dallas D.

"For momentary stretches, we see Bryce Young morph into an efficient quarterback who can march his team down the field. Last week he helped lead a 17-point comeback. This week, he’ll have to go back to being a high-volume passer to match wits with Dak Prescott‘s explosive passing attack. Yet, the Dallas Cowboys rank dead-last in passing yards allowed and yards allowed per pass attempt, so the Panthers have a big opportunity ahead."

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - NOVEMBER 19: Bryce Young #9 of the Carolina Panthers and head coach Mike McCarthy of the Dallas Cowboys embrace after the game at Bank of America Stadium on November 19, 2023 in Charlotte, North Carolina. / (Photo by David Jensen/Getty Images)

This all sounds good in theory, but it's probably worth bringing up that the last time the Panthers played the Cowboys Young committed four turnovers and Carolina got beat soundly, 30-14.

That was a long time ago in football years, though. Young has since gone on a rollercoaster, incuding three great games to finish the 2024 season and some rough patches to start 2025. He has shown that he can still thrive, though - the comebacks against the Arizona Cardinals and Miami Dolphins have proven that much.

Whether the Panthers actually go off on the Cowboys or not may have less to do with Young and more to do with their running game, which finally got going last week against the Dolphins. If Rico Dowdle can pick up where he left off, this Carolina offense is going to be much, much tougher to gameplan against.

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