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Charles Sims takes over as the Buccaneers' lead running back

The snap counts for yesterday's game aren't too surprising, but we have them for you anyway.

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Charles Sims looks to be the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' main running back. With 13 carries for 36 yards to Bobby Rainey's five carries for four yards he both outplayed Rainey, and received a bigger workload than him. Sims also got 31 snaps to Rainey's 19. This may change a little when Doug Martin returns, but I'd expect Sims to carry most of the load going forward.

On defense, Jacquies Smith has now passed Michael Johnson in playing time with 44 snaps to 42. In fact, the entire defensive line outside Gerald McCoy was extremely rotation-heavy, and every defensive lineman got a solid number of snaps. Dashon Goldson also continues to lose a handful of snaps per game to Bradley McDougald, but he's still playing the vast majority of snaps.

Player Position Offense % Defense % Special Teams %
50 72 24
D Dotson T 50 100% 8 33%
L Mankins G 50 100% 5 21%
A Collins T 50 100% 5 21%
P Omameh G 50 100% 5 21%
J McCown QB 50 100%
E Dietrich-Smith C 50 100%
V Jackson WR 48 96%
M Evans WR 47 94%
A Seferian-Jenkins TE 47 94%
C Sims RB 31 62%
B Myers TE 21 42% 11 46%
L Murphy WR 20 40%
B Rainey RB 19 38% 3 12%
J Lane FB 14 28% 6 25%
R Shepard WR 2 4% 14 58%
M Wright SS 1 2% 68 94% 4 17%
L David LB 72 100% 5 21%
M Foster LB 72 100% 1 4%
J Banks CB 70 97% 4 17%
D Goldson FS 66 92%
G McCoy DT 58 81% 3 12%
C McDonald DT 50 69% 3 12%
J Smith DE 44 61%
M Johnson DE 42 58%
B Dixon CB 37 51% 10 42%
C Butler CB 35 49% 4 17%
W Gholston DE 29 40% 7 29%
D Lansanah LB 28 39% 10 42%
A Spence DT 27 38% 6 25%
I Frey CB 24 33% 9 38%
L Johnson CB 20 28% 15 62%
T Fatinikun DE 20 28% 10 42%
L English DE 19 26% 1 4%
B McDougald SS 11 15% 10 42%
D Fletcher LB 18 75%
M Koenen P 15 62%
B Magee LB 15 62%
O Lemon LB 15 62%
K Tandy FS 11 46%
A DePaola LS 9 38%
M Thigpen WR 6 25%
O Cousins T 5 21%
P Murray K 5 21%
G Gilkey C 5 21%

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