{"id":281098,"date":"2025-08-12T02:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/281098\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T02:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:52:15","slug":"chiefs-cardinals-what-do-the-snap-counts-say-about-the-depth-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/281098\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs-Cardinals: What do the snap counts say about the depth chart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At the beginning of last week, the Kansas City Chiefs released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrowheadpride.com\/2025\/8\/4\/24480794\/chiefs-depth-chart-8-things-that-matter-in-initial-release\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their first unofficial depth chart<\/a> of the season. We use the word \u201cunofficial\u201d because history shows that these depth charts can be significantly off-base. But they still come from the team, so we pay some attention to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In recent years, NFL stats nerds have developed a new way to chart snap counts. It provides little value in the regular season \u2014 but during the preseason, it\u2019s a valuable tool that can help us puzzle out a team\u2019s depth chart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let\u2019s see how Anthony Reinhard (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statbutler.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">StatButler.com<\/a>) charted Saturday\u2019s game between the Chiefs and Arizona Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">By looking at this data, we can estimate that going into Saturday\u2019s game, Kansas City\u2019s depth charts probably looked something like these.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ll look forward to seeing how this data changes when the Chiefs play the Seattle Seahawks on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the beginning of last week, the Kansas City Chiefs released their first unofficial depth chart of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,7,46262,25631,1480,1193,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-281098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-preseason","14":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-depth-chart","15":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-game-information","16":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-roster","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115013533433742805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}