Welcome to the Wild Card edition of Snaps, Pace, & Stats, where we examine trends in snap totals and no-huddle usage. It is meant to be a 30,000-foot view of upcoming games, with the goal of identifying which matchups will – and which will not – be played on fertile fantasy soil.
(For brevity’s sake, all references to pass or run rates/percentages are in terms of neutral game situations. Unless otherwise stated, we will reference one-score situations (plus/minus seven points) to get a truer representation of game plan.)
| Rank | Week 17 Snaps | 2017 Snaps/Game | Opponent Wk 17 Snaps | 2017 Opp Snaps/Gm |
| 1 | Tampa Bay (81) | Jacksonville (67.4) | New Orleans (81) | Cincinnati (68.2) |
| 2 | New England (80) | Denver (67.2) | N.Y. Jets (80) | Buffalo (66.6) |
| 3 | Cincinnati (75) | Philadelphia (67.1) | Baltimore (75) | San Francisco (66.6) |
| 4 | Baltimore (74) | New England (66.9) | Cincinnati (74) | N.Y. Giants (65.8) |
| 5 | N.Y. Giants (74) | Arizona (66.2) | Washington (74) | N.Y. Jets (65.8) |
Tennessee Titans at Kansas City Chiefs
The slow-paced Titans average the fourth-fewest plays (60.9) and score the 18th-most points per snap. They dabbled in some no-huddle during Week 15 (36 percent) and Week 16 (15 percent), but scrapped it entirely in the season finale. Even with their late-season tempo toe-dipping, Tennessee operates at the sixth-slowest seconds-per-snap pace. They deploy the ninth-most run-heavy offense (46 percent), and have handed off even more during the last month. The Titans should have just enough success against Kansas City’s 24th-graded run defense to be a drain on the game’s overall play volume, but this offense is neither explosive nor efficient.
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