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1. Blake Corum inches closer to a 50-50 split
Corum played 46% of the Rams’ offensive snaps, which was the most for him in a game in his NFL career.
Corum has spent the last two seasons as Kyren Williams‘ backup. Last season, Corum would usually take one or two drives from Williams to give him a break. Los Angeles continued that this season, but that one or two drives turned into three or four early in the season. Corum has played very well at times this season, which has led Los Angeles to embrace a rotation by drive. In recent weeks, Los Angeles was fine giving Williams the final drive of the first half and first drive of the second half or straying from the rotation late in games to switch in Williams.
This week, the backfield was closer to a 50-50 split. The Rams had 11 drives, as Williams took the last drive, which is the main reason this wasn’t a perfect 50-50 split. Williams took the odd-numbered drives and Corum the even. If the drive was lasting too long, Los Angeles had no problem rotating to the other running back in the middle of a drive.
2. Jahmyr Gibbs reached a season-high in snaps
Gibbs played over 80% of the offensive snaps, and David Montgomery played under 20% for the first time this season.
Gibbs played 55% of the Lions’ offensive snaps last season. That included five games where he played 46% or fewer. He rarely exceeded 60%, outside of games where Montgomery was injured. The Lions made a slight change over the first 10 weeks, qw Gibbs played 60.3% on average, ranging from 51.6%-69.1%. While Montgomery is a good running back, Gibbs has been the more explosive player, leading Gibbs to be more involved.
The Lions made a clear change starting in Week 11, leading Gibbs to be more involved. He’s averaged 71.5% of the offensive snaps from Weeks 11-14, as his snap rate consistently finished in the 69.4%-73.9% range. Gibbs was the top fantasy running back over that four-game stretch, averaging 6.3 yards per carry and scoring six touchdowns, leading to 30.9 PPR points per game.
The Lions pushed everything even further in Gibbs’ favor this week, playing 81.2% of the offensive snaps. This was only the second time he’s played over 80%. The other game is coming in the middle of 2023, when Montgomery was out due to injury. Gibbs didn’t have a great game, but he was going up against a top-five defense in preventing fantasy points to running backs. Montgomery scored a one-yard touchdown this week, but he’s only taken half of the goal-line snaps over the last five weeks.
Gibbs should have more success over the next two weeks against the Pittsburgh Steelers and Minnesota Vikings, although neither is a great matchup. It’s possible Montgomery’s time as a fantasy starter has come to an end, at least as long as he remains with the Lions, as it is very difficult to start a back only playing 30% or less of the offensive snaps.