Packers Week 16 Snap Counts: AJ Dillon emerges, Darnell Savage continues to impress
Green Bay finally got a big game from a 2020 draft pick on Sunday, while a few early 2019 picks are playing tremendous football as well.
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The Green Bay Packers’ young players are finally breaking out as playmakers, and Sunday night’s 40-14 victory over the Tennessee Titans found two of them leading the way on opposite sides of the football.
On offense, AJ Dillon delivered in his first extended action, leading all players in the game in rushing and even out-shining Tennessee’s Derrick Henry — a player to whom Dillon is often compared. His 124 yards on the ground helped offset the absence of Jamaal Williams and serve as a sign to opposing teams that when #30 returns, the team will have a true three-headed running back attack, just as head coach Matt LaFleur said he wanted when he spoke at the 2020 NFL Combine.