Snap Count Takeaways: Kareem Hunt Takes Advantage of Increased Usage in Week 6

We’re breaking down some of the most notable takeaways from the Cleveland Browns’ incredible win Sunday over the 49ers.

- RB Kareem Hunt played 28 snaps (37 percent), which was his highest in a game since he joined the Browns prior to Week 3. He received his highest rushing workload of the season with 12 carries for 47 yards, including a 16-yard run that was the Browns’ only touchdown of the day.

The Browns added more to Hunt’s plate with the goal of jumpstarting their run game, which had largely floundered in the games since Nick Chubb suffered his season-ending knee injury in Week 2. Hunt averaged a pedestrian 3.9 yards per carry agains the 49ers, but looked closer to the explosive back he was earlier in his career at times against a stingy run defense.

- Jerome Ford was still the lead running back, taking 38 snaps (50 percent). Ford pieced together his best rushing performance of the season, too, and generated a career-best 84 yards off 17 carries, a very promising sign as the Browns look to turn a corner in their run department.

- WR Donovan Peoples-Jones continues to see a high amount of snap usage but a remarkably low amount of targets each game. He played 61 snaps (80 percent) Sunday but saw just one target, marking the fifth consecutive game in which he’s played in over 80 percent of the snaps but didn't tally more than four targets.

- LB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah played a season-high 49 snaps (79 percent) and had one of his best performances in his career, tallying two quarterback hits, one pass breakup and notching his first sack since his rookie year in 2021.

- DE Ogbo Okoronkwo is technically a second-string edge rusher to Myles Garrett and Za’Darius Smith, but Jim Schwartz continues to find ways to keep him heavily involved in the rotation. He played 36 snaps (58 percent) against the 49ers and tallied sack No. 2.5 on the season. He’s been everything the Browns could’ve hoped for after signing with them in free agency last offseason following a mini-breakout year last season with the Texans.