Rookie snap counts after 5 weeks

[*ochocincos*]

One of the big things that helped the Chiefs get back to and win the Super Bowl last year was their great contributions from their rookie class.
They had a lot of talent leave in FA and needed multiple rookies to step in and impact right away.

With that in mind, let's see how the rookies for the Bengals are doing through ~1/3 of the way through the regular season:
Murphy - 20% of defensive snaps, 21% ST snaps
Turner - 53% of defensive snaps, 37% ST snaps
Battle - 16% of defensive snaps, 70% ST snaps
Jones - 1% of offensive snaps, 13% ST snaps
Brown - 1% of offensive snaps, 34% ST snaps
Iosivas - 14% of offensive snaps, 63% ST snaps
Robbins - 33% ST snaps
Ivey - 0.3% defensive snaps, 9% ST snaps

When it comes to playing time, Turner, Battle, and Iosivas are getting the most snaps percentage-wise.
Jones and Robbins are doing their roles on ST.

Turner is about the only one playing significant snaps on O/D, although Battle might be getting more opportunity here soon.

I would say least impactful for the investment right now is Murphy, but he's been buried on the depth chart.
I'd like to see him get more opportunity over Sample and/or Ossai if they don't start having more of an impact by midseason.

*Tangent*
Right now, the Bengals are tied for 8th in the NFL with 15.0 sacks. Leader is BUF with 21.0 sacks.
Hendrickson is Top 5 in sacks with 6.0.
Hill is quietly on pace to have 8+ sacks on the season (currently 2.5)
Hubbard on track for his typical 6-8.
No other DL is quite closing the deal, as only Murphy and Reader have sacks on the DL, and they have just 1.0 each.