Thankfully, my loyal readers either know better than to overreact after Week 1 or simply don't bother to reach out to me to panic. That's good. (Thank you.) As hard as it is for most people in a compressed season, each week is little more than a series of data points that we hope tell a more complete story by season's end. Sometimes we know 30 minutes into a movie or a couple of episodes into a TV series that it is time to bail. How many times have you not bailed and glad you stuck it out? This is the fine line owners walk sometimes in this hobby.

It is my intention to spend the first four weeks trying to lay the foundation for this season. Snap counts and targets are a nice starting point, but I want to go a bit deeper. In particular, I think it will be helpful for owners to know how much of the backfield pie their backs are getting, their receivers' target shares and how often their tight end is getting the ball when he is on the field, etc.

Key:

Snap % - The percentage of plays the player was on the field

% RB Touches - The percentage of offensive touches the back had relative to his teammates at the same position

Activity - How often the back touched the ball when he was on the field

Note: Backs with fewer than five touches were not included.

** Sorted by team and then by Snap %

I consider running backs who see at least 60 percent of their backfield's touches to be workhorse backs. Somewhat surprisingly, 19 backs hit that mark in Week 1. Two of the more surprising ones were Peterson and Lewis. I tend to believe both were related to game script (positive in the case of the former and negative in the case of the latter). Although some owners of either one or both backs are already rejoicing about how their guy(s) are in charge of their backfield, take a step back and relax. In addition to the likelihood neither player is going to become a workhorse given what their backfield partner brings to the table, Peterson and Lewis don't have a great track record for staying healthy.

The good news in Peterson's case is that he will continue to run behind a very good offensive line, receive a lot of volume for as long as he can hold up and/or the defense plays as well as it did against Arizona. In the case of Lewis, he's going to be a safer bet from week to week than Derrick Henry because he should have a safe 10-carry floor to go along with the majority of the work in the passing game. It's still quite possible - if not likely - Henry will be the top scoring fantasy back in Tennessee this season, but he is going to need Tennessee to play better defensively to get the volume he needs to get there.

Backfields that were committees in Week 1 likely to stay that way for at least a while moving forward: Devonta Freeman/Coleman (Atlanta), Hyde/Duke Johnson (Cleveland), Royce Freeman/Lindsay (Denver), Riddick/Kerryon Johnson (Detroit), Wilkins/Hines/Marlon Mack - when he returns (Indianapolis), Burkhead/White (New England), Powell/Crowell (NY Jets), Morris/Breida (San Francisco), Henry/Lewis (Tennessee), Peterson/Thompson (Washington)

Backfields that appeared to be committees in Week 1 but unlikely to stay that way moving forward: Collins/Allen (Baltimore), Fournette/Yeldon (Jacksonville), Carson/Penny (Seattle)

Regarding the first group, it's important to note Hyde had 23 touches compared to six for Duke Johnson and three for Nick Chubb. In this case and others (Detroit and Indianapolis come immediately to mind), the "committee" appears to be an early down versus late down committee as opposed to backs rotating series or even plays based on personnel grouping. Of course, none of this comes as a huge surprise since that was the expectation going into the season. The fact Denver is going with a committee should not actually be all that surprising either, although the identity of one of the backs is what caught most of us off guard. It would not surprise me in the least if the Broncos slot Freeman and Lindsay into the same roles the Chargers have set up for Gordon and Ekeler. Freeman did nothing in Week 1 to lose work moving forward, so owners need to sit tight with him. This figures to be his backfield sooner than later (with Lindsay changing the pace).

As for the latter group, Collins was supposedly benched for his first-half fumble and not needed once Baltimore really began to pull away from Baltimore. (The Ravens also likely had in mind to keep his workload in check for the short week.) Fournette suffered a "minor" hamstring injury but was rolling prior to going down. The Seahawks spent all offseason praising Carson before predictably giving Penny one more touch in Week 1 even though he missed a good chunk of training camp and mysteriously added about 15 pounds since the NFL Combine. HC Pete Carroll told reporters upon review of the tape that Carson "really took the lead at that position" while Penny "looked a little rusty." (Stunning.) The Seattle backfield has been a difficult one for fantasy owners to trust since Marshawn Lynch was in his prime, but one has to think Week 1 was yet another clear indication Carson needs to be the unquestioned lead back for now.