Someone else can probably post official snap counts or whatnot, but it seems like our TEs, with the exception of Andrews, are getting less playing time out there in Monken's offense. I feel like I've barely seen Likely at all this season, which is a shame because he's got potential to be a playmaker for us and we could have used him this past week against Pitt when everyone else was dropping the damn ball
Sort of depends. Third TE is getting no usage. Kolar has been a healthy scratch two games, and has played two offensive snaps total in the last month. So definitely prefer going with only two TEs (they do have Ricard, though) on gameday. He has zero role in the offense if Andrews and Likely are healthy.
Andrews obviously missed week 1. He's played at least 69% of snaps in every game, and its closer to 80-90% in the games where we're not blowing somebody out (Cleveland). So he's pretty close to an every down player.
Likely's role is definitely declining. He played a ton of snaps week 1 with Andrews out, but has played 1/3 of the snaps or less each week thereafter. His snaps have actually declined every single week this season:
46, 25, 19, 15, 8
Basically with Andrews active, he's probably a 15-20 snap/game kind of guy. And he's only seen 4 targets in 5 weeks. So he's not really a part of the passing game at all.
If you look at the target distribution for the year:
WRs: 87 (dominated by Flowers with 40)
Andrews: 28
So the WRs and Andrews are getting 82% of the targets. RBs and Likely aren't really a factor in the offense thus far. They're getting 4-5 targets a week total.