As I’ve been running through playing-time numbers for the 2012 season, I’ve been highlighting the guys who played huge amounts. But, in this post about Carolina’s defense, we’re going to go in the opposite direction.
Injuries were a big story for Carolina, which had 1,051 defensive snaps. But the Panthers were without some key components for most of those snaps. Due to injuries, linebacker Jon Beason was limited to 24.93 percent of the snaps, cornerback Chris Gamble participated in only 26.64 percent of the snaps and defensive tackle Ron Edwards was limited to 29.97 percent.
Here’s the complete breakdown of playing-time percentage for Carolina’s defense:
Safety Charles Godfrey 93.72
Linebacker Luke Kuechly 87.63
Cornerback Captain Munnerlyn 86.96
Defensive end Charles Johnson 79.26
Linebacker Thomas Davis 74.02
Cornerback Josh Norman 73.36
Defensive end Greg Hardy 71.27
Defensive tackle Dwan Edwards 66.98
Safety Haruki Nakamura 56.23
Defensive end Frank Alexander 52.52
Linebacker James Anderson 49.48
Cornerback Josh Thomas 49.1
Defensive tackle Ron Edwards 29.97
Cornerback Chris Gamble 26.64
Safety Sherrod Martin 25.88
Linebacker Jon Beason 24.93
Defensive tackle Sione Fua 23.88
Safety D.J. Campbell 23.31
Defensive tackle Andre Neblett 23.31
Cornerback James Dockery 15.03
Defensive tackle Frank Kearse 14.94
Defensive tackle Nate Chandler 12.56
Defensive end Mario Addison 11.4
Linebacker Jason Phillips 10.47
Linebacker Thomas Keiser 10.09
Defensive end/linebacker Antwan Applewhite 9.51
Safety Colin Jones 2.09
Linebacker Jason Williams 1.01
Linebacker Jordan Senn 0.38
Defensive back Anderson Russell 0.09
