TEAM FINGERPRINT · EVOLUTION
Carolina Panthers, 2016–2025
How this offense’s identity shifted, season by season — how often it passed, how much it lived in the shotgun, which personnel groupings it leaned on, and how efficient it was. Counted from nflverse charting, not modeled.
Play-calling tendencies · share of offensive snaps, by season
| Season | Pass rate | Shotgun rate | Success rate | Explosive rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 58.2% | 63.5% | 40.8% | 13.4% |
| 2017 | 56.8% | 58.2% | 40.4% | 13.0% |
| 2018 | 62.6% | 64.1% | 47.8% | 15.5% |
| 2019 | 66.7% | 60.7% | 42.9% | 12.0% |
| 2020 | 63.5% | 51.8% | 45.0% | 13.2% |
| 2021 | 62.1% | 58.3% | 40.8% | 11.5% |
| 2022 | 52.6% | 50.5% | 40.7% | 12.8% |
| 2023 | 62.5% | 76.4% | 37.4% | 9.3% |
| 2024 | 63.6% | 59.2% | 41.4% | 11.8% |
| 2025 | 59.4% | 59.8% | 43.2% | 11.6% |
Personnel groupings · share of snaps, stacked to 100%, by season
| Season | 11 | 12 | 21 | 22 | 13 | 01 | 10 | 02 | Other | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 52.7% | 30.4% | 9.9% | 6.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.0% |
| 2017 | 48.3% | 27.2% | 14.9% | 5.0% | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.1% |
| 2018 | 72.3% | 12.4% | 7.0% | 6.7% | 1.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 2019 | 67.4% | 18.3% | 5.9% | 6.5% | 1.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| 2020 | 55.6% | 17.8% | 7.8% | 4.3% | 3.8% | 5.7% | 1.9% | 0.0% | 2.5% | 0.7% |
| 2021 | 65.9% | 17.9% | 8.5% | 4.9% | 1.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.5% | 0.1% |
| 2022 | 68.8% | 23.0% | 2.2% | 0.0% | 4.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.0% | 0.5% | 0.1% |
| 2023 | 88.1% | 9.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.4% | 0.2% |
| 2024 | 78.7% | 16.8% | 2.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.7% | 0.2% |
| 2025 | 66.6% | 21.0% | 1.8% | 1.0% | 8.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.3% | 0.0% |