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Carolina Panthers 2025 vs Cleveland Browns 2016

Two offensive identities side by side — any team, any season against any other — the flow of each attack and a play-calling ledger with the shift on every metric.

CAR season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

CLE season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

AARI ATL BAL BUF CAR CHI CIN CLE DAL DEN DET GB HOU IND JAX KC LA LAC LV MIA MIN NE NO NYG NYJ PHI PIT SEA SF TB TEN WAS

BARI ATL BAL BUF CAR CHI CIN CLE DAL DEN DET GB HOU IND JAX KC LA LAC LV MIA MIN NE NO NYG NYJ PHI PIT SEA SF TB TEN WAS

Play-calling ledger · the shift is Carolina Panthers 2025 minus Cleveland Browns 2016

Metric	CAR	Shift	CLE
Plays	1,054	—	979
Pass rate	59.4%	−7.7%	67.1%
Shotgun rate	59.8%	−1.1%	60.9%
Explosive rate	11.6%	−2.1%	13.7%
Success rate	43.2%	+5.2%	38.0%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	66.6%	+3.1%	63.5%
12 personnel	21.0%	+5.0%	15.9%
21 personnel	1.8%	−9.7%	11.5%
13 personnel	8.3%	+4.8%	3.5%
22 personnel	1.0%	−3.9%	4.9%
Other personnel	1.3%	+1.0%	0.3%

Read the ledger, then the flows below: the table is the precise shift; the alluvials are the shape.

Carolina Panthers · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	552
12 personnel → Under Center	150
11 personnel → Under Center	104
13 personnel → Under Center	79
11 personnel → Pistol	45
12 personnel → Shotgun	45
12 personnel → Pistol	26
21 personnel → Shotgun	15
Other → Shotgun	13
22 personnel → Under Center	10
13 personnel → Pistol	4
13 personnel → Shotgun	4
21 personnel → Pistol	2
21 personnel → Under Center	2
11 personnel → Unknown	1
22 personnel → Shotgun	1
Other → Pistol	1
Shotgun → Pass	507
Under Center → Run	256
Shotgun → Run	123
Under Center → Pass	89
Pistol → Run	49
Pistol → Pass	29
Unknown → Pass	1
Pass → Failure	352
Run → Failure	247
Pass → Success	188
Run → Success	145
Pass → Explosive	86
Run → Explosive	36

Cleveland Browns · 2016

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	507
21 personnel → I_Form	81
12 personnel → Singleback	68
12 personnel → Shotgun	64
11 personnel → Singleback	40
11 personnel → Empty	38
22 personnel → I_Form	26
13 personnel → Singleback	22
11 personnel → Wildcat	16
21 personnel → Shotgun	15
11 personnel → Unknown	9
22 personnel → Jumbo	9
11 personnel → Pistol	8
13 personnel → Shotgun	8
12 personnel → Pistol	7
12 personnel → Empty	6
21 personnel → Pistol	6
22 personnel → Singleback	6
12 personnel → I_Form	5
22 personnel → Wildcat	5
11 personnel → I_Form	4
21 personnel → Singleback	4
21 personnel → Wildcat	4
12 personnel → Unknown	3
12 personnel → Wildcat	2
13 personnel → Empty	2
21 personnel → Empty	2
Other → I_Form	2
Unknown → Unknown	2
12 personnel → Jumbo	1
13 personnel → I_Form	1
13 personnel → Unknown	1
21 personnel → Unknown	1
22 personnel → Empty	1
22 personnel → Shotgun	1
Other → Shotgun	1
Unknown → Wildcat	1
Shotgun → Pass	457
Shotgun → Run	139
Singleback → Run	80
I_Form → Run	69
Singleback → Pass	60
I_Form → Pass	50
Empty → Pass	49
Pistol → Pass	16
Wildcat → Run	15
Wildcat → Pass	13
Unknown → Pass	9
Jumbo → Run	7
Unknown → Run	7
Pistol → Run	5
Jumbo → Pass	3
Pass → Failure	406
Run → Failure	201
Pass → Success	165
Pass → Explosive	86
Run → Success	73
Run → Explosive	48