The Falcons earned their first victory of the season against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday, emerging with a 31-24 win at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
There were eight players who played every single snap for their respective units in the Falcons' victory, four on offense and four on defense.
Here are the total snap counts for the Falcons against the Panthers, as well as some additional context:
Offense
- OT, Schraeder – 63 snaps (100 percent of snap count)
- OT, Matthews – 63 snaps (100 percent)
- OG, Fusco – 63 snaps (100 percent)
- C, Mack – 63 snaps (100 percent)
- QB, Ryan – 62 snaps (98 percent)
Note: Matt Ryan missed one play during the game after sliding to the ground following a scramble. He went to the sideline presumably to fix his knee brace, which caused the Falcons to use a timeout in Week 1 against the Eagles.
- TE, Hooper – 53 snaps (84 percent)
- OG, Schweitzer – 51 snaps (81 percent)
Note: Wes Schweitzer entered early in the game as a replacement at left guard for Andy Levitre, who left due to an elbow injury.
- WR, Sanu – 48 snaps (76 percent)
- WR, Jones – 48 snaps (76 percent)
- RB, Coleman – 41 snaps (65 percent)
Note: Tevin Coleman started at running back in place of the injured Devonta Freeman. He carried the ball 16 times for 107 yards in the win.
- WR, Ridley – 35 snaps (56 percent)
Note: Calvin Ridley caught his first touchdown pass of his career on an 11-yard slant route that was also the first touchdown of the game for the Falcons.
- TE, Paulsen – 29 snaps (46 percent)
- RB, Smith – 18 snaps (29 percent)
- WR, Hardy – 14 snaps (22 percent)
- FB, Ortiz – 12 snaps (19 percent)
- OG, Levitre – 12 snaps (19 percent)
Note: Levitre left the game in the first quarter due to an elbow injury.
- WR, Hall – 9 snaps (14 percent)
- TE, Saubert – 8 snaps (13 percent)
- QB, Schaub – 1 snap (2 percent)
Note: Schaub entered the game for one play in place of Ryan while he was on the sideline.
Defense
- CB, Alford – 67 snaps (100 percent)
- LB, Campbell – 67 snaps (100 percent)
- S, Allen – 67 snaps (100 percent)
- CB, Trufant – 67 snaps (100 percent)
- CB, Poole – 59 snaps (88 percent)
- LB, Riley – 58 snaps (87 percent)
- DT, Jarrett – 55 snaps (82 percent)
- S, Richards – 53 snaps (79 percent)
Note: Jordan Richards replaced Damontae Kazee in the second quarter following Kazee's ejection for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Panthers quarterback Cam Newton.
- LB, Beasley – 53 snaps (79 percent)
- DT, McClain – 37 snaps (55 percent)
- DE, McKinley – 36 snaps (54 percent)
- DE, Reed – 32 snaps (48 percent)
- DT, Senat – 25 snaps (37 percent)
- DT, Crawford – 23 snaps (34 percent)
- LB, Oluokun – 15 snaps (22 percent)
Note: Foye Oluokun had a greater part of the linebacker rotation following the injury to Deion Jones in Week 1.
- S, Kazee – 14 snaps (21 percent)
Note: Kazee was ejected in the second quarter of Sunday's game for a helmet-to-helmet hit on quarterback Cam Newton.
- DE, Shelby – 6 snaps (9 percent)
Note: Derrick Shelby left Sunday's game due to a groin injury.
- CB, Wreh-Wilson – 2 snaps (3 percent)
- S, Tandy – 1 snap (1 percent)
Special teams
- CB, Bethel – 22 snaps (79 percent)
- S, Ishmael – 19 snaps (68 percent)
- WR, Hall – 18 snaps (64 percent)
- LB, Nelson – 18 snaps (64 percent)
- LB, Oluokun – 18 snaps (64 percent)
- TE, Saubert – 18 snaps (64 percent)
- S, Tandy – 18 snaps (64 percent)
- P, Bosher – 15 snaps (54 percent)
- S, Richards – 15 snaps (54 percent)
- CB, Wreh-Wilson – 14 snaps (50 percent)
- CB, Alford – 10 snaps (36 percent)
- TE, Paulsen – 10 snaps (36 percent)
- WR, Hardy – 9 snaps (32 percent)
- LS, Harris – 9 snaps (32 percent)
- RB, Hill – 6 snaps (21 percent)
- TE, Hooper – 6 snaps (21 percent)
- K, Bryant – 5 snaps (18 percent)
- LB, Campbell – 5 snaps (18 percent)
- OG, Fusco – 5 snaps (18 percent)
- OT, Matthews – 5 snaps (18 percent)
- FB, Ortiz – 5 snaps (18 percent)
- CB, Poole – 5 snaps (18 percent)
- OT, Sambrailo – 5 snaps (18 percent)
- OT, Schraeder – 5 snaps (18 percent)
- OG, Schweitzer – 5 snaps (18 percent)
- S, Allen – 4 snaps (14 percent)
- DT, Jarrett – 4 snaps (14 percent)
- C, Mack – 4 snaps (14 percent)
- DT, McClain – 4 snaps (14 percent)
- DE, Reed – 4 snaps (14 percent)
- WR, Ridley – 4 snaps (14 percent)
- LB, Riley – 4 snaps (14 percent)
- S, Kazee – 3 snaps (11 percent)
- DT, Crawford – 2 snaps (7 percent)
- DE, Shelby – 2 snaps (7 percent)
- WR, Jones – 1 snap (4 percent)
- OG, Levitre – 1 snap (4 percent)
- WR, Sanu – 1 snap (4 percent)
