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Carolina Panthers 2025 vs San Francisco 49ers 2021

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

SF 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 San Francisco 49ers 2021

Metric	CAR	Shift	SF
Plays	1,054	—	1,193
Pass rate	59.4%	+5.7%	53.7%
Shotgun rate	59.8%	+12.1%	47.7%
Explosive rate	11.6%	−3.3%	14.8%
Success rate	43.2%	−1.6%	44.8%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	66.6%	+18.5%	48.1%
12 personnel	21.0%	+11.2%	9.7%
21 personnel	1.8%	−32.5%	34.3%
13 personnel	8.3%	+8.3%	0.0%
22 personnel	1.0%	−5.9%	7.0%
Other personnel	1.3%	+0.4%	0.9%

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

San Francisco 49ers · 2021

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	393
21 personnel → Shotgun	142
21 personnel → I_Form	134
21 personnel → Singleback	95
11 personnel → Empty	77
11 personnel → Singleback	75
12 personnel → Singleback	71
22 personnel → I_Form	53
12 personnel → Shotgun	27
21 personnel → Empty	22
11 personnel → I_Form	17
22 personnel → Singleback	14
21 personnel → Pistol	13
12 personnel → Empty	11
11 personnel → Pistol	7
22 personnel → Empty	5
22 personnel → Shotgun	5
Other → Other	5
22 personnel → Other	4
11 personnel → Unknown	3
12 personnel → I_Form	3
12 personnel → Pistol	3
11 personnel → Other	2
21 personnel → Unknown	2
Other → Empty	2
Other → Shotgun	2
12 personnel → Unknown	1
21 personnel → Other	1
22 personnel → Pistol	1
22 personnel → Unknown	1
Other → I_Form	1
Other → Singleback	1
Shotgun → Pass	397
Singleback → Run	174
I_Form → Run	173
Shotgun → Run	172
Empty → Pass	109
Singleback → Pass	82
I_Form → Pass	35
Pistol → Run	14
Other → Run	10
Pistol → Pass	10
Empty → Run	8
Unknown → Pass	6
Other → Pass	2
Unknown → Run	1
Pass → Failure	339
Run → Failure	320
Pass → Success	183
Run → Success	174
Pass → Explosive	119
Run → Explosive	58