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Carolina Panthers 2025 vs San Francisco 49ers 2022

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 2022

Metric	CAR	Shift	SF
Plays	1,054	—	1,201
Pass rate	59.4%	+5.9%	53.5%
Shotgun rate	59.8%	+11.5%	48.3%
Explosive rate	11.6%	−2.9%	14.5%
Success rate	43.2%	−2.6%	45.8%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	66.6%	+23.6%	43.0%
12 personnel	21.0%	+6.3%	14.7%
21 personnel	1.8%	−32.7%	34.5%
13 personnel	8.3%	+8.3%	0.0%
22 personnel	1.0%	−5.3%	6.3%
Other personnel	1.3%	−0.2%	1.5%

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 · 2022

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	355
21 personnel → Shotgun	148
21 personnel → I_Form	121
21 personnel → Singleback	86
12 personnel → Singleback	82
11 personnel → Singleback	76
12 personnel → Shotgun	70
11 personnel → Empty	65
21 personnel → Pistol	39
22 personnel → I_Form	35
22 personnel → Singleback	26
21 personnel → Empty	17
11 personnel → Pistol	16
12 personnel → Pistol	10
12 personnel → Empty	9
Other → Jumbo	9
12 personnel → I_Form	5
22 personnel → Jumbo	5
22 personnel → Shotgun	5
11 personnel → I_Form	4
22 personnel → Empty	4
Other → Pistol	3
21 personnel → Other	2
Other → I_Form	2
Other → Shotgun	2
11 personnel → Jumbo	1
21 personnel → Jumbo	1
22 personnel → Pistol	1
Other → Empty	1
Other → Singleback	1
Shotgun → Pass	422
Singleback → Run	185
Shotgun → Run	158
I_Form → Run	146
Empty → Pass	92
Singleback → Pass	86
Pistol → Run	50
I_Form → Pass	21
Pistol → Pass	19
Jumbo → Run	15
Empty → Run	4
Jumbo → Pass	1
Other → Pass	1
Other → Run	1
Pass → Failure	331
Run → Failure	320
Pass → Success	204
Run → Success	172
Pass → Explosive	107
Run → Explosive	67