INSIDE THE NUMBERS - PANTHERS @ RAIDERS

 
 

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LAS VEGAS — A look inside the numbers from Sunday's 36-22 win over the Raiders.

• Quarterback Andy Dalton finished with 319 passing yards (26-37) and three passing touchdowns, no interceptions. He is the first quarterback in the NFL this season to go over 300 passing yards and three passing touchdowns.
  
  
• Running back Chuba Hubbard finished with 114 rushing yards, his most since Week 15 of the 2022 season, when he had 125 yards in a win over the Detroit Lions.
  
  
• Hubbard added 55 receiving yards, to finish with 169 scrimmage yards, making it the best all-purpose performance of his NFL career.
  
  
• Receiver Diontae Johnson finished with eight receptions for 122 receiving yards, making the day his best career reception performance. Johnson has been in the league since 2019. This is also the first 100-plus receiving yard game Johnson has had since Week 12 of the 2022 season.
  
  
• Johnson and Hubbard become the first Panthers duo to each go over 100 yards since Week 17 of the 2022 season, when D'Onta Foreman and D.J. Moore achieved the feat versus the Broncos.
  
  
• The Panthers offense finished with six passes of 20-plus yards, with the longest being a 35-yarder from Andy Dalton to Johnson. Coming in to the day, the Panthers offense had not completed a pass over 15-yards at all through the first two games.
  
  
• The 35-yarder to Johnson is the longest passing play completed by the Panthers offense since Week 10 of the 2023 season, when Bryce Young threw a 40-yard pass to Michael Strachan.
  
  
• Dalton's 31-yard touchdown pass to Adam Thielen was the longest passing touchdown the Panthers offense has had since Week 3 of the 2023 season, when Dalton hit D.J. Chark for a 47-yard score.
  
  
• The Panthers scored on their opening drive of the game, the first opening-drive touchdown since Week 17, 2022 against Tampa Bay.
  
  

• The Panthers defense held receiver Davante Adams to 40-yards on four receptions. It is only the seventh time, since joining the Raiders in 2022, that Adams has been held to 40 or fewer receiving yards.
  
  
• Defensive lineman Jayden Peevy registered his first career solo sack, taking down Gardner Minshew in the second quarter.
  
  
• Corner Mike Jackson finished with a team-leading nine tackles. It was his career high in total tackles, since entering the league in 2019. All nine tackles were solo tackles.
  
  
• Three different Panthers recorded sacks against the Raiders: Jadeveon Clowney, Peevy and linebacker Josey Jewell.
  
  
• There were seven passes defended against the Raiders, with Jackson breaking up three of them.
  

Next Gen Stats

• Jadeveon Clowney finished with a team-high 8 pressures and a sack, including 4 pressures in under 2.5 seconds in the Panthers first win of the season.
  
  
• The Panthers defense generated more pressures against the Raiders in Week 3 (18) than they did in Weeks 1 and 2 combined (13).
  
  
• Hubbard was at his best rushing out of 11 personnel, rushing for 66 yards on 11 carries which included 9 successful runs. After forcing just 5 missed tackles through Week 2, Hubbard forced 8 missed tackles in Week 3.
  
  
• The Raiders blitzed Dalton on 59% of his dropbacks, more than double their blitz rate in Weeks 1 and 2 (25.4%), however, Dalton got rid of the ball in 2.02 seconds on average against the blitz to negate pressure. Dalton was most efficient against man coverage, completing 16 of 20 for 184 yards and a touchdown (+7.7% CPOE).
  
  
• Johnson was at his best on in-breaking routes on the day (6 of 8 receptions and 100 of 122 receiving yards). Johnson accounted for 56.8% of the Panthers team air yards for 109 targeted air yards – the next closest Panthers receiver finished with 43 targeted air yards.
  

Snap Counts

Take a look at the snap counts and playtime percentage for the Panthers in Week 3 of the regular season against the Raiders.

Player 
Offensive Snaps Special Teams Snaps

Ikem Ekwonu
74 (100%)            6 (20%)

Robert Hunt
74 (100%)            6 (20%)

Taylor Moton
74 (100%)             6 (20%)

Austin Corbett
74 (100%)

Andy Dalton
74 (100%)

Tommy Tremble
64 (86%)               1 (3%)

Diontae Johnson
58 (78%)

Damien Lewis
54 (73%)            5 (17%)

Jonathan Mingo
49 (66%)            4 (13%)

Xavier Legette
44 (59%)            3 (10%)

Chuba Hubbard
43 (58%)

Miles Sanders
31 (42%)            1 (3%)

Ja'Tavion Sanders
26 (35%)            10 (33%)

Adam Thielen
23 (31%)

Chandler Zavala
22 (30%)            6 (20%)

David Moore
19 (26%)            11 (37%)

Brady Christensen
7 (9%)            6 (20%)

Feleipe Franks
2 (3%)            22 (73%)

Raheem Blackshear
2 (3%)            13 (43%)

• The first thing that jumps out at you is that the offense played 74 snaps. After just 48 a week ago against the Chargers, that's a significant difference.
  
  
• Chandler Zavala subbed in for starting left guard Damien Lewis for 20 snaps when Lewis left with an elbow injury, the first reserve offensive line snaps of the season after the starters played every snap of the first two games.
  
  
• With Adam Thielen leaving with a hamstring injury after his touchdown, the receiver snap distribution was out of whack. Tight end Tommy Tremble actually had more snaps than any of the wideouts, which also speaks to his all-purpose role in the offense.
  
  

Player 
Defensive Snaps    Special Teams Snaps

Shaq Thompson
64 (100%)            4 (13%)

Mike Jackson
64 (100%)            3 (10%)

Jaycee Horn
64 (100%)            3 (10%)

Xavier Woods
64 (100%)

Jadeveon Clowney
50 (78%)

Troy Hill            48 (75%)

Charles Harris
45 (70%)            10 (33%)

Josey Jewell
44 (69%)

LaBryan Ray
37 (58%)            3 (10%)

A'Shawn Robinson
37 (58%)            2 (7%)

Nick Scott
36 (56%)            17 (57%)

Jordan Fuller
34 (53%)

Jayden Peevy
27 (42%)            5 (17%)

DeShawn Williams
27 (42%)            1 (3%)

Nick Thurman
17 (27%)            5 (17%)

DJ Johnson
15 (23%)            5 (17%)

Trevin Wallace
11 (17%)            21 (70%)

Jammie Robinson
11 (17%)            17 (57%)

Tarron Jackson
9 (14%)            9 (30%)

• Shaq Thompson again played every snap, along with Mike Jackson, Jaycee Horn, and Xavier Woods.
  
  
• The outside linebacker position is a rotational one by nature, but Jadeveon Clowney (78 percent) and Charles Harris (70 percent) took most of the work, with DJ Johnson and Tarron Jackson filling in.
  
  
• Rookie linebacker Trevin Wallace got his first work on defense while continuing to play a big special teams role. The third-rounder got 11 snaps as they build out what he can contribute to on defense.
  

Player 
Special Teams Snaps

Claudin Cherelus
21 (70%)

Jon Rhattigan
20 (67%)

Mike Boone
15 (50%)

Chau Smith-Wade
15 (50%)

Eddy Piñeiro
14 (47%)

Lonnie Johnson
14 (47%)

JJ Jansen
10 (33%)

Johnny Hekker
10 (33%)

Yosh Nijman
6 (20%)

• If you want a snap count that speaks to the difference in this game, it's Eddy Piñeiro getting 14 snaps. When you're busy kicking extra points and field goals and kicking off, it's a positive sign. He only had to work for three snaps last week.
  
  
• Claudin Cherelus, Jon Rhattigan, Feleipe Franks, and Wallace each had more than 20 snaps of special teams, showing the core group that coordinator Tracy Smith can count on.
  

I have to give a hand to my man, Michael Jackson, though. He was a thriller all game long

I have to give a hand to my man, Michael Jackson, though.  He was a thriller all game long

He was great.  Breaking up passes, tackling, got an INT.  What also was impressive was how he fought...successfully, to keep a LV player in bounds late in the game.  That guy definitely wanted out to stop the clock.

This team, on both offense and defense are still learning to play with each other in our schemes.  The future could be pretty decent.


And those stats.   Wow.