Pro Football Focus revealed their top defenses against the run in third or fourth and short situations, and the Carolina Panthers ranked at the top of the list.
This information probably isn’t surprising news to Panthers fans, we do have the best middle linebacker and one of the best defensive tackles in the league after all in Luke Kuechly and Kawann Short, but it is still nice to get some statistical validation to be able to quantify just how good they were last year. The above numbers mean 48% of the time when another team attempted to run for a first down on third or fourth and two or less, we stopped them.