Over the course of the 2015 season, the top five players along the Cincinnati Bengals’ defensive line—the four starters as well as top reserve Wallace Gilberry—accounted for about 86 percent of the team’s total snaps along the defensive line, with Pro Bowl defensive end leading with 81 percent of snaps played. That was the 12th-highest percentage in the league among defensive linemen.
From the sounds of it, the defensive coaching staff in Cincinnati, particularly new defensive line coach Jacob Burney, wants to see that number reduced. Burney, a veteran line coach of over 20 years with several different teams, including the Browns and Ravens, seems most eager, in fact.