Ahkello Witherspoon logged exactly four snaps in the first nine games of the 2021 season. All of them came in one game, in week two against the Las Vegas Raiders, one of which involved giving up a long go-ahead touchdown.
He was inactive as a healthy scratch after that all the way up until week 11, once Joe Haden went down with a Lisfranc foot injury that would knock him out for several weeks. He started two games during that time, but has since been able to carve out a more regular role, logging 247 snaps over the past six games.