Steelers Broncos Wild Card Game Defensive Participation Chart & Personnel

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at 10:55 pm by Dave Bryan

Below is the defensive participation chart for the Pittsburgh Steelers Wild Card game loss versus the Denver Broncos this past Sunday in Denver.

The Steelers were in their base defense for 44 of the 55 non-penalty plays Sunday against the Broncos. Just 11 plays in the nickel sub-package. Nose tackle Casey Hampton left after just 2 plays with his ACL knee injury and left defensive end Brett Keisel left with an injured groin after 11 non-penalty snaps. Steve McLendon, Ziggy Hood and Cameron Heyward all finished out the game on the defensive line.

LaMarr Woodley saw 37 snaps and Jason Worilds saw the other 18 snaps when he came out. Larry Foote saw just 7 snaps to give James Farrior a breather.

Click on the image below to see the full PDF version of the defensive participation chart.

#	Player	POS	PLAYS
98	Casey Hampton	NT	2
90	Steve McLendon	NT	43
99	Brett Keisel	DE	11
96	Ziggy Hood	DE	53
97	Cameron Heyward	DE	45
92	James Harrison	OLB	55
94	Lawrence Timmons	ILB	55
93	Jason Worilds	OLB	18
51	James Farrior	ILB	48
50	Larry Foote	OLB	7
56	LaMarr Woodley	OLB	37
24	Ike Taylor	CB	55
22	William Gay	CB	55
23	Keenan Lewis	CB	11
43	Troy Polamalu	SS	55
29	Ryan Mundy	SS	55