Yesterday, we looked at which personnel groupings were most popular on offense in 2020. Now, it's time to flip that around and look at how defenses responded.
The story of offensive personnel was the lack of story—the degree to which personnel usage did not change in 2020. That raises an interesting question defensively. With no significant change in the composition of opposing offenses, would we see any change in defensive personnel groups? After crunching the numbers, we can come with an absolute, unqualified … maybe. It's complicated.
In 2020, defenses played in nickel on 59.