Ask for an explanation of why wide receiver Hunter Renfrow’s playing time dipped in the Carolina Panthers’ win over the Atlanta Falcons in Week 3, and offensive coordinator Brad Idzik will remind you of something obvious.

“Not to be facetious, but everybody dropped in snaps a little bit from the Arizona game,” Idzik said.

That’s fair enough. The Panthers (1-2) played a total of 85 offensive snaps on that Sunday in the team’s roarous comeback attempt against the Cardinals. It’s true too that Bryce Young threw the ball 55 times in Week 2, which inflated Renfrow’s playing time. A natural drop for Renfrow would thus make sense.

Still, look a bit closer, and it wasn’t a ho-hum playing-time decrease. It was significant. Renfrow played 42 snaps Week 1, or 66% of the offensive snaps. In Week 2,

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