GREEN BAY, Wis. -- In 16 regular-season games plus the NFC wild-card playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers, the Green Bay Packers’ special teams was on the field for 511 plays, according to weekly snap counts kept by the NFL.
Special teams coordinator Shawn Slocum used 58 different players on his units this season. That was four more than in 2012 and explains why coach Mike McCarthy said all the personnel changes caused in large part by injuries caught up with the Packers’ special teams by year’s end.
The Packers finished the regular season ranked seventh in punt return average (thanks largely in part to rookie returner Micah Hyde) but just 30th in kickoff return average. Slocum’s units struggled in coverage, ranking 29th in both punt return and kickoff return average allowed.
The specialists -- kicker Mason Crosby, punter Tim Masthay and long-snapper Brett Goode -- all had strong seasons.
Davon House, who played a team-high 338 snaps on special teams, led the Packers with 12 special teams tackles.
Here are the snap-count leaders on special teams with playing-time percentages in parenthesis. We’re not going to list all 58 players, but rather those who appeared on at least 10 percent of all special teams plays this season. (Earlier, we looked at playing time for every player on offense and on defense this season):
Davon House 338 (66.1 percent)
Ryan Taylor 335 (65.6 percent)
Jarrett Bush 311 (60.9 percent)
Jamari Lattimore 292 (57.1 percent)
Chris Banjo 273 (53.4 percent)
Micah Hyde 254 (49.7 percent)
John Kuhn 229 (44.8 percent)
Andy Mulumba 217 (42.5 percent)
M.D. Jennings 201 (39.3 percent)
Tim Masthay 192 (37.6 percent)
Jerron McMillian 179 (35.0 percent)
Brandon Bostick 163 (31.9 percent)
Mike Daniels 158 (30.9 percent)
Brett Goode 157 (30.7 percent)
Jake Stoneburner 149 (29.2 percent)
Mason Crosby 145 (28.4 percent)
Sean Richardson 133 (26.0 percent)
Datone Jones 111 (21.7 percent)
Morgan Burnett 97 (19.0 percent)
Jarrett Boykin 94 (18.4 percent)
Victor Aiyewa 90 (17.6 percent)
Sam Barrington 89 (17.4 percent)
Robert Francois 87 (17.0 percent)
Nate Palmer 85 (16.6 percent)
Josh Sitton 84 (16.4 percent)
T.J. Lang 83 (16.2 percent)
David Bakhtiari 83 (16.2 percent)
Mike Neal 83 (16.2 percent)
Marshall Newhouse 80 (15.7 percent)
Andrew Quarless 80 (15.7 percent)
Don Barclay 76 (14.4 percent)
Johnathan Franklin 71 (13.9 percent)
Johnny Jolly 63 (12.3 percent)
Kahlil Bell 59 (11.5 percent)