NEW ORLEANS — Take a look inside some of the key numbers and stats, as well as the snap counts, from the Panthers' 20-17 loss against the Saints on Sunday.

• Receiver Jalen Coker led the team with four catches for 60 yards, including his second receiving touchdown of the season on a 32-yard pass from quarterback Bryce Young.
• Coker has recorded touchdowns in back-to-back games for the first time in his career.

• Running back Rico Dowdle totaled 54 yards (49 rushing, five receiving), including a four-yard touchdown run on the team's opening possession. It marked his career-high seventh touchdown (sixth rushing) of the season.
• Quarterback Bryce Young completed 15-of-24 pass attempts (62.5 percent.) for 163 yards and a touchdown with a 96.4 rating. He also added a season-high 49 rushing yards, the second-highest rushing total of his career.
• On passes over 10 air yards, Young finished 5-of-8 for 126 yards, including a 32-yard touchdown pass to Coker in the third quarter. Young also completed all four of his attempts against the blitz for 52 yards. Across seven scrambles, Young gained 49 yards on the ground, earning three first downs on three explosive runs.

• Outside linebacker D.J. Wonnum recorded his first two sacks of the season, taking down QB Tyler Shough for a loss of six yards in the third quarter and no yards in the fourth. It marked the fourth multi-sack game of his career.
• Outside linebacker Trevis Gipson and linebacker Christian Rozeboom each recorded their first sacks of the season and first sacks as Panthers.
• Cornerback Jaycee Horn totaled a season-high seven tackles with two passes defensed, his third game this season (second-consecutive) with multiple passes defensed.
• Cornerback Mike Jackson recorded six tackles a tackle for loss, a pass defended and his first-career forced fumble.
• Safety Nick Scott led the team with a season-high 10 tackles, his third-career game with at least 10 tackles.

• Rookie OLB Nic Scourton and defensive tackle Bobby Brown III split a sack of Saints QB Tyler Shough in the third quarter. It marked Brown's second half sack of his career.
• Scourton is now is tied for third among all rookies with 3.5 sacks this season.
• Brown also tied a career high with six tackles.

• Kicker Ryan Fitzgerald converted his lone field goal attempt – a 40-yarder. It marked his 20th field goal conversion of the season, becoming the second Panther rookie kicker with 20 made field goals, joining Joey Slye (25 in 2019).
• Punter Sam Martin recorded a 47.3-yard gross average and 47.3-yard net average on 3 punts with two inside the 20, no touchbacks and long of 56 yards.

• The Panthers allowed six first downs by penalty. This equaled the most first downs allowed by penalty in team history, previously accomplished versus Atlanta on Oct. 03, 2004.
• Carolina scored on their opening drive for the ninth time this season, tied with Buffalo for the second-most opening-drive scores in the league. Only the Chargers (10) have more. It marked the team's sixth opening-drive touchdown of the season, tied for the third-most in the league.
• The Panthers recorded five sacks in a game for the second time this season (six at the New York Jets in Week 7).
• Carolina converted two fourth-down attempts, giving them 23 on the season, the most in the NFL.

Snap Counts

Take a look at the snap counts and playtime percentage for the Panthers in Week 15 of the regular season against the Saints.

• The running back rotation flipped back again. After Chuba Hubbard got the bulk of the work last week against the Rams, with 59 percent of the snaps to Rico Dowdle's 42, it went back the other way Sunday. Dowdle had 60 percent of the snaps and Hubbard 42 percent. That included the delightful play in which Hubbard lined up as a fullback early and converted a third down.
• Ja'Tavion Sanders led the tight ends in snaps Sunday with 30, but they used all three, with Tommy Tremble getting 28 and Mitchell Evans 25. On a day when they came out with the intention to run, opening with all three on the field for the first play was a sign.
• Reserve offensive lineman Jake Curhan is deep enough in the offense that he's drawing extra duty. His three snaps as a sixth (the role played in the past by Brady Christensen or Chandler Zavala) were also a sign of the desire to run.

• Without defensive tackle Tershawn Wharton, who was inactive with a hamstring strain, others had to pick up the slack. Derrick Brown played 60 of the 69 snaps, and A'Shawn Robinson played 56.
• Bobby Brown III also played more, with 32 snaps (twice as many as last game), and made the most of them, with a lineman-high six tackles, along with half a sack and a quarterback hit.
• Trevis Gipson continues to play an important role in the outside linebacker rotation, with 35 percent of the snaps. He's better able to play the run than Princely Umanmielen (17 percent), which is why he gets more work.

• Fewer names in this box this week, since a few of the special teamers got a little defensive work late. But they still got the normal heavy workload from Claudin Cherelus, who played 87 percent of the special teams snaps.
• With Thomas Incoom (87 percent) and Brycen Tremayne (65 percent) pulling double duty, the next-most went to backup linebackers Maema Njongmeta and Bam Martin-Scott, who played 65 percent of the snaps each.