Playing-time breakdown: Defense

September, 11, 2012
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A look at how the Jets divided the playing time on defense in Sunday's win over the Bills (based on 63 snaps):

DEFENSIVE LINE

Muhammad Wilkerson -- 53

Quinton Coples -- 32

Kenrick Ellis -- 30

Mike DeVito -- 27

Marcus Dixon -- 16.

LINEBACKER

David Harris -- 63

Calvin Pace -- 60

Bart Scott -- 54

Aaron Maybin -- 16

Garrett McIntyre -- 15

Josh Mauga -- 11

Bryan Thomas -- 9

SECONDARY

Yeremiah Bell -- 63

LaRon Landry -- 63

Antonio Cromartie -- 59

Kyle Wilson -- 54

Darrelle Revis -- 50

Isaiah Trufant -- 9

Ellis Lankster -- 9

Analysis: The blowout, plus injuries to Thomas and Revis, allowed some of the backups to get more playing time than expected ... Coples, the No. 1 pick, and DeVito basically split their playing time ... Interesting that Scott didn't come off the field; he has played his way back into the good graces ... It was a surprisingly heavy workload for Ellis, considering the Jets were in nickel and dime packages so often against the Bills' spread offense.
Rich Cimini, longtime Jets beat writer for the New York Daily News and a Syracuse graduate, covers Gang Green for ESPNNewYork.com.
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