Its always interesting to see a person not realize just how many special teams plays there are a game. During the regular season, the Bears had 83 kick offs to opponents, 59 kick off returns against opponents, 77 punts, 50 punt returns, 12 fair catches on punts, 47 extra point attempts, 36 field goal attempts 28 extra point attempts by opponetnts and 27 field goal attempts by opponents. Those are ALL special teams plays. So, 419 plays were for special teams. Approximately 26 plays a game. While its not even half of the number of either offensive or defensive plays, most everyone who knows about football agrees that special teams play has a huge impact on the game.
Wesley was on kick coverage and punt coverage. You'd be able to tell me whether he was on any other of the teams, like kick or punt return. My guess is that he probably was on both. Now, I am going to take a slight liberty and use some averages to approximate how many plays Wesley might have been in on considering he missed 3 regular season games last year. There were 281 plays (kick&punt coverage, kick&punt returns) that he could have been in on had he played all 16 games. He played 13. So, that figures to be approximaly 228 approximate plays that Wesley could have been in on. So a penalty every 57 special teams plays that he could have participated in. Conservatively speaking.
I guess, what I am saying is that 4 sounds like a lot, and it might be. But, no one here is touting this guy as a saviour. The most anyone has said, really, is that he'll potentially be a depth player.
