Even Tyrann Mathieu had hoped he would've played a little better this season, but he did improve as the season went on and was healthy. And not only was the Honey Badger healthy, he played a lot. It's remarkable that the safety, who didn't play a full season until this year, ended up leading the entire NFL in snaps played.

Mathieu finished with 1,263 snaps on the field -- 1,058 on defense and another 207 on special teams. That topped Tennessee cornerback Adoree Jackson's 1,258 (1,022 on defense, 224 on special teams, and 12 on offense.) There were a handful of players who played more on defense (including former teammates and safeties Tony Jefferson and D.J. Swearinger) but that was in part because the Cardinals' sixth-ranked defense was able to get off the field more often. It wasn't like Mathieu rested much. He sat out only six defensive snaps all season.

Five Cardinals played at least 1,000 snaps this season -- Mathieu, Chandler Jones, Patrick Peterson, A.Q. Shipley (who played 100 percent of the Cards' 1,124 offensive snaps) and Larry Fitzgerald.

But the other four don't grab the attention as much as Mathieu, who truly maximized his first season of total health.