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Ryan Wendell tops in NFL in snaps taken

The people at FootballOutsiders.com went through the gamebooks from all 256 regular-season games and tabulated the total number of snaps played by every player in the NFL.

Thanks to playing center on an offense that likes to play at a rapid-fire pace and getting through the year fairly healthy, the Patriots’ Ryan Wendell was the 2012 leader in total snaps played.

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