CINCINNATI -- Injuries affected much of what the Cincinnati Bengals could accomplish in 2014.

Still, they had to play around those who were hurt. As a result, several backups, even a couple of rookies, saw more playing time than they probably were expected to have. As we continue reviewing the season, we're spending the next few days briefly analyzing the snap-count percentages for individual players at specific positions.

Click here for analysis of other positions. We continue with the quarterbacks and running backs.

It's no surprise Andy Dalton played as much as he did in 2014, although there likely are some Bengals fans who believe he played too much. Dalton's inconsistency aside, he has started every game at quarterback for Cincinnati since his rookie year in 2011. By today's standards, and considering how problematic injuries were this past season, it's a wonder he has been so consistent in that regard.

Dalton did give the Bengals one brief injury scare late in the year when he was on the ground for a while after a hard hit. He only had his wind knocked out, though, and returned to that game.

Of the six players listed in the chart, the most intriguing playing-time story lines revolve around Jeremy Hill and Giovani Bernard. Although it didn't seem like it at times during the second half of the season, the pair finished the season with about an equal amount of playing time. Exactly two plays separated the running backs from having a perfect 50-50 split of snaps. It seemed like Hill probably had a lot more than two snaps over Bernard given how much time the latter missed due to hard shots he received throughout the season, and given the clear push to getting the football in Hill's hands across the final nine weeks of the season.

Before the Week 15 game at Cleveland, offensive coordinator Hue Jackson told the pair that he wanted the rookie Hill to carry the football as the feature back. That Sunday, he did just that, getting 25 carries for 148 yards and two touchdowns in a 30-0 win. He had more than 20 carries in the final two regular-season games, too.

But even before that, Hill had emerged as the dominant player in the backfield. He had three-straight games of 43 or more snaps when Bernard sat in the middle of the season because of injuries to his hip and clavicle. In two of those games, Hill rushed for 154 and 152 yards, respectively. From Week 9 through the end of the regular season, no running back in the league had more rushing yards than his 929. It's for reasons like that it seemed he was on the field a lot more often than Bernard in the Bengals' base one-back system.

At the beginning of the season, though, in the first seven games, Bernard was on the field for 38 or more snaps in five times. During that same seven-game stretch, Hill had fewer than 20 snaps in four of them.