2026 season · Defensive Blitz Rate

Chicago Bears blitz rate, 2026

40.5%

3rd of 32 in the NFL

League median
29.8%
Sample
On 116 dropbacks faced through Week 5

How often do the Bears blitz?

The Bears have sent five or more pass rushers on 40.5% of the dropbacks they faced through Week 5, 3rd in the NFL.

Week by week

Season to date after each week — the blitz rate and rank as the board stood once that week was filed, not the single week’s own figure.

Chicago Bears blitz rate after each week of 2026
ThroughBlitz%Rank
Week 132.6%12th
Week 238.8%8th
Week 342.9%4th
Week 440.5%4th
Week 540.5%3rd

Last season

Up from 27.5% in 2025, which ranked 15th of 32.

From the Bears weekly

Fourth and one at the Jets one, twenty-seven seconds left in the first quarter, no score. Chicago had already been here once. Its opening drive went fourteen plays from its own six to the Jets one, and replay took two D'Andre Swift touchdowns away, the second on fourth and one, and the Jets took over at their own one. This time Kyle Monangai went three yards to the one on second down, was stopped for no gain on third, and on fourth and one went behind the right guard and in. By expected points added, what a snap was worth given the down, the distance and the field position, measured against what that situation was already worth, that run was plus two point two. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, it was about seven points. The Bears led for the remaining forty-five minutes and beat the Jets twenty-three to twelve at home. They had the ball for about forty-three of the sixty minutes, and the Jets ran thirty-two pass and rush plays all day. Tyson Bagent, who threw nine passes in the first three weeks, threw every Bears pass.

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Which defenses blitz the most in 2026?

Minnesota Vikings (72.5%), Washington Commanders (47.4%), then Chicago Bears (40.5%) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Defensive Blitz Rate board.

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