2026 season · Defensive Blitz Rate

Dallas Cowboys blitz rate, 2026

26.9%

20th of 32 in the NFL

League median
29.8%
Sample
On 130 dropbacks faced through Week 4

How often do the Cowboys blitz?

The Cowboys have sent five or more pass rushers on 26.9% of the dropbacks they faced through Week 4, 20th 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.

Dallas Cowboys blitz rate after each week of 2026
ThroughBlitz%Rank
Week 127.3%16th
Week 226.7%19th
Week 326.8%19th
Week 426.9%20th

Last season

Down from 28.1% in 2025, which ranked 9th of 32.

From the Cowboys weekly

Fourth and four at the Dallas thirty-two, a minute thirty-four left, down thirty to twenty-seven. On the snap before, third and one, CeeDee Lamb had been thrown to behind the line and brought down for a loss of three. Now, out of the no-huddle, Dak Prescott threw short over the middle to Jake Ferguson for seven yards and the first down. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, that snap moved ten and a half points Dallas's way. Seven snaps later, second and ten at the Houston twelve with forty-three seconds left, Prescott went short over the middle to Lamb for a twelve-yard touchdown, plus three point four expected points added — expected points added being what a snap was worth given the down, the distance and the field position, against what that situation was already worth — and twenty-nine points of win probability, the biggest swing of the game. The Cowboys won thirty-four to thirty in Houston and are two and two.

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Which defenses blitz the most in 2026?

Minnesota Vikings (72.5%), Washington Commanders (47.4%), then Tampa Bay Buccaneers (41.9%) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Defensive Blitz Rate board.

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