2026 season · Defensive Blitz Rate

Denver Broncos blitz rate, 2026

37.7%

6th of 32 in the NFL

League median
28.6%
Sample
On 122 dropbacks faced through Week 3

How often do the Broncos blitz?

The Broncos have sent five or more pass rushers on 37.7% of the dropbacks they faced through Week 3, 6th 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.

Denver Broncos blitz rate after each week of 2026
ThroughBlitz%Rank
Week 145.5%3rd
Week 234.4%10th
Week 337.7%6th

Last season

Up from 32.2% in 2025, which ranked 6th of 32.

From the Broncos weekly

First and goal at the Rams two, fifty-six seconds left, Denver down twenty-six to twenty-three. Bo Nix threw incomplete for Nate Adkins. On second down Nix went around right end and was ruled in, and replay put the ball at the one. After an encroachment flag on the Rams, on third and one, Nix went up the middle for the touchdown with forty-eight seconds left. Twenty points of win probability on one snap — win probability being the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment. Denver beat the Rams thirty to twenty-six on Sunday night at home, after trailing sixteen to nothing at halftime, and after the model had it at nine percent when its first drive of the third quarter ended in a punt. And it won while being outgained four hundred eighty-two net yards to two hundred fifty-seven. Two hundred twenty-five yards is the widest margin by which any team has been outgained and still won in the forty-seven games played so far this season.

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Which defenses blitz the most in 2026?

Minnesota Vikings (72.9%), Washington Commanders (46.6%), then Tampa Bay Buccaneers (46.2%) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Defensive Blitz Rate board.

More on this team: the Denver Broncos page.

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