2026 season · Defensive Blitz Rate

Detroit Lions blitz rate, 2026

35.4%

10th of 32 in the NFL

League median
28.6%
Sample
On 144 dropbacks faced through Week 3

How often do the Lions blitz?

The Lions have sent five or more pass rushers on 35.4% of the dropbacks they faced through Week 3, 10th 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.

Detroit Lions blitz rate after each week of 2026
ThroughBlitz%Rank
Week 134.9%10th
Week 242.6%5th
Week 335.4%10th

Last season

Up from 27.4% in 2025, which ranked 16th of 32.

From the Lions weekly

Twenty-four all, four oh six left, first and ten at the Detroit thirty-five, one snap after the Jets had tied it with a fourth-down touchdown and a two-point conversion. Jared Goff threw deep middle to Isaac TeSlaa for forty-nine yards to the Jets sixteen: fourteen and a half points of win probability — win probability being the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment — and 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, plus three point one. Three snaps later, third and five at the eleven, Goff threw short right to Jahmyr Gibbs for the touchdown with two thirty left: seventeen points of win probability, the second-biggest swing of the game. The Jets reached the Detroit twenty-eight on the next drive, and on second and ten with fifty-one seconds left Geno Smith was sacked for thirteen yards by Clark, who knocked the ball loose, and Jack Campbell recovered. Detroit won thirty-one to twenty-four at home, and has now scored thirty-one points in all three of its games.

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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 Detroit Lions page.

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