2026 season · Defensive Blitz Rate

Los Angeles Chargers blitz rate, 2026

24.5%

23rd of 32 in the NFL

League median
28.6%
Sample
On 102 dropbacks faced through Week 3

How often do the Chargers blitz?

The Chargers have sent five or more pass rushers on 24.5% of the dropbacks they faced through Week 3, 23rd 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.

Los Angeles Chargers blitz rate after each week of 2026
ThroughBlitz%Rank
Week 123.1%20th
Week 225.4%20th
Week 324.5%23rd

Last season

Up from 19.8% in 2025, which ranked 29th of 32.

From the Chargers weekly

Third and five at the Buffalo twenty-three, thirteen thirty-eight left in the game, the Chargers up thirteen to ten. On the first snap of the fourth quarter the defense had taken the ball away for the fifth time, a strip-sack of Josh Allen ruled down by contact on the field and overturned when the Chargers challenged, and the offense had started at the Buffalo twenty-eight. Justin Herbert threw deep middle for Marquez Valdes-Scantling, and Gardner-Johnson intercepted it at the Buffalo one and brought it back forty-one yards. 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 throw was minus five point eight. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, it cost eighteen points: the Chargers had been at seventy-five percent before the snap. Buffalo drove fifty-eight yards for its first lead of the day, scored again, and won twenty-four to sixteen. The Chargers led for about thirty-nine minutes, did not trail until seven thirty-seven remained, and are oh and three.

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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.

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