2026 season · Defensive Blitz Rate

New Orleans Saints blitz rate, 2026

29.6%

16th of 32 in the NFL

League median
28.6%
Sample
On 115 dropbacks faced through Week 3

How often do the Saints blitz?

The Saints have sent five or more pass rushers on 29.6% of the dropbacks they faced through Week 3, 16th 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.

New Orleans Saints blitz rate after each week of 2026
ThroughBlitz%Rank
Week 122.0%22nd
Week 229.5%16th
Week 329.6%16th

Last season

Up from 25.8% in 2025, which ranked 19th of 32.

From the Saints weekly

Third and four at the Las Vegas twenty-nine, thirteen oh four left in the game, New Orleans up twenty-seven to twenty-two. Tyler Shough went back to pass, Koonce sacked him for a ten-yard loss and forced a fumble, and Maxx Crosby recovered for the Raiders at their own forty-five. Fourteen and a half points of win probability on one snap — 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, it was minus five point seven. It was the first of four. The Saints' last four possessions ended in a sack-fumble, an interception, a sack-fumble on fourth down, and a fumble after a catch, all in the fourth quarter. They had led twenty-seven to sixteen with five forty-six left in the third, when the model gave them an eighty-seven percent chance. They lost thirty-five to twenty-seven at home, and the Raiders scored the last nineteen points.

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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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