2026 season · Defensive Blitz Rate

Pittsburgh Steelers blitz rate, 2026

26.9%

18th of 32 in the NFL

League median
28.6%
Sample
On 93 dropbacks faced through Week 3

How often do the Steelers blitz?

The Steelers have sent five or more pass rushers on 26.9% of the dropbacks they faced through Week 3, 18th 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.

Pittsburgh Steelers blitz rate after each week of 2026
ThroughBlitz%Rank
Week 17.7%32nd
Week 224.5%23rd
Week 326.9%18th

Last season

Down from 30.7% in 2025, which ranked 7th of 32.

From the Steelers weekly

Fifty-three seconds left, Pittsburgh up thirty to twenty-seven, and Cincinnati at the Pittsburgh thirty-eight after converting a third and eight — first and ten, and by win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, the Bengals were at forty-five percent. Joe Burrow was sacked by Harmon, the ball came out, and Pittsburgh recovered. Forty-two points of win probability on one snap, the biggest swing of the game, 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 — minus four point one for Cincinnati. On defense, a big negative number is the good direction. Two kneel-downs later the Steelers had beaten the Bengals thirty to twenty-seven. A week earlier this offense scored three points in New England. Sunday it scored thirty, more than Weeks 1 and 2 combined, with three touchdown passes after one in the first two 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 Pittsburgh Steelers page.

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