2026 season · Pre-Snap Motion Rate

Arizona Cardinals pre-snap motion rate, 2026

47.4%

13th of 32 in the NFL

League median
44.7%
Sample
On 344 plays through Week 5

How often do the Cardinals use pre-snap motion?

The Cardinals have put a man in motion before the snap on 47.4% of their plays through Week 5, 13th in the NFL.

Week by week

Season to date after each week — the pre-snap motion rate and rank as the board stood once that week was filed, not the single week’s own figure.

Arizona Cardinals pre-snap motion rate after each week of 2026
ThroughMotion%Rank
Week 150.5%10th
Week 250.3%10th
Week 350.0%9th
Week 447.4%14th
Week 547.4%13th

Last season

Up from 35.4% in 2025, which ranked 30th of 32.

From the Cardinals weekly

Fourth and four at the Giants four, eleven seconds left, Arizona down thirty to twenty-four with its last timeout just spent. A touchdown and the kick would have won it. The Cardinals had driven sixty-three yards in under two minutes to get there, the last eighteen on a pass interference flag against Banks on third and six, and then Jacoby Brissett threw three straight incompletions from the four. On fourth down he threw short left for Michael Wilson, and Banks intercepted at the two and ran ninety-eight yards the other way for a touchdown. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, Arizona was at twenty-two percent before the snap. By expected points added, what a snap was worth given the down, the distance and the field position against what that situation was already worth, it was minus nine and a half, the costliest snap of the game. The Cardinals lost thirty-six to twenty-four in New York.

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Which offenses use the most pre-snap motion in 2026?

San Francisco 49ers (64.4%), Miami Dolphins (63.5%), then Los Angeles Chargers (57.4%) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Pre-Snap Motion Rate board.

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