2026 season · Pre-Snap Motion Rate

Arizona Cardinals pre-snap motion rate, 2026

50.0%

9th of 32 in the NFL

League median
45.4%
Sample
On 260 plays through Week 3

How often do the Cardinals use pre-snap motion?

The Cardinals have put a man in motion before the snap on 50.0% of their plays through Week 3, 9th 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

Last season

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

From the Cardinals weekly

Fourth and two at the San Francisco twenty, thirteen thirty-eight left in the game, Arizona down twenty-three to thirteen. Jacoby Brissett threw deep left for Trey McBride, the pass fell incomplete, and a nineteen-yard pass interference penalty on the 49ers put the ball at the one. Win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, moved thirteen points toward Arizona, more than on any other Cardinals snap all day. 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 plus three point eight. Two plays later Brissett threw to Jeremiyah Love for a one-yard touchdown, and it was twenty-three to twenty. Arizona would get within two before the end. It never got ahead. The Cardinals lost thirty-six to thirty at San Francisco, never led at any point, and after the 49ers' first touchdown their chance of winning never rose above about thirty-one percent.

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

Miami Dolphins (64.9%), San Francisco 49ers (64.3%), then Los Angeles Chargers (62.3%) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Pre-Snap Motion Rate board.

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