2026 season · Pre-Snap Motion Rate

Chicago Bears pre-snap motion rate, 2026

38.5%

26th of 32 in the NFL

League median
45.4%
Sample
On 265 plays through Week 3

How often do the Bears use pre-snap motion?

The Bears have put a man in motion before the snap on 38.5% of their plays through Week 3, 26th 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.

Chicago Bears pre-snap motion rate after each week of 2026
ThroughMotion%Rank
Week 144.2%19th
Week 236.8%28th
Week 338.5%26th

Last season

Down from 46.0% in 2025, which ranked 12th of 32.

From the Bears weekly

Fourth and one at the Philadelphia thirty-two, ten fifty-two left in the first quarter, no score, on the opening drive. Case Keenum — taking every Bears snap at quarterback with Caleb Williams out with a hamstring strain, per the Bears' own team site — threw short left to Sam Roush for sixteen 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 was plus two point six. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, it was about ten and a half points, the biggest swing on a Chicago snap all night. Three plays later, third and two from the eight, Keenum found Luther Burden over the middle for the touchdown, six to nothing with eight fifty-six left in the first and seven after the kick. Chicago led for the remaining fifty-four minutes of game clock, never trailed, and the model never had the Bears below the fifty-five percent it gave them at kickoff. The Bears' passing game took no sack and threw no interception. Twenty-seven to seven, Monday night at home.

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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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