2026 season · Pre-Snap Motion Rate

Cincinnati Bengals pre-snap motion rate, 2026

41.2%

25th of 32 in the NFL

League median
45.1%
Sample
On 323 plays through Week 4

How often do the Bengals use pre-snap motion?

The Bengals have put a man in motion before the snap on 41.2% of their plays through Week 4, 25th 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.

Cincinnati Bengals pre-snap motion rate after each week of 2026
ThroughMotion%Rank
Week 138.8%26th
Week 229.8%31st
Week 337.9%29th
Week 441.2%25th

Last season

Down from 42.0% in 2025, which ranked 20th of 32.

From the Bengals weekly

Fourth and ten at the Jacksonville twenty-one, fifty-six seconds left, Cincinnati down twenty-two to seventeen with no timeouts. Three snaps had carried the Bengals from their own seventeen into range: twenty-nine yards to Mitchell Tinsley, eighteen to Mike Gesicki, fifteen to Dohnte Meyers. Then three straight incompletions. On fourth down Joe Burrow threw short over the middle to Chase Brown, and Brown was brought down at the twelve. Nine yards, one short. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, that snap took Cincinnati from about thirty percent to three, the biggest swing of the game. 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 two point three. Jacksonville knelt twice. The Bengals lost twenty-two to seventeen at home on a day Burrow threw for four hundred twenty-eight yards.

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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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