2026 season · Pre-Snap Motion Rate

Detroit Lions pre-snap motion rate, 2026

42.5%

21st of 32 in the NFL

League median
45.4%
Sample
On 259 plays through Week 3

How often do the Lions use pre-snap motion?

The Lions have put a man in motion before the snap on 42.5% of their plays through Week 3, 21st 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.

Detroit Lions pre-snap motion rate after each week of 2026
ThroughMotion%Rank
Week 145.4%16th
Week 240.9%25th
Week 342.5%21st

Last season

Down from 47.2% in 2025, which ranked 10th of 32.

From the Lions weekly

Twenty-four all, four oh six left, first and ten at the Detroit thirty-five, one snap after the Jets had tied it with a fourth-down touchdown and a two-point conversion. Jared Goff threw deep middle to Isaac TeSlaa for forty-nine yards to the Jets sixteen: fourteen and a half points of win probability — win probability being the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment — 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, plus three point one. Three snaps later, third and five at the eleven, Goff threw short right to Jahmyr Gibbs for the touchdown with two thirty left: seventeen points of win probability, the second-biggest swing of the game. The Jets reached the Detroit twenty-eight on the next drive, and on second and ten with fifty-one seconds left Geno Smith was sacked for thirteen yards by Clark, who knocked the ball loose, and Jack Campbell recovered. Detroit won thirty-one to twenty-four at home, and has now scored thirty-one points in all three of its games.

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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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