2026 season · Pre-Snap Motion Rate

Minnesota Vikings pre-snap motion rate, 2026

42.0%

24th of 32 in the NFL

League median
45.4%
Sample
On 226 plays through Week 3

How often do the Vikings use pre-snap motion?

The Vikings have put a man in motion before the snap on 42.0% of their plays through Week 3, 24th 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.

Minnesota Vikings pre-snap motion rate after each week of 2026
ThroughMotion%Rank
Week 151.2%9th
Week 243.2%22nd
Week 342.0%24th

Last season

Up from 41.1% in 2025, which ranked 24th of 32.

From the Vikings weekly

Fourth and five at the Tampa Bay forty-five, nine minutes left in the first quarter, Minnesota up three to nothing. Tampa Bay punted forty-one yards to the Minnesota fourteen, and Price brought it back eighty-six yards for a touchdown. Eighteen points of win probability on one snap — 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, it cost Tampa Bay six point nine. Seven points was the final margin. Minnesota won at Tampa Bay twenty-three to sixteen, is three and oh, led for about fifty-four of the sixty minutes and never trailed. It did that on a day when its passing game posted the lowest success rate of any of the ninety-two team games played this season, and its offense never ran a play inside the Tampa Bay twenty.

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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.

More on this team: the Minnesota Vikings page.

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