2026 season · Pre-Snap Motion Rate

New Orleans Saints pre-snap motion rate, 2026

54.0%

5th of 32 in the NFL

League median
45.4%
Sample
On 278 plays through Week 3

How often do the Saints use pre-snap motion?

The Saints have put a man in motion before the snap on 54.0% of their plays through Week 3, 5th 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.

New Orleans Saints pre-snap motion rate after each week of 2026
ThroughMotion%Rank
Week 149.5%12th
Week 251.3%7th
Week 354.0%5th

Last season

Up from 49.6% in 2025, which ranked 6th of 32.

From the Saints weekly

Third and four at the Las Vegas twenty-nine, thirteen oh four left in the game, New Orleans up twenty-seven to twenty-two. Tyler Shough went back to pass, Koonce sacked him for a ten-yard loss and forced a fumble, and Maxx Crosby recovered for the Raiders at their own forty-five. Fourteen and a half 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 was minus five point seven. It was the first of four. The Saints' last four possessions ended in a sack-fumble, an interception, a sack-fumble on fourth down, and a fumble after a catch, all in the fourth quarter. They had led twenty-seven to sixteen with five forty-six left in the third, when the model gave them an eighty-seven percent chance. They lost thirty-five to twenty-seven at home, and the Raiders scored the last nineteen points.

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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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