2026 season · Pass Rate Over Expected

Arizona Cardinals pass rate over expected, 2026

-0.1

13th of 32 in the NFL

League median
-1.9
Sample
On 135 neutral-script plays through Week 5

Do the Cardinals pass more than expected?

The Cardinals have a pass rate over expected of -0.1 through Week 5, 13th in the NFL — above zero means they throw more often than the game situation calls for.

Week by week

Season to date after each week — the pass rate over expected and rank as the board stood once that week was filed, not the single week’s own figure.

Arizona Cardinals pass rate over expected after each week of 2026
ThroughPROERank
Week 1-0.513th
Week 2+2.29th
Week 3+1.09th
Week 4-0.113th
Week 5-0.113th

Last season

Down from +4.2 in 2025, which ranked 2nd of 32.

From the Cardinals weekly

Fourth and four at the Giants four, eleven seconds left, Arizona down thirty to twenty-four with its last timeout just spent. A touchdown and the kick would have won it. The Cardinals had driven sixty-three yards in under two minutes to get there, the last eighteen on a pass interference flag against Banks on third and six, and then Jacoby Brissett threw three straight incompletions from the four. On fourth down he threw short left for Michael Wilson, and Banks intercepted at the two and ran ninety-eight yards the other way for a touchdown. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, Arizona was at twenty-two percent before the snap. By expected points added, what a snap was worth given the down, the distance and the field position against what that situation was already worth, it was minus nine and a half, the costliest snap of the game. The Cardinals lost thirty-six to twenty-four in New York.

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Which teams pass the most over expected in 2026?

Cincinnati Bengals (+5.6), Carolina Panthers (+4.2), then Pittsburgh Steelers (+4.1) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Pass Rate Over Expected board.

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