2026 season · Pass Rate Over Expected

Buffalo Bills pass rate over expected, 2026

-0.4

14th of 32 in the NFL

League median
-1.9
Sample
On 113 neutral-script plays through Week 5

Do the Bills pass more than expected?

The Bills have a pass rate over expected of -0.4 through Week 5, 14th 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.

Buffalo Bills pass rate over expected after each week of 2026
ThroughPROERank
Week 1+3.76th
Week 2+6.62nd
Week 3+0.410th
Week 4-0.414th
Week 5-0.414th

Last season

Up from -3.3 in 2025, which ranked 22nd of 32.

From the Bills weekly

Second and six at the Buffalo forty, one fourteen left in the game, Buffalo down twenty-nine to twenty-six. Josh Allen threw deep left for Josh Palmer, and Woodson intercepted at the New England nineteen. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, that throw cost Buffalo twenty-seven points, 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, minus one point seven. Buffalo still had all three timeouts, and two snaps later New England faced third and ten at its own nineteen, but Hunter Henry caught a twelve-yard ball for the first down and the Patriots ran out the clock. Patriots twenty-nine, Bills twenty-six. Buffalo is three and one, and this is the first loss.

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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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