2026 season · Pass Rate Over Expected

Chicago Bears pass rate over expected, 2026

-1.6

19th of 32 in the NFL

League median
-1.0
Sample
On 124 neutral-script plays through Week 3

Do the Bears pass more than expected?

The Bears have a pass rate over expected of -1.6 through Week 3, 19th 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.

Chicago Bears pass rate over expected after each week of 2026
ThroughPROERank
Week 1-1.714th
Week 2-5.423rd
Week 3-1.619th

Last season

Up from -3.3 in 2025, which ranked 23rd of 32.

From the Bears weekly

Fourth and one at the Philadelphia thirty-two, ten fifty-two left in the first quarter, no score, on the opening drive. Case Keenum — taking every Bears snap at quarterback with Caleb Williams out with a hamstring strain, per the Bears' own team site — threw short left to Sam Roush for sixteen yards. 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, that was plus two point six. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, it was about ten and a half points, the biggest swing on a Chicago snap all night. Three plays later, third and two from the eight, Keenum found Luther Burden over the middle for the touchdown, six to nothing with eight fifty-six left in the first and seven after the kick. Chicago led for the remaining fifty-four minutes of game clock, never trailed, and the model never had the Bears below the fifty-five percent it gave them at kickoff. The Bears' passing game took no sack and threw no interception. Twenty-seven to seven, Monday night at home.

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Which teams pass the most over expected in 2026?

Pittsburgh Steelers (+5.2), Dallas Cowboys (+5.1), then San Francisco 49ers (+4.8) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Pass Rate Over Expected board.

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