2026 season · Pass Rate Over Expected

Cincinnati Bengals pass rate over expected, 2026

+4.4

4th of 32 in the NFL

League median
-1.0
Sample
On 79 neutral-script plays through Week 3

Do the Bengals pass more than expected?

The Bengals have a pass rate over expected of +4.4 through Week 3, 4th 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.

Cincinnati Bengals pass rate over expected after each week of 2026
ThroughPROERank
Week 1+5.73rd
Week 2+4.15th
Week 3+4.44th

Last season

Up from +2.1 in 2025, which ranked 5th of 32.

From the Bengals weekly

Eleven oh four left in the fourth quarter, Cincinnati up twenty-seven to twenty-four, and Pittsburgh punting on fourth and ten from its own thirty-six. By win probability — the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment — the Bengals were at sixty-seven percent, the highest they reached all afternoon. The punt went fifty-one yards, Williams muffed the catch at the Cincinnati sixteen, and Pittsburgh's Ben Skowronek recovered at the fourteen. Twenty-six points of win probability on one snap, 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 — plus five point five for the Steelers. Pittsburgh gained minus four yards from there and still tied it with a field goal. Then it took the lead with another, and with fifty-three seconds left, Cincinnati down three and at the Pittsburgh thirty-eight, Joe Burrow was sacked by Harmon, fumbled, and Pittsburgh recovered. The Bengals went from forty-five percent to three. They lost thirty to twenty-seven in Pittsburgh on a day their offense produced more expected points than Pittsburgh's did.

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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.

More on this team: the Cincinnati Bengals page.

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