2026 season · Pass Rate Over Expected

Cincinnati Bengals pass rate over expected, 2026

+5.6

1st of 32 in the NFL

League median
-1.9
Sample
On 120 neutral-script plays through Week 5

Do the Bengals pass more than expected?

The Bengals have a pass rate over expected of +5.6 through Week 5, 1st 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
Week 4+5.61st
Week 5+5.61st

Last season

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

From the Bengals weekly

Fourth and ten at the Jacksonville twenty-one, fifty-six seconds left, Cincinnati down twenty-two to seventeen with no timeouts. Three snaps had carried the Bengals from their own seventeen into range: twenty-nine yards to Mitchell Tinsley, eighteen to Mike Gesicki, fifteen to Dohnte Meyers. Then three straight incompletions. On fourth down Joe Burrow threw short over the middle to Chase Brown, and Brown was brought down at the twelve. Nine yards, one short. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, that snap took Cincinnati from about thirty percent to three, 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, it was minus two point three. Jacksonville knelt twice. The Bengals lost twenty-two to seventeen at home on a day Burrow threw for four hundred twenty-eight yards.

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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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