2026 season · Pass Rate Over Expected

Dallas Cowboys pass rate over expected, 2026

+5.1

2nd of 32 in the NFL

League median
-1.0
Sample
On 93 neutral-script plays through Week 3

Do the Cowboys pass more than expected?

The Cowboys have a pass rate over expected of +5.1 through Week 3, 2nd 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.

Dallas Cowboys pass rate over expected after each week of 2026
ThroughPROERank
Week 1+2.39th
Week 2+8.71st
Week 3+5.12nd

Last season

Up from -0.2 in 2025, which ranked 9th of 32.

From the Cowboys weekly

Fourth and one at the Dallas one, thirteen oh seven left in the game, down twenty-four to twenty-one. A twenty-yard run on the quarter's first snap had given Baltimore first and goal at the three, and three snaps had moved the ball two yards, the last a Derrick Henry touchdown that replay took back to the one. Henry went at left guard again, and the play ended with Barham on the tackle for a loss of three. Sixteen points of win probability — win probability being the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment — more than any other snap swung toward Dallas all afternoon. Then the Cowboys went ninety-six yards in seven plays, the big one a forty-nine-yard throw from Dak Prescott to CeeDee Lamb on second and nine from the Dallas five, and KaVontae Turpin ran nine yards around left end to put Dallas up twenty-eight to twenty-four with nine forty-six left. They lost thirty-four to thirty-one on Sunday afternoon in Rio de Janeiro. Baltimore went ahead with ninety-four seconds left, Brandon Aubrey tied it from twenty-three yards with ten seconds left, and Baltimore needed one twenty-seven-yard completion and a fifty-six-yard field goal on the final snap to win it.

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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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