2026 season · Pass Rate Over Expected

Kansas City Chiefs pass rate over expected, 2026

+2.8

6th of 32 in the NFL

League median
-1.9
Sample
On 153 neutral-script plays through Week 5

Do the Chiefs pass more than expected?

The Chiefs have a pass rate over expected of +2.8 through Week 5, 6th 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.

Kansas City Chiefs pass rate over expected after each week of 2026
ThroughPROERank
Week 1+0.411th
Week 2+3.08th
Week 3+3.95th
Week 4+2.86th
Week 5+2.86th

Last season

Down from +4.6 in 2025, which ranked 1st of 32.

From the Chiefs weekly

Nineteen to seventeen, Raiders, three thirty-five left in the game, third and five at the Kansas City forty. The Chiefs' chance of winning at that snap was thirty-three percent. Patrick Mahomes threw deep left for Tyquan Thornton, thirty-one yards in the air, and Thornton carried it twenty-four more to the Las Vegas five. A Raiders unnecessary-roughness penalty moved it to the two. Plus five point two expected points added — expected points added being what a snap was worth given the down, the distance and the field position, measured against what that situation was already worth — and thirty-five points of win probability, each team's chance of winning at that moment. It was the biggest win-probability swing of the game. Kenneth Walker scored from the two, the two-point try failed, and on the kickoff Bassa forced a fumble on the return and Cochrane recovered it at the Las Vegas twenty-two. Walker ran twenty-two yards for a touchdown on the next snap. Thirty to nineteen, and the Chiefs' chance had gone from thirty-three percent to ninety-seven in thirty-three seconds of game clock. Las Vegas scored again and converted the two-point try, Xavier Worthy fielded the onside kick, and the Raiders' last drive ended with Nwankpa intercepting Kirk Cousins at the Kansas City thirty-six with ten seconds left. It was the Chiefs' fourth straight win to open the season.

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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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