2026 season · Pass Rate Over Expected

New England Patriots pass rate over expected, 2026

-1.7

20th of 32 in the NFL

League median
-1.0
Sample
On 76 neutral-script plays through Week 3

Do the Patriots pass more than expected?

The Patriots have a pass rate over expected of -1.7 through Week 3, 20th 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.

New England Patriots pass rate over expected after each week of 2026
ThroughPROERank
Week 1-3.418th
Week 2+0.512th
Week 3-1.720th

Last season

Down from +2.9 in 2025, which ranked 4th of 32.

From the Patriots weekly

First and ten at the Jacksonville thirty-five, three fifty-eight left in the first quarter, nothing to nothing. New England had just converted a third and two, and by the win probability model — the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment — the Patriots were at sixty percent, the highest they would be all afternoon. Drake Maye was sacked at the Jacksonville forty-two, the ball came out, and DaVon Hamilton recovered at the thirty-eight. Seventeen points of win probability on one snap, the biggest swing of the game, 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 — minus five point eight. Jacksonville went sixty-two yards in ten plays for the game's first touchdown. The Patriots lost thirty-five to six in Jacksonville, never led, and never scored a touchdown.

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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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