2026 season · Pass Rate Over Expected

Pittsburgh Steelers pass rate over expected, 2026

+4.1

3rd of 32 in the NFL

League median
-1.9
Sample
On 132 neutral-script plays through Week 5

Do the Steelers pass more than expected?

The Steelers have a pass rate over expected of +4.1 through Week 5, 3rd 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.

Pittsburgh Steelers pass rate over expected after each week of 2026
ThroughPROERank
Week 1+11.21st
Week 2+4.83rd
Week 3+5.21st
Week 4+4.14th
Week 5+4.13rd

Last season

Up from -0.2 in 2025, which ranked 10th of 32.

From the Steelers weekly

Twenty-four all, a minute forty-two left, and Pittsburgh had just come all the way back. Down twenty-four to sixteen, it had faced fourth and ten at the Cleveland eleven. Aaron Rodgers's throw for Darnell Washington fell incomplete, but McNeil-Warren was flagged for pass interference, first and goal at the three. Pat Freiermuth caught the touchdown on the next snap, and Rodgers ran the two-point try in himself. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, the flag was worth ten point seven points and the two-point run thirteen point seven. Then the Browns went thirty-six yards in a minute twenty-one, and Szmyt kicked a fifty-six-yard field goal with fifteen seconds left, twenty-one point eight points of win probability, the biggest swing of the night. Rodgers's last throw, deep right for Roman Wilson, was intercepted. The Steelers lost to the Browns twenty-seven to twenty-four on Thursday night in Cleveland and are two and two.

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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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