2026 season · Play-Action Rate

Chicago Bears play-action rate, 2026

28.1%

8th of 32 in the NFL

League median
23.8%
Sample
On 114 dropbacks through Week 3

How often do the Bears use play-action?

The Bears have faked a handoff on 28.1% of their dropbacks through Week 3, 8th in the NFL.

Week by week

Season to date after each week — the play-action rate and rank as the board stood once that week was filed, not the single week’s own figure.

Chicago Bears play-action rate after each week of 2026
ThroughPA%Rank
Week 134.2%6th
Week 227.8%10th
Week 328.1%8th

Last season

Down from 31.4% in 2025, which ranked 2nd of 32.

From the Bears weekly

Fourth and one at the Philadelphia thirty-two, ten fifty-two left in the first quarter, no score, on the opening drive. Case Keenum — taking every Bears snap at quarterback with Caleb Williams out with a hamstring strain, per the Bears' own team site — threw short left to Sam Roush for sixteen yards. 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, that was plus two point six. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, it was about ten and a half points, the biggest swing on a Chicago snap all night. Three plays later, third and two from the eight, Keenum found Luther Burden over the middle for the touchdown, six to nothing with eight fifty-six left in the first and seven after the kick. Chicago led for the remaining fifty-four minutes of game clock, never trailed, and the model never had the Bears below the fifty-five percent it gave them at kickoff. The Bears' passing game took no sack and threw no interception. Twenty-seven to seven, Monday night at home.

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Which offenses use the most play-action in 2026?

Kansas City Chiefs (37.6%), Detroit Lions (34.7%), then Seattle Seahawks (34.7%) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Play-Action Rate board.

More on this team: the Chicago Bears page.

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