2026 season · Play-Action Rate

Cleveland Browns play-action rate, 2026

23.3%

18th of 32 in the NFL

League median
23.8%
Sample
On 103 dropbacks through Week 3

How often do the Browns use play-action?

The Browns have faked a handoff on 23.3% of their dropbacks through Week 3, 18th 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.

Cleveland Browns play-action rate after each week of 2026
ThroughPA%Rank
Week 126.7%13th
Week 224.6%18th
Week 323.3%18th

Last season

Up from 21.9% in 2025, which ranked 23rd of 32.

From the Browns weekly

Third and ten at the Carolina fourteen, one fifty-five left in the game, Cleveland down eighteen to thirteen. Deshaun Watson had been hurt on the play that put the ball there, sat out one snap, and came back for the next two. On the second of them he threw short left to Fannin, and Fannin scored from fourteen yards. Twenty-three points of win probability on one snap — win probability being the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment — the biggest swing of the game. 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, it was plus three point four. Watson hit Boston for the two-point conversion, twenty-one to eighteen. The Browns beat the Panthers twenty-one to eighteen in Cleveland on Sunday, trailed for about seven minutes, all of them in the fourth quarter, and the model had them as low as twenty-two percent after Carolina's touchdown with four twenty-nine left.

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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 Cleveland Browns page.

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