2026 season · Play-Action Rate

Indianapolis Colts play-action rate, 2026

33.3%

5th of 32 in the NFL

League median
23.8%
Sample
On 108 dropbacks through Week 3

How often do the Colts use play-action?

The Colts have faked a handoff on 33.3% of their dropbacks through Week 3, 5th 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.

Indianapolis Colts play-action rate after each week of 2026
ThroughPA%Rank
Week 117.6%25th
Week 232.8%5th
Week 333.3%5th

Last season

Up from 28.0% in 2025, which ranked 3rd of 32.

From the Colts weekly

Third and six at the Houston forty-one, twenty-four seconds left, Colts down seventeen to sixteen. Daniel Jones threw short left to Keenan Allen, and it was ruled a first down at the thirty-five; replay reversed it to five yards, fourth and one at the Houston thirty-six. Houston called its last timeout, and Spencer Shrader made it from fifty-three with twenty-one seconds left. By win probability — the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment — that kick was worth thirty-six points, the biggest swing of the game. The Colts beat the Texans nineteen to seventeen at home for their first win of the season, on four Shrader field goals, after leading for about forty-eight minutes and losing the lead with one fifty 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.

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