2026 season · Play-Action Rate

Miami Dolphins play-action rate, 2026

25.2%

13th of 32 in the NFL

League median
23.8%
Sample
On 107 dropbacks through Week 3

How often do the Dolphins use play-action?

The Dolphins have faked a handoff on 25.2% of their dropbacks through Week 3, 13th 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.

Miami Dolphins play-action rate after each week of 2026
ThroughPA%Rank
Week 113.5%29th
Week 221.5%24th
Week 325.2%13th

Last season

Down from 27.4% in 2025, which ranked 4th of 32.

From the Dolphins weekly

Second and nine at the Kansas City thirty-one, three sixteen left in the first half, Miami down fourteen to seven. The Dolphins had come from their own twelve, forty-four yards of it on one throw from Malik Willis to Bell, and stayed alive on fourth and three when a holding penalty on the Chiefs wiped out an incompletion. Willis kept it up the middle for three yards to the twenty-eight and was ruled down. Kansas City challenged, and the ruling was reversed: a fumble, forced and recovered by Sneed at the twenty-five. 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 three point seven. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, thirteen points, the biggest swing of the game, on a play that had been ruled over. Miami lost twenty-four to ten at home, never led, and is oh and three. It was seventeen to ten with six minutes 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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