2026 season · Play-Action Rate

Minnesota Vikings play-action rate, 2026

27.5%

9th of 32 in the NFL

League median
23.9%
Sample
On 131 dropbacks through Week 4

How often do the Vikings use play-action?

The Vikings have faked a handoff on 27.5% of their dropbacks through Week 4, 9th 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.

Minnesota Vikings play-action rate after each week of 2026
ThroughPA%Rank
Week 129.0%12th
Week 230.9%8th
Week 329.5%7th
Week 427.5%9th

Last season

Up from 25.7% in 2025, which ranked 6th of 32.

From the Vikings weekly

Third and five at the Miami ten, two oh seven left, Minnesota up fifteen to ten, and Miami had just spent its last timeout. Kyler Murray threw short left to T.J. Hockenson, and Hockenson got to the Miami two. First down. Murray knelt three times and the game was over; the Dolphins never touched the ball again. 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 catch was worth plus two point five, the most of any Minnesota pass or run all day. It was Hockenson's thirteenth catch on thirteen targets. Minnesota beat Miami fifteen to ten at home and is four and oh, and it got there without an offensive touchdown: ten possessions, five Will Reichard field goals, from forty-seven, fifty, thirty-three, forty-one and twenty-nine yards, four punts, and the kneel-down.

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Which offenses use the most play-action in 2026?

Kansas City Chiefs (36.6%), Seattle Seahawks (34.6%), then Chicago Bears (32.7%) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Play-Action Rate board.

More on this team: the Minnesota Vikings page.

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