2026 season · Play-Action Rate

Minnesota Vikings play-action rate, 2026

29.5%

7th of 32 in the NFL

League median
23.8%
Sample
On 88 dropbacks through Week 3

How often do the Vikings use play-action?

The Vikings have faked a handoff on 29.5% of their dropbacks through Week 3, 7th 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

Last season

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

From the Vikings weekly

Fourth and five at the Tampa Bay forty-five, nine minutes left in the first quarter, Minnesota up three to nothing. Tampa Bay punted forty-one yards to the Minnesota fourteen, and Price brought it back eighty-six yards for a touchdown. Eighteen points of win probability on one snap — win probability being the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment — and 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 cost Tampa Bay six point nine. Seven points was the final margin. Minnesota won at Tampa Bay twenty-three to sixteen, is three and oh, led for about fifty-four of the sixty minutes and never trailed. It did that on a day when its passing game posted the lowest success rate of any of the ninety-two team games played this season, and its offense never ran a play inside the Tampa Bay twenty.

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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 Minnesota Vikings page.

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