2026 season · Play-Action Rate

New York Giants play-action rate, 2026

25.8%

11th of 32 in the NFL

League median
23.8%
Sample
On 93 dropbacks through Week 3

How often do the Giants use play-action?

The Giants have faked a handoff on 25.8% of their dropbacks through Week 3, 11th 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.

New York Giants play-action rate after each week of 2026
ThroughPA%Rank
Week 130.3%10th
Week 225.4%16th
Week 325.8%11th

Last season

Up from 22.8% in 2025, which ranked 18th of 32.

From the Giants weekly

Twenty-four seconds left, the Titans at first and goal on the Giants seven, New York up twelve to seven and having just called its last timeout. Cam Ward threw short left for Elic Ayomanor, and Jevon Holland intercepted it in the end zone for a touchback. The win probability model — its read on each team's chance of winning at that moment — had the Giants at fifty-one percent before the snap; that one play moved forty-six points, more than three times any other snap in the game. By expected points added, what a snap was worth given the down, the distance and the field position against what that situation was already worth, it cost Tennessee four and a half. The Giants beat the Titans twelve to seven at home on Sunday on four Zvada field goals, led from six thirty-seven of the first quarter to the end, and by the model never dropped below that fifty-one percent.

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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 New York Giants page.

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