2026 season · Play-Action Rate

New York Jets play-action rate, 2026

21.3%

23rd of 32 in the NFL

League median
22.7%
Sample
On 136 dropbacks through Week 5

How often do the Jets use play-action?

The Jets have faked a handoff on 21.3% of their dropbacks through Week 5, 23rd 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 Jets play-action rate after each week of 2026
ThroughPA%Rank
Week 134.6%4th
Week 225.7%14th
Week 320.3%25th
Week 421.3%25th
Week 521.3%23rd

Last season

Up from 17.9% in 2025, which ranked 29th of 32.

From the Jets weekly

Third and four at the Chicago thirty-three, ten fifty-eight left in the third quarter, the Jets down thirteen to three. It was the best drive they had all day, seven plays from their own thirty-five, four straight Braelon Allen runs for twenty-six yards to the Chicago thirty-nine. Then Allen lost five on first down, Jelani Woods caught one for eleven, and on third and four Geno Smith was sacked by Bush for eight, back to the forty-one. 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 sack was minus three point two. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, it cost the Jets eight and a half points, the most of any Jets offensive snap. They punted, and the ball was downed at the Chicago four. The Bears won twenty-three to twelve. The Jets never led, had the ball for about seventeen of the sixty minutes, and ran thirty-two pass and rush plays to Chicago's eighty-six.

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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.

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