2026 season · Play-Action Rate

Philadelphia Eagles play-action rate, 2026

18.8%

28th of 32 in the NFL

League median
22.7%
Sample
On 138 dropbacks through Week 5

How often do the Eagles use play-action?

The Eagles have faked a handoff on 18.8% of their dropbacks through Week 5, 28th 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.

Philadelphia Eagles play-action rate after each week of 2026
ThroughPA%Rank
Week 118.2%22nd
Week 218.7%26th
Week 317.9%27th
Week 418.8%28th
Week 518.8%28th

Last season

Down from 22.3% in 2025, which ranked 20th of 32.

From the Eagles weekly

Fourth and two at the Los Angeles two, seven thirty-one left in the game, the Eagles up twenty to ten. The drive had started at the Philadelphia thirty-six on the first snap of the fourth quarter, and it was ten straight running plays: four Tank Bigsby carries for thirty-two yards, a fourteen-yard Jalen Hurts scramble, and four Will Shipley carries down to the two. On third and two Hurts went around right end and Lake stopped him for no gain. On fourth down Hurts threw short left for Darius Cooper, and it fell incomplete. 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 throw was minus two point nine. The Rams took over at their own two and went ninety-eight yards in ten plays for a touchdown. Philadelphia went three-and-out. The Rams went seventy-nine more, and Kyren Williams scored from the seven with a minute seventeen left. Rams twenty-four, Eagles twenty.

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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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