2026 season · Play-Action Rate

Tampa Bay Buccaneers play-action rate, 2026

22.1%

23rd of 32 in the NFL

League median
23.8%
Sample
On 122 dropbacks through Week 3

How often do the Buccaneers use play-action?

The Buccaneers have faked a handoff on 22.1% of their dropbacks through Week 3, 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.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers play-action rate after each week of 2026
ThroughPA%Rank
Week 136.1%3rd
Week 227.6%11th
Week 322.1%23rd

Last season

Up from 16.9% in 2025, which ranked 30th of 32.

From the Buccaneers weekly

Third and fifteen at the Tampa Bay twenty-nine, four twenty-eight left in the third quarter, down seventeen to thirteen. Baker Mayfield hit Bucky Irving short right for fifteen yards and a first down, and a chop block brought it back: third and twenty-nine from the fifteen. Next snap, Mayfield went deep right to Chris Godwin for eighty-five yards and a touchdown that would have given Tampa Bay its first lead of the day. Holding, on Luke Goedeke. Third and thirty-six from the eight, a six-yard run, a punt. Tampa Bay lost to the Vikings twenty-three to sixteen at home, never led, and is oh and three. Its pass defense held Minnesota to the lowest success rate any defense has allowed in a game this season.

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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.

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