2026 season · Screen Pass Rate

Detroit Lions screen pass rate, 2026

4.0%

29th of 32 in the NFL

League median
8.3%
Sample
On 174 dropbacks through Week 4

How often do the Lions throw screens?

The Lions have thrown a screen on 4.0% of their dropbacks through Week 4, 29th in the NFL.

Week by week

Season to date after each week — the screen pass rate and rank as the board stood once that week was filed, not the single week’s own figure.

Detroit Lions screen pass rate after each week of 2026
ThroughScreen%Rank
Week 44.0%29th

Last season

Down from 10.3% in 2025, which ranked 6th of 32.

From the Lions weekly

First and ten at the Carolina fifteen, seven nineteen left in the game, down thirty-two to nineteen. An incompletion to Sam LaPorta, two more to Amon-Ra St. Brown, a delay of game and a false start later, it was fourth and twenty at the twenty-five. On that snap Jared Goff threw short right to St. Brown for four, St. Brown pitched it back to Jahmyr Gibbs, and Gibbs got nine more to the twelve, seven yards short. The Lions scored on their next drive, LaPorta from eight yards with three forty-two left, and got the ball back at their own thirteen with two oh six left, down six, no timeouts. The last snap was fourth and thirteen at the ten, Goff to Isaac TeSlaa for twelve, a yard short. Carolina won thirty-two to twenty-six, and Detroit is two and two.

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Which offenses throw the most screens in 2026?

Atlanta Falcons (18.9%), Kansas City Chiefs (18.3%), then Cleveland Browns (12.1%) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Screen Pass Rate board.

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