2026 season · Team Expected Points Added

Arizona Cardinals expected points added per play, 2026

-0.03

20th of 32 in the NFL

League median
-0.02
Sample
On 259 offensive plays through Week 5

How efficient is the Cardinals offense?

The Cardinals offense has averaged -0.03 expected points added per play through Week 5, 20th in the NFL.

Week by week

Season to date after each week — the expected points added per play and rank as the board stood once that week was filed, not the single week’s own figure.

Arizona Cardinals expected points added per play after each week of 2026
ThroughOff EPA/PlayRank
Week 10.1411th
Week 2-0.0520th
Week 30.0413th
Week 4-0.0320th
Week 5-0.0320th

Last season

Down from -0.02 in 2025, which ranked 23rd of 32.

From the Cardinals weekly

Fourth and four at the Giants four, eleven seconds left, Arizona down thirty to twenty-four with its last timeout just spent. A touchdown and the kick would have won it. The Cardinals had driven sixty-three yards in under two minutes to get there, the last eighteen on a pass interference flag against Banks on third and six, and then Jacoby Brissett threw three straight incompletions from the four. On fourth down he threw short left for Michael Wilson, and Banks intercepted at the two and ran ninety-eight yards the other way for a touchdown. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, Arizona was at twenty-two percent before the snap. 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 was minus nine and a half, the costliest snap of the game. The Cardinals lost thirty-six to twenty-four in New York.

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Which offenses are the most efficient in 2026?

San Francisco 49ers (0.29), Buffalo Bills (0.19), then Baltimore Ravens (0.19) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Team Expected Points Added board.

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