2018 season · All 32 offenses

Team Pace

Name: Team Pace — 2018 NFL
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Team Pace — 2018 NFL rankings, updated Sep 29, 2026. New England Patriots played the fastest in neutral situations at 27.92 seconds a snap across 32 qualifying teams. Based on verified 2018 play-by-play data (nflverse); Half-PPR scoring. Through the 2018 season.

Which team led in neutral seconds per play in 2018?Which team led in seconds per play in 2018?

Pace is measured snap to snap: the seconds that elapsed between one play and the next on the same drive. The neutral-script column is the one that describes an offense rather than its scoreboard, because a team that trails all year runs a hurry-up for reasons that say nothing about how it wants to play. The no-huddle column beside it answers a different question than most readers expect. Skipping the huddle is not the same as playing fast — an offense can line up early to make the defense declare and then let the play clock run to one, and the two columns coming apart is the tell for exactly that. Washington ran no-huddle on more than three snaps in five in 2025 and still sat in the middle of the league for seconds per play.

Team Pace, 2018 NFL season
#	Team	Neutral Sec/Play	Sec/Play	No-Huddle	Plays/G	Neutral Snaps
1	New England Patriots	27.92	27.71	6.1%	65.8	396
2	Los Angeles Rams	28.74	27.26	14.7%	65.2	419
3	San Francisco 49ers	28.81	27.37	6.1%	62.1	364
4	Cincinnati Bengals	28.82	26.54	3.4%	58.3	317
5	Cleveland Browns	28.87	26.70	4.7%	63.5	412
6	Indianapolis Colts	28.93	26.78	13.0%	65.6	387
7	Baltimore Ravens	28.98	27.04	6.1%	69.8	499
8	Kansas City Chiefs	29.17	28.13	2.4%	61.6	337
9	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	29.30	27.20	12.0%	65.6	346
10	Houston Texans	29.37	27.78	6.0%	64.1	383
11	Pittsburgh Steelers	29.46	28.23	14.9%	65.4	414
12	Denver Broncos	29.46	26.69	10.5%	62.9	402
13	Green Bay Packers	29.62	27.40	10.2%	63.8	356
14	New York Giants	29.68	26.52	8.6%	61.6	406
15	Atlanta Falcons	29.82	27.97	7.3%	63.0	429
16	Buffalo Bills	29.93	27.98	7.5%	62.6	337
17	Miami Dolphins	30.78	29.13	14.2%	54.1	361
18	Tennessee Titans	30.79	29.56	12.7%	58.1	358
19	Seattle Seahawks	30.94	28.77	6.5%	61.8	454
20	Carolina Panthers	31.01	29.05	8.1%	62.4	352
21	New Orleans Saints	31.11	30.67	1.5%	61.9	397
22	Las Vegas Raiders	31.11	28.63	9.3%	61.1	376
23	Washington Commanders	31.17	28.27	4.9%	59.9	356
24	Arizona Cardinals	31.23	27.79	7.1%	56.0	299
25	Jacksonville Jaguars	31.61	27.85	4.7%	62.6	384
26	Chicago Bears	31.70	29.99	3.5%	62.5	397
27	Los Angeles Chargers	31.77	30.93	0.9%	58.7	320
28	Dallas Cowboys	31.79	29.50	9.1%	63.0	417
29	Minnesota Vikings	32.01	28.36	6.8%	62.2	365
30	Philadelphia Eagles	32.18	30.04	7.8%	64.2	446
31	New York Jets	32.42	28.26	3.5%	59.9	344
32	Detroit Lions	32.55	29.33	10.7%	63.4	395

A gap is only counted between two snaps of the same drive, and only when it falls between 1 and 60 seconds. A timeout, an injury, a replay review and a television break all sit inside a snap-to-snap gap, and none of them is the offense being slow.

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