Team Pace
Team Pace — 2021 NFL rankings, updated Aug 13, 2026. Dallas Cowboys played the fastest in neutral situations at 28.19 seconds a snap across 32 qualifying teams. Based on verified 2021 play-by-play data (nflverse); Half-PPR scoring. Through the 2021 season.
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 | Neutral Sec/Play | Sec/Play | No-Huddle | Plays/G | Neutral Snaps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dallas Cowboys | 28.19 | 26.15 | 13.2% | 67.2 | 470 |
| 2 | Los Angeles Chargers | 28.51 | 26.17 | 6.7% | 66.1 | 471 |
| 3 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 28.67 | 27.75 | 12.9% | 65.9 | 434 |
| 4 | Seattle Seahawks | 29.13 | 26.81 | 18.5% | 55.7 | 404 |
| 5 | Kansas City Chiefs | 29.33 | 27.96 | 2.2% | 65.6 | 483 |
| 6 | Philadelphia Eagles | 29.59 | 28.02 | 16.0% | 62.8 | 429 |
| 7 | Atlanta Falcons | 29.69 | 28.08 | 13.3% | 58.7 | 442 |
| 8 | New York Giants | 29.88 | 26.88 | 30.0% | 61.3 | 454 |
| 9 | Arizona Cardinals | 29.92 | 28.23 | 37.2% | 65.4 | 381 |
| 10 | Miami Dolphins | 29.96 | 28.38 | 14.0% | 63.8 | 427 |
| 11 | Los Angeles Rams | 30.00 | 28.52 | 17.1% | 61.4 | 413 |
| 12 | Las Vegas Raiders | 30.09 | 28.45 | 6.5% | 63.1 | 458 |
| 13 | Buffalo Bills | 30.13 | 28.54 | 12.0% | 66.2 | 397 |
| 14 | Minnesota Vikings | 30.21 | 27.94 | 5.9% | 63.3 | 449 |
| 15 | Washington Commanders | 30.41 | 28.72 | 7.9% | 62.7 | 476 |
| 16 | New York Jets | 30.59 | 26.47 | 9.9% | 60.9 | 394 |
| 17 | Pittsburgh Steelers | 30.77 | 27.14 | 15.3% | 64.8 | 401 |
| 18 | Houston Texans | 30.81 | 27.59 | 7.3% | 59.2 | 386 |
| 19 | Jacksonville Jaguars | 30.93 | 26.19 | 10.7% | 60.2 | 360 |
| 20 | Chicago Bears | 31.00 | 27.76 | 10.6% | 62.8 | 378 |
| 21 | New Orleans Saints | 31.11 | 29.36 | 3.3% | 61.2 | 449 |
| 22 | Tennessee Titans | 31.13 | 29.54 | 11.4% | 65.8 | 404 |
| 23 | Carolina Panthers | 31.23 | 28.06 | 12.6% | 64.6 | 427 |
| 24 | New England Patriots | 31.60 | 28.97 | 4.0% | 61.0 | 391 |
| 25 | Cleveland Browns | 31.69 | 29.22 | 7.5% | 61.4 | 408 |
| 26 | Cincinnati Bengals | 31.82 | 30.12 | 4.7% | 61.0 | 393 |
| 27 | Detroit Lions | 32.08 | 27.87 | 6.2% | 62.1 | 391 |
| 28 | Denver Broncos | 32.24 | 30.36 | 5.3% | 60.7 | 418 |
| 29 | Baltimore Ravens | 32.81 | 28.92 | 6.5% | 69.2 | 457 |
| 30 | San Francisco 49ers | 33.09 | 30.94 | 4.5% | 60.7 | 405 |
| 31 | Indianapolis Colts | 33.92 | 31.29 | 4.6% | 61.4 | 405 |
| 32 | Green Bay Packers | 34.00 | 32.17 | 3.2% | 61.9 | 486 |
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