2026 season · Team Pace

Arizona Cardinals neutral-script seconds per play, 2026

28.63

9th of 32 in the NFL

League median
29.42
Sample
On 124 neutral-script snaps through Week 5

How fast do the Cardinals play?

The Cardinals have taken 28.63 seconds per play in neutral game situations through Week 5, 9th-fastest in the NFL.

Week by week

Season to date after each week — the neutral-script seconds per play and rank as the board stood once that week was filed, not the single week’s own figure.

Arizona Cardinals neutral-script seconds per play after each week of 2026
ThroughNeutral Sec/PlayRank
Week 129.1218th
Week 229.5015th
Week 328.779th
Week 428.638th
Week 528.639th

Last season

Down from 31.37 in 2025, which ranked 25th 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 play the fastest in 2026?

Carolina Panthers (26.02), New Orleans Saints (26.27), then Dallas Cowboys (27.94) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Team Pace board.

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