2026 season · Team Pace

Chicago Bears neutral-script seconds per play, 2026

29.36

17th of 32 in the NFL

League median
29.34
Sample
On 108 neutral-script snaps through Week 3

How fast do the Bears play?

The Bears have taken 29.36 seconds per play in neutral game situations through Week 3, 17th-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.

Chicago Bears neutral-script seconds per play after each week of 2026
ThroughNeutral Sec/PlayRank
Week 127.4411th
Week 228.135th
Week 329.3617th

Last season

Up from 29.23 in 2025, which ranked 5th of 32.

From the Bears weekly

Fourth and one at the Philadelphia thirty-two, ten fifty-two left in the first quarter, no score, on the opening drive. Case Keenum — taking every Bears snap at quarterback with Caleb Williams out with a hamstring strain, per the Bears' own team site — threw short left to Sam Roush for sixteen yards. By expected points added, what a snap was worth given the down, the distance and the field position, measured against what that situation was already worth, that was plus two point six. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, it was about ten and a half points, the biggest swing on a Chicago snap all night. Three plays later, third and two from the eight, Keenum found Luther Burden over the middle for the touchdown, six to nothing with eight fifty-six left in the first and seven after the kick. Chicago led for the remaining fifty-four minutes of game clock, never trailed, and the model never had the Bears below the fifty-five percent it gave them at kickoff. The Bears' passing game took no sack and threw no interception. Twenty-seven to seven, Monday night at home.

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Which offenses play the fastest in 2026?

Carolina Panthers (25.08), Green Bay Packers (25.72), then New Orleans Saints (26.92) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Team Pace board.

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