2026 season · Team Pace

Cincinnati Bengals neutral-script seconds per play, 2026

29.52

18th of 32 in the NFL

League median
29.42
Sample
On 112 neutral-script snaps through Week 5

How fast do the Bengals play?

The Bengals have taken 29.52 seconds per play in neutral game situations through Week 5, 18th-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.

Cincinnati Bengals neutral-script seconds per play after each week of 2026
ThroughNeutral Sec/PlayRank
Week 121.002nd
Week 227.093rd
Week 328.9412th
Week 429.5218th
Week 529.5218th

Last season

Up from 29.22 in 2025, which ranked 4th of 32.

From the Bengals weekly

Fourth and ten at the Jacksonville twenty-one, fifty-six seconds left, Cincinnati down twenty-two to seventeen with no timeouts. Three snaps had carried the Bengals from their own seventeen into range: twenty-nine yards to Mitchell Tinsley, eighteen to Mike Gesicki, fifteen to Dohnte Meyers. Then three straight incompletions. On fourth down Joe Burrow threw short over the middle to Chase Brown, and Brown was brought down at the twelve. Nine yards, one short. By win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, that snap took Cincinnati from about thirty percent to three, the biggest swing of the game. 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, it was minus two point three. Jacksonville knelt twice. The Bengals lost twenty-two to seventeen at home on a day Burrow threw for four hundred twenty-eight yards.

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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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