2026 season · Team Pace

Detroit Lions neutral-script seconds per play, 2026

31.53

28th of 32 in the NFL

League median
29.34
Sample
On 64 neutral-script snaps through Week 3

How fast do the Lions play?

The Lions have taken 31.53 seconds per play in neutral game situations through Week 3, 28th-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.

Detroit Lions neutral-script seconds per play after each week of 2026
ThroughNeutral Sec/PlayRank
Week 132.0027th
Week 232.3731st
Week 331.5328th

Last season

Up from 30.97 in 2025, which ranked 21st of 32.

From the Lions weekly

Twenty-four all, four oh six left, first and ten at the Detroit thirty-five, one snap after the Jets had tied it with a fourth-down touchdown and a two-point conversion. Jared Goff threw deep middle to Isaac TeSlaa for forty-nine yards to the Jets sixteen: fourteen and a half points of win probability — win probability being the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment — and 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, plus three point one. Three snaps later, third and five at the eleven, Goff threw short right to Jahmyr Gibbs for the touchdown with two thirty left: seventeen points of win probability, the second-biggest swing of the game. The Jets reached the Detroit twenty-eight on the next drive, and on second and ten with fifty-one seconds left Geno Smith was sacked for thirteen yards by Clark, who knocked the ball loose, and Jack Campbell recovered. Detroit won thirty-one to twenty-four at home, and has now scored thirty-one points in all three of its games.

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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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