2026 season · Team Success Rate and Explosive Play Rate

Arizona Cardinals success rate, 2026

46.3%

11th of 32 in the NFL

League median
43.5%
Sample
On 259 offensive plays through Week 5

How often do the Cardinals stay on schedule?

The Cardinals offense has a success rate of 46.3% through Week 5 — the share of its plays that added expected points — 11th in the NFL.

Week by week

Season to date after each week — the success rate and rank as the board stood once that week was filed, not the single week’s own figure.

Arizona Cardinals success rate after each week of 2026
ThroughOff Succ%Rank
Week 149.3%7th
Week 242.2%21st
Week 346.9%8th
Week 446.3%11th
Week 546.3%11th

Last season

Up from 43.0% in 2025, which ranked 22nd 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 have the best success rate in 2026?

San Francisco 49ers (54.5%), Baltimore Ravens (51.7%), then Jacksonville Jaguars (49.5%) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Team Success Rate and Explosive Play Rate board.

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