TEAM FINGERPRINT · EVOLUTION

Chicago Bears, 2016–2025

How this offense’s identity shifted, season by season — how often it passed, how much it lived in the shotgun, which personnel groupings it leaned on, and how efficient it was. Counted from nflverse charting, not modeled.

TeamARI ATL BAL BUF CAR CHI CIN CLE DAL DEN DET GB HOU IND JAX KC LA LAC LV MIA MIN NE NO NYG NYJ PHI PIT SEA SF TB TEN WAS

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Play-calling tendencies · share of offensive snaps, by season

Play-calling tendencies by season
Season	Pass rate	Shotgun rate	Success rate	Explosive rate
2016	61.6%	50.3%	44.4%	15.0%
2017	57.4%	45.7%	38.4%	12.6%
2018	59.4%	70.8%	45.2%	11.2%
2019	63.9%	66.7%	40.4%	9.5%
2020	64.9%	55.6%	42.9%	11.4%
2021	61.6%	55.8%	41.1%	11.8%
2022	51.4%	56.3%	40.6%	13.4%
2023	57.0%	70.1%	41.8%	12.3%
2024	64.8%	68.3%	39.9%	9.7%
2025	59.1%	51.0%	45.4%	13.9%

Personnel groupings · share of snaps, stacked to 100%, by season

Personnel-grouping shares by season
Season	11	12	21	13	01	22	10	02	20	03	31	23	Other	Unknown
2016	64.9%	23.5%	6.8%	3.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.1%
2017	43.1%	22.4%	21.8%	4.9%	0.0%	5.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2018	62.6%	17.5%	12.6%	2.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	2.6%	0.4%
2019	63.0%	11.5%	11.6%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	6.0%	0.0%	4.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.5%	0.0%
2020	56.7%	18.8%	1.2%	5.7%	8.4%	0.0%	0.0%	5.5%	0.0%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.1%
2021	65.1%	24.0%	1.3%	6.4%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%
2022	59.5%	17.3%	16.0%	4.1%	0.0%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2023	58.3%	23.7%	11.2%	3.0%	0.0%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%
2024	73.2%	19.3%	0.0%	4.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.9%	0.0%
2025	53.0%	34.3%	0.0%	9.6%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%	0.2%