TEAM FINGERPRINT · EVOLUTION
Cleveland Browns, 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.
Play-calling tendencies · share of offensive snaps, by season
| Season | Pass rate | Shotgun rate | Success rate | Explosive rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 67.1% | 60.9% | 38.0% | 13.7% |
| 2017 | 67.0% | 66.0% | 37.3% | 12.6% |
| 2018 | 63.1% | 50.9% | 42.1% | 16.0% |
| 2019 | 61.7% | 55.5% | 40.7% | 14.4% |
| 2020 | 55.2% | 35.3% | 46.1% | 15.7% |
| 2021 | 57.5% | 37.5% | 43.8% | 14.7% |
| 2022 | 56.0% | 48.9% | 44.0% | 13.7% |
| 2023 | 60.1% | 65.5% | 38.6% | 10.9% |
| 2024 | 68.5% | 71.2% | 36.8% | 9.7% |
| 2025 | 62.4% | 65.7% | 34.6% | 9.9% |
Personnel groupings · share of snaps, stacked to 100%, by season
| Season | 11 | 12 | 13 | 21 | 22 | 20 | 10 | 01 | 23 | 31 | Other | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 63.5% | 15.9% | 3.5% | 11.5% | 4.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% |
| 2017 | 63.7% | 12.6% | 3.4% | 15.8% | 3.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.2% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| 2018 | 62.0% | 18.0% | 13.3% | 2.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.4% | 0.6% | 0.0% |
| 2019 | 56.9% | 24.1% | 2.8% | 6.0% | 0.0% | 8.0% | 1.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% |
| 2020 | 43.6% | 26.9% | 14.2% | 7.0% | 7.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.1% |
| 2021 | 44.7% | 21.3% | 17.6% | 11.1% | 3.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.4% | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.1% |
| 2022 | 61.8% | 22.1% | 6.4% | 7.1% | 1.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.0% |
| 2023 | 73.1% | 16.8% | 5.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.4% | 0.0% |
| 2024 | 74.4% | 17.3% | 1.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.6% | 0.5% |
| 2025 | 45.5% | 44.5% | 4.7% | 1.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.5% | 2.5% |