TEAM FINGERPRINT · EVOLUTION
Houston Texans, 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 | 59.1% | 56.6% | 40.4% | 10.2% |
| 2017 | 59.1% | 58.1% | 39.1% | 11.2% |
| 2018 | 62.0% | 54.6% | 43.6% | 12.6% |
| 2019 | 63.5% | 63.1% | 44.8% | 12.9% |
| 2020 | 70.7% | 63.7% | 47.7% | 15.2% |
| 2021 | 61.0% | 51.2% | 37.3% | 8.8% |
| 2022 | 63.3% | 49.3% | 37.0% | 10.8% |
| 2023 | 61.6% | 60.6% | 40.4% | 14.4% |
| 2024 | 63.1% | 57.1% | 39.5% | 13.4% |
| 2025 | 60.4% | 61.7% | 41.3% | 10.6% |
Personnel groupings · share of snaps, stacked to 100%, by season
| Season | 11 | 12 | 21 | 20 | 13 | 10 | 22 | Other | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 63.1% | 17.1% | 9.4% | 2.6% | 0.0% | 2.0% | 4.0% | 1.7% | 0.1% |
| 2017 | 56.7% | 12.0% | 13.8% | 9.8% | 0.0% | 7.4% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.0% |
| 2018 | 49.8% | 39.5% | 5.4% | 1.2% | 2.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.3% | 0.0% |
| 2019 | 62.4% | 32.8% | 2.4% | 1.1% | 1.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.2% |
| 2020 | 63.0% | 30.2% | 2.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.2% | 0.0% | 2.1% | 0.1% |
| 2021 | 60.7% | 27.7% | 3.4% | 1.3% | 6.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.9% | 0.1% |
| 2022 | 54.0% | 20.6% | 11.2% | 0.0% | 7.6% | 0.0% | 4.8% | 1.7% | 0.1% |
| 2023 | 60.3% | 11.6% | 20.7% | 1.7% | 1.2% | 0.0% | 3.8% | 0.7% | 0.1% |
| 2024 | 62.9% | 30.8% | 3.0% | 0.0% | 2.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.2% | 0.1% |
| 2025 | 72.0% | 14.1% | 5.9% | 2.5% | 0.0% | 3.5% | 0.0% | 1.9% | 0.1% |