TEAM FINGERPRINT · EVOLUTION
New England Patriots, 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 | 59.2% | 42.0% | 44.2% | 13.2% |
| 2017 | 61.4% | 38.3% | 48.3% | 15.5% |
| 2018 | 56.3% | 37.3% | 47.1% | 15.9% |
| 2019 | 60.5% | 40.8% | 41.8% | 12.8% |
| 2020 | 51.7% | 48.3% | 46.1% | 13.4% |
| 2021 | 56.6% | 43.0% | 47.8% | 14.9% |
| 2022 | 61.1% | 61.2% | 40.9% | 13.7% |
| 2023 | 61.7% | 66.4% | 39.0% | 9.7% |
| 2024 | 62.4% | 67.3% | 42.3% | 10.3% |
| 2025 | 60.8% | 56.0% | 46.1% | 14.7% |
Personnel groupings · share of snaps, stacked to 100%, by season
| Season | 11 | 12 | 21 | 22 | 20 | 10 | 13 | 01 | 23 | Other | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 48.5% | 15.3% | 21.1% | 6.3% | 4.5% | 3.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.1% |
| 2017 | 46.7% | 15.9% | 25.6% | 5.9% | 0.0% | 1.3% | 2.5% | 0.0% | 1.3% | 0.9% | 0.1% |
| 2018 | 54.0% | 6.1% | 28.1% | 7.8% | 0.0% | 1.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.6% | 0.0% |
| 2019 | 55.3% | 16.4% | 8.4% | 1.6% | 5.5% | 5.6% | 1.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 6.0% |
| 2020 | 53.9% | 2.2% | 37.9% | 0.0% | 4.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.2% | 0.0% |
| 2021 | 56.7% | 13.7% | 23.5% | 4.4% | 1.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.0% |
| 2022 | 74.8% | 18.6% | 2.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.4% | 0.0% | 1.5% | 1.5% |
| 2023 | 50.5% | 39.0% | 2.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 6.1% | 1.1% | 0.0% | 1.0% | 0.1% |
| 2024 | 62.4% | 35.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.0% | 0.6% |
| 2025 | 52.8% | 19.4% | 17.5% | 6.5% | 1.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.5% | 1.5% |