TEAM FINGERPRINT · EVOLUTION
New Orleans Saints, 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 | 64.2% | 40.6% | 48.2% | 13.6% |
| 2017 | 57.8% | 35.7% | 46.3% | 15.6% |
| 2018 | 56.5% | 40.9% | 48.6% | 13.9% |
| 2019 | 62.8% | 44.2% | 47.4% | 14.2% |
| 2020 | 55.6% | 43.0% | 47.4% | 13.7% |
| 2021 | 55.8% | 44.1% | 40.8% | 10.9% |
| 2022 | 56.1% | 48.1% | 45.6% | 12.6% |
| 2023 | 59.5% | 62.6% | 41.9% | 11.8% |
| 2024 | 60.1% | 54.5% | 40.7% | 12.6% |
| 2025 | 63.1% | 76.4% | 42.0% | 10.0% |
Personnel groupings · share of snaps, stacked to 100%, by season
| Season | 11 | 12 | 21 | 22 | 13 | 10 | 20 | 01 | 03 | 02 | Other | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 62.8% | 12.9% | 12.0% | 3.2% | 1.1% | 4.0% | 3.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.0% |
| 2017 | 50.1% | 21.6% | 13.4% | 4.1% | 3.1% | 2.8% | 3.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.3% |
| 2018 | 57.4% | 14.0% | 14.2% | 6.5% | 2.1% | 2.8% | 2.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.3% |
| 2019 | 63.1% | 12.3% | 17.1% | 3.4% | 0.0% | 1.7% | 1.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.2% |
| 2020 | 55.5% | 15.4% | 13.5% | 5.6% | 2.3% | 2.9% | 2.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.1% | 0.0% |
| 2021 | 48.1% | 18.1% | 10.3% | 3.7% | 3.4% | 3.8% | 4.1% | 6.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.9% | 0.1% |
| 2022 | 51.8% | 27.3% | 5.5% | 3.0% | 9.3% | 1.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.0% | 0.0% |
| 2023 | 59.2% | 18.0% | 3.4% | 0.0% | 1.2% | 13.3% | 1.2% | 1.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.3% | 1.5% |
| 2024 | 33.7% | 30.9% | 16.3% | 7.9% | 8.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.2% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.2% |
| 2025 | 74.7% | 16.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.9% | 1.1% | 2.2% | 0.1% |