TEAM FINGERPRINT · EVOLUTION
San Francisco 49ers, 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 | 59.6% | 73.0% | 39.6% | 12.3% |
| 2017 | 63.5% | 34.1% | 41.0% | 13.0% |
| 2018 | 60.1% | 32.7% | 43.6% | 15.5% |
| 2019 | 50.8% | 37.3% | 45.2% | 16.4% |
| 2020 | 59.4% | 50.7% | 46.0% | 14.2% |
| 2021 | 53.7% | 47.7% | 44.8% | 14.8% |
| 2022 | 53.5% | 48.3% | 45.8% | 14.5% |
| 2023 | 55.4% | 56.9% | 50.2% | 17.5% |
| 2024 | 60.4% | 56.9% | 46.2% | 14.0% |
| 2025 | 59.4% | 52.4% | 47.7% | 11.5% |
Personnel groupings · share of snaps, stacked to 100%, by season
| Season | 11 | 21 | 12 | 22 | 13 | 20 | 10 | 02 | 01 | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 76.2% | 0.0% | 19.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.2% | 1.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.3% |
| 2017 | 46.4% | 32.1% | 14.7% | 2.6% | 2.0% | 1.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.8% |
| 2018 | 38.8% | 43.0% | 10.1% | 6.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.9% |
| 2019 | 40.7% | 29.1% | 18.5% | 10.0% | 1.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.6% |
| 2020 | 44.7% | 33.4% | 12.3% | 8.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.1% |
| 2021 | 48.1% | 34.3% | 9.7% | 7.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.9% |
| 2022 | 43.0% | 34.5% | 14.6% | 6.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.5% |
| 2023 | 40.4% | 38.5% | 11.7% | 8.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.8% |
| 2024 | 49.2% | 35.6% | 7.5% | 4.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.3% | 1.2% | 1.0% |
| 2025 | 43.5% | 37.3% | 10.7% | 7.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.9% |