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Pittsburgh Steelers 2025 vs Cleveland Browns 2016

Two offensive identities side by side — any team, any season against any other — the flow of each attack and a play-calling ledger with the shift on every metric.

PIT season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

CLE season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

AARI ATL BAL BUF CAR CHI CIN CLE DAL DEN DET GB HOU IND JAX KC LA LAC LV MIA MIN NE NO NYG NYJ PHI PIT SEA SF TB TEN WAS

BARI ATL BAL BUF CAR CHI CIN CLE DAL DEN DET GB HOU IND JAX KC LA LAC LV MIA MIN NE NO NYG NYJ PHI PIT SEA SF TB TEN WAS

Play-calling ledger · the shift is Pittsburgh Steelers 2025 minus Cleveland Browns 2016

Metric	PIT	Shift	CLE
Plays	1,030	—	979
Pass rate	61.2%	−5.9%	67.1%
Shotgun rate	65.6%	+4.8%	60.9%
Explosive rate	11.8%	−1.8%	13.7%
Success rate	43.1%	+5.1%	38.0%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	50.4%	−13.1%	63.5%
12 personnel	32.4%	+16.5%	15.9%
21 personnel	2.3%	−9.2%	11.5%
13 personnel	12.8%	+9.3%	3.5%
22 personnel	0.0%	−4.9%	4.9%
Other personnel	1.7%	+1.4%	0.3%

Read the ledger, then the flows below: the table is the precise shift; the alluvials are the shape.

Pittsburgh Steelers · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	391
12 personnel → Shotgun	192
12 personnel → Under Center	136
11 personnel → Under Center	124
13 personnel → Under Center	67
13 personnel → Shotgun	61
21 personnel → Shotgun	22
Other → Shotgun	10
12 personnel → Pistol	6
Other → Under Center	6
11 personnel → Pistol	4
13 personnel → Pistol	4
Unknown → Under Center	3
Other → Pistol	2
21 personnel → Pistol	1
21 personnel → Under Center	1
Shotgun → Pass	524
Under Center → Run	237
Shotgun → Run	152
Under Center → Pass	100
Pistol → Run	11
Pistol → Pass	6
Pass → Failure	363
Run → Failure	223
Pass → Success	189
Run → Success	133
Pass → Explosive	78
Run → Explosive	44

Cleveland Browns · 2016

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	507
21 personnel → I_Form	81
12 personnel → Singleback	68
12 personnel → Shotgun	64
11 personnel → Singleback	40
11 personnel → Empty	38
22 personnel → I_Form	26
13 personnel → Singleback	22
11 personnel → Wildcat	16
21 personnel → Shotgun	15
11 personnel → Unknown	9
22 personnel → Jumbo	9
11 personnel → Pistol	8
13 personnel → Shotgun	8
12 personnel → Pistol	7
12 personnel → Empty	6
21 personnel → Pistol	6
22 personnel → Singleback	6
12 personnel → I_Form	5
22 personnel → Wildcat	5
11 personnel → I_Form	4
21 personnel → Singleback	4
21 personnel → Wildcat	4
12 personnel → Unknown	3
12 personnel → Wildcat	2
13 personnel → Empty	2
21 personnel → Empty	2
Other → I_Form	2
Unknown → Unknown	2
12 personnel → Jumbo	1
13 personnel → I_Form	1
13 personnel → Unknown	1
21 personnel → Unknown	1
22 personnel → Empty	1
22 personnel → Shotgun	1
Other → Shotgun	1
Unknown → Wildcat	1
Shotgun → Pass	457
Shotgun → Run	139
Singleback → Run	80
I_Form → Run	69
Singleback → Pass	60
I_Form → Pass	50
Empty → Pass	49
Pistol → Pass	16
Wildcat → Run	15
Wildcat → Pass	13
Unknown → Pass	9
Jumbo → Run	7
Unknown → Run	7
Pistol → Run	5
Jumbo → Pass	3
Pass → Failure	406
Run → Failure	201
Pass → Success	165
Pass → Explosive	86
Run → Success	73
Run → Explosive	48