TEAM FINGERPRINT · EVOLUTION
Atlanta Falcons, 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 | 60.0% | 31.0% | 49.6% | 17.4% |
| 2017 | 58.4% | 33.1% | 44.0% | 14.4% |
| 2018 | 67.4% | 38.4% | 46.3% | 15.3% |
| 2019 | 69.7% | 50.4% | 44.2% | 12.9% |
| 2020 | 64.2% | 47.3% | 43.3% | 13.0% |
| 2021 | 63.2% | 43.2% | 40.4% | 13.1% |
| 2022 | 48.8% | 31.3% | 45.3% | 13.0% |
| 2023 | 55.5% | 53.1% | 41.1% | 12.6% |
| 2024 | 55.6% | 47.5% | 48.1% | 14.2% |
| 2025 | 56.5% | 47.6% | 43.7% | 13.0% |
Personnel groupings · share of snaps, stacked to 100%, by season
| Season | 11 | 12 | 21 | 22 | 13 | 10 | 20 | 01 | 23 | Other | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 45.7% | 16.4% | 25.8% | 3.5% | 7.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.0% |
| 2017 | 48.9% | 22.1% | 17.6% | 2.6% | 1.8% | 2.7% | 3.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.1% |
| 2018 | 59.1% | 17.1% | 10.1% | 3.1% | 4.4% | 2.2% | 0.0% | 3.0% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.0% |
| 2019 | 60.9% | 16.1% | 12.1% | 3.3% | 2.4% | 3.8% | 1.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.0% |
| 2020 | 60.7% | 15.2% | 12.7% | 4.9% | 2.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1.2% | 0.1% |
| 2021 | 32.2% | 24.4% | 21.2% | 14.0% | 6.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.0% | 0.7% | 0.1% |
| 2022 | 34.8% | 24.8% | 21.7% | 10.9% | 6.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.8% | 0.0% |
| 2023 | 17.4% | 41.8% | 20.0% | 10.1% | 8.3% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.3% | 0.0% |
| 2024 | 87.3% | 9.3% | 2.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.8% | 0.0% |
| 2025 | 45.5% | 37.7% | 9.3% | 0.0% | 7.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.0% |