TEAM FINGERPRINT · EVOLUTION
Buffalo Bills, 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 | 56.7% | 54.8% | 45.3% | 13.4% |
| 2017 | 57.4% | 44.3% | 38.6% | 11.1% |
| 2018 | 59.5% | 46.6% | 37.7% | 10.5% |
| 2019 | 59.5% | 48.0% | 41.8% | 13.6% |
| 2020 | 66.6% | 56.2% | 49.7% | 15.4% |
| 2021 | 64.6% | 64.9% | 48.7% | 13.9% |
| 2022 | 65.5% | 62.1% | 48.3% | 14.9% |
| 2023 | 59.1% | 73.8% | 49.4% | 13.3% |
| 2024 | 55.9% | 59.2% | 47.9% | 13.2% |
| 2025 | 56.0% | 49.8% | 48.8% | 15.3% |
Personnel groupings · share of snaps, stacked to 100%, by season
| Season | 11 | 12 | 21 | 10 | 22 | 13 | 20 | 02 | 23 | Other | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 47.3% | 16.6% | 28.5% | 0.0% | 5.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.3% | 0.1% |
| 2017 | 57.3% | 17.9% | 18.7% | 0.0% | 5.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.0% |
| 2018 | 69.0% | 14.0% | 12.0% | 0.0% | 1.7% | 0.0% | 1.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.6% | 0.3% |
| 2019 | 70.1% | 9.3% | 9.9% | 0.0% | 3.4% | 4.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.4% | 1.7% | 0.0% |
| 2020 | 72.6% | 7.8% | 0.0% | 16.4% | 0.0% | 1.0% | 1.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.8% | 0.1% |
| 2021 | 72.3% | 6.6% | 10.6% | 7.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.0% | 0.1% |
| 2022 | 74.1% | 6.4% | 15.5% | 1.6% | 2.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.0% |
| 2023 | 66.2% | 19.2% | 5.4% | 5.3% | 1.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.2% | 0.1% |
| 2024 | 66.4% | 15.9% | 8.3% | 1.3% | 2.0% | 2.1% | 1.5% | 1.6% | 0.0% | 0.9% | 0.0% |
| 2025 | 62.3% | 11.5% | 8.9% | 0.0% | 11.0% | 5.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.0% |