TEAM FINGERPRINT · EVOLUTION
Denver Broncos, 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 | 62.6% | 35.6% | 40.2% | 11.8% |
| 2017 | 61.5% | 59.5% | 38.0% | 11.1% |
| 2018 | 63.0% | 45.3% | 43.6% | 12.9% |
| 2019 | 60.0% | 42.4% | 39.7% | 11.6% |
| 2020 | 60.1% | 60.7% | 38.8% | 13.2% |
| 2021 | 58.5% | 54.1% | 44.7% | 12.2% |
| 2022 | 62.0% | 58.8% | 38.1% | 12.8% |
| 2023 | 60.3% | 58.2% | 42.0% | 12.4% |
| 2024 | 62.3% | 58.7% | 42.7% | 12.7% |
| 2025 | 63.2% | 59.5% | 43.3% | 11.5% |
Personnel groupings · share of snaps, stacked to 100%, by season
| Season | 11 | 12 | 21 | 13 | 22 | 10 | 01 | 20 | 02 | Other | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 51.3% | 11.4% | 21.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 9.3% | 2.9% | 1.9% | 0.0% | 1.9% | 0.3% |
| 2017 | 65.6% | 15.7% | 8.6% | 2.7% | 5.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.1% |
| 2018 | 63.1% | 12.1% | 13.3% | 0.0% | 4.5% | 1.4% | 0.0% | 4.5% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.1% |
| 2019 | 51.5% | 21.0% | 13.9% | 6.4% | 5.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.4% | 0.1% |
| 2020 | 67.2% | 21.6% | 3.8% | 4.1% | 2.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.1% |
| 2021 | 61.2% | 27.2% | 1.2% | 9.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.0% |
| 2022 | 57.4% | 31.3% | 3.1% | 8.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| 2023 | 57.3% | 23.5% | 10.9% | 1.8% | 3.2% | 2.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.0% |
| 2024 | 61.5% | 16.5% | 8.0% | 3.5% | 4.0% | 1.1% | 3.0% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 1.1% | 0.2% |
| 2025 | 65.2% | 13.8% | 7.6% | 2.8% | 7.0% | 0.0% | 1.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.9% | 0.0% |