TEAM FINGERPRINT · EVOLUTION
Detroit Lions, 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 | 67.8% | 62.6% | 44.0% | 11.7% |
| 2017 | 65.3% | 55.5% | 40.2% | 13.1% |
| 2018 | 62.2% | 60.5% | 40.5% | 12.6% |
| 2019 | 63.1% | 48.5% | 41.0% | 12.5% |
| 2020 | 64.9% | 53.0% | 44.3% | 14.5% |
| 2021 | 60.7% | 50.8% | 41.8% | 12.5% |
| 2022 | 58.2% | 44.3% | 45.5% | 13.5% |
| 2023 | 58.3% | 55.1% | 47.0% | 14.3% |
| 2024 | 55.0% | 44.9% | 50.5% | 16.2% |
| 2025 | 59.4% | 51.4% | 45.2% | 14.6% |
Personnel groupings · share of snaps, stacked to 100%, by season
| Season | 11 | 12 | 21 | 13 | 10 | 20 | 22 | 01 | Unknown | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 75.9% | 10.4% | 4.9% | 0.0% | 4.0% | 1.8% | 1.4% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 1.6% |
| 2017 | 73.1% | 18.9% | 1.2% | 3.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.7% | 0.6% |
| 2018 | 59.6% | 14.7% | 11.3% | 1.5% | 4.7% | 5.0% | 2.3% | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.7% |
| 2019 | 59.8% | 17.9% | 10.8% | 3.1% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 3.3% | 0.0% | 1.6% | 2.5% |
| 2020 | 66.9% | 15.8% | 0.0% | 2.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 12.3% | 2.3% |
| 2021 | 61.5% | 15.3% | 11.4% | 0.0% | 3.8% | 2.3% | 2.9% | 1.6% | 0.4% | 0.8% |
| 2022 | 65.2% | 16.9% | 7.7% | 3.7% | 3.3% | 0.0% | 1.4% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 1.5% |
| 2023 | 64.8% | 22.9% | 4.8% | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.5% | 2.2% |
| 2024 | 57.2% | 36.8% | 1.7% | 3.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.3% |
| 2025 | 62.2% | 25.2% | 3.3% | 5.0% | 1.9% | 2.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.2% |