TEAM FINGERPRINT · EVOLUTION
Kansas City Chiefs, 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 | 62.4% | 57.0% | 42.3% | 12.7% |
| 2017 | 63.5% | 66.5% | 44.4% | 13.3% |
| 2018 | 64.9% | 70.2% | 49.0% | 18.1% |
| 2019 | 66.0% | 72.0% | 47.0% | 13.9% |
| 2020 | 67.4% | 75.5% | 50.2% | 16.1% |
| 2021 | 67.9% | 69.8% | 51.5% | 12.7% |
| 2022 | 66.6% | 71.7% | 50.3% | 14.0% |
| 2023 | 66.8% | 81.7% | 43.6% | 12.3% |
| 2024 | 64.2% | 69.9% | 47.3% | 10.4% |
| 2025 | 65.7% | 77.6% | 44.4% | 11.1% |
Personnel groupings · share of snaps, stacked to 100%, by season
| Season | 11 | 12 | 13 | 21 | 22 | 01 | 03 | 20 | 02 | Other | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 49.2% | 19.6% | 9.6% | 11.3% | 2.8% | 2.5% | 2.2% | 1.4% | 1.1% | 0.4% | 0.1% |
| 2017 | 53.9% | 25.3% | 6.1% | 7.5% | 4.5% | 1.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.2% | 0.1% |
| 2018 | 59.1% | 29.9% | 0.0% | 6.0% | 2.8% | 2.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| 2019 | 60.4% | 30.5% | 0.0% | 4.6% | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.1% |
| 2020 | 74.9% | 17.5% | 2.8% | 2.5% | 1.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.1% |
| 2021 | 67.9% | 20.0% | 5.3% | 4.9% | 1.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.1% |
| 2022 | 56.2% | 28.8% | 10.4% | 3.0% | 1.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1% |
| 2023 | 63.0% | 26.3% | 9.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.2% |
| 2024 | 51.3% | 34.6% | 9.2% | 1.5% | 1.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.3% | 0.4% |
| 2025 | 57.8% | 30.5% | 6.5% | 4.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.9% | 0.0% |