TEAM FINGERPRINT · EVOLUTION
Pittsburgh Steelers, 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 | 60.2% | 53.5% | 46.0% | 14.5% |
| 2017 | 61.8% | 59.0% | 45.7% | 14.4% |
| 2018 | 69.5% | 60.5% | 47.2% | 13.2% |
| 2019 | 60.8% | 64.5% | 37.0% | 10.3% |
| 2020 | 67.1% | 64.8% | 44.0% | 10.7% |
| 2021 | 64.7% | 63.1% | 39.2% | 10.0% |
| 2022 | 58.2% | 59.4% | 44.9% | 10.1% |
| 2023 | 56.7% | 68.2% | 41.9% | 11.1% |
| 2024 | 56.0% | 53.1% | 40.4% | 12.6% |
| 2025 | 61.2% | 65.6% | 43.1% | 11.8% |
Personnel groupings · share of snaps, stacked to 100%, by season
| Season | 11 | 12 | 13 | 21 | 22 | 01 | 00 | 20 | Other | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 64.8% | 18.1% | 5.0% | 9.5% | 1.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.2% | 0.1% |
| 2017 | 70.4% | 13.8% | 0.0% | 7.6% | 6.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.3% | 0.2% |
| 2018 | 69.5% | 8.8% | 2.6% | 4.2% | 4.6% | 6.6% | 3.1% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.2% |
| 2019 | 70.5% | 20.6% | 0.0% | 4.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.8% | 0.0% | 2.3% | 0.2% |
| 2020 | 76.9% | 11.3% | 0.0% | 1.9% | 3.7% | 5.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.0% |
| 2021 | 74.8% | 17.5% | 1.3% | 2.3% | 2.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.3% | 0.8% | 0.1% |
| 2022 | 69.8% | 21.9% | 1.5% | 4.1% | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.1% |
| 2023 | 73.2% | 18.6% | 5.3% | 1.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.4% | 0.0% |
| 2024 | 53.3% | 26.9% | 15.8% | 2.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.0% | 0.1% |
| 2025 | 50.4% | 32.4% | 12.8% | 2.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.8% | 0.3% |