TEAM FINGERPRINT · EVOLUTION
Washington Commanders, 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 | 64.0% | 48.0% | 48.1% | 15.4% |
| 2017 | 62.1% | 51.2% | 40.2% | 12.0% |
| 2018 | 61.8% | 55.4% | 42.3% | 11.7% |
| 2019 | 61.9% | 55.0% | 38.6% | 12.1% |
| 2020 | 65.2% | 63.2% | 41.3% | 10.9% |
| 2021 | 59.7% | 62.1% | 44.0% | 12.0% |
| 2022 | 55.7% | 57.3% | 40.4% | 11.9% |
| 2023 | 69.6% | 81.8% | 40.9% | 12.1% |
| 2024 | 60.1% | 77.8% | 47.7% | 11.8% |
| 2025 | 58.0% | 71.0% | 45.7% | 13.0% |
Personnel groupings · share of snaps, stacked to 100%, by season
| Season | 11 | 12 | 13 | 21 | 10 | 20 | 22 | 01 | Other | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 73.6% | 18.3% | 6.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.9% | 0.6% |
| 2017 | 65.5% | 24.8% | 8.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.7% |
| 2018 | 71.1% | 18.4% | 7.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.7% | 1.3% |
| 2019 | 72.0% | 14.5% | 0.0% | 4.5% | 4.8% | 1.6% | 1.6% | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.6% |
| 2020 | 66.9% | 16.7% | 4.0% | 12.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.0% |
| 2021 | 75.5% | 19.1% | 0.0% | 3.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.7% | 0.0% |
| 2022 | 70.0% | 22.2% | 5.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.9% | 0.0% |
| 2023 | 73.5% | 17.4% | 3.2% | 3.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.1% |
| 2024 | 59.9% | 23.9% | 5.1% | 6.5% | 1.2% | 1.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.8% | 0.1% |
| 2025 | 59.0% | 29.8% | 5.5% | 2.4% | 1.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.3% | 0.0% |