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Denver Broncos 2025 vs Kansas City Chiefs 2017

Two offensive identities side by side — any team, any season against any other — the flow of each attack and a play-calling ledger with the shift on every metric.

DEN season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

KC season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

AARI ATL BAL BUF CAR CHI CIN CLE DAL DEN DET GB HOU IND JAX KC LA LAC LV MIA MIN NE NO NYG NYJ PHI PIT SEA SF TB TEN WAS

BARI ATL BAL BUF CAR CHI CIN CLE DAL DEN DET GB HOU IND JAX KC LA LAC LV MIA MIN NE NO NYG NYJ PHI PIT SEA SF TB TEN WAS

Play-calling ledger · the shift is Denver Broncos 2025 minus Kansas City Chiefs 2017

Metric	DEN	Shift	KC
Plays	1,197	—	1,028
Pass rate	63.2%	−0.3%	63.5%
Shotgun rate	59.5%	−7.1%	66.5%
Explosive rate	11.5%	−1.8%	13.3%
Success rate	43.3%	−1.1%	44.4%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	65.2%	+11.3%	53.9%
12 personnel	13.8%	−11.5%	25.3%
21 personnel	7.6%	+0.1%	7.5%
13 personnel	2.8%	−3.3%	6.1%
22 personnel	7.0%	+2.5%	4.5%
01 personnel	1.7%	+0.2%	1.5%
Other personnel	1.9%	+0.8%	1.2%

Read the ledger, then the flows below: the table is the precise shift; the alluvials are the shape.

Denver Broncos · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	578
11 personnel → Under Center	147
12 personnel → Under Center	92
22 personnel → Under Center	72
21 personnel → Under Center	58
12 personnel → Shotgun	56
11 personnel → Pistol	28
11 personnel → Unknown	27
21 personnel → Shotgun	25
01 personnel → Shotgun	19
13 personnel → Under Center	19
12 personnel → Pistol	15
13 personnel → Shotgun	13
Other → Under Center	12
22 personnel → Shotgun	11
Other → Shotgun	10
21 personnel → Pistol	8
12 personnel → Unknown	2
13 personnel → Pistol	2
01 personnel → Unknown	1
22 personnel → Unknown	1
Other → Unknown	1
Shotgun → Pass	592
Under Center → Run	295
Shotgun → Run	120
Under Center → Pass	105
Unknown → Pass	32
Pistol → Pass	28
Pistol → Run	25
Pass → Failure	428
Run → Failure	251
Pass → Success	233
Run → Success	147
Pass → Explosive	96
Run → Explosive	42

Kansas City Chiefs · 2017

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	470
12 personnel → Shotgun	148
12 personnel → Singleback	65
11 personnel → Singleback	47
21 personnel → I_Form	43
22 personnel → I_Form	37
13 personnel → Shotgun	34
12 personnel → Empty	27
11 personnel → Empty	26
13 personnel → Singleback	26
21 personnel → Shotgun	17
01 personnel → Shotgun	11
21 personnel → Singleback	11
12 personnel → Pistol	10
Other → Empty	6
11 personnel → Pistol	5
12 personnel → I_Form	5
22 personnel → Singleback	4
Other → Singleback	4
11 personnel → I_Form	3
11 personnel → Other	3
12 personnel → Other	3
22 personnel → Shotgun	3
01 personnel → Empty	2
01 personnel → Pistol	2
12 personnel → Unknown	2
21 personnel → Empty	2
21 personnel → Other	2
21 personnel → Pistol	2
13 personnel → Empty	1
13 personnel → Pistol	1
13 personnel → Unknown	1
22 personnel → Empty	1
22 personnel → Unknown	1
Other → I_Form	1
Other → Shotgun	1
Unknown → Unknown	1
Shotgun → Pass	500
Shotgun → Run	184
Singleback → Run	101
I_Form → Run	66
Empty → Pass	63
Singleback → Pass	56
I_Form → Pass	23
Pistol → Run	12
Pistol → Pass	8
Other → Run	6
Unknown → Run	4
Empty → Run	2
Other → Pass	2
Unknown → Pass	1
Pass → Failure	338
Run → Failure	234
Pass → Success	224
Run → Success	95
Pass → Explosive	91
Run → Explosive	46