Chart assignment

Charts to read and discuss

Read each chart, then answer its questions. Every chart shows its source and date; open it for a table of the numbers and the data to download.

  1. How often do NFL teams pass instead of run?

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How often do NFL teams pass instead of run?

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Passes were 56.2% of NFL passing and running plays in the 2025 regular season, against a high of 59.3% in 2016 and 1999's 57.0%. Sacks count as passes and quarterback scrambles as runs. The chart starts in 1999, the first season in nflverse's data.

Questions to discuss

  1. In one sentence of your own, what does this chart show?
  2. Find the biggest change or difference in the chart. What might explain it?
  3. Who collected these numbers, and how recent are they? What else would you want to know before drawing a conclusion?

Source: nflverse, NFL team season stats (nflverse-data) (CC BY 4.0 (nflverse)) · Data as of Jan 4, 2026

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