NFL Combined Drive Efficiency: Going into Week 5, 2026

Combined drive efficiency adds each team's drive-ending rate and turnover rate from our competing-risks drive model, for offense and defense. Values are relative to a league-average team (0); higher is better on both sides of the ball. How the model works.

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Combined Drive Efficiency for all 32 NFL teams going into Week 5, 2026: offense and defense values (model effect, 0 = league average, higher is better), sorted by net (offense + defense).
RankTeamOffenseOff. rankDefenseDef. rankNet (Off + Def)
1CHI0.37810.013130.390
2SFO0.36620.02090.385
3BUF0.2923-0.041280.251
4LAR0.12780.09010.217
5BAL0.2055-0.005200.200
6DAL0.2684-0.112320.156
7JAX0.1526-0.004180.148
8CAR0.12390.014120.137
9KAN0.1487-0.013230.135
10SEA0.039140.07830.117
11ATL0.067110.02580.092
12CIN0.08810-0.026250.062
13NWE-0.008160.06340.054
14LVR0.034150.019100.053
15NOR0.06012-0.034270.026
16DET0.05813-0.09031-0.032
17HOU-0.067180.01811-0.049
18IND-0.09721-0.00317-0.100
19CLE-0.09120-0.01122-0.102
20PIT-0.131230.0267-0.105
21PHI-0.11322-0.00419-0.117
22GNB-0.05817-0.06730-0.125
23ARI-0.07319-0.06129-0.134
24DEN-0.148250.01114-0.137
25NYJ-0.138240.00216-0.137
26LAC-0.197280.0316-0.166
27TEN-0.16126-0.00621-0.167
28NYG-0.18027-0.03026-0.210
29TAM-0.265310.0405-0.225
30WAS-0.249300.00715-0.243
31MIN-0.330320.0862-0.244
32MIA-0.23029-0.01824-0.249