NFL Overall Drive Efficiency: Going into Week 16, 2025

Overall drive efficiency compares how well each team's offense keeps drives alive with how quickly its defense ends opponents' drives, adjusted for opponents and game situation. Values are relative to a league-average team (0); higher is better. How the model works.

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Overall Drive Efficiency for all 32 NFL teams going into Week 16, 2025: offense and defense values (model effect, 0 = league average, higher is better), sorted by net (offense + defense).
RankTeamOffenseOff. rankDefenseDef. rankNet (Off + Def)
1LAR0.24410.046110.290
2DEN-0.063230.33910.276
3BUF0.22830.029130.257
4KAN0.13660.10770.243
5SEA0.025140.18150.206
6DET0.12680.05290.178
7MIN-0.070240.20030.130
8IND0.2054-0.078230.127
9GNB0.1327-0.018170.114
10LAC-0.002160.10960.106
11NYG0.1475-0.055210.092
12DAL0.2362-0.157290.079
13SFO0.1159-0.045200.070
14NWE0.06011-0.017160.043
15HOU-0.159280.19740.037
16JAX0.04213-0.014150.028
17MIA0.015150.007140.022
18BAL0.05812-0.07924-0.021
19ATL-0.00917-0.02618-0.035
20PHI-0.091260.04710-0.044
21NOR-0.104270.03712-0.068
22CLE-0.359320.2912-0.068
23WAS0.06010-0.15127-0.091
24NYJ-0.238300.0958-0.143
25CAR-0.07225-0.07322-0.145
26PIT-0.04021-0.12726-0.167
27CHI-0.03519-0.15428-0.189
28TAM-0.03820-0.15830-0.195
29ARI-0.04622-0.17031-0.216
30LVR-0.19229-0.08225-0.274
31CIN-0.03318-0.27332-0.306
32TEN-0.31631-0.02719-0.342