| Rank | Team | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | 37.2% | 47.8% | 43.2% | 38.1% | - | 39.9% | 35.4% | 41.0% |
| 2 |  | 38.9% | 52.2% | 40.0% | 40.9% | - | 43.4% | 30.7% | 39.7% |
| 3 |  | 39.4% | 28.8% | 35.8% | 40.1% | - | 35.8% | 45.3% | 44.8% |
| 4 |  | 40.2% | 31.6% | 36.7% | 39.5% | - | 40.2% | 40.2% | 46.7% |
| 5 |  | 40.5% | 42.9% | 39.4% | 39.6% | - | 37.2% | 42.5% | 43.7% |
Minnesota ranks first in the NFL in defensive success rate at 37.2% through games played November 3, 2026. Seattle is second at 38.9%, Tampa Bay third at 39.4%, Chicago fourth at 40.2% & Kansas City fifth at 40.5%. A gap of 1.7 percentage points separates Minnesota from second place, & 8.3 percentage points separate it from the 25th-ranked team.
Only 4.9 percentage points separate first from tenth. Denver is sixth at 40.5%, the Los Angeles Rams seventh at 40.5%, Houston eighth at 41.3%, Pittsburgh ninth at 41.8% & Cleveland tenth at 42.1%.
Tampa Bay ranks third on the season at 39.4% but has the league's lowest defensive success rate over the last three weeks at 35.8%. Jacksonville is 11th at 42.2%, Arizona 12th at 43.0%, Indianapolis 13th at 43.0%, the New York Giants 14th at 43.2%, New England 15th at 43.4%, Green Bay 16th at 43.6%, Atlanta 17th at 43.7% & the Los Angeles Chargers 18th at 43.8%.
Nine teams sit inside 1.0 percentage points of each other from 12th to 20th, the tightest stretch of the ranking. Cincinnati is 19th at 43.9%, San Francisco 20th at 44.0%, Baltimore 21st at 44.4%, Carolina 22nd at 44.6%, Philadelphia 23rd at 45.4%, the New York Jets 24th at 45.5% & Detroit 25th at 45.5%.
Of the 32 NFL teams ranked in the 2026 regular season, the top 25 are listed above, ranked lowest first. Defensive success rate is the percentage of plays on which the opposing offense generates positive expected points added. Figures are as of November 3, 2026 & are recalculated on StatRankings after each game's play-by-play is processed.
