12 Personnel Faced Rate | NFL Advanced Stats

Rank
1	41.9%	48.6%	49.4%	45.1%	-	35.7%	45.9%	42.3%
2	32.0%	26.1%	29.0%	35.6%	-	39.9%	18.8%	22.2%
3	30.3%	33.3%	42.4%	34.9%	-	46.2%	19.4%	23.2%
4	28.5%	30.2%	34.1%	29.8%	-	28.2%	29.1%	23.2%
5	28.0%	8.1%	16.4%	28.5%	-	27.5%	28.6%	21.5%

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What is 12 Personnel Faced Rate?

12 personnel means one running back, two tight ends and two receivers. 12 personnel faced rate is the share of a defense's charted scrimmage snaps played against that grouping. It is the grouping that forces the hardest personnel decision on a defense: stay in nickel and risk being outmuscled on the ground, or answer with base and let a second tight end who can actually run routes work against a linebacker. A defense seeing a lot of it is being tested on that choice every week. Rates across the published groupings do not sum to 100%, because snaps in groupings without their own page are counted but not shown.

Which teams have the highest 12 personnel faced rate in the NFL in 2026?

Minnesota leads the NFL in 12 personnel faced rate at 41.9%, through games played November 3, 2026. Washington is second at 32.0%, Miami third at 30.3%, Tampa Bay fourth at 28.5% & New Orleans fifth at 28.0%. Minnesota's rate is 9.9 percentage points above second place & 21.6 percentage points above the 25th-ranked team.

Only 15.2 percentage points separate first from tenth. The New York Jets are sixth at 27.6%, Indianapolis seventh at 27.4%, Detroit eighth at 27.3%, Cleveland ninth at 27.1% & New England tenth at 26.7%.

One rank inside the top 25 is shared by more than one team. Pittsburgh is 11th at 26.0%, Kansas City 12th at 25.5%, Jacksonville 13th at 24.9%, Chicago 14th at 24.8%, Atlanta 15th at 24.6%, Baltimore 16th at 24.1%, Seattle 17th at 23.9% & Buffalo 18th at 23.6%.

Eight teams sit inside 2.1 percentage points of each other from 12th to 19th, the tightest stretch of the ranking. Arizona is 19th at 23.4%, the Los Angeles Rams 20th at 22.8%, Las Vegas 21st at 22.5% & Carolina 22nd at 22.0%. San Francisco & Houston are tied 23rd at 20.4%. Philadelphia is 25th at 20.3%.

How this ranking is measured

These 25 are drawn from 32 NFL teams ranked in the 2026 regular season. 12 personnel means one running back, two tight ends and two receivers. Figures are as of November 3, 2026 & are recalculated on StatRankings after each game's play-by-play is processed.