The Drive Chart

Every NFL drive, charted. Where it started, where it ended, what it was worth.

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Washington ran fourteen drives against Baltimore and reached the 20 on none of them.

Every NFL game becomes one of these. Where each drive started, where it ended, and what it was worth.

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Dillon Gabriel was given five possessions against New England and scored on all five. Twenty-seven points, a 157.9 rating, four tenths short of perfect. This is what a clean drive chart looks like. Most of them do not.

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Cleveland's second preseason game in one chart. Shedeur Sanders opened with a 65-yard touchdown drive. Deshaun Watson took the next four possessions and produced two punts, an interception and a turnover on downs. Where each drive started, where it ended.

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@NFL @Ravens The other side of that: Washington ran fourteen drives and reached the Baltimore 20 on none of them. The three points came on a possession that started at the Baltimore 24 and gained three yards.

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@NFL_DovKleiman With the decision made, this is what the last look produced. Cleveland's only points came on Sanders' opening drive. Watson took the next four possessions and produced two punts, an interception and a turnover on downs.

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@RGIII Cleveland's only points came on the first drive of the game, Sanders' 65-yard touchdown. Watson took the next four possessions: punt, punt, interception, downs. Here is the whole afternoon, drive by drive.

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@UnderdogNFL Second interception in seven preseason drives for Sanders. Those same seven drives include a 65-yard touchdown to open today, after he reached the Chicago 5 last week and came away with nothing. Every drive he has run:

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Pittsburgh ran eleven drives tonight and scored on none of them.

Four reached Jets territory — the 14, the 26, the 27, the 37. Two interceptions, two turnovers on downs, one missed field goal.

Jets 17, Steelers 0.

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@UnderdogNFL Six plays, 2:32. Green Bay had just taken 12 plays and 6:35 to cover the same ground.

Two throws did 56 of Denver's 65 yards.

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@LandonTengwall The gap you're describing, on the only scale that measures it:

Allar's debut, 154.8. Howard tonight, 38.6. Ten completions each.

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@UnderdogNFL Eight days ago the other kid in that room posted a 154.8 on the same scale.

Both of them threw 10 completions.

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Three games tonight.

Jets-Steelers 7ET · Panthers-Jaguars 7:30 · Packers-Broncos 9

Pittsburgh's the one — Rodgers and Rudolph both sit, Howard and Allar split the whole night after Allar's 154.8 debut rating.

Denver's the other: Bo Nix's first live snaps since the ankle.

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@jagibbs_23 One input for the WR debate: how much of each guy's 2025 finish his own targets actually predicted.

Nacua beat his expected points by 70. Jefferson missed his by 48.

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Last year's finish is what everyone drafts on. It isn't always real.

2025 running backs, points scored against what their carries and targets predicted:
Gibbs +61. Taylor +56. Achane +56.

The top of the position beat its opportunity. Nobody below it missed by half as much.

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@MikeGarafolo The rating math on it: 100.3 in his debut seven days ago, 42.6 tonight.

Passer rating only runs 0 to 158.3. He's covered a lot of it in a week.

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@espn 80 yards on the return. 86 passing yards for Mendoza on the night.

One defensive play nearly out-gained the No. 1 pick's entire game.

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@BleacherReport @NFL The return went 80 yards. Mendoza threw for 86 all night.

Seven days ago he debuted at a 100.3 rating. Tonight: 42.6.

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Fernando Mendoza's first NFL half ended in a touchdown pass. Six days later, his third throw went 80 yards the other way.

Wade Woodaz, a fourth-round rookie, picked the No. 1 pick and outran him to the end zone. Houston led 14-0.

Two starts, both ends of the curve.

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Preseason Week 1 is done — Saturday's six finals.

The Rams beat the Chiefs in the first look at a defense they spent all offseason buying. Chicago hung 34 on Cleveland. Fifteen games in five days, and the season hasn't started yet.

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Pittsburgh just paid a 25-year-old interior DT the same annual rate as Cam Heyward, a 15-year vet coming off second-team All-Pro.

That's not a raise. That's a succession plan.

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Defensive tackle Keeanu Benton and the #Steelers have agreed to a four-year, $72M contract extension, sources say. This deal, worth $18M per year, will make Benton the highest paid DL in Steelers history.

The deal was negotiated by agent Joe DiBenedetto of @1OF1FOOTBALL.