Patriots took a sack on 8.7% of dropbacks
The New England Patriots allowed a sack on 8.7% of dropbacks (48 sacks on 550 dropbacks), 7th-highest of 32 teams, in the 2025 regular season.
- Window
- The 2025 regular season
- Games
- 17
- Denominator
- 550 dropbacks (attempts + sacks)
- Cohort
- 32 teams
- Sacks are shared between protection, scheme, receivers and the quarterback. This is a team number.
Source & definition
Definition: Sacks taken divided by dropbacks, where dropbacks = pass attempts + sacks taken (scrambles excluded). Summed over games.
Fields: stats_team_week.sacks_suffered, stats_team_week.attempts
Provider: nflverse data releases (schedules, weekly team/player stats, play-by-play) · dataset nflverse-2026-10-20-run2
Calculation: team.sack_rate_allowed@1 · rules v1 · template v1 · computed Oct 20, 2026, 3:08 PM UTC
Qualification: ranked only with at least 100 dropbacks (attempts + sacks); this entity qualified.