What Safeties Scored (allowed) is

Safeties scored by this team's defense — the opponent tackled in its own end zone. As rare as scoring gets.

Higher is better. It is shown per game, so a team's number does not depend on games played. Source: P + N.

In 2018 the Jaguars led at 0.13; the league average was 0.02.

League snapshot — 2018

League leader

JAX · 0.13

League average

0.02

Best to worst

0.13

All 32 teams, higher is better.

Where the 32 teams sit on this stat this season.

League leader

JAX · 0.13

League laggard

WAS · 0

League average

0.02

Spread (max − min)

0.13

Rank	Team	Value	Δ vs avg	Percentile
1	JAX	0.13	0.11	100%
2	LAR	0.13	0.11	96.8%
3	PIT	0.13	0.11	93.5%
4	BUF	0.06	0.04	90.3%
5	CHI	0.06	0.04	87.1%
6	CLE	0.06	0.04	83.9%
7	SF	0.06	0.04	80.6%
8	ARI	0	-0.02	77.4%
9	ATL	0	-0.02	74.2%
10	BAL	0	-0.02	71%
11	CAR	0	-0.02	67.7%
12	CIN	0	-0.02	64.5%
13	DAL	0	-0.02	61.3%
14	DEN	0	-0.02	58.1%
15	DET	0	-0.02	54.8%
16	GB	0	-0.02	51.6%
17	HOU	0	-0.02	48.4%
18	IND	0	-0.02	45.2%
19	KC	0	-0.02	41.9%
20	LAC	0	-0.02	38.7%
21	LV	0	-0.02	35.5%
22	MIA	0	-0.02	32.3%
23	MIN	0	-0.02	29%
24	NE	0	-0.02	25.8%
25	NO	0	-0.02	22.6%
26	NYG	0	-0.02	19.4%
27	NYJ	0	-0.02	16.1%
28	PHI	0	-0.02	12.9%
29	SEA	0	-0.02	9.7%
30	TB	0	-0.02	6.5%
31	TEN	0	-0.02	3.2%
32	WAS	0	-0.02	0%

Run as a one-stat algorithm against the closing line, this stat went 785–793–37 ATS (49.7%) across 2020–2025, #253 of 296 ranked.

Its best season was 2022 (146–118, 55.3%); its worst 2024 (119–144, 45.2%).

For picks, this is noise. One stat is not a recipe — the algorithms combine many.

Season	Games	ATS record	ATS %
2020	256	128–126–2	50.4%
2021	272	133–137–2	49.3%
2022	271	146–118–7	55.3%
2023	272	130–128–14	50.4%
2024	272	119–144–9	45.2%
2025	272	129–140–3	48.0%

7-year window (2020–2026)

Multi-year leader

NYJ · 0.06

Multi-year laggard

SF · 0.01

Biggest improver

LV · +0.02/yr

Biggest decliner

IND · −0.02/yr

Rank	Team	Avg	Slope/yr	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
1	NYJ	0.06	−0.01	0.06	0	0.12	0.18	0	0.06	0
2	LV	0.05	+0.02	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.06	0.20
3	IND	0.04	−0.02	0.19	0.06	0	0.06	0	0	0
4	SEA	0.04	−0.02	0.19	0.06	0	0	0.06	0	0
5	ARI	0.03	+0.00	0.06	0	0	0	0.12	0.06	0
6	DET	0.03	−0.00	0.06	0	0.06	0.06	0	0.06	0
7	LAR	0.03	−0.00	0.06	0	0	0.12	0.06	0	0
8	TB	0.03	−0.00	0.06	0	0	0.06	0.06	0.06	0
9	ATL	0.03	−0.00	0	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0	0
10	DEN	0.03	+0.00	0	0	0.06	0.06	0.12	0	0
11	BAL	0.03	−0.01	0.13	0	0	0.06	0	0	0
12	BUF	0.03	−0.00	0	0	0.13	0	0.06	0	0
13	CLE	0.03	−0.01	0.13	0	0	0	0.06	0	0
14	LAC	0.03	−0.00	0.06	0	0.06	0	0	0.06	0
15	PIT	0.03	−0.00	0.06	0	0	0.06	0	0.06	0
16	WAS	0.03	−0.00	0.06	0	0.06	0	0	0.06	0
17	HOU	0.03	−0.00	0	0.06	0.06	0	0.06	0	0
18	TEN	0.03	+0.01	0	0	0	0	0.12	0.06	0
19	CHI	0.02	−0.01	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0
20	GB	0.02	−0.01	0.06	0	0.06	0	0	0	0
21	KC	0.02	−0.01	0.06	0	0.06	0	0	0	0
22	NO	0.02	−0.00	0.06	0	0	0	0.06	0	0
23	PHI	0.02	−0.01	0.06	0	0	0.06	0	0	0
24	DAL	0.02	+0.00	0	0	0	0.06	0	0.06	0
25	NE	0.02	+0.00	0	0	0	0.06	0	0.06	0
26	MIN	0.01	−0.01	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	CAR	0.01	−0.00	0	0.06	0	0	0	0	0
28	CIN	0.01	+0.00	0	0	0	0	0.06	0	0
29	JAX	0.01	+0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.06	0
30	MIA	0.01	−0.00	0	0	0.06	0	0	0	0
31	NYG	0.01	−0.00	0	0.06	0	0	0	0	0
32	SF	0.01	0	0	0	0	0.06	0	0	0

32 teams across 7 seasons. Cells colored by quintile within each season; click a column header to jump to that year.

How the 32 teams cluster for 2018.

About this stat

Stat ID: def_team_scoring_def_safeties_scored
Side: defensive
Family: Scoring
Data source: P + N
Polarity: higher is better (or neutral)
Display grain: count
Algorithm eligibility: Stat-page only: this stat is not available in the Algorithm Builder.