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 2021 the Falcons led at 0.06; the league average was 0.01.

League snapshot — 2021

League leader

ATL · 0.06

League average

0.01

Best to worst

0.06

All 32 teams, higher is better.

At a glance — 2021

Where the 32 teams sit on this stat this season.

League leader

ATL · 0.06

League laggard

WAS · 0

League average

0.01

Spread (max − min)

0.06

Rank	Team	Value	Δ vs avg	Percentile
1	ATL	0.06	0.04	100%
2	CAR	0.06	0.04	96.8%
3	CHI	0.06	0.04	93.5%
4	HOU	0.06	0.04	90.3%
5	IND	0.06	0.04	87.1%
6	LV	0.06	0.04	83.9%
7	NYG	0.06	0.04	80.6%
8	SEA	0.06	0.04	77.4%
9	ARI	0	-0.01	74.2%
10	BAL	0	-0.01	71%
11	BUF	0	-0.01	67.7%
12	CIN	0	-0.01	64.5%
13	CLE	0	-0.01	61.3%
14	DAL	0	-0.01	58.1%
15	DEN	0	-0.01	54.8%
16	DET	0	-0.01	51.6%
17	GB	0	-0.01	48.4%
18	JAX	0	-0.01	45.2%
19	KC	0	-0.01	41.9%
20	LAC	0	-0.01	38.7%
21	LAR	0	-0.01	35.5%
22	MIA	0	-0.01	32.3%
23	MIN	0	-0.01	29%
24	NE	0	-0.01	25.8%
25	NO	0	-0.01	22.6%
26	NYJ	0	-0.01	19.4%
27	PHI	0	-0.01	16.1%
28	PIT	0	-0.01	12.9%
29	SF	0	-0.01	9.7%
30	TB	0	-0.01	6.5%
31	TEN	0	-0.01	3.2%
32	WAS	0	-0.01	0%

Does Safeties Scored (allowed) matter against the spread?

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%

Safeties Scored (allowed) in 2021 vs 2020

Falcons lead at 0.06 — they ranked #19 last year. Commanders are last at 0 — #18 last year.

The league average is 0.01, down 0.03 from 0.05 last year.

Biggest riser: Giants, #30 → #7. Biggest faller: Commanders, #18 → #32.

Spread between first and last: 0.06; 24 teams are within 0.03 of the average.

Year-over-year — 2021 vs 2020

Biggest movers from last season.

Biggest riser

ATL · +0.06

Biggest faller

SEA · −0.13

Most consistent

BUF · 0

League trend 2021 vs 2020

▼ -0.03

Multi-year context

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

Multi-year heatmap

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

Team	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
ATL	0	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0	0
CAR	0	0.06	0	0	0	0	0
CHI	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0
HOU	0	0.06	0.06	0	0.06	0	0
IND	0.19	0.06	0	0.06	0	0	0
LV	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.06	0.20
NYG	0	0.06	0	0	0	0	0
SEA	0.19	0.06	0	0	0.06	0	0
ARI	0.06	0	0	0	0.12	0.06	0
BAL	0.13	0	0	0.06	0	0	0
BUF	0	0	0.13	0	0.06	0	0
CIN	0	0	0	0	0.06	0	0
CLE	0.13	0	0	0	0.06	0	0
DAL	0	0	0	0.06	0	0.06	0
DEN	0	0	0.06	0.06	0.12	0	0
DET	0.06	0	0.06	0.06	0	0.06	0
GB	0.06	0	0.06	0	0	0	0
JAX	0	0	0	0	0	0.06	0
KC	0.06	0	0.06	0	0	0	0
LAC	0.06	0	0.06	0	0	0.06	0
LAR	0.06	0	0	0.12	0.06	0	0
MIA	0	0	0.06	0	0	0	0
MIN	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0
NE	0	0	0	0.06	0	0.06	0
NO	0.06	0	0	0	0.06	0	0
NYJ	0.06	0	0.12	0.18	0	0.06	0
PHI	0.06	0	0	0.06	0	0	0
PIT	0.06	0	0	0.06	0	0.06	0
SF	0	0	0	0.06	0	0	0
TB	0.06	0	0	0.06	0.06	0.06	0
TEN	0	0	0	0	0.12	0.06	0
WAS	0.06	0	0.06	0	0	0.06	0

Safeties Scored (allowed) since 2018

Leaders since 2018: 2018 Jaguars (0.13), 2019 Panthers (0.13), 2020 Colts (0.19), 2021 Falcons (0.06).

The best season on record is Colts 2020 at 0.19; the worst Commanders 2018 at 0.

The league average has fallen from 0.02 in 2018 to 0.01 in 2021.

Distribution

How the 32 teams cluster for 2021.

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.