What Special Teams TD is

Touchdowns scored by special teams — kickoff and punt returns, blocked kicks, fakes. Rare, and each one swings a game.

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 Cowboys led at 0.18; the league average was 0.03.

League snapshot — 2021

League leader

DAL · 0.18

League average

0.03

Best to worst

0.18

All 32 teams, higher is better.

Rank	Team	Value	Games
1	DAL	0.18	17
2	IND	0.12	17
3	JAX	0.12	17
4	MIN	0.12	17
5	CAR	0.06	17
6	CHI	0.06	17
7	HOU	0.06	17
8	LAC	0.06	17
9	LAR	0.06	17
10	MIA	0.06	17
11	NYJ	0.06	17
12	PIT	0.06	17
13	SEA	0.06	17
14	WAS	0.06	17
15	ARI	0	17
16	ATL	0	17
17	BAL	0	17
18	BUF	0	17
19	CIN	0	17
20	CLE	0	17
21	DEN	0	17
22	DET	0	17
23	GB	0	17
24	KC	0	17
25	LV	0	17
26	NE	0	17
27	NO	0	17
28	NYG	0	17
29	PHI	0	17
30	SF	0	17
31	TB	0	17
32	TEN	0	17

At a glance — 2021

Where the 32 teams sit on this stat this season.

League leader

DAL · 0.18

League laggard

TEN · 0

League average

0.03

Spread (max − min)

0.18

Rank	Team	Value	Δ vs avg	Percentile
1	DAL	0.18	0.14	100%
2	IND	0.12	0.08	96.8%
3	JAX	0.12	0.08	93.5%
4	MIN	0.12	0.08	90.3%
5	CAR	0.06	0.02	87.1%
6	CHI	0.06	0.02	83.9%
7	HOU	0.06	0.02	80.6%
8	LAC	0.06	0.02	77.4%
9	LAR	0.06	0.02	74.2%
10	MIA	0.06	0.02	71%
11	NYJ	0.06	0.02	67.7%
12	PIT	0.06	0.02	64.5%
13	SEA	0.06	0.02	61.3%
14	WAS	0.06	0.02	58.1%
15	ARI	0	-0.03	54.8%
16	ATL	0	-0.03	51.6%
17	BAL	0	-0.03	48.4%
18	BUF	0	-0.03	45.2%
19	CIN	0	-0.03	41.9%
20	CLE	0	-0.03	38.7%
21	DEN	0	-0.03	35.5%
22	DET	0	-0.03	32.3%
23	GB	0	-0.03	29%
24	KC	0	-0.03	25.8%
25	LV	0	-0.03	22.6%
26	NE	0	-0.03	19.4%
27	NO	0	-0.03	16.1%
28	NYG	0	-0.03	12.9%
29	PHI	0	-0.03	9.7%
30	SF	0	-0.03	6.5%
31	TB	0	-0.03	3.2%
32	TEN	0	-0.03	0%

Does Special Teams TD matter against the spread?

Run as a one-stat algorithm against the closing line, this stat went 787–791–37 ATS (49.9%) across 2020–2025, #251 of 296 ranked.

Its best season was 2022 (142–122, 53.8%); its worst 2023 (115–143, 44.6%).

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

Season	Games	ATS record	ATS %
2020	256	126–128–2	49.6%
2021	272	138–132–2	51.1%
2022	271	142–122–7	53.8%
2023	272	115–143–14	44.6%
2024	272	122–141–9	46.4%
2025	272	144–125–3	53.5%

Special Teams TD in 2021 vs 2020

Cowboys lead at 0.18 — they ranked #9 last year. Titans are last at 0 — #14 last year.

The league average is 0.03, down 0.00 from 0.04 last year.

Biggest riser: Vikings, #24 → #4. Biggest faller: Patriots, #4 → #26.

Spread between first and last: 0.18; 28 teams are within 0.05 of the average.

Year-over-year — 2021 vs 2020

Biggest movers from last season.

Biggest riser

MIN · +0.12

Biggest faller

NE · −0.13

Most consistent

ARI · 0

League trend 2021 vs 2020

▼ 0.00

Rank	Team	2021	2020	Δ
1	MIN	0.12	0	+0.12
2	DAL	0.18	0.06	+0.11
3	CAR	0.06	0	+0.06
4	HOU	0.06	0	+0.06
5	LAC	0.06	0	+0.06
6	LAR	0.06	0	+0.06
7	NYJ	0.06	0	+0.06
8	PIT	0.06	0	+0.06
9	SEA	0.06	0	+0.06
10	WAS	0.06	0	+0.06
11	ARI	0	0	0
12	ATL	0	0	0
13	CLE	0	0	0
14	GB	0	0	0
15	LV	0	0	0
16	NO	0	0	0
17	NYG	0	0	0
18	SF	0	0	0
19	TB	0	0	0
20	CHI	0.06	0.06	−0.00
21	MIA	0.06	0.06	−0.00
22	IND	0.12	0.13	−0.01
23	JAX	0.12	0.13	−0.01
24	BAL	0	0.06	−0.06
25	BUF	0	0.06	−0.06
26	CIN	0	0.06	−0.06
27	DEN	0	0.06	−0.06
28	DET	0	0.06	−0.06
29	PHI	0	0.06	−0.06
30	TEN	0	0.06	−0.06
31	KC	0	0.13	−0.13
32	NE	0	0.13	−0.13

Multi-year context

7-year window (2020–2026)

Multi-year leader

DAL · 0.08

Multi-year laggard

LV · 0

Biggest improver

NYJ · +0.01/yr

Biggest decliner

IND · −0.02/yr

Rank	Team	Avg	Slope/yr	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
1	DAL	0.08	−0.01	0.06	0.18	0	0.06	0.18	0.06	0
2	NYJ	0.07	+0.01	0	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.24	0
3	NE	0.06	−0.00	0.13	0	0.06	0.06	0	0.18	0
4	JAX	0.06	−0.01	0.13	0.12	0	0	0.06	0.12	0
5	SEA	0.06	+0.01	0	0.06	0.06	0	0.06	0.24	0
6	MIN	0.05	+0.01	0	0.12	0.06	0	0	0	0.20
7	IND	0.05	−0.02	0.13	0.12	0.06	0.06	0	0	0
8	BUF	0.04	−0.01	0.06	0	0.13	0.06	0	0.06	0
9	CHI	0.03	−0.01	0.06	0.06	0	0	0.12	0	0
10	CIN	0.03	−0.00	0.06	0	0	0.06	0.06	0.06	0
11	DET	0.03	−0.00	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.06	0.06	0
12	MIA	0.03	−0.01	0.06	0.06	0.06	0	0	0.06	0
13	NYG	0.03	+0.01	0	0	0	0.06	0.12	0.06	0
14	BAL	0.03	−0.01	0.06	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0
15	DEN	0.03	−0.00	0.06	0	0	0.06	0	0.06	0
16	PHI	0.03	+0.00	0.06	0	0	0	0	0.12	0
17	TEN	0.03	+0.00	0.06	0	0	0	0	0.12	0
18	HOU	0.03	−0.00	0	0.06	0	0.12	0	0	0
19	LAR	0.03	+0.00	0	0.06	0	0	0.06	0.06	0
20	WAS	0.03	+0.00	0	0.06	0	0	0	0.12	0
21	KC	0.02	−0.01	0.13	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	ATL	0.02	−0.00	0	0	0.12	0	0	0	0
23	CAR	0.02	−0.00	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0	0
24	CLE	0.02	0	0	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0
25	LAC	0.02	−0.00	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0	0
26	NO	0.02	+0.00	0	0	0	0.06	0.06	0	0
27	PIT	0.02	−0.00	0	0.06	0	0	0.06	0	0
28	ARI	0.01	+0.00	0	0	0	0	0.06	0	0
29	GB	0.01	−0.00	0	0	0.06	0	0	0	0
30	SF	0.01	+0.00	0	0	0	0	0.06	0	0
31	TB	0.01	+0.00	0	0	0	0	0.06	0	0
32	LV	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
DAL	0.06	0.18	0	0.06	0.18	0.06	0
IND	0.13	0.12	0.06	0.06	0	0	0
JAX	0.13	0.12	0	0	0.06	0.12	0
MIN	0	0.12	0.06	0	0	0	0.20
CAR	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0	0
CHI	0.06	0.06	0	0	0.12	0	0
HOU	0	0.06	0	0.12	0	0	0
LAC	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0	0
LAR	0	0.06	0	0	0.06	0.06	0
MIA	0.06	0.06	0.06	0	0	0.06	0
NYJ	0	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.24	0
PIT	0	0.06	0	0	0.06	0	0
SEA	0	0.06	0.06	0	0.06	0.24	0
WAS	0	0.06	0	0	0	0.12	0
ARI	0	0	0	0	0.06	0	0
ATL	0	0	0.12	0	0	0	0
BAL	0.06	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0
BUF	0.06	0	0.13	0.06	0	0.06	0
CIN	0.06	0	0	0.06	0.06	0.06	0
CLE	0	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0
DEN	0.06	0	0	0.06	0	0.06	0
DET	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.06	0.06	0
GB	0	0	0.06	0	0	0	0
KC	0.13	0	0	0	0	0	0
LV	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
NE	0.13	0	0.06	0.06	0	0.18	0
NO	0	0	0	0.06	0.06	0	0
NYG	0	0	0	0.06	0.12	0.06	0
PHI	0.06	0	0	0	0	0.12	0
SF	0	0	0	0	0.06	0	0
TB	0	0	0	0	0.06	0	0
TEN	0.06	0	0	0	0	0.12	0

Special Teams TD since 2018

Leaders since 2018: 2018 Dolphins (0.13), 2019 Lions (0.13), 2020 Colts (0.13), 2021 Cowboys (0.18).

The best season on record is Cowboys 2021 at 0.18; the worst Commanders 2018 at 0.

The league average has risen from 0.03 in 2018 to 0.03 in 2021.

Distribution

How the 32 teams cluster for 2021.

About this stat

Stat ID: off_team_scoring_special_teams_tds
Side: offensive
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.