The biggest swing of the game · Q1 4:23 · 4th and 1
Baker Mayfield
Bears
(4:23) 6-B.Mayfield sacked at CHI 31 for -11 yards (52-K.Mack).
16.0
win-probability points on one snap
The largest move of the game. The two below are drawn against it.
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2021 Week 3 · Sun, Sep 26, 2021 · FirstEnergy Stadium
FinalThe verdict · 2021 Week 3
It turned at Q1 4:23, 4th and 1, on Baker Mayfield — 16.0 win-probability points to the Bears on one snap, the largest move of the game, and it still was not enough.
The snaps that bent it
Cleveland Browns 26–6 — never really in doubt late. Biggest swing: Q1 4:23, Bears +16.0% win probability on one snap. Played in 15.7 mph wind — weigh that when reading the passing lines.
The biggest swing of the game · Q1 4:23 · 4th and 1
Baker Mayfield
Bears
(4:23) 6-B.Mayfield sacked at CHI 31 for -11 yards (52-K.Mack).
16.0
win-probability points on one snap
The largest move of the game. The two below are drawn against it.
What separated them
Explosive plays
Browns won this one — 12 chunk plays, against Bears at 1 chunk play.
Brownsthe gap went the way the scoreboard did
Every snap
Browns won this one — +0.04 expected points per snap, against Bears at -0.61 expected points per snap.
Brownsthe gap went the way the scoreboard did
Staying on schedule
Browns won this one — 45% of snaps stayed on schedule, against Bears at 24% of snaps stayed on schedule.
Brownsthe gap went the way the scoreboard did
Third down
Browns won this one — 8 of 17 on third down, against Bears at 1 of 11 on third down.
Brownsthe gap went the way the scoreboard did
Who won it for them
What it says about next week
Note
The model against the market, the momentum underneath, every drive — scrub to replay it
The model and the market were 10.2 win-probability points apart on the average play, and 26 apart at the widest — with the model the more convinced about Bears.
(4:23) 6-B.Mayfield sacked at CHI 31 for -11 yards (52-K.Mack).
The modelled figures are the league play-by-play model's, not ours.
How the points landed
Austin Hooper's 13-yard touchdown catch with 0:23 left in the 2nd put Cleveland Browns ahead for good. The lead never changed over the 5 scores that followed.
8 scores · bar length is the lead after each one
Down-to-down truth
Browns ahead 8–0 on categories, including the biggest gap of the duel — red-zone touchdowns.
Expected points added, per play
The centre line is an average play. A bar to the right of it is a side that gained more than the situation was worth; a bar to the left is a side that lost ground. All six bars share one scale, ±0.71 points.
Every snapexpected points added per play, all downs
Dropping backexpected points added per dropback
Running itexpected points added per rush
Neither side “wins” volume or play-calling mix, so neither is drawn as a duel: Bears ran 42 snaps at a 71% dropback rate against Browns’s 75 at 52%. Red-zone trips: Bears 1, Browns 6.
Browns won the down-to-down efficiency fight: 0.04 expected points added per play vs -0.61.
Derived from the play-by-play, no model
7 of 8 readings cleared their snap floor and were tested against four comparisons: this week's whole slate, the team's own season, the week before, and the team's own ordinary spread. Every bar below is set in that team's own week-to-week swing, never in league points — one team's swing runs 1.6 to 3.1 times the entire league's spread.
1 of 8 readings cleared their snap floor in this game, which is under the three this column needs before it will draw the rule. The readings themselves stand.
CLE's sack or hit rate, 43.3%, was the highest of the 32 team-games charted in week 3 — 17.5 points clear of the next team along.
30 dropbacks this game, floor 12 — 17 of their games behind the ruler, and their own week-to-week swing is 8.9 points. · +3.2σ from their own normal
The season-grain rooms, pointed at this one game
7 of 8 readings cleared their snap floor. Every deviation below is measured in that team's own game-to-game swing, not in league points — because one game's swing runs from 1.6 to 3.1 times the whole league's spread.
upper band = their week-to-week swing · lower rule = all 32 teams · scale -21 pts to 14 pts
Over Expected room →leaned — threw more than the situation asked · +7.0 vs their -2.5 pts, and they swing ±6.3 week to week (+1.12× that swing) · 42 snaps
right on their number · −2.6 vs their -4.7 pts, and they swing ±6.4 week to week (−0.40× that swing) · 75 snaps
upper band = their week-to-week swing · lower rule = all 32 teams · scale 28% to 82%
Tendencies room →inside their normal wobble · +8.4 vs their 54.9%, and they swing ±10.4 week to week (+0.81× that swing) · 30 early downs
inside their normal wobble · −6.3 vs their 51.8%, and they swing ±8.6 week to week (−0.73× that swing) · 55 early downs
upper band = their week-to-week swing · lower rule = all 32 teams · scale -40% to 154%
Fourth Down room →Only 2 fourth-and-short calls tonight — too few to read a tendency. Their season number is 59.3%.
inside their normal wobble · +29.6 vs their 45.4%, and they swing ±32.8 week to week (+0.90× that swing) · 4 fourth-and-short calls
upper band = their week-to-week swing · lower rule = all 32 teams · scale -10% to 47%
Tendencies room →right on their number · −2.7 vs their 15.6%, and they swing ±9.8 week to week (−0.28× that swing) · 39 dropbacks
off script — got home · +28.4 vs their 15.0%, and they swing ±8.9 week to week (+3.19× that swing) · 30 dropbacks
Play-action rate
Charted from 2022. The columns exist for 2021 and are entirely empty, which is not a season of data.
Blitz rate sent
Charted from 2022. The columns exist for 2021 and are entirely empty, which is not a season of data.
CLE's sack or hit rate was the night's one real departure: 43.3%, 28.4 points above their season mean of 15.0% and 3.2 times their own 8.9-point weekly swing.
Who was out, who dressed and never took a snap, and who was on the field how much. Game-day list and snap counts from the weekly roster and snap feeds. Practice-squad and injured-reserve players are not shown — they were never on the game-day list.
Chicago Bears
48 dressed · 6 inactive · 2 never used
Inactive · 6
Dressed, never took a snap · 2
Cleveland Browns
48 dressed · 6 inactive · 1 never used
Inactive · 6
Dressed, never took a snap · 1
Who moved the needle
Passing · CLE
19/31, 246 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT
-2.3 expected points added · +0.6% completion over expected
Passing · CHI
6/20, 68 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT
-21.8 expected points added · -38.8% completion over expected
What each man’s workload was worth, against what he actually banked. Final. Usage and expected points land the morning after the game, not live.
Kareem Hunt banked 12.1 more points than his own workload asked for.
| Player | Full PPR | Vs expected | Snap share | Routes | Targets | Air yards | Line |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kareem HuntRB · Committee Back | 27.5 | +12.1 | 41% | 45% | 24% | 0% | 10 car, 81 yd, 1 TD · 6/7, 74 yd |
| Baker MayfieldQB · Starter QB | 16.9 | −0.3 | 94% | — | 0% | — | 19/31, 246 yd, 1 TD · 4 car, 31 yd |
| Odell BeckhamWR · Alpha Receiver | 13.7 | −4.9 | 64% | 75% | 31% | 49% | 1 car, 10 yd · 5/9, 77 yd |
| Austin HooperTE · Rotational Receiver | 9.9 | +3.5 | 60% | 55% | 10% | 8% | 2/3, 19 yd, 1 TD |
| Nick ChubbRB · Committee Back | 8.4 | −2.6 | 49% | 38% | 0% | — | 22 car, 84 yd |
| David MontgomeryRB · Bell Cow Back | 7.5 | −3.2 | 82% | 77% | 20% | 3% | 10 car, 34 yd · 2/4, 21 yd |
| Donovan Peoples-JonesWR · Rotational Receiver | 5.9 | +2.6 | 65% | 68% | 7% | 13% | 2/2, 39 yd |
| Allen RobinsonWR · Alpha Receiver | 4.7 | −3.8 | 89% | 83% | 30% | 42% | 2/6, 27 yd |
| Rashard HigginsWR · Rotational Receiver | 4.4 | +1.4 | 49% | 55% | 7% | 6% | 2/2, 24 yd |
| Justin FieldsQB · Starter QB | 3.9 | −2.8 | 100% | — | 0% | — | 6/20, 68 yd · 3 car, 12 yd |
| Demetric FeltonRB · Receiving Back | 3.3 | −1.5 | 14% | 15% | 10% | 7% | 2/3, 13 yd |
| Cole KmetTE · Featured Receiver | 2.1 | −3.9 | 96% | 93% | 20% | 21% | 1/4, 11 yd |
| Darnell MooneyWR · Featured Receiver | 1.9 | −3.5 | 98% | 93% | 20% | 25% | 1/4, 9 yd |
| D'Ernest JohnsonRB | 0.9 | +0.1 | — | — | — | — | 5 snaps — too few to rate. |
| Khalil HerbertRB | 0.0 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 snaps — too few to rate. |
| Damien WilliamsRB | 0.0 | — | — | — | — | — | 7 snaps — too few to rate. |
| Jimmy GrahamTE · Rotational Receiver | 0.0 | −0.9 | — | — | — | — | 7 snaps — too few to rate. |
| Jesse JamesTE · Rotational Receiver | 0.0 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 snap — too few to rate. |
| Marquise GoodwinWR · Rotational Receiver | 0.0 | −1.2 | 22% | 23% | 5% | 12% | 0/1, 0 yd |
| Nsimba WebsterWR | 0.0 | — | — | — | — | — | Did not take a snap. |
| Case KeenumQB | 0.0 | −0.2 | — | — | — | — | 5 snaps — too few to rate. |
| Harrison BryantTE · Rotational Receiver | 0.0 | −4.3 | 41% | 28% | 7% | 15% | 0/2, 0 yd |
| Anthony SchwartzWR · Rotational Receiver | 0.0 | −1.8 | 35% | 20% | 3% | 4% | 0/1, 0 yd |
7 players played under 8 snaps, so their shares read as a dash rather than a number. 4 lines have no expected-points read and sit off the plane.
Expected points are modelled in full PPR, so the “vs expected” column stays in that unit whichever format the pills are set to. Switching the pills changes the points column, not the plane.
The whole game as one hundred yards. The Browns attack right, the Bears attack left, so a change of possession is a reversal you can see. Reading down is the order the snaps were played — not the clock, so a two-minute drill gets the same room as any other fourteen snaps. This game is final.
(4:23) 6-B.Mayfield sacked at CHI 31 for -11 yards (52-K.Mack).
Q1 4:23 · Browns · 4th & 1 at CHI 20 · lost 11 · -4.57 EP · −14.2% win probability
155 snaps placed · 11 without a recorded yard line, left off the map · 4 marked moments — the largest win-probability swings, one per drive.
Post-game film: 166 plays across 22 drives, personnel groupings on 166 snaps. Everything here paints the morning after the week's games — there is no live play-level feed in this product, so nothing on this page updates while a game is being played.
8 of 22 drives ended in points. The longest march was CLE moving 89 yards from the CLE 11 for a touchdown. Each bar is the ground a drive actually covered; CLE attacks right, CHI attacks left. Hatching marks a trip inside the twenty.
Offensive grouping on every pass and run. A group needs five snaps in this game before it gets a number — under that the sample is a coin flip and the cell reads a dash instead. The names of the eleven on the field are only recorded from 2023 onward, so this game gives the grouping without the roster.
166 plays · ranked by the win probability each one moved
166 plays
Win probability is the league play-by-play model, 98.5% of plays · a dash means none was published
Just the plays, on their own page: Bears at Browns, every play.
Full stat lines
| Player | C/Att | Yds | TD | INT | Sacked | EPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Fields | 6/20 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 9 | −21.8 |
| Player | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | EPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Montgomery | 10 | 34 | 3.4 | 0 | −2.9 |
| Justin Fields | 3 | 12 | 4.0 | 0 | −0.7 |
| Player | Rec | Tgt | Yds | TD | Tgt share | EPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Robinson | 2 | 6 | 27 | 0 | 30% | +0.3 |
| David Montgomery | 2 | 4 | 21 | 0 |
| Player | Solo | Ast | Sacks | INT | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roquan Smith | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Eddie Jackson | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Duke Shelley |
| Player | C/Att | Yds | TD | INT | Sacked | EPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baker Mayfield | 19/31 | 246 | 1 | 0 | 5 | −2.3 |
| Player | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | EPA |
|---|
Every number on them comes from the same read as this page, and each one says in words where it came from.
How the win probability moved, the three snaps that bent it, and every drive in order.

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The cards are drawn from the charted play-by-play, not live, and each one says so on its face.
Closing number vs result
Browns closed -7.5 and covered, winning by 20.
Total closed 45; the game landed 32 — under by 13.0.
Conditions and crew
Wind at 15.7 mph is the kind that drags passing depth and kicking range — weigh it when reading the splits.
| 20% |
| −0.6 |
| Cole Kmet | 1 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 20% | −2.4 |
| Darnell Mooney | 1 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 20% | −1.2 |
| Jimmy Graham | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5% | −0.5 |
| Marquise Goodwin | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5% | −0.7 |
| 3 |
| 3 |
| 0.0 |
| 0 |
| 0 |
| Angelo Blackson | 2 | 3 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Khyiris Tonga | 2 | 3 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Alec Ogletree | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bilal Nichols | 1 | 3 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kindle Vildor | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Deon Bush | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Margus Hunt | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nick Chubb | 22 | 84 | 3.8 | 0 | −2.0 |
| Kareem Hunt | 10 | 81 | 8.1 | 1 | +4.4 |
| Baker Mayfield | 4 | 31 | 7.8 | 0 | +1.8 |
| Odell Beckham | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 0 | +0.5 |
| D'Ernest Johnson | 2 | 9 | 4.5 | 0 | +0.4 |
| Case Keenum | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | −4.5 |
| Player | Rec | Tgt | Yds | TD | Tgt share | EPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odell Beckham | 5 | 9 | 77 | 0 | 31% | +4.3 |
| Kareem Hunt | 6 | 7 | 74 | 0 | 24% | +4.7 |
| Donovan Peoples-Jones | 2 | 2 | 39 | 0 | 7% | +3.1 |
| Rashard Higgins | 2 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 7% | +2.5 |
| Austin Hooper | 2 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 10% | +2.6 |
| Demetric Felton | 2 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 10% | −2.2 |
| Harrison Bryant | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7% | −2.6 |
| Anthony Schwartz | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3% | −0.8 |
| Player | Solo | Ast | Sacks | INT | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Myles Garrett | 6 | 1 | 4.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Ronnie Harrison | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Denzel Ward | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 2 |
| Greg Newsome | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jadeveon Clowney | 2 | 1 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Elijah Lee | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| M.J. Stewart | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Malcolm Smith | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Malik Jackson | 0 | 2 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |