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The original was posted on /r/nfl by /u/JPAnalyst on 2025-09-27 15:05:07+00:00.
Five years ago, only 19% of all points came off of field goals. This has increased to 24.2% in the first three weeks of 2025. An important caveat is that a three-week sample size can give a false impression of how the season will end up for any metric. Also, we haven’t hit winter yet, so this may impact the % of points coming from FGs later in the year. In 1974, you can see the impact of the NFL moving the goal posts to the back of the endzone.
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Early 2025 is seeing offensive touchdowns making up only 61.6% of all points in a game, down from 66.3% in 2020. Since then, FGs are taking point share from TDs.
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Before the 2-point conversion was added, extra points made up over 11% of all scoring. This is down to about 9% now after two rule changes (2 pts, and moving XPA back to the 15-yard line),
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After the two-point conversion was added in 1994, everyone got it out of their system and points from 2-pt conversions dropped to only 0.4% of all scoring by 2006. When the NFL made XPAs more difficult, 2-pt scoring started to increase the % mix of scoring. I’m not sure what to attribute this year’s dip to other than small sample size which will likely show mean regression later on.
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From 1970 to 2014 defensive touchdowns hovered between 3.5% to 5.5%, but we have seen a decline in defensive TDs % of scoring in the last ten years. I don’t know why.
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Special Teams returns as a % of scoring has also ben declining in recent years.
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Here is everything in one chart, although I find this one harder to interpret than the single line charts. This includes a few small categories not shown above.
