About Us

We started this website because over the years we have never been able to find NFL preseason stats.

The NFL is popular the world over. As a result you can find any stat you want, any box score or play-by-play log, for any season EVER.

But not the NFL preseason. For whatever reason, preseason stats are only relevant while the preseason is happening. Then, those stats “Fade into bolivian” as boxer Mike Tyson once said.

When did the NFL start playing preseason games? How did we get to now?

When the NFL was founded in 1920, all games counted in the standings and would be used to determine the league champion. In 1921, this was revised to only count games involving two league members, thus allowing non-league exhibitions, but effectively banning exhibitions between two league teams. This rule had a direct impact on deciding the 1921 championship, in which the losing team insisted that the deciding game only be considered an exhibition.

In 1924, the league again changed the rule to declare any games held in December or later to be exhibitions.

By the mid-1930s, teams prepared for a standard 12-game regular season schedule, although even as late as 1939 teams would schedule non-league exhibition games both before and during the season (during bye weeks).

In the 1960s, teams began playing 14 regular season games, with a corresponding decrease in the length of the preseason. Teams played four or five preseason games each year; for example, in 1966 each of the nine American Football League teams each played four preseason games. By the end of the decade, however, there would be a rapid increase in the number of preseason games.

With the AFL–NFL merger of 1970, the newly merged NFL was granted a Sherman Anti-Trust Act exemption, which emboldened some team owners to expand the exhibition schedule and to require season-ticket holders to pay for one, then two, then three home exhibition games if they wanted to keep their season tickets.

From 1970 through 1977, the NFL season consisted of 14 regular season games and six exhibition games, sometimes but not always three at home and three away (the 1973 Washington Redskins, for instance, played all but one of six preseason games at home), with some played at neutral sites. From 1978 to 2019, the regular season was lengthened to 16 games, and the exhibition season was cut from six to four games.

From 1999 to 2001, when the league consisted of an uneven 31 teams, some additional exhibition games (usually two or three) were played over Hall of Fame weekend.

In order to account for the uneven number of teams, each team was required to have a bye week during the exhibition season.

Most teams held their bye week in Hall of Fame weekend, while the others utilized them somewhere else during the exhibition season. This practice was abandoned after the Houston Texans were added to the league in 2002, giving it an even 32 teams.

The 2020 NFL preseason was cancelled so there is no data for that year.

In 2022 with the expansion of the regular season to seventeen games and eighteen weeks, the preseason was reduced to three games.

That same year, the Baltimore Ravens and John Harbaugh claimed the record of consecutive preseason wins with 20, overtaking Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers record.

The Ravens ended up winning an NFL-record 24 consecutive preseason games before losing. Our blog post on the Ravens preseason winning streak tells you everything you need to know.

We intend to update this site each week during the NFL preseason for past seasons and subsequent seasons.

Consider this site a repository for all NFL preseason historical data.

Imagine how cool it would be to score in an NFL preseason game – but there is absolutely no historical record of it.

We’ve got your back, wide receiver Stephen Williams (who led the 2013 NFL preseason in receiving yards)! And many other players that achieved something so dope.