When it comes to throwing different looks at opposing defenses, no one in the NFL does it like Matt Nagy.
He was a master at creating new combinations of offensive personnel at the skill positions, and the league has data to back it up.
According to Next Gen Stats, the Chicago Bears used 32 unique personnel groupings over the last two seasons, the most in the NFL.
That time span also includes John Fox’s final year in Chicago, but Nagy put the Bears over the top purely with the number of defensive players he lined up on offense in the red zone.
More creative personnel groupings isn’t the only way to spur offensive creativity, as evident by two of the league’s best finishing at the bottom of the list.
The Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs prefer to show opposing defenses similar looks on most plays so they can’t predict what is coming based on what the offense is showing.
Nagy diverged from his mentor Andy Reid in that way, landing their two offenses on the opposite side of the spectrum.
