Left Coverage Rate | NFL Advanced Stats

	Player	Position
1	Jacob Parrish	CB	99.4%	100.0%	99.0%	99.3%	-	100.0%	98.7%
2	Brandon Stephens	CB	98.9%	100.0%	98.8%	99.2%	-	98.7%	99.0%
3	Darien Porter	CB	98.6%	100.0%	98.0%	98.1%	-	100.0%	95.2%
4	Brandon Cisse	CB	97.8%	-	100.0%	98.2%	-	98.8%	97.0%
5	Benjamin Morrison	CB	97.8%	-	-	0.0%	-	95.8%	100.0%

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What Is Left Coverage Rate?

Left coverage rate measures the share of a defender's routes defended where the receiver he was covering lined up on the offense's left. Sides are named from the offense's point of view throughout, so a corner with a high left coverage rate is physically stationed on the defense's right. Read it as a travel indicator: corners near the extremes stay on one side of the formation every snap, while a figure close to even means the defender either follows a particular receiver across the field or rotates through the slot. Left and right coverage rate add to very close to 100%: the denominator is the same charted receiver-alignment population the numerators come from, and the roughly one percent shortfall is routes on plays whose formation does not resolve a side, excluded from both rather than guessed.

Who leads the NFL in left coverage rate in 2026?

The top player in left coverage rate is Jacob Parrish of Tampa Bay, at 99.4% through games played October 30, 2026. Brandon Stephens of the New York Jets ranks second at 98.9%, with Darien Porter of Las Vegas third at 98.6%. Parrish's rate puts him 0.5 percentage points clear of second place & 32.5 ahead of the 25th-ranked player.

Jonathan Jones of Philadelphia is the highest-ranked defensive back on the board at 94.1%, 12th overall. Brandon Cisse of Green Bay ranks fourth at 97.8%, with Benjamin Morrison of Tampa Bay fifth at 97.8%, Chidobe Awuzie of Baltimore sixth at 97.7%, Marlon Humphrey of Baltimore seventh at 97.5%, Mansoor Delane of Kansas City eighth at 97.1%, Tyrique Stevenson of Chicago ninth at 96.9% & Tyson Campbell of Cleveland tenth at 96.9%.

Brandon Cisse of Green Bay ranks fourth on the season at 97.8% but has led the league in left coverage rate over the last three weeks at 100.0%. Hezekiah Masses of Las Vegas ranks 11th at 94.6%, with Jonathan Jones of Philadelphia 12th at 94.1%, Quinyon Mitchell of Philadelphia 13th at 93.5%, Sauce Gardner of Indianapolis 14th at 93.0%, Deonte Banks of the New York Giants 15th at 89.5%, Kamari Lassiter of Houston 16th at 82.8% & Cam Taylor-Britt of Indianapolis 17th at 80.6%.

Eight players sit inside 1.7 percentage points of each other from third to tenth, the tightest stretch of the ranking. Carrington Valentine of Green Bay ranks 18th at 77.1%, with Mekhi Blackmon of Cleveland 19th at 75.5%, Malik Muhammad of Chicago 20th at 73.8%, Colton Hood of the New York Giants 21st at 71.0%, Julius Brents of Miami 22nd at 70.9%, Tremon Smith of Houston 23rd at 69.4%, Charles Woods of New England 24th at 67.3% & Jamel Dean of Pittsburgh 25th at 66.9%. Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Green Bay, Houston, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay & the New York Giants are the only teams with two players in the top 25. Twenty-two of the 25 are cornerbacks; the three defensive backs are Jones 12th, Valentine 18th & Blackmon 19th.

How this ranking is measured

114 NFL players are ranked for the 2026 regular season. The top 25 appear above. A minimum of 18 routes is applied. Left coverage rate measures the share of a defender's routes defended where the receiver he was covering lined up on the offense's left. Figures are as of October 30, 2026 & are recalculated on StatRankings after each game's play-by-play is processed.