| Player | Team | Position | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jarrian Jones |  | CB | 34 | 6 | 25 | 33 | - | 14 | 20 |
| 2 | Keisean Nixon |  | DB | 31 | - | 10 | 17 | - | 15 | 16 |
| 2 | Brandon Cisse | | CB | 31 | - | 10 | 20 | - | 14 | 17 |
| 4 | Mike Hughes |  | CB | 30 | 0 | 11 | 19 | - | 17 | 13 |
| 4 | Derek Stingley Jr. |  | CB | 30 | 4 | 10 | 21 | - | 22 | 8 |
Jarrian Jones of Jacksonville tops the 2026 NFL perimeter (outside) receptions allowed ranking at 34, through games played October 30, 2026. Next are Keisean Nixon of Green Bay & Brandon Cisse of Green Bay tied for second at 31. Jones's total puts him 3 perimeter receptions clear of second place & 17 ahead of the 25th-ranked player.
Keisean Nixon of Green Bay is the highest-ranked defensive back on the board at 31 perimeter receptions, second overall, & the first Green Bay player inside the top ten. Next are Mike Hughes of Atlanta, Derek Stingley Jr. of Houston & DaRon Bland of Dallas tied for fourth at 30, Riq Woolen of Philadelphia seventh at 29, Marlon Humphrey of Baltimore eighth at 27, Kamari Lassiter of Houston ninth at 26 & Jacob Parrish of Tampa Bay tenth at 25.
Two perimeter receptions separate seventh from eighth, the widest single step anywhere below the top four. Next are Renardo Green of San Francisco & Asante Samuel Jr. of Pittsburgh tied 11th at 24, Azareye'h Thomas of the New York Jets 13th at 23 & Brandon Stephens of the New York Jets, Nate Wiggins of Baltimore, Quinyon Mitchell of Philadelphia, Quincy Riley of New Orleans and Josh Jobe of Seattle tied 14th at 22.
Nine players sit inside 3 perimeter receptions of each other from 11th to 19th, the tightest stretch of the ranking. Next are C.J. Henderson of Atlanta 19th at 21, Jaylon Johnson of Chicago 20th at 20, Tyson Campbell of Cleveland, Denzel Ward of Cleveland & Zyon McCollum of Tampa Bay tied 21st at 19 and Charvarius Ward of Indianapolis & D.J. Reed of Detroit tied 24th at 17. Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, Green Bay, Houston, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay & the New York Jets are the only teams with two players in the top 25. Twenty-four of the 25 are cornerbacks; the only defensive back is Nixon second. Six ranks inside the top 25 are shared by more than one player.
Of the 29 NFL players ranked in the 2026 regular season, the top 25 are listed above. A minimum of 153 routes is applied. Perimeter receptions allowed counts the catches surrendered by a defender when the receiver he was covering lined up outside. Figures are as of October 30, 2026 & are recalculated on StatRankings after each game's play-by-play is processed.
