| Player | Team | Position | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jarrian Jones |  | CB | 34.0% | 38.1% | 37.0% | 34.8% | - | 27.4% | 42.0% |
| 2 | Jacob Parrish |  | CB | 27.7% | 20.0% | 27.2% | 27.3% | - | 23.8% | 32.0% |
| 3 | Brandon Cisse |  | CB | 25.4% | - | 29.3% | 26.1% | - | 29.4% | 22.0% |
| 4 | C.J. Henderson |  | CB | 25.0% | 22.6% | 14.6% | 25.6% | - | 15.7% | 32.6% |
| 5 | Quinyon Mitchell |  | CB | 24.4% | 38.9% | 26.8% | 27.4% | - | 24.2% | 24.7% |
Through games played October 30, 2026, Jarrian Jones of Jacksonville leads all NFL players in perimeter (outside) target rate allowed with 34.0%. Jacob Parrish of Tampa Bay is second with 27.7% & Brandon Cisse of Green Bay third with 25.4%. Jones's rate puts him 6.3 percentage points clear of second place & 16.5 ahead of the 25th-ranked player.
Keisean Nixon of Green Bay is the highest-ranked defensive back on the board at 24.2%, seventh overall, & the second Green Bay player inside the top ten. C.J. Henderson of Atlanta is fourth with 25.0%, Quinyon Mitchell of Philadelphia fifth with 24.4%, Derek Stingley Jr. of Houston sixth with 24.2%, Marlon Humphrey of Baltimore eighth with 24.1%, DaRon Bland of Dallas ninth with 23.7% & Riq Woolen of Philadelphia tenth with 23.0%.
A gap of 2.1 percentage points separates 14th from 15th, the widest single step anywhere below the top four. Brandon Stephens of the New York Jets ranks 11th with 22.9%, Kamari Lassiter of Houston 12th with 22.5%, Josh Jobe of Seattle 13th with 22.2%, Mike Hughes of Atlanta 14th with 22.2%, Jaylon Johnson of Chicago 15th with 20.1% and Azareye'h Thomas of the New York Jets & Charvarius Ward of Indianapolis are tied 16th with 20.0%.
Eight players sit inside 1.3 percentage points of each other from 15th to 22nd, the tightest stretch of the ranking. Nate Wiggins of Baltimore is 18th with 19.7%, Quincy Riley of New Orleans 19th with 19.6%, Tyson Campbell of Cleveland 20th with 19.6%, Denzel Ward of Cleveland 21st with 19.1%, Riley Moss of Denver 22nd with 18.8%, Renardo Green of San Francisco 23rd with 18.4%, Asante Samuel Jr. of Pittsburgh 24th with 18.4% & Kool-Aid McKinstry of New Orleans 25th with 17.5%. Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, Green Bay, Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia & 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 seventh. One rank inside the top 25 is shared by more than one player.
The ranking above covers the top 25 of 29 NFL players in the 2026 regular season. A minimum of 153 routes is applied. Perimeter target rate allowed is the percentage of outside routes a defender covered that ended with a pass thrown his way. Figures are as of October 30, 2026 & are recalculated on StatRankings after each game's play-by-play is processed.
