Right Coverage Rate | NFL Advanced Stats

	Player	Position
1	Azareye'h Thomas	CB	98.3%	100.0%	98.8%	99.2%	-	97.4%	99.0%
2	Eric Stokes	CB	98.3%	100.0%	98.5%	97.6%	-	98.0%	98.7%
3	Keisean Nixon	DB	98.1%	-	100.0%	98.5%	-	99.1%	97.1%
4	Zyon McCollum	CB	97.4%	96.8%	97.1%	97.9%	-	100.0%	94.9%
5	Jaylon Johnson	CB	96.4%	91.3%	97.3%	96.3%	-	93.8%	98.9%

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What Is Right Coverage Rate?

Right coverage rate measures the share of a defender's routes defended where the receiver he was covering lined up on the offense's right. Sides are named from the offense's point of view throughout, so a corner with a high right coverage rate is physically stationed on the defense's left. Read it beside left coverage rate: a defender near either extreme is a locked-side corner who stays put, while a more even split means he travels with a receiver or moves inside to the slot. The two add to very close to 100%, because both divide by the same charted receiver-alignment population; the roughly one percent shortfall is routes whose formation does not resolve a side, excluded from both rather than assigned to one.

Who has the highest right coverage rate in the NFL in 2026?

Azareye'h Thomas of the New York Jets tops the 2026 NFL right coverage rate ranking at 98.3%, through games played October 30, 2026. Next are Eric Stokes of Las Vegas second at 98.3% & Keisean Nixon of Green Bay third at 98.1%. Thomas's rate puts him 0.0 percentage points clear of second place & 38.7 ahead of the 25th-ranked player.

Keisean Nixon of Green Bay is the highest-ranked defensive back on the board at 98.1%, third overall. Next are Zyon McCollum of Tampa Bay fourth at 97.4%, Jaylon Johnson of Chicago fifth at 96.4%, Nate Wiggins of Baltimore sixth at 96.1%, Riq Woolen of Philadelphia seventh at 94.3%, Denzel Ward of Cleveland eighth at 89.1%, Derek Stingley Jr. of Houston ninth at 87.1% & Kindle Vildor of New England tenth at 86.2%.

Keisean Nixon of Green Bay ranks third on the season at 98.1% but has led the league in right coverage rate over the last three weeks at 100.0%. Next are Charvarius Ward of Indianapolis 11th at 84.5%, Greg Newsome II of the New York Giants 12th at 82.9%, Nohl Williams of Kansas City 13th at 79.7%, Rodney Shelley of the Los Angeles Chargers 14th at 73.7%, Chris Johnson of Miami 15th at 71.3%, Donte Jackson of the Los Angeles Chargers 16th at 65.4% & Fabian Moreau of Washington 17th at 64.0%.

The last seven players in the ranking sit inside 2.8 percentage points of each other. Next are Mike Sainristil of Washington 18th at 63.2%, Rasul Douglas of Washington 19th at 62.4%, Carlton Davis III of New England 20th at 62.0%, Trevon Diggs of Seattle & Martin Emerson of New Orleans tied 21st at 61.1%, Trent McDuffie of the Los Angeles Rams 23rd at 60.2%, Paulson Adebo of the New York Giants 24th at 60.0% & Christian Gonzalez of New England 25th at 59.6%. New England, Washington, the Los Angeles Chargers & the New York Giants are the only teams with two or more players in the top 25. Twenty-three of the 25 are cornerbacks; the two defensive backs are Nixon third & Shelley 14th. One rank inside the top 25 is shared by more than one player.

How this ranking is measured

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