| Rank | Team | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | 41.7% | 45.7% | 49.0% | 45.5% | - | 41.4% | 42.4% | 30.8% |
| 2 |  | 38.7% | 60.4% | 44.5% | 40.8% | - | 43.7% | 32.4% | 27.7% |
| 3 |  | 37.3% | 17.2% | 22.2% | 33.6% | - | 26.4% | 44.5% | 36.7% |
| 4 |  | 33.5% | 23.1% | 24.6% | 27.4% | - | 27.1% | 45.7% | 18.9% |
| 5 |  | 32.3% | 21.2% | 35.0% | 29.3% | - | 36.7% | 29.8% | 20.3% |
Through games played November 3, 2026, Seattle has the highest cover 2 rate in the NFL at 41.7%. Green Bay is second at 38.7%, Minnesota third at 37.3%, Washington fourth at 33.5% & Arizona fifth at 32.3%. Seattle's rate is 3.0 percentage points above second place & 22.9 percentage points above the 25th-ranked team.
Only 14.3 percentage points separate first from tenth. Miami is sixth at 32.2%, New England seventh at 31.3%, the New York Jets eighth at 31.3%, Las Vegas ninth at 29.7% & Baltimore tenth at 27.4%.
A gap of 2.3 percentage points separates ninth from tenth, the widest single step anywhere below the top four. Chicago is 11th at 26.8%, Cincinnati 12th at 25.0%, the Los Angeles Rams 13th at 24.7%, Buffalo 14th at 24.2%, Pittsburgh 15th at 23.5%, Houston 16th at 23.5%, the New York Giants 17th at 23.5% & Tennessee 18th at 23.2%.
Eight teams sit inside 2.4 percentage points of each other from 12th to 19th, the tightest stretch of the ranking. Jacksonville is 19th at 22.6%, Detroit 20th at 20.3%, Carolina 21st at 20.2%, San Francisco 22nd at 20.2%, Tampa Bay 23rd at 19.9%, the Los Angeles Chargers 24th at 19.7% & Dallas 25th at 18.8%.
The ranking above covers the top 25 of 32 NFL teams in the 2026 regular season. Cover 2 rate is the percentage of a defense's coverage snaps played in a two-deep zone, with each safety responsible for half the deep field and five defenders underneath. Figures are as of November 3, 2026 & are recalculated on StatRankings after each game's play-by-play is processed.
