| Rank | Team | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | 11.9% | 5.8% | 6.6% | 8.8% | - | 13.1% | 10.9% | 5.8% |
| 2 |  | 11.4% | 24.5% | 10.2% | 8.8% | - | 19.6% | 2.7% | 3.9% |
| 3 |  | 9.9% | 0.0% | 10.0% | 12.3% | - | 13.7% | 7.6% | 5.8% |
| 4 |  | 9.2% | 3.0% | 9.0% | 13.2% | - | 5.6% | 11.2% | 9.0% |
| 5 |  | 9.1% | 0.0% | 9.0% | 9.8% | - | 12.7% | 4.7% | 6.0% |
Through games played November 3, 2026, Tennessee has the highest cover 6 rate in the NFL at 11.9%. Pittsburgh is second at 11.4%, Carolina third at 9.9%, Arizona fourth at 9.2% & Philadelphia fifth at 9.1%. Tennessee's rate is 0.5 percentage points above second place & 8.0 percentage points above the 25th-ranked team.
Only 5.2 percentage points separate first from tenth. Atlanta is sixth at 9.1%, Jacksonville seventh at 8.9%, Las Vegas eighth at 7.3%, San Francisco ninth at 6.8% & the Los Angeles Chargers tenth at 6.7%.
Dallas ranks 17th on the season at 5.8% but has led the league in cover 6 rate over the last three weeks at 10.6%. The Los Angeles Rams are 11th at 6.5%, Miami 12th at 6.3%, Baltimore 13th at 6.0%, Seattle 14th at 6.0%, New Orleans 15th at 6.0%, Chicago 16th at 5.9% & Denver 18th at 5.8%.
Eight teams sit inside three tenths of a percentage point from 13th to 20th, the tightest stretch of the ranking. Indianapolis is 19th at 5.7%, the New York Giants 20th at 5.7%, Houston 21st at 4.9%, Detroit 22nd at 4.4%, the New York Jets 23rd at 4.2%, Cincinnati 24th at 4.1% & Kansas City 25th at 3.9%.
The ranking above covers the top 25 of 32 NFL teams in the 2026 regular season. Cover 6 rate is the percentage of a defense's coverage snaps played in a split-field shell, with quarters coverage to one side of the formation and Cover 2 to the other. Figures are as of November 3, 2026 & are recalculated on StatRankings after each game's play-by-play is processed.
