• Marlon Humphrey takes the top spot: The Ravens cornerback leads the league in both PFF coverage grade and advanced coverage grade and is enjoying the best season of his career after overcoming injuries in recent years.

• Denzel Ward producing elite results: Ward has been breaking up passes at a historically elite rate this season. His 32.0% forced incompletion rate is tied for the best mark in the PFF era, matching Casey Hayward Jr.’s 2017 performance.

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If quarterback is the most important position on the football field, then limiting the effectiveness of that player is the most important thing a defense can do. A team can do this in two ways: It can pressure the passer to disrupt his timing, rhythm and accuracy, or it can shut down the opposing receivers.

Each week, after every NFL game is graded and reviewed, PFF will check in on the top cornerbacks of the 2024 season.

Last year, these rankings combined PFF coverage grades with our Successful Coverage Over Expected (SCOE) metric, which measures how well each coverage defender performed on non-targeted coverage snaps. We grade every coverage defender’s ability to prevent separation, whether they are targeted on the play or not.

These rankings will utilize that same data this year but with play-level normalization and expectation adjustments. After all, matching up with a receiver is more difficult than covering running back, and playing man coverage is typically more difficult than matching in a zone. 

Here are the top 32 cornerbacks for the 2024 season heading into Week 13.

Week 13 quarterback rankings