{"id":108936,"date":"2025-06-06T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/108936\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:02:11","slug":"pff-bills-taron-johnson-named-top-20-cb-in-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/108936\/","title":{"rendered":"PFF: Bills&#8217; Taron Johnson named top-20 CB in the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Buffalo Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Buffalo Bills<\/a> cornerbacks have received a lot of love for their consistent play in recent years, and the folks at Pro Football Focus have taken notice.<\/p>\n<p>In their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/nfl-cornerback-rankings-top-32-ahead-of-2025-nfl-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ranking of NFL cornerbacks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ranking of NFL cornerbacks<\/a>, PFF listed <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/pff-bills-christian-benford-named-143817898.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Christian Benford eighth;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Benford eighth<\/a> in the league and Taron Johnson 20th, making them one of the best CB duos in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>For Johnson, he is now seven years into his career and has started getting praise over the last couple years, which has been long overdue. The 2018 fourth-round pick out of Weber State was a second-team All-Pro in his last fully healthy season (2023). He missed five games last year with injury, but PFF didn&#8217;t forget the level of player he is.<\/p>\n<p>While Johnson landed at number 20 on PFF&#8217;s ranking, there is only one nickel corner ranked ahead of him on the list (Cooper DeJean), alluding to the fact that the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bills<\/a> have one of the best slot defenders in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has been a mainstay in the slot for head coach Sean McDermott, and that should continue into 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In his seven-year career (all in Buffalo), he has recorded seven interceptions, three of which went for touchdowns, including a 101-yard pick-six in the 2020 divisional round. He also has 51 pass breakups and nine forced fumbles to go with 576 tackles.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>PFF&#8217;s breakdown on Johnson can be found below:<\/p>\n<p>Injuries interrupted Johnson\u2019s 2024 season, but his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/nfl-advanced-coverage-grade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PFF advanced coverage grade;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PFF advanced coverage grade<\/a>\u00a0across the past three years ranks fourth among cornerbacks. His 75.9 standard PFF coverage grade in the slot since 2023 places eighth, while his 38 pass stops rank fourth.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bills Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/billswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bills\/2025\/06\/06\/pro-football-focus-buffalo-bills-taron-johnson-top-20-cornerback-nfl\/84068945007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PFF: Bills&#039; Taron Johnson named top-20 CB in the NFL;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PFF: Bills&#8217; Taron Johnson named top-20 CB in the NFL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills cornerbacks have received a lot of love for their consistent play in recent years, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[53,9227,1171,7,6,410,1727],"class_list":{"0":"post-108936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-christian-benford","10":"tag-cooper-dejean","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-pro-football-focus","14":"tag-taron-johnson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114637265325927932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}