{"id":135904,"date":"2025-06-17T02:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T02:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/135904\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T02:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T02:37:11","slug":"sauce-gardner-tops-pffs-ranking-of-leagues-best-cornerbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/135904\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauce Gardner Tops PFF\u2019s Ranking of League\u2019s Best Cornerbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second consecutive season, Pro Football Focus has ranked<\/a> the Jets’ Sauce Gardner<\/a> the top cornerback in the NFL. In addition, DL Quinnen Williams<\/a>, WR Garrett Wilson<\/a> and G Alijah Vera-Tucker<\/a> graded well at their respective positions.<\/p>\n

Gardner, a two-time All-Pro, started 15 games in 2024, his third professional season, and registered 49 tackles, 9 pass defenses and an interception.<\/p>\n

“Gardner’s 91.9 PFF coverage grade since 2022 leads the league,” PFF NFL contributor John Kosko wrote. “He has forced a league-high 46 incompletions and allowed a league-low 0.60 yards per cover snap and 21.4% first-down-plus-touchdown rate over that span.<\/p>\n

Gardner’s advanced coverage grade ranked first, as well, and he finished in the top 10 in both man and zone coverage grades.<\/p>\n

“He might not shadow opposing wide receivers at a high rate,” Kosko wrote. “But he has excelled when asked to do so.”<\/p>\n

Williams, an All-Pro in 2022, came at No. 4<\/a> in the interior defensive line ranking. He missed one game in ‘2024 and totaled 6.0 sacks and 18 QB hits en route to his third consecutive Pro Bowl selection.<\/p>\n

“Williams’ production took a dip in 2024, as was the case for the Jets in general, leading to a 69.6 PFF overall grade,” NFL analyst Trevor Sikkema wrote. “Williams still ranks fifth among interior defenders in total PFF WAR (0.87) over the past three years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second consecutive season, Pro Football Focus has ranked the Jets’ Sauce Gardner the top cornerback in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2051],"tags":[7,226,929,1917,255,88,2321,2097,6,7536],"class_list":{"0":"post-135904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-jets","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkjets","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-sauce-gardner"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114696385022412496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135904","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=135904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}