{"id":831899,"date":"2026-03-24T23:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/831899\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:22:15","slug":"by-the-numbers-rams-cornerback-trent-mcduffie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/831899\/","title":{"rendered":"By the numbers: Rams cornerback Trent McDuffie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Rams cornerback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/team\/players-roster\/trent-mcduffie\/\" title=\"Trent McDuffie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trent McDuffie<\/a> has a resume filled with numbers, both in traditional and advanced stats, that define what he will be bringing to their defense.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the notable ones.<\/p>\n<p>246: Total tackles made across his first four NFL seasons.<\/p>\n<p>83.1: Pro Football Focus tackling grade in 2025, which was still third-highest for the position despite McDuffie missing the final four games of the season with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>81.5: McDuffie&#8217;s PFF coverage grade across the regular season and playoffs in 2023, 10th-highest among cornerbacks who played at least 800 defensive snaps (out of 1261). McDuffie was voted an Associated Press First Team All-Pro that season.<\/p>\n<p>79.2: McDuffie&#8217;s PFF coverage grade across the regular season and playoffs in 2024, fifth-highest among cornerbacks who played at least 800 defensive snaps (out of 1206). McDuffie was voted an AP Second Team All-Pro that season.<\/p>\n<p>74.7: PFF coverage grade in 2025, which was still 17th-best for the position last season (minimum 300 snaps).<\/p>\n<p>34: Passes defensed through his first four NFL seasons.<\/p>\n<p>17:26: The amount of game time, in minutes and seconds, McDuffie has spent in tight coverage \u2013 meaning, less than one yard of separation \u2013 since entering the NFL in 2022. Per Next Gen Stats, it&#8217;s the fifth-most in the league.<\/p>\n<p>8: Forced fumbles over his first four NFL seasons, five of which came during his First Team All-Pro season in 2023. According to ESPN Research, it&#8217;s the most among all NFL cornerbacks since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>6.2: Yards per target allowed over the last four seasons, 10th-fewest among cornerbacks (minimum 100 targets), according to Next Gen stats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Rams cornerback Trent McDuffie has a resume filled with numbers, both in traditional and advanced stats, that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,2444,2611,6,424,4223],"class_list":{"0":"post-831899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-losangeles","12":"tag-losangelesrams","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-rams","15":"tag-trent-mcduffie"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116286727554008138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831899","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=831899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}