Coverage outcomes do not repeat: passer rating allowed carries almost no year-to-year signal and none through a team change. What persists is deployment. How often quarterbacks test a defender, how deep, and in what coverage family are stable facts about his role, and tackling is the one rate skill that travels. This panel describes usage and grades nothing.
Every qualifying 2025 safeties season in gray; Jessie Bates's path from 2018 to 2025 in mint. Up means tested often, right means a downfield role.
Targets per game
2.8
The avoidance axis. How often quarterbacks test him is the most persistent number on this page.
Track spans the middle 90% of 61 qualifying seasons; the notch is the median.
Depth of target faced
10.6
The role axis. Boundary press lives deep, slot and underneath roles live shallow.
Track spans the middle 90% of 61 qualifying seasons; the notch is the median.
Man-coverage share
33%
Share of labeled snaps in man. Compare within a season only; the charting source changed in 2023.
Track spans the middle 90% of 61 qualifying seasons; the notch is the median.
Missed tackle rate
8%
The one coverage-position rate skill that repeats and travels. Lower is better.
Track spans the middle 90% of 61 qualifying seasons; the notch is the median.
Man-coverage share by season
2018
32%
S median 34%
2019
37%
S median 36%
2020
43%
S median 33%
2021
29%
S median 30%
2022
29%
S median 28%
2023
53%
S median 43%
2024
52%
S median 51%
2025
33%
S median 29%
Outcomes: context, not skill
These are the columns coverage discourse ranks defenders by. None of them repeats year to year at any useful strength, so they are shown for honesty and never scored.
Season
Targets
Yds/target
Comp% allowed
Rating allowed
INTs
PBU rate
Tackles/gm
2025
48
7.2
56%
73.7
3
13%
3.4
2024
51
6.8
71%
89.1
4
20%
3.6
2023
51
7.5
65%
67.1
6
22%
5.2
2022
37
8.4
51%
76.1
4
22%
2.4
2021
45
12.0
80%
122.0
1
9%
4.5
2020
46
6.9
54%
70.7
3
33%
4.9
2019
48
10.6
63%
100.1
3
19%
4.4
2018
49
10.0
63%
77.7
3
14%
4.6
Career, season by season
Regular season defensive box score. Tackle counts track playing time more than quality; treat them as volume.
Season
Games
Tackles
TFL
Sacks
QB hits
INTs
PBUs
FF
2025
17
98
1
0.00
2
3
6
1
2024
17
102
2
1.00
1
4
10
4
2023
17
132
2
0.00
1
6
11
3
2022
16
71
1
0.00
0
4
8
1
2021
15
88
3
0.00
1
1
4
0
2020
16
109
2
0.00
1
3
15
1
2019
16
100
0
0.00
0
3
9
1
2018
16
111
0
0.00
0
3
7
0
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