When you ask most people who the best cornerbacks in the NFL are, you generally hear the same names – Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis, Patrick Peterson, etc. But what about Jimmy Smith? Perennially underrated, Smith missed out on his chance to finally finish his ascension to greatness in 2014 after a Lisfranc injury ended his season prematurely.
Rating cornerbacks isn’t as easy as say, quarterbacks or wide receivers. The best often don’t even see the ball come their way, so it isn’t always about interceptions or tackles, or even passes defensed. That’s why Draft Centric is working to come up with a better way to measure cornerback performance, and they call it Coverage Productivity.