According to NFL Pro, the league’s player tracking service, Hobbs allowed the second-most yards of any outside cornerback in the Week 7 slate. The only player who bested him was Minnesota’s Isaiah Rodgers, who allowed 157 yards in the air on just 25 coverage snaps — woof.
This isn’t just a one-time thing, either. Per NFL Pro, Hobbs is 1 of 49 cornerbacks who have played at least 140 coverage snaps as an outside cornerback in the 2025 regular season. Of those 49, only two players have a worse passer rating allowed than Hobbs’ 138.7: the Dallas Cowboys’ Trevon Diggs and the Los Angeles Rams’ Emmanuel Forbes.
Diggs has been battling injury and was even benched by the Cowboys at one point this year. Meanwhile, Forbes is a player who was outright waived by the Washington Commanders last December. It’s not exactly like Los Angeles is particularly invested in Forbes, who hasn’t made a start with the team since Week 4.
In his time with the Las Vegas Raiders, Hobbs spent more than twice as many snaps in the slot as he did at outside cornerback. Basically, he was a slot defender for three of his four years with the team, with poor results on the outside his one season at the position.
It’s probably time to move Hobbs back to his natural position in the slot and figure something else out on the outside.