Statheads Suggest Bucs’ Secondary Balling Out
November 2nd, 2025
“Don’t make a scene.”
One of the better stathead outfits with interesting insight is Sports Information Solutions (SIS). A lot of noted NFL analysts use SIS’s data in their analysis.
Looking at defensive backs, Joe noticed something odd, but in a good way for the Bucs. SIS rates defensive backs with a variety of criteria including pass breakups, yards per target, completion percentage and more.
In compiling data of defensive backs, they have the four starting Bucs defensive backs (Jamel Dean, Antoine Winfield, Tykee Smith and Zyon McCollum) all in the top-17 defensive backs. For Joe, that is pretty impressive.
SIS has Dean rated the NFL’s top cornerback. Of the top-20 defensive backs (SIS lumps corners in with safeties), Dean allows the lowest completion percentage at 40 percent.
Who would have guessed back in August that Dean would emerge as perhaps the NFL’s best corner?
Now let’s cross our fingers that he can stay healthy and stay on the field.