Who are the shutdown corners this year? (1 Viewer)

[Couch Tater]

Other than the Jets and Eagles, who else has a corner you would hesitate to

start your wide receiver against?

 

[Irish Chaos]

Pretty sure there was an article with stats showing that Flowers on KC had a better def% than revis two years ago.Im not sure how the numbers compare last year though...Flowers is one of the better ones but im not sure id avoid him...

 

[doowain]

Depends on the WR.

I would never bench my Tier 1 guys (AJ, Calvin, Roddy, Fitz)

No one beyond them is matchup proof IMO.

 

[Donsmith753]

Champ had some good games last year against Bowe....

 

[Ministry of Pain]

Vontae Davis and Sean Smith

 

[Couch Tater]

It would be interesting to see some stats of #1 WRs vs Revis, Asomugha, Bailey, etc.

to see how they did. The jets actually gave up an average amount of receiving TDs

last year. Were they to #1s or did they just go elsewhere.

 

[drew726]

brandon flowers

 

[silentcoach]

Steve Johnson owners have been warned.

 

[silentcoach]

Q.Jammer is highly underrated.

 

[adrenaline]

Vontae Davis and Sean Smith

I see your Miami CBs and raise you Woodson & Williams

 

[abhall]

Alan Ball and Orlando Scandrick. Don't dare throw on the Cowboys this week.

 

[bmsarvis]

Aqib talib

 

[ponchsox]

Devin McCourty

 

[Ministry of Pain]

Vontae Davis and Sean Smith

I see your Miami CBs and raise you Woodson & Williams

I'm jealous

 

[nysportsfan]

Start your WRs against Revis at your own risk. When healthy, there is no better cover corner in the league. We've been through this ad nauseum, so a search will help.

Beyond him, Nnamdi is awesome, Joseph is very good, McCourty is a ball hawk, Flowers is good but not on the same level as the first two...

 

[Mikey16x]

No love for Asante Samuel, Tramon Williams or Leon Hall? Arguably, all 3 mentioned are better than Brandon Flowers.

Edit for: The term "shutdown corner" is definitely thrown around way to much. I think there are only 3 shutdown corners in the NFL, the three being Nmandi, Revis and Woodson. But I'll play the game with the few mentioned above and also add Brent Grimes from ATL, that kid has played lights out.

 

[CataclysmicThunder]

Definitely Tramon Williams.

 

[rainram]

Football Outsider 2010 DB Rankings

Tramon Williams - GB

Biggers - TB

Joselio Hanson...who is Philly's DIME CB now...unreal!!

Rams DBs are on there...Bartell and Fletcher

Sean Smith - MIA

Routt - OAK

Antoine Winfield - MIN

Grimes -ATL

It's a good read too for those interested

 

[duaneok66]

pretty hard to figure out who Revis is going to cover - first of all (obviously) he can only cover one guy at a time - secondly, will he cover Austin or Bryant??

 

[ldizzle]

The only dbs im benching against are aso and revis. Maybe champ.

 

[LawFitz]

If Brandon Flowers is an elite CB, then Jacoby Ford is for sure a starting fantasy WR this season. Ford abused Flowers last year.

 

[GroveDiesel]

An interesting post Week 1 update on this:

Both Revis and Asomugha got thrown on quite a bit yesterday with pretty decent success against both of them. I'm not sure that it means anything yet, but it's certainly something to keep an eye on.

 

[Restricted]

I've been reading a LOT about Cleveland's Joe Haden lately. Guys been getting called the "next" shutdown...

 

[Garrett]

Based on last season...

Routt was one of the most frequently targeted cornerbacks in the league last season as he faced 99 pass attempts. Only 13 players were targeted by opposing quarterbacks more often, but few were more successful.According to game-charting data by STATS LLC, Routt allowed just 39.4 percent of those passes to be completed. That was the lowest in the league of any player targeted at least 60 times and was comparable to the numbers put up by his more heralded teammate, Asomugha (39.4 percent), and New York Jets star Darrelle Revis (33.9 percent).

http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-09-08/sports/30133938_1_oakland-raiders-nnamdi-asomugha-darrelle-revis

 

[Captain Quinoa]

I've been reading a LOT about Cleveland's Joe Haden lately. Guys been getting called the "next" shutdown...

He had 5 PD's against Cincy in week 1. Can't read too much into week 2 since Collins is so awful. Good test this week if Marshall plays.

 

[Restricted]

I've been reading a LOT about Cleveland's Joe Haden lately. Guys been getting called the "next" shutdown...

He had 5 PD's against Cincy in week 1. Can't read too much into week 2 since Collins is so awful. Good test this week if Marshall plays.

This was mentioned. Marshall won't be effected by him too much as he moves round. Supposedly Haden plays one side and stays there.

 

[LawFitz]

Based on last season...

Routt was one of the most frequently targeted cornerbacks in the league last season as he faced 99 pass attempts. Only 13 players were targeted by opposing quarterbacks more often, but few were more successful.According to game-charting data by STATS LLC, Routt allowed just 39.4 percent of those passes to be completed. That was the lowest in the league of any player targeted at least 60 times and was comparable to the numbers put up by his more heralded teammate, Asomugha (39.4 percent), and New York Jets star Darrelle Revis (33.9 percent).

http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-09-08/sports/30133938_1_oakland-raiders-nnamdi-asomugha-darrelle-revis

And he's keeping it up this season:

Routt's 'burn rate' No. 1 by Paul Gutierrez ALAMEDA -- It's a small sample size, obviously, but Stanford Routt seems to be adapting well to the role of No. 1 cornerback on the Raiders.Through two games, Routt has given up four receptions on the 14 passes thrown his way for a 28.6 percent "burn rate," which is the lowest completion percentage in the NFL among any defender targeted at least 10 times, according to Stats Inc.A meaningless stat in that premier cover corners are rarely targeted, let alone five times per game? Fine, but Routt's rate is better than that of either the Philadelphia Eagles' Nnamdi Asomugha (three-of-six, 50 percent) or the New York Jets' Darrelle Revis (three-of-nine, 33.3 percent).

 

[RenegadeGM]

I've been reading a LOT about Cleveland's Joe Haden lately. Guys been getting called the "next" shutdown...

This is what I came to post. Seems like everything I've read the past few weeks on Cleveland's matchups at multiple sources have said he is fast appraoching "shutdown" status.

 

[De Novo]

Depends on the WR. I would never bench my Tier 1 guys (AJ, Calvin, Roddy, Fitz)No one beyond them is matchup proof IMO.

I would not start Roddy against Revis if I had an 8 pt/game option, which most teams will.