Eagles star Quinyon Mitchell is one of the best lockdown cornerbacks in the NFL. But just how good is Mitchell compared to the rest of the league?

Evaluating cornerbacks can be difficult. It’s not as easy as grading quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers. Their stats and roles are clearly defined. With cornerbacks, it can be difficult sometimes to assign credit or blame.

But NFL Next Gen Stats and AWS have created a new set of metrics that identifies which players are “truly taking receivers out of the game.” And Mitchell ranks near the top.

Mitchell earned a 90 overall “shutdown cornerback score” from Next Gen Stats , which accounts for a player’s performance through the first eight weeks of the 2025 season, as well as a “slightly lower-weighted evaluation” of their work sin

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