Best Defensive defenders by Season Rating in Championship

The best defensive defenders in Championship, ranked on Field Insider.

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At a glance

T. Crama of Millwall is the standout for raw talent across defenders in Championship, with a Field Insider Rating of 78.7, and R. Manning leads the scoring with 8 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: T. Crama has improved his Season rating most, up +40.9 on last season. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, T. Crama of Millwall is the most valuable name in this group at 47.8.

Millwall · 24/25→25/26

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Millwall · 24/25→25/26

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	Player	Team
1	T. Crama Full-back	Millwall	24	62.2	62192%	7973.3%
2	M. van Ewijk Full-back	Coventry	25	58.6	5935.6%	771.2%
3	J. Cooper Centre-back	Millwall	31	52.7	5345.6%	4210.1%
4	J. Dasilva Full-back	Coventry	28	50.9	51112.1%	563.1%
5	M. Clarke Full-back	Derby	29	47.3	4753.6%	513.6%
6	D. O'Shea Centre-back	Ipswich	27	47.2	4776.1%	6321.1%
7	C. Styles Full-back	West Brom	26	46.6	4735.5%	617.1%
8	D. Furlong Full-back	Ipswich	30	46.1	4620.4%	4616.2%
9	S. McLoughlin Centre-back	Blackburn	29	45.5	46129.8%	4711.8%
10	L. Kitching Centre-back	Coventry	26	45	4573.7%	660.6%
11	L. Jones Centre-back	Charlton	30	44.8	4521.1%	4314.8%
12	L. Ayling Full-back	Middlesbrough	34	44.6	4567.7%	274.2%
13	N. Phillips Centre-back	West Brom	29	43.5	4486.7%	4513.6%
14	C. Hughes Centre-back	Hull City	22	43.2	43145.5%	7211.9%
15	B. Cabango Centre-back	Swansea	26	41.8	4212.6%	668.9%
16	J. Egan Centre-back	Hull City	33	41.4	41989.5%	2919.1%
17	J. Tanganga Centre-back	Sheffield Utd	27	41.2	4111.6%	5915.2%
18	C. Taylor Full-back	Millwall	23	39.3	3940.9%	6949.4%
19	C. Burgess Centre-back	Swansea	30	39.3	39346.6%	4516.9%
20	B. Thomas Full-back	Coventry	25	39	396.3%	714.4%
21	M. Cleworth Full-back	Wrexham	23	37.9	3840.7%	7328.6%
22	G. Tanner Centre-back	Bristol City	26	37.8	3880%	589.5%
23	L. Davis Full-back	Ipswich	26	37.4	37144.4%	6716.4%
24	Neto Borges Full-back	Bristol City	29	37.3	3713%	4420.9%
25	G. Campbell Full-back	West Brom	25	37.2	3735.8%	6652.6%
26	M. Targett Full-back	Middlesbrough	30	37.1	3718450%	435.5%
27	Zak Norton Sturge Full-back	Millwall	22	36.3	36855.3%	7016.9%
28	K. Ramsay Centre-back	Charlton	25	36	3625.3%	6329.2%
29	M. Helik Full-back	Oxford United	30	35.6	3671.2%	4110.3%
30	R. Poole Centre-back	Portsmouth	28	35.3	3544.1%	527.2%
31	K. Fisher Full-back	Norwich	22	35.3	3559.7%	731.5%
32	J. Tymon Full-back	Swansea	27	35	3511.6%	6313.3%
33	R. Manning Full-back	Southampton	30	34.9	35200.9%	4611.5%
34	C. Kipré Full-back	Ipswich	29	34.8	355.8%	4524%
35	Ricardo Pereira Centre-back	Leicester	32	34.2	34755%	2912.5%
36	D. Hyam Centre-back	Wrexham	30	33.8	3416.5%	4520.5%
37	D. Sanderson Centre-back	Derby	26	33.7	34481%	6513.5%
38	J. Storey Centre-back	Preston	28	33.5	3415.6%	539.7%
39	L. Coyle Full-back	Hull City	30	33.2	3314.5%	4217.5%
40	A. Phillips Centre-back	Stoke City	21	32.9	33±0%	700.6%
41	T. Harwood-Bellis Centre-back	Southampton	24	32.7	3360.3%	759.1%
42	R. Dickie Centre-back	Bristol City	30	32.5	3332.1%	3825.9%
43	J. Ngakia Full-back	Watford	25	31.7	323.3%	642.9%
44	C. Doyle Full-back	Wrexham	22	31.3	312.3%	716.1%
45	R. Alebiosu Full-back	Blackburn	24	31.2	31411.5%	6860.8%
46	A. Mbengue Full-back	QPR	24	31.2	317.1%	6735.4%
47	C. Klarer Centre-back	Birmingham	26	31	3146.6%	6524.4%
48	J. Bree Full-back	Charlton	28	30.8	31352.9%	5412.1%
49	O. Offiah Full-back	Preston	23	30.4	3021.2%	6729.3%
50	L. Miller Full-back	Blackburn	25	30.1	3024.4%	5924.4%