Best Defensive players by Season Rating in Premiership 26/27
The best defensive players in Premiership in 26/27, ranked on Field Insider.
At a glance
M. Tait of Heart Of Midlothian is the standout for raw talent across players in Premiership, with a Field Insider Rating of 49.7, and P. McGinn has been the form player this season, grading 52.1, and K. Kelsy leads the scoring with 9 goals.
The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: P. McGinn has improved his Season rating most, up +47.6 on last season, while C. Jones's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +9.1 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.
By our market-value index, K. Kelsy of Rangers is the most valuable name in this group at 16.9.
18 players · ranked by best defendersCustomise →
| Player | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | P. McGinnCentre-back |  Motherwell | 35 | 52.1 | 521057.8% | 1868.2% |
| 2 | C. HalkettCentre-back |  Heart Of Midlothian | 31 | 47.2 | 47191.4% | 273.1% |
| 3 | K. AdamsFull-back |  Falkirk | 24 | 25.5 | 26 | 45 |
| 4 | R. BushiriCentre-back |  Hibernian | 26 | 23.6 | 2416.3% | 4313% |
| 5 | J. SouttarCentre-back |  Rangers | 29 | 21.9 | 2225.5% | 3121.2% |
| 6 | N. DevlinCentre-back |  Aberdeen | 32 | 21.4 | 216.1% | 2029.7% |
| 7 | R. KingCentre-back |  ST Mirren | 24 | 20.6 | 21 | 43 |
| 8 | A. RalstonCentre-back |  Celtic | 27 | 19 | 191.6% | 3521.8% |
| 9 | O. MakhanyaCentre-back | Rangers | 22 | 18.1 | 1858.8% | 425.8% |
| 10 | R. GrahamCentre-back |  Dundee Utd | 25 | 15.6 | 1610.6% | 436.4% |
| 11 | C. MontañoFull-back |  Livingston | 34 | 12.2 | 1235.6% | 1331.9% |
| 12 | A. ForresterCentre-back | Heart Of Midlothian | 21 | 12.1 | 12 | 49 |
| 13 | R. McGowanCentre-back | Livingston | 37 | 11.2 | 1164% | 950.8% |
| 14 | M. FrameFull-back | Aberdeen | 20 | 8.9 | 9 | 46 |
| 15 | Brooklyn KabongoloCentre-back | Livingston | 23 | 7.4 | 7 | 41 |
| 16 | A. MontgomeryFull-back | Livingston | 24 | 6.3 | 6530% | 419.9% |
| 17 | C. KerrCentre-back | Livingston | 31 | 4.6 | 586.4% | 1960% |
| 18 | S. HardingCentre-back |  Dunfermline | 20 | 4.5 | 5 | 42 |