Top-Scoring defenders in USL Championship

The top-scoring defenders in USL Championship, ranked on Field Insider.

Top-scoring midfielders in USL Championship Top-scoring attackers in USL Championship Best defenders in USL Championship Most in-form defenders in USL Championship Most valuable defenders in USL Championship Most improved defenders in USL Championship

At a glance

C. Smith of Phoenix Rising is the standout for raw talent across defenders in USL Championship, with a Field Insider Rating of 34.5, and K. Adams has been the form player this season, grading 27.8, and T. Maples leads the scoring with 3 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: S. Anderson has improved his Season rating most, up +19.3 on last season. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, S. Suber of Pittsburgh Riverhounds is the most valuable name in this group at 5.5.

Orange County SC · 24/25→25/26

Most improved

S. Anderson+19.3SsN

Hartford Athletic · 24/25→25/26

Pittsburgh Riverhounds

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	Player	Team
1	T. Maples Centre-back	New Mexico United	27	3	15	28
2	K. Tingey Centre-back	Loudoun United	25	2	10	32
3	D. Knutson Centre-back	Miami FC	29	2	15	21
4	M. Bryant Centre-back	Detroit City	31	2	20	16
5	W. Ackwei Centre-back	El Paso Locomotive	29	2	8	21
6	J. Scarlett Centre-back	Hartford Athletic	31	2	17	16
7	M. Mahoney Centre-back	Colorado Springs	31	2	14	16
8	A. Crognale Full-back	San Antonio	31	2	13	16
9	R. Doghman Full-back	Orange County SC	29	2	11825%	2135.7%
10	S. Smart Centre-back	Las Vegas Lights	22	2	14	31
11	M. Doner Centre-back	Oakland Roots	32	1	6	11
12	D. Wanner Centre-back	Sacramento Republic	27	1	6	25
13	H. Endeley Centre-back	Colorado Springs	24	1	2950%	2917.4%
14	A. Ortíz Centre-back	El Paso Locomotive	33	1	2	8
15	B. Njie Centre-back	Oakland Roots	31	1	2	13
16	Grayson Doody Centre-back	Orange County SC	24	1	5	30
17	X. Zengue Full-back	Lexington	25	1	4	29
18	J. Akpunonu Centre-back	Charleston Battery	24	1	13	3214.8%
19	B. Rendón Centre-back	Indy Eleven	26	1	9	27
20	P. Hogan Centre-back	Indy Eleven	28	1	7	22
21	O. Damm Full-back	FC Tulsa	22	1	20	34
22	V. Latinovich Centre-back	Orange County SC	28	1	6222.2%	2211.5%
23	M. Traore Centre-back	Phoenix Rising	23	1	62650%	3018.3%
24	A. Rogers Full-back	FC Tulsa	29	1	16	21
25	C. Smith Full-back	Phoenix Rising	22	1	113400%	355.2%
26	P. Seagrist Centre-back	FC Tulsa	28	1	436.4%	2143.3%
27	R. Flood Centre-back	Phoenix Rising	27	1	3	24
28	A. Villanueva Full-back	Detroit City	24	1	17	3212.2%
29	C. Gloster Centre-back	New Mexico United	26	1	836.7%	2833.1%
30	Jake Rufe Centre-back	Birmingham Legion	30	1	7	18
31	J. Hafferty Full-back	Lexington	28	1	17	23
32	C. Donovan Centre-back	North Carolina	30	1	8	16
33	K. Greene Centre-back	Oakland Roots	33	1	16	11
34	P. Craig Centre-back	North Carolina	33	1	10	10
35	L. Wyke Centre-back	Tampa Bay Rowdies	29	1	68.5%	2046.4%
36	W. Seymore Full-back	New Mexico United	34	1	15	8
37	S. Totsch Full-back	Louisville City	34	1	28	10
38	K. Awuah Full-back	Loudoun United	30	1	12	18
39	B. Ofeimu Centre-back	Indy Eleven	25	1	6	29
40	M. Taintor Full-back	San Antonio	31	1	10	15
41	A. Guillén Centre-back	Tampa Bay Rowdies	33	1	5	11
42	N. Hackshaw Centre-back	Oakland Roots	30	1	14	18
43	J. Lindsey Centre-back	New Mexico United	26	1	16222.4%	2820.7%
44	R. Buckmaster Full-back	San Antonio	30	1	11	16
45	M. Real Full-back	Colorado Springs	27	1	1128.9%	2437.3%
46	C. Guzmán Centre-back	Monterey Bay	32	1	11	13
47	L. Batista Full-back	FC Tulsa	28	1	15	22
48	Finn Sundstrom Full-back	North Carolina	19	1	14	34
49	J. Erlandson Centre-back	Loudoun United	27	1	4	24