Best Defensive defenders by Season Rating in League Two 26/27

The best defensive defenders in League Two in 26/27, ranked on Field Insider.

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At a glance

J. Moon of Port Vale is the standout for raw talent across defenders in League Two, with a Field Insider Rating of 44.6, and R. Staunton has been the form player this season, grading 27.1, and Lewis Shipley leads the scoring with 3 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: R. Staunton has improved his Season rating most, up +21.9 on last season, while J. Moon's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +10.8 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, W. Sutton of Oldham is the most valuable name in this group at 6.5.

Port Vale · 24/25→25/26

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R. Staunton+21.9SsN

Grimsby · 20/21→25/26

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	Player	Team
1	R. Staunton Full-back	Grimsby	24	27.1	27421.2%	3411.1%
2	B. Cooper Centre-back	Salford City	26	26	2640.5%	3031.1%
3	W. Sutton Centre-back	Oldham	23	25.6	268433.3%	3114.7%
4	A. Kilgour Full-back	Bristol Rovers	28	25.4	25440.4%	2624.1%
5	A. Flint Centre-back	Walsall	37	24.3	24±0%	10±0%
6	K. John Centre-back	Port Vale	25	21.6	22±0%	40±0%
7	Joel McGregor Full-back	Swindon Town	20	21.5	2276.2%	334.5%
8	J. Caprice Full-back	Oldham	33	20.6	21164.1%	1054.1%
9	E. Turns Centre-back	Exeter City	23	18.4	1824.3%	412.4%
10	C. Dunkley Centre-back	Chesterfield	34	18.1	18115.5%	106.6%
11	G. Bajrami Centre-back	Crawley Town	26	17.8	18	2625.9%
12	R. Longelo-Mbule Full-back	Salford City	26	17.8	18±0%	29±0%
13	J. Burroughs Full-back	Northampton	25	17.1	17327.5%	392.6%
14	C. McCarthy Full-back	Northampton	28	16.9	1794.3%	3117.5%
15	W. Burrell Centre-back	Harrogate Town	36	16.5	171.2%	81.2%
16	C. Raglan Centre-back	Barrow	33	16.4	160.6%	1255.3%
17	T. Lees Full-back	Harrogate Town	35	16.3	1623.5%	1038.3%
18	A. McGowan Full-back	Port Vale	30	14.6	1518%	1940.8%
19	B. Heneghan Full-back	Port Vale	32	14.3	1436.2%	1610.9%
20	L. Cass Centre-back	Harrogate Town	26	13.7	142.2%	2512.8%
21	Filozofe Mabete Centre-back	Swindon Town	21	13.5	14	31
22	T. Wilson-Brown Centre-back	Swindon Town	21	12.4	12	31
23	R. Crichlow-Noble Full-back	Barnet	27	12.2	12±0%	25±0%
24	N. Canavan Full-back	Barrow	35	11.6	1258.1%	931.5%
25	Jake Thomas Batty Full-back	Swindon Town	21	11.5	1239.2%	324.2%
26	J. Moon Full-back	Port Vale	25	11.3	1166%	4532%
27	Lewis Shipley Centre-back	Barrow	22	10.7	11127.7%	317%
28	Conor Haughey Centre-back	Fleetwood Town	18	10.3	10±0%	32±0%
29	Cathal Heffernan Centre-back	Harrogate Town	21	10.1	10±0%	30±0%
30	C. Kelly Centre-back	Bristol Rovers	28	9.6	109.4%	3311.8%
31	A. Pond Centre-back	Chesterfield	22	9.6	10±0%	3511.5%
32	T. Mullarkey Centre-back	Fleetwood Town	30	9.4	938.2%	1651.7%
33	D. Tharme Centre-back	Grimsby	27	8.9	938.2%	2325.6%
34	Kayden Hughes Centre-back	Fleetwood Town	20	7.5	838.9%	311.6%
35	J. Willis Centre-back	Northampton	32	7.4	721.3%	1729.4%
36	T. Moore Centre-back	Bristol Rovers	29	7.2	766.8%	1751.1%
37	J. Anderson Full-back	Barrow	25	7.1	7±0%	26±0%
38	T. Pearce Full-back	Chesterfield	28	6.8	783.8%	2235.4%
39	Marvin Marvellous Kaleta Full-back	Rotherham	22	6.2	635.4%	427.9%
40	M. Benning Full-back	Shrewsbury	32	6.1	666.5%	1065.3%
41	A. MacDonald Full-back	Barrow	33	5.7	654.8%	858.4%
42	J. Smith Centre-back	Accrington ST	20	5.4	5	29
43	H. Douglas Centre-back	Rotherham	21	5.1	5	41
44	T. Bradbury Centre-back	Harrogate Town	28	4.8	579.1%	1839%