Domestic-league season · Blackburn.
Missed 17 of Blackburn's ~46 games this season through 17 injury absences (achilles tendon, inactive). He still appeared 12 times — a solid return given how little of the season he was available. His rating is judged mainly on the games he was fit to play.
| Competition | Apps | G | A | Min | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Championship | 12 | 0 | 0 | 809 | 6.85 |
 League Cup | 1 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 6.5 |
Wharton's current-season form is down 40% on last season (Season 20→12), while his Rating eased 59→41. His peak season for form remains 2021/22 (Season 34).
| Season | Club | Apps | G | A | Match | RTG | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | Blackburn · 20th | 12 | 0 | 0 | 6.85 | 41 | 12 |
| 2023/24 | Blackburn · 19th | 28 | 2 | 0 | 6.89 | 59 | 20 |
| 2022/23 | Blackburn · 7th | 22 | 1 | 0 | 6.89 | 62 | 20 |
| 2021/22 | Blackburn · 8th | 30 | 2 | 0 | 6.99 | 68 | 34 |
| 2020/21 | Blackburn · 15th | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6.87 | 56 | 4 |
Domestic-league totals per season. RTG = Field Insider Rating (potential / ceiling); Season = age-blind form that year.
S. Wharton is a 28-year-old central defender at Blackburn, rated 40.5 overall by Field Insider's model, ranking 387th of 493 in the Championship. An experienced operator, he has been a fringe squad member this season (31% of available minutes). His defensive output reads 3.23 tackles, blocks and interceptions per 90. Below: strengths, watch-points, market-value outlook and the latest transfer news on Wharton.
Judged on this season alone, Wharton graded 12 — a workmanlike campaign that ranks 70th of 82 of the 82 centre-backs in the Championship, on 2 clean sheets and 3.226 defensive actions per 90.
Year-on-year, that's a drop on last season (Season 20 → 12). Over the 5 seasons on record his form has trended upward, peaking in 2021/22.
On long-term talent our Rating reads 41, 63rd of 82 of the 82 centre-backs in the Championship. At 28 Wharton is in his prime years, and a market index of 31.1 reflects that trajectory.
Read the appearance count in context: Wharton missed 17 games through injury (achilles tendon, inactive) out of roughly 46 this season. The 12 he did play is a solid return on the time he was fit, and his ratings are weighted toward those games rather than the ones he sat out injured.
Past his 2021/22 peak — the recent trend is downward, so buyers are paying for what's left, not what was.
3.23 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90 — moderate defensive volume, with 2 clean sheets across 12 appearances. Doing that for a lower-table side (20th of 24) is harder than the bare numbers suggest: a back line under more pressure has to defend more often and protects fewer leads, so the volume — and any clean sheets — carry real weight.
With a Rating of 40.5, Wharton carries the 63rd-highest potential of the centre-backs in the Championship of 82 — though on just 12 appearances this season, so the standing rests on a small sample. Defensively he reads as moderate defensive volume (3.23 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90). Experienced and reliable, but the value curve is easing (1.2× now → 0.9× projected in three years).
Generated from Field Insider's rating model · AI-written analysis to follow.
The gold line is market value — an index (not €) blending rating, age and league. It climbs through the early 20s, peaks around ages 23–27 (~52), then tapers with age. At 28, Wharton sits on 31.1, past its peak and easing. The blue line is Wharton's projected Rating — 40.5 today — recomputed at each age, so it follows the same rise-and-fall as a career matures and declines. Solid = up to today; dashed = projected.
No transfer news found for this player.
