When I started digging into Christian Parker's last stops, I first looked at the front seven. I wasn't trying to force some type of narrative, I wanted to see what showed up on the field. I went back again and looked at the same stops: Green Bay, Denver, and Philadelphia to see what the secondaries looked like. The more I compared the rosters, the clearer the pattern became.
If you take a look at the cornerback class in the 2026 free agency group, you'll see a pretty rough one if we're thinking about it with this past season in mind. Guys like Jamel Dean, Tariq Woolen, and former Cowboy Trevon Diggs have a past filled with great play that put their names at the top of cornerback ranks around the league, but all three have struggled with health, performance, or both in recent times.