Top five secondaries in the NFL right now

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#3 Buffalo Bills

Philadelphia Eagles v Buffalo Bills

The Buffalo Bills have had one of the most underrated defenses for a while now. With the way they made Tom Brady look like a few weeks ago, I feel like they are starting to get the recognition they deserve, but I still don’t believe that people actually know the names om the backs of those jerseys. They have built a really strong D-line through the draft and their two linebackers Tremaine Edmunds and Matt Milano can just fly around, but like New England, the thing that really makes this unit go is the back-end.

It all starts with what might be the best safety tandem in the league right now when you look the highly instinctive Micah Hyde, who brings a ton of versatility to the table, and Jordan Poyer, who is one of the most secure tacklers out there and always shows up around the ball. Third-year man Tre’Davious White has quickly become of the best zone corners in the game. He has come up with three picks, one of them sealing the Bengals game and another one at the goal-line against Miami, when his team was down by five and turned things around after that. Despite bringing in former first-round pick Kevin Johnson from Houston, it has been a former walk-on and undrafted free agent Levi Wallace, who not only became a starter for the premiere program in college football at Alabama, but has now played over 90 percent of the snaps for Buffalo.

Their primary nickel Taron Johnson had one of the lowest marks on yards allowed per coverage snap in the slot last season.

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