Benjamin St-Juste

5 NFL seasons: rookie rotation in WAS, then a 17-PD 2023, then a midseason move to LAC.

St-Juste was the 3rd-round Commanders pick in 2021 and spent his first four seasons in Washington. The 2023 line — 46 tackles, 17 PDs, 2 FFs — was his career year and his statistical fingerprint as a high-PD outside CB.

2024 was a step back in coverage events (just 6 PDs) but a career-high in tackles (55). The 2025 move to the Chargers has him at 7 PDs already in 22 tackles — back to ball production right out of the gate.

17 PDs in 2023 — top-5 in the NFL that season among all DBs.

Pass defenses are the rawest measure of "how often was a DB at the catch point on a contested ball." 17 PDs in a single season is elite — typically the top of the CB leaderboard each year is in the 18-22 range, so St-Juste's 2023 puts him in that tier.

Most CBs never break double-digit PDs in a season. St-Juste has done it once (17) and has another 3-year span averaging ~10 PDs (2022, 2023, 2025-pace). The ball-skill signal is real.

40 career PDs, 0 career interceptions — the highest-PD CB without a single career pick.

This is the strangest line in his profile: 40 career pass defenses, 0 career interceptions. Most CBs with 40 career PDs have 8-15 picks to go with them. St-Juste has none.

The interpretation: he's elite at getting his hand in to break up the throw, but the ball-tracking-to-finish hasn't translated. It's the kind of stat that often "corrects" in a single high-INT season — he's never had it.

4 career forced fumbles — high for an outside CB.

For a 6'3", 200lb outside CB, the 4 career FFs are a meaningful tackler-finisher data point. Most outside CBs operate in space and don't get the angle for punch-out FFs.

The FFs came in 2022 (1), 2023 (2), and 2024 (1) — a steady cadence, not a one-year anomaly. Combined with 177 career tackles, he's a fundamentally physical CB at the catch point and in run support, not a press-bail cover-corner only.

55 tackles in 2024 was a career high — even as PDs collapsed from 17 to 6.

The 2024 season inverted his usual profile: PDs fell from 17 to 6, but tackles climbed from 46 to 55. That usually signals one of two things:

1. Coverage role change — slot/zone or off-coverage gets more throws away and fewer at the catch point, but more underneath tackles. 2. Targeting drop — when QBs avoid a corner, both PDs and INTs go down.

The 2025 LAC reset — 7 PDs already in just 22 tackles — looks like the ball production has come back, even if at a smaller tackle volume.

From Commanders to Chargers — 4 years in Washington, traded in for ball production.

4 years in Washington produced 155 tackles and 33 PDs — basically a 38.8 tackles/yr, 8.3 PDs/yr outside CB. The Chargers picked him up and have him at 7 PDs in 22 tackles — a *higher* PD-per-tackle rate than his Commanders average.

If the 2025 rate holds across a full season, he'd be back in 14-15 PD territory — exactly the player the Chargers wanted when they brought him into Jesse Minter's scheme.