CB · Minnesota Vikings · #7
Byron Murphy
RCB1- College
- Washington
- Height
- 5'11"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Experience
- 8th season
Passer rating allowed
47.4▼ 33.9 vs '25
6th of 86 CBs
Y/TGT
7.2▲ 1.1 vs '25
43rd of 86 CBs
Completion % allowed
63.6%▲ 2.0 vs '25
62nd of 86 CBs
Passes defended
6▼ 1 vs '25
17th of 86 CBs
Tackling
24 tkl
6 stops · 2 mtkl · 0 ff
Ranks compare against the 86 qualifying cornerbacks on the 2026 leaderboard.
Week-by-week
Targets allowed by game, dashed line = 2025 per-game average
2026 game log
| Usage | Tackling | Pass rush | Coverage | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game | ||||||||||||||
| Wk 1 vs GBW | 67 | 98.5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 63.6 | 9.1 | 0 | 1 |
| Wk 2 @ CHIW | 74 | 100.0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 71.4 | 7.1 | 1 | 2 |
| Wk 3 @ TBW | 67 | 97.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 60.0 | 6.2 | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 4 vs MIAW | 33 | 84.6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 100.0 | 16.7 | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 5 @ NOW | 38 | 84.4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 50.0 | 0.8 | 2 | 2 |
| Wk 7 vs INDW | 45 | 73.8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 33.3 | 1.7 | 0 | 1 |
| Season | 324 | 91.0 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 63.6 | 7.2 | 3 | 6 |
How he compares
2026 cornerbacks who qualify · dashed lines mark the group average
Contract
signed 2025 with Vikings
$54Mover 3 years
- Avg. per year
- $18M
- Guaranteed
- $34.8M 64%
- 2026 cap hit
- $8.3M 2.6% of the cap
- Signed
- 2025
- Runs through
- 2027
2025
2026 · now
2027
Year 2 of 3 ·
Career by season
| Overall | Tackling | Pass rush | Coverage | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | ||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 6 | 324 | 91.0 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 47.4 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1,046 | 97.8 | 71 | 25 | 3 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 73 | 81.3 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 17 | 1,060 | 93.3 | 72 | 28 | 6 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 119 | 76.7 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 14 | 908 | 98.6 | 56 | 22 | 4 | 17.1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 97.8 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 9 | 593 | 99.8 | 33 | 9 | 3 | 7.7 | 0.5 | 1 | 2 | 58 | 103.1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 16 | 967 | 94.5 | 64 | 19 | 0 | 9.9 | 0.5 | 1 | 4 | 98 | 87.6 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 15 | 795 | 75.9 | 51 | 14 | 3 | 13.6 | 2.0 | 2 | 4 | 81 | 92.5 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,105 | 97.5 | 75 | 22 | 3 | 10.3 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 112 | 111.2 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | 110 | 6,798 | 93.4 | 446 | 145 | 23 | 11.0 | 3.0 | 4 | 11 | 675 | 90.4 | 19 | 74 | 3 | 1 |