SAF · Carolina Panthers · #21
Nick Scott
FS1- College
- Penn State
- Height
- 5'11"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Experience
- 8th season
Tackles
24▼ 86 vs '25
53rd of 63 safeties
Passes defended
1▼ 2 vs '25
44th of 63 safeties
Passer rating allowed
79.9▼ 37.2 vs '25
21st of 63 safeties
Missed tackle rate
8.0%▼ 0.3 vs '25
34th of 63 safeties
Coverage
18 targets
55.6 cmp% · 7.6 y/tgt · 0 int
Ranks compare against the 63 qualifying safeties on the 2026 leaderboard.
Week-by-week
Tackles by game, dashed line = 2025 per-game average
2026 game log
| Usage | Tackling | Pass rush | Coverage | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game | ||||||||||||||
| Wk 1 vs CHIL | 72 | 96.0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 50.0 | 11.3 | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 2 @ ATLW | 5 | 7.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 4 vs DETW | 70 | 98.6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 50.0 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 6 @ PHIW | 64 | 100.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 57.1 | 6.9 | 0 | 1 |
| Wk 7 vs TBL | 56 | 88.9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.0 | 7.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Season | 267 | 77.6 | 24 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 55.6 | 7.6 | 0 | 1 |
How he compares
2026 safeties who qualify · dashed lines mark the group average
Contract
signed 2026 with Panthers
$2Mover 1 year
- Avg. per year
- $2M
- Guaranteed
- $1.1M 55%
- 2026 cap hit
- $2M 0.6% of the cap
- Signed
- 2026
- Runs through
- 2026
2026 · now
Year 1 of 1 ·
Career by season
| Overall | Tackling | Pass rush | Coverage | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | ||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 5 | 267 | 77.6 | 24 | 9 | 0 | 8.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 79.9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1,035 | 97.9 | 110 | 24 | 0 | 8.3 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 56 | 117.0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 8 | 325 | 78.9 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 17.6 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 131.9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 17 | 571 | 52.2 | 47 | 21 | 0 | 6.9 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | 33 | 99.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 16 | 984 | 96.6 | 81 | 25 | 1 | 10.4 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 118.5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 17 | 413 | 35.5 | 45 | 7 | 0 | 10.9 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 61.3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 9 | 193 | 34.5 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 7.1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 97.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 8 | 15 | 13.2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 91.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | 97 | 3,803 | 66.0 | 360 | 94 | 1 | 9.6 | 0.0 | 1 | 4 | 214 | 106.8 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 0 |