CB · Pittsburgh Steelers · #26
Brandin Echols
NB2- College
- Kentucky
- Height
- 5'10"
- Weight
- 179 lb
- Experience
- 6th season
Passer rating allowed
95.8▲ 9.3 vs '25
45th of 82 CBs
Y/TGT
7.0▲ 0.2 vs '25
39th of 82 CBs
Completion % allowed
100.0%▲ 30.0 vs '25
82nd of 82 CBs
Passes defended
0▼ 6 vs '25
78th of 82 CBs
Tackling
4 tkl
0 stops · 1 mtkl · 0 ff
Ranks compare against the 81 qualifying cornerbacks on the 2026 leaderboard plus Echols.
Week-by-week
Targets allowed by game, dashed line = 2025 per-game average
2026 game log
| Usage | Tackling | Pass rush | Coverage | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game | ||||||||||||||
| Wk 2 @ NEL | 5 | 8.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 3 vs CINW | 8 | 14.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.0 | 7.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 4 @ CLEL | 2 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 5 vs INDW | 2 | 3.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 6 @ TBW | 3 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Season | 20 | 6.2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.0 | 7.0 | 0 | 0 |
How he compares
2026 cornerbacks who qualify · dashed lines mark the group average
Contract
signed 2025 with Steelers
$6Mover 2 years
- Avg. per year
- $3M
- Guaranteed
- $1.8M 31%
- 2026 cap hit
- $3.9M 1.2% of the cap
- Signed
- 2025
- Runs through
- 2026
2025
2026 · now
Year 2 of 2 ·
Career by season
| Overall | Tackling | Pass rush | Coverage | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | ||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 5 | 20 | 6.2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 95.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 16 | 522 | 46.9 | 48 | 22 | 3 | 16.1 | 1.0 | 2 | 2 | 70 | 86.5 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 13 | 407 | 54.2 | 36 | 9 | 1 | 8.1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 90.0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 12 | 143 | 17.1 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 11.1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 126.4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 12 | 69 | 8.8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 12.5 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 97.9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 14 | 760 | 76.8 | 59 | 16 | 1 | 14.9 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 79.8 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
| Career | 72 | 1,921 | 40.0 | 165 | 53 | 5 | 13.9 | 1.0 | 2 | 2 | 209 | 87.4 | 7 | 22 | 1 | 2 |