SAF · San Francisco 49ers · #27
Ji'Ayir Brown
FS1- College
- Lackawanna JC
- Height
- 5'11"
- Weight
- 202 lb
- Experience
- 4th season
Tackles
44▼ 31 vs '25
10th of 63 safeties
Passes defended
2▼ 4 vs '25
27th of 63 safeties
Passer rating allowed
88.5▼ 13.9 vs '25
30th of 63 safeties
Missed tackle rate
8.3%▲ 2.2 vs '25
35th of 63 safeties
Coverage
23 targets
65.2 cmp% · 7.7 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 @ LAW | 55 | 90.2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 100.0 | 27.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 2 vs MIAW | 56 | 94.9 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 3 vs ARIW | 83 | 95.4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 75.0 | 6.5 | 0 | 1 |
| Wk 4 vs DENW | 64 | 97.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 33.3 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 5 @ SEAW | 63 | 100.0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 66.7 | 2.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Wk 6 vs WASW | 67 | 100.0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 75.0 | 12.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 7 @ ATLL | 68 | 100.0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 80.0 | 8.2 | 0 | 0 |
| Season | 456 | 96.8 | 44 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 65.2 | 7.7 | 0 | 2 |
How he compares
2026 safeties who qualify · dashed lines mark the group average
Contract
Rookie deal · signed 2023 with 49ers
$5.4Mover 4 years
- Avg. per year
- $1.3M
- Guaranteed
- $924K 17%
- 2026 cap hit
- $3.9M 1.1% of the cap
- Signed
- 2023
- Runs through
- 2026
2023
2024
2025
2026 · now
Year 4 of 4
Career by season
| Overall | Tackling | Pass rush | Coverage | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | ||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 7 | 456 | 96.8 | 44 | 14 | 1 | 8.3 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 88.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 17 | 801 | 74.2 | 75 | 21 | 2 | 6.2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 102.4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 17 | 886 | 83.0 | 71 | 31 | 3 | 8.6 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 80.7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 10 | 395 | 63.3 | 35 | 11 | 0 | 9.7 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 81.9 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | 51 | 2,538 | 78.3 | 225 | 77 | 6 | 7.9 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 130 | 87.5 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 0 |