Quan Martin

From 25-tackle rookie depth piece to a 100-tackle Commanders safety across 3 seasons.

Picked 47th overall by Washington in 2023, Martin was a backend rotation piece as a rookie (25 tackles in 13 games). The arc accelerated fast: by 2024 he was a 50-tackle, 3-forced-fumble starter playing 19 games including the Commanders' run to the NFC Championship. 2025 added another 52 tackles in 17 games — a true full-time NFL safety.

127 career tackles in 49 games — a 2.6/game pace that's now the steady-state baseline.

Across his three pro seasons: 127 tackles, 4 TFL, 11 pass defenses, 4 forced fumbles in 49 games. The career rate per game has climbed each season: 1.92 (2023) → 2.63 (2024) → 3.06 (2025) — every year more snaps, every year more production.

After the 19-game 2024 run that included 3 forced fumbles, he has cemented himself as the centerpiece of the Commanders' back end.

4 career forced fumbles — a rare bonus skill for a coverage safety.

Martin's 2024 season included 3 forced fumbles — top tier among safeties that year. He followed it with another in 2025, giving him 4 career FF in 49 games. That's a counted ball-disruption skill that doesn't show up in PFR pass-coverage charts — and the kind of bonus play that swings 2-3 games a season.

Played 19 games in 2024 — full regular season plus a 3-game playoff run to the NFC Championship.

The 2024 game count of 19 captures the Commanders' deep playoff run under Jayden Daniels: 17 regular-season games + Wild Card + Divisional + NFC Championship. Martin was on the field for all of it, posting 50 tackles, 4 PDs, 3 FF in those 19 games — a meaningful playoff resume by year 2.

Tackle-heavy, PD-light: the run-support safety profile.

His profile is the classic strong/box safety: the tackle rate has climbed every year, while the pass-defense rate has held steady at the low end. He's making more plays in the run game and underneath, fewer plays at the catch point on the deep ball.

That fits the Commanders' scheme: Martin in the box freeing the corners to play more man, then rotating to deep when needed.

0 sacks, 0 QB hits in 49 career games — a pure read-and-react safety, almost never a blitzer.

Across 49 NFL games Martin has not registered a single sack or QB hit. That's actually unusual for a modern safety — most box safeties get 1-3 pressure-stat plays per season on simulated blitzes or run-game disruption.

The 2 career TFL in 2025 are the closest he's come to pressure work. The signal: DC Joe Whitt rarely uses him as a blitzer — Martin's job is post-snap, not pre-snap.