Darlington NASCAR Next Gen Driver Ratings

Rank	Driver	2026 #2	2025 #2	2025 #1	2024 #2	2024 #1	2023 #2	2023 #1	2022 #2	2022 #1	Avg. Driver Rating
1	Tyler Reddick	2	2	2	5	3	2	15	7	2	4.4
2	William Byron	8	14	1	7	4	5	1	3	4	5.2
3	Denny Hamlin	12	7	4	4	5	3	14	1	12	6.9
4	Ross Chastain	19	5	8	10	13	14	4	10	3	9.6
5	Bubba Wallace	17	3	13	6	6	9	7	12	16	9.9
6	Christopher Bell	18	16	7	3	17	17	9	4	5	10.7
7	Kyle Busch	21	11	15	8	26	15	3	2	7	12.0
8	Kyle Larson	10	9	38	1	8	1	8	14	22	12.3
9	Brad Keselowski	1	24	16	11	1	6	5	15	35	12.7
10	Joey Logano	33	21	6	12	12	13	16	5	1	13.2
11	Chris Buescher	3	13	5	9	10	4	22	32	26	13.8
12	Ty Gibbs	9	17	12	13	2	19	19	20		13.9
13	Ryan Blaney	4	18	3	37	23	8	11	9	13	14.0
14	Erik Jones	15	4	20	19	25	10	23	6	11	14.8
15	Chase Briscoe	7	1	26	2	9	18	27	31	24	16.1
15	Chase Elliott	14	19	14	18	21	11	12	28	8	16.1
17	Austin Cindric	5	10	9	21	22	24	24	18	19	16.9
18	Ryan Preece	11	15	10	15	24	34	20			18.4
19	AJ Allmendinger	29	8	18			12	30			19.4
20	Daniel Suarez	6	31	23	23	32	26	26	17	9	21.4
21	Josh Berry	22	36	19	14	7		31			21.5
22	Carson Hocevar	13	12	35	22	29	21				22.0
23	Alex Bowman		32	24	26	14	20		13	27	22.3
24	Michael McDowell	20	27	27	31	15	30	29	11	17	23.0
24	Connor Zilisch	23									23.0
26	Todd Gilliland	32	28	17	17	11	31	17	27	28	23.1
27	John H. Nemechek	27	6	31	27	27					23.6
28	Noah Gragson	31	20	21	24	19		28			23.8
29	Austin Dillon	26	23	25	16	33	23	25	23	23	24.1
30	Zane Smith	24	22	11	29	36					24.4
31	Shane Van Gisbergen	16	29	28	30						25.8
32	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	28	33	33	32	30	25	10	33	15	26.6
33	Cole Custer	34	26	30					16	29	27.0
34	Ty Dillon	35	34	22			32	34	26	21	29.1
35	Riley Herbst	25	30	36							30.3
36	Cody Ware	36	35	34					34	30	33.8