Talladega NASCAR Next Gen Driver Ratings

Rank	Driver	2026 #1	2025 #2	2025 #2	2024 #2	2024 #1	2023 #2	2023 #1	2022 #2	2022 #1	Avg. Driver Rating
1	William Byron	20	17	9	7	14	2	21	7	3	11.1
2	Ryan Preece	3	12	1	26	13	8	17			11.4
3	Kyle Busch	6	8	30	9	11	21	6	13	6	12.2
4	Ryan Blaney	9	14	38	3	32	1	1	4	9	12.3
5	Ross Chastain	1	21	27	8	4	35	10	1	10	13.0
6	Chase Elliott	19	39	15	11	12	6	9	2	5	13.1
7	Kyle Larson	34	19	6	5	21	3	24	8	1	13.4
8	Bubba Wallace	29	3	3	14	20	19	3	18	13	13.6
9	Joey Logano	13	1	2	4	22	7	27	28	25	14.3
10	Austin Cindric	25	35	4	2	5	5	13	16	26	14.6
11	Todd Gilliland	15	6	11	28	2	14	20	6	31	14.8
12	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	14	34	12	1	24	9	15	12	19	15.6
13	Chase Briscoe	18	2	13	15	30	15	5	15	37	16.7
14	Alex Bowman	7	33	14	10	9	24	28		12	17.1
15	Noah Gragson	27	30	5	25	1		11	14	29	17.8
16	Christopher Bell	4	4	22	24	28	26	19	20	14	17.9
17	Tyler Reddick	23	11	10	12	10	13	29	24	38	18.9
18	Brad Keselowski	21	5	29	16	8	10	30	29	24	19.1
19	Chris Buescher	2	15	20	6	16	27	26	27	35	19.3
20	Cole Custer	35	26	8					11	18	19.6
21	Josh Berry	22	10	18	33	18					20.2
22	Ty Gibbs	26	7	21	13	15	28	16	37		20.4
22	Michael McDowell	36	9	16	17	6	22	38	17	23	20.4
24	Shane Van Gisbergen	10	13	35	18	27					20.6
25	Daniel Suarez	16	20	17	39	31	20	18	9	21	21.2
25	Denny Hamlin	12	28	24	22	37	29	7	10	22	21.2
25	Erik Jones	17	40	26	21	38	30	14	3	2	21.2
28	Carson Hocevar	8	16	19	31	26	31				21.8
29	Austin Dillon	5	36	25	20	29	16	33	26	8	22.0
30	Ty Dillon	33	25	28			23	23	25	27	26.3
31	Zane Smith	32	22	7	30	34		37			27.0
32	John H. Nemechek	24	18	36	35	36					29.8
33	Riley Herbst	39	29	23			25	34			30.0
33	Connor Zilisch	30									30.0
35	Cody Ware	11	32	34	34	33			35	33	30.3
36	AJ Allmendinger	28	38	33	36		34	31			33.3