Six Nations: ‘Dominant’ Tom Curry hits while Scotland’s weapon’ leads attacking stats and ‘sharpshooter’ comfortably exceeds expectations
A deep dive into the stats leaders from the opening two round of the Six Nations.
Following two rounds of thrilling Six Nations action, we run through the stats leaders and which players have shone in the fortnight.
With the help of Opta Stats take a look at all the individual attack, defence and set-piece stats.
Top points and try scorers
Thomas Ramos finished the last two editions of the Six Nations as the Championship’s top points scorer, but the Frenchman sits in third place overall after the opening two weeks.
Leading the pack is Italy’s sharpshooter Tommaso Allan (31) who has slotted nine penalties and two conversions. Not only does the Azzurri full-back top the scoring charts but also has the best ‘points gained’ when compared to the expected points.
Allan has outperformed by scoring 5.1 points more than his expected rate considering the difficulty of his kicks with Ireland’s Jack Crowley boasting the next-best points gained rate of 1.3. Marcus Smith has the worst points gained rate of goal kickers so far in the competition at -4.8 after scoring nine out of a possible 16.
Trailing Allan on the point-scoring charts is France’s Louis Bielle Biarrey (20) who has scored four tries with Huw Jones’ hat-trick taking his tally to 15 – level with Ireland pivot Sam Prendergast.
Bielle Biarrey and Jones lead the try-scoring charts with their efforts while Ben White, Tommy Freeman and Theo Attissogbe all have two tries so far.
Meanwhile, Antoine Dupont and James Lowe lead the way in terms of try assists having set up three tries apiece with Fin Smith (2) being the only other player to assist more than one try.
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Attacking stats
World-class outside back Blair Kinghorn has replicated his stunning form at Toulouse in the Six Nations as he has been a key attacking weapon for Scotland so far in the Six Nations as he tops the charts for carries made (36), metres gained (319) and ranks joint third for defenders beaten (8).
Gregory Alldritt (33) has made more carries and gained more metres (197) than any other forward in this year’s Championship.
Ireland’s Lowe not only has four try involvements for the defending champions but has also gained more metres (231) and carries (23) than any of his teammates.
Meanwhile, Scotland winger Darcy Graham has been the most elusive attacker in the tournament beating 11 defenders in the opening two games despite being forced off early in round two. His teammate Duhan van der Merwe is not far behind with nine defenders beaten which is the joint-second best tally with Bielle-Biarrey.
England’s Ben Earl has beaten more defenders (8) than any forward with Italy’s Lorenzo Cannone just one shy of the Red Rose star.
Defence stats
On defence, Ireland flanker Josh van der Flier (37) leads the tackle count in the Six Nations with Sebastian Negri (36) and Jac Morgan (34) following closely.
Scotland skipper and powerhouse flanker Rory Darge (27) tops the tackle count for his country and has made more dominant hits than any other player (6) – with Negri just one off his tally.
England’s Tom Curry (3) is tied with brother Ben on dominant hits by an England player but he does lead the way in the tournament for turnovers won (4), making at least two more than any other player.
Lineout stats
Unsurprisingly Federico Ruzza is once again Italy’s go-to man at the lineout racking up 14 takes in two rounds – five more than any other player.
Grant Gilchrist (9) has the most takes for Scotland with Maro Itoje (8) leading the way for England and Ryan Baird (8) for Ireland.
Meanwhile, five hookers boast a 100% success rate so far in the tournament, they are Julien Marchand, Elliot Dee, Ewan Ashman, Gianmarco Lucchesi and Theo Dan.
2025 Six Nations stats leaders
Points
31 – Tommaso Allan (Italy)
20 – Louis Bielle-Biarrey (France)
18 – Thomas Ramos (France)
15 – Huw Jones (Scotland)
15 – Sam Prendergast (Ireland)
10 – Ben White (Scotland)
10 – Tommy Freeman (England)
10 – Theo Attissogbe (France)
9 – Marcus Smith (England)
8 – Blair Kinghorn (Scotland)
Goal kicking %
Ben Thomas (Wales) – 100% (1/1)
Fin Smith (England) – 100% (2/2)
Jack Crowley (Ireland) – 100% (2/2)
Tommaso Allan (Italy) – 84.6% (11/13)
Blair Kinghorn (Scotland) – 75.0% (3/4)
Thomas Ramos (France) – 72.7% (8/11)
Sam Prendergast (Ireland) – 66.7% (6/9)
Finn Russell (Scotland) – 60.0% (3/5)
Marcus Smith (England) – 57.1% (4/7)
Tries
4 – Louis Bielle-Biarrey (France)
3 – Huw Jones (Scotland)
2 – Ben White (Scotland)
2 – Tommy Freeman (England)
2 – Theo Attissogbe (France)
Try assists
3 – James Lowe (Ireland)
3 – Antoine Dupont (France)
2 – Fin Smith (England)
Carries
36 – Blair Kinghorn (Scotland)
33 – Gregory Alldritt (France)
27 – Zander Fagerson (Scotland)
26 – Thomas Ramos (France)
23 – James Lowe (Ireland)
23 – Antoine Dupont (France)
23 – Matt Fagerson (Scotland)
23 – Jac Morgan (Wales)
22 – Huw Jones (Scotland)
21 – Will Rowlands (Wales)
21 – Caelan Doris (Ireland)
21 – Marcus Smith (England)
Metres
319 – Blair Kinghorn (Scotland)
231 – James Lowe (Ireland)
229 – Marcus Smith (England)
221 – Thomas Ramos (France)
197 – Gregory Alldritt (France)
186 – Huw Jones (Scotland)
178 – Duhan van der Merwe (Scotland)
168 – Lorenzo Cannone (Italy)
166 – Jac Morgan (Wales)
164 – Louis Bielle-Biarrey (France)
Defenders beaten
11 – Darcy Graham (Scotland)
9 – Duhan van der Merwe (Scotland)
9 – Louis Bielle-Biarrey (France)
8 – Blair Kinghorn (Scotland)
8 – Ben Earl (England)
8 – Ollie Lawrence (England)
8 – Tommy Freeman (England)
7 – Thomas Ramos (France0
7 – Lorenzo Cannone (Italy)
Tackles made
37 – Josh van der Flier (Ireland)
36 – Sebastian Negri (Italy)
34 – Jac Morgan (Wales)
31 – Caelan Doris (Ireland)
31 – Lorenzo Cannone (Italy)
31 – Giacomo Nicotera (Italy)
29 – Michele Lamaro (Italy)
27 – Danilo Fischetti (Italy)
27 – Rory Darge (Scotland)
Dominant tackles
6 – Rory Darge (Scotland)
5 – Sebastian Negri (Italy)
4 – Danilo Fischetti (Italy)
4 – Tommaso Menoncello (Italy)
4 – Giacomo Nicotera (Italy)
3 – Jamison Gibson-Park (Ireland)
3 – Federico Ruzza (Italy)
3 – Juan Ignacio Brex (Italy)
3 – Tom Curry (England)
3 – Ben Curry (England)
Turnovers won
4 – Tom Curry (England)
2 – Huw Jones (Scotland)
2 – Dave Cherry (Scotland)
2 – Tadhg Beirne (Ireland)
2 – Juan Ignacio Brex (Italy)
2 – Ben Earl (England)
2 – Lorenzo Cannone (Italy)
Lineout wins
14 – Federico Ruzza (Italy)
9 – Grant Gilchrist (Scotland)
8 – Maro Itoje (England)
8 – Matt Fagerson (Scotland)
8 – Ryan Baird (Ireland)
7 – Tadhg Beirne (Ireland)
7 – Alexandre Roumat (France)
5 – Taulupe Faletau (Wales)
5 – Jack Conan (Ireland)
5 – Paul Bodehent (France)
5 – Freddie Thomas (Wales)
Lineout throw %
Julien Marchand (France) – 100% (8/8)
Elliot Dee (Wales) – 100% (11/11)
Ewan Ashman (Scotland) – 100% (10/10)
Gianmarco Lucchesi (Italy) – 100% (8/8)
Theo Dan (England) – 100% (7/7)
Dave Cherry (Scotland) – 94.1% (16/17)
Peato Mauvaka (France) – 93.3% (14/15)
Ronan Kelleher (Ireland) – 90.0% (18/20)
Giacomo Nicotera (Italy) – 88.9% (16/18)
Evan Llyod (Wales) – 85.7% (12/14)
