NFL Draft
3/26/25
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Zah Frazier 2025 NFL Draft: Scouting Report For UTSA Roadrunners CB
Height: 6025 (verified)
Weight: 189lbs (verified)
Year: Sixth-Year Senior
Pro Comparison: Isaiah Rodgers
Scouting Overview
UTSA Roadrunners cornerback Zah Frazier projects as a developmental starter at the NFL level. He’s an elite blend of length and speed, which is the foundation of many highly coveted cornerback prospects.
Frazier is effective most in zone coverage as a deep third defender working from a half-turn. This is an older prospect who is blossoming late in his college career, but teams should be undeterred, as the flashes this year were strong. He’s taken a winding path to the NFL that included three programs and would greatly benefit from the stability of consistent coaching to pull the potential out of his game.
2025 NFL Combine Results
| Position | Name | School | 40-Yard Dash | 10-Yard Split | Broad Jump | Vertical Jump | 3-Cone Drill | 20-Yard Shuttle | Bench Press |
| CB | Zah Frazier | UTSA | 4.36 | 1.51 | 126 | 36.5 | 7 | 4.26 |
Positives
- Long-limbed and offers a big area of influence at the catch-point
- Explosive straight-line speed and ability to carry routes vertically
- Big-time ball production in 2024 indicates how deep the potential runs
Negatives
- Will be a 25-year-old rookie by the mid-season of his rookie campaign
- Tall, high-cut frame can tax his transitional quickness
- Limited workload and experience at the FBS level with 10 starts at UTSA
Background
Frazier is from Cedartown, GA, and played his high school football for Cedartown HS. There, he was an unheralded recruit who was unranked (247 Sports), leaving the high school ranks. He was a multi-sport athlete who also played basketball and participated in track.
Frazier enrolled at Southern Illinois for the 2019 season and played in four games that season, retaining his four seasons of college eligibility. He then transferred to Coffeyville Community College (JUCO) and played his 2020 and 2021 seasons there. For his play, Frazier was named both an All-Conference and JUCO All-American.
After two seasons at Coffeyville, Frazier entered the transfer portal as a 3-star JUCO transfer. He would land at UTSA, where he played in 18 games his first two seasons as a depth player who collected less than 100 total snaps on defense.
Frazier’s big break came in 2024 when he started the first 10 games of the season and played in 12 contests overall. He produced First Team All-AAC honors and was named an honorable mention All-American for his play and ball production; Frazier broke the school’s single-season record for interceptions in a year (six).
Frazier culminated his college career with an invite to the 2025 East-West Shrine Bowl.
Tale Of The Tape
Frazier is a challenging valuation, but the evaluation is filled with upside and reasons to get excited. This was one of the standout performers from the 2025 NFL Combine, and Frazier’s athleticism is quite easy to see on film. The biggest hurdle to his projection is just the complete and total lack of experience — he played less than 600 snaps of football at UTSA across three seasons from 2022 to 2024.
This is not an overly physical coverage player, but he has elite recovery speed, elite length, and very good ball-tracking skills to hunt down the football in the air against aggressive quarterbacks who want to let it fly. Frazier has the required burst when playing overtop of receivers and routes to drive and attack in front of his face, but once he can play in the trail position, he has seemingly effortless gas that allows him to work into the catch point and disrupt throws.
The upside is evident either way.
The ball production generally came in two ways — as a deep defender tracking vertical shots or a number of his passes defended came as corner pressures off the edge in which his wingspan closed down throwing windows and allowed him to bad down passes.
He has good eyes in zone coverage from a half-turn that allowed him to pick up several sail routes or intermediate crossers running underneath off a go route on the outside. Frazier showed good vision through those routes to the quarterback to stop and undercut the second route while keying the quarterback.
When he commits to attacking the ball’s flight path, his strides eat up monster grass. As a deep defender falling off his primary zone to attack the football, he’s run under throws that no one could have possibly guessed someone would get to — he’s that rangy in quarters and Cover-3 looks.
As a result, Frazier would be best served by being given the chance to develop as a zone corner. He does have the length to play in press, but his footwork, jab, and transitions are raw and must be built from the ground up.
As a run defender, Frazier is scrappy and fits blocks on the perimeter, but his deconstruction ability lacks violence and conviction. As a result, he can be stuck on bodies too long. This can be mitigated from depth as well, where his eyes can process outside runs, and he can take angles and burst to beat blockers from getting plastered onto his frame.
Ideal Scheme Fit, Role
Frazier projects as a developmental starter in a Cover-3/4 heavy scheme at the NFL level.
He’ll be best served playing vision zone and utilizing his length and speed to compress throwing windows as a deep zone defender and trying to attack throws down the field as a backside support defender.
Grade: 73.50/100.00, Fourth Round Value
Big Board Rank: 117
Position Rank: CB13
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