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Nahshon Wright

New York Jets
Pos CB
Updated August 24, 2026

Model Score

69.6 MODEL
Resting on limited playing time

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

Season Stats · 17 games

52nd
INT
1126th
Pass Deflections
61.1%62nd
Comp % Allowed
8.295th
Yds / Target
7116th
TD Allowed
5016th
Solo Tackles

Draft & College

Round 3, pick 99 · Dallas Cowboys · 2021
Oregon State (Pac-12)
Taken
#99
where he actually went
Consensus board
112th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#113
among CB in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2020 · 7 games
2 INT, 4 pass breakups, 30 tackles, 1 TFL

Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.

Comps

Overall match
size, testing and production, same career stage
Plays like
on-field production only
College career
his college career vs theirs

STM Take

First STTM top-80 finish at tier 8 (#74) in year five as a 99th overall 3rd-round pick puts Wright in the late-bloomer journeyman class. The Oregon State Pac-12 3rd-round origin plus the multi-team experience give him basic plug-in veteran value. The 2026 question is whether Wright holds tier 8 or whether the role compresses to swing depth.

Wright came out of Oregon State as the Dallas Cowboys' 3rd-round pick (99th overall) in 2021 and bounced through the Cowboys and now Bears across five NFL seasons. His first STTM appearance in the top 80 comes in 2025 at tier 8 (#74), reflecting a year-five emergence for a Day 2 prospect.

Strengths

  • Oregon State Pac-12 3rd-round draft pedigree plus five years of NFL survival gives him basic plug-in veteran value.
  • Year-five tier 8 (#74) STTM finish gives him the rare late-bloomer Day 2 emergence.

Concerns

  • Single tier 8 finish in year five without prior top-100 STTM history caps the long-term projection certainty.
  • Chicago's broader defensive identity transition compresses the structural support around Wright.

What to watch: Whether Wright holds tier 8 or better in 2026 with the Bears or whether the role compresses to swing depth.

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