Tyrique
Stevenson.
Tyrique
Stevenson.
Miami (FL)· 6'0"· 198 lb· 4.45s 40
"He jams receivers off the line like he resents the route, and the same competitive heat that makes him hard to release against is the thing that gets him in trouble."Pre-draft read
Press-man cornerback with a linebacker's disposition. Stevenson lived at the line of scrimmage at Miami, using a two-hand jam and a thick 6-0, 198-pound frame to reroute boundary receivers, then riding their hip through the stem. He is a long-strider who eats cushion once he flips, and his 4.45 speed shows up on vertical carries rather than in short-area quickness out of the pedal.
The signature is contact. He tackles like a safety in run support, fills the alley without hesitation, and finishes at the catch point, timing rakes through the receiver's hands. Off-coverage is the shakier half: he opens early, guesses on double moves, and lets separation happen underneath. Boundary-only projection with special-teams value baked in.
Press-heavy man scheme with single-high or quarters help; Cover 3 boundary corner in a Vic Fangio/Dennis Allen-style structure
Year 1: immediate outside starter in a press-man rotation who handles bigger X receivers and plays every special-teams cover unit. Ceiling: physical CB1-B who erases size mismatches and produces 3-4 takeaways a year.
A heavy match-zone system that keeps him in off-coverage with pattern-reading responsibility — his eyes drift to the quarterback and he surrenders leverage before the route declares.
Value drops if a staff asks him to play field corner or shadow twitchy slot separators; keep him on the boundary, on the line, with a safety over the top.
Tyrique Stevenson Regular Season Highlights | Miami DB
Tyrique Stevenson 2022 Regular Season Highlights | Miami DB
Tyrique Stevenson Miami Hurricanes College Career Highlights [Welcome to Bears]
Stevenson is a boundary corner built for a scheme that asks him to touch receivers. Georgia signed him as a five-star out of Miami Southridge, he played rotational snaps and special teams for two years in Athens, then transferred home in 2021 and immediately started for the Hurricanes. Two seasons outside gave evaluators a clean sample of the same player: physical, competitive, streaky.
Production was steady rather than loud — 115 tackles, 6.0 tackles for loss, 21 passes defended and three interceptions across four seasons, with his best coverage tape in 2022, when he broke up seven passes and picked off two while Miami's defense collapsed around him. The tape sold the traits: jams that ended routes at the stem, a downhill trigger, a willingness to tackle real ball carriers. The flags were just as visible — grabby hands downfield, peeking into the backfield in zone, lapses that turned into explosive plays.
Boards had him as a second-round press corner, roughly CB6 to CB9 in a deep class, and the 4.45 in Indianapolis confirmed he could carry vertical routes. Chicago took him 56th to pair a physical outside body with Kyler Gordon and Jaylon Johnson. At that price the swing was reasonable: starter traits, a clear scheme fit, and enough tape to believe discipline would follow.
- 01
Press technique
Two-hand jam with real pop; he stops routes at the stem and forces receivers to release wide, which shortens the field for the deep-half safety.
- 02
Play strength
Plays bigger than 198 pounds, stacking blockers on the perimeter and refusing to concede the edge against tight ends and pulling linemen.
- 03
Long speed
Official 4.45 at the combine and it shows on tape; he recovers on vertical stems and stays in phase down the sideline once he turns and runs.
- 04
Tackling
Legitimate open-field finisher who takes on ball carriers squarely; he was a genuine asset in Miami's run fits, not the corner offenses ran at.
- 05
Competitive edge
Wants the matchup, travels with a swagger, and plays the catch point through contact rather than waiting for the ball to arrive.
- 01
Zone eyes
Peeks into the backfield and drifts off his landmarks; receivers cross his face while he is reading the quarterback instead of route distribution.
- 02
Off-man footwork
Opens his hips early out of the pedal and gives up cushion he does not need, which lets savvy route runners work back underneath him.
- 03
Grabbiness
Hands stay attached past five yards when he is beaten at the release, and NFL officials will find those plays more often than ACC crews did.
- 04
Concentration lapses
Focus drops mid-drive and mid-play; the same game can contain an elite rep and a coverage bust that becomes six points.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.45sp50
- Vertical
- 38.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 125inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.09sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.41sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Georgia | — | 13 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2020 | Georgia | 10 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2021 | Miami (FL) | 11 | 43 | 0.5 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2022 | Miami (FL) | 11 | 25 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| Career | — | 32 | 115 | 1.5 | 3 | 21 | 0 |
2019 Georgia game count is unconfirmed across sources, so it is left null; season totals sum exactly to the career line.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Fine boundary starter with real ball production and maddening variance week to week.
Same press-and-tackle identity if the discipline ever caught up to the physicality.
Physical corner whose grabbiness and coverage busts cap him as a rotational body.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Tyrique Stevenson started 16 games at cornerback for the Chicago Bears in his rookie year. He recorded 86 total tackles, 4 interceptions, and 16 pass deflections.
Chicago plugged him straight into a starting boundary job as a rookie and never really pulled him from the role. He played 16 games in 2023 and delivered a genuinely encouraging season — 86 tackles, four interceptions and 16 passes defended, the sort of ball production that suggested a long-term answer opposite Jaylon Johnson. Year two soured: 78 tackles, two picks and a pick-six were buried under the Hail Mary against Washington, when he was taunting fans instead of getting depth on the final snap. In 2025 he lost snaps to Nahshon Wright mid-season, finishing 13 games with 49 tackles, one interception and 10 breakups, and entered 2026 in a contract year with Dennis Allen's staff still coaching the same fixable habits.
The evaluation held up almost too well. Everything scouts wrote in 2023 — press value, physicality, run support, and the concentration flaws — is exactly what three NFL seasons produced. He is a starter, not a shutdown corner, and the second-round price bought that fairly. The unresolved question was never talent; it was whether the discipline would ever catch the traits.
Data note: 2019 Georgia game count is unconfirmed across sources, so it is left null; season totals sum exactly to the career line.