Trikweze
Bridges.
Trikweze
Bridges.
Florida· 6'2"· 196 lb· 4.45s 40
"Six years, two schools and one position change later, Bridges arrived in the seventh round as the rarest kind of late pick: a 6-2 corner with real length who had finally learned how to play the position."Pre-draft read
A long, upright press-man corner who plays best with his hands on a receiver at the line, Bridges uses 33 1/4-inch arms and a 6-9 wingspan to disrupt releases and reroute bigger targets to the sideline. He is a boundary player by build and by preference, comfortable in Cover 1 and Cover 3 with his eyes on the quarterback.
He is also a genuinely willing tackler, which is what happens when a defensive back spends two seasons at safety before moving back outside. He fills the alley, wraps up, and rips at the ball — four career forced fumbles is not an accident. The signature is the ball production spike: six interceptions and 15 breakups in his last three seasons, all of it from a player who kept getting older without getting worse.
Single-high Cover 1/Cover 3 defense that plays press at the boundary and asks its corners to tackle in run support
Year 1: CB4/CB5 and core special-teamer who can survive as a spot starter outside. Ceiling: a long-term CB3 playing 300-450 defensive snaps with situational red-zone value against big receivers.
A heavy match-quarters system that plays its corners off and asks them to drive on quick outs from a static stance, where his stiffness in transition gets exposed by slot-quick receivers.
His length and tackling make him more valuable in a defense that plays base personnel against 12 and 13 sets than in a nickel-only, coverage-first scheme.
Trikweze Bridges | Defensive Back | 2024 Florida Highlights | 2025 NFL Draft
Full senior-season cut-up from his breakout year in the SEC.
(CB) Trikweze Bridges Highlights | 2025 NFL Draft - LA Chargers
Pre-draft reel focused on press reps and ball production.
Chargers Select DB Trikweze Bridges (Rd 7, Pick 256) | LA Chargers
Draft-night selection package with scouting breakdown.
A sixth-year defensive back who played every coverage role Oregon and Florida could invent, Bridges is a 6-2, 196-pound boundary corner with safety experience and legitimate size-adjusted speed. He ran 4.45 with a 34.5-inch vertical and a 10-7 broad at his pro day, and he tested like a man who belonged in an NFL secondary rather than a small-school flyer.
The career arc is the entire evaluation. Two nothing seasons at Oregon (eight games, two special teams tackles), a 14-game rotation year in 2021, a genuine breakout in 2022 with 49 tackles, five breakups and three interceptions, then a step backward in 2023 when he lost snaps and posted only 16 tackles. He entered the portal, landed at Florida, and delivered the best season of his life at 24: 70 tackles, six pass breakups, two interceptions and two forced fumbles in the SEC, including an 11-tackle, forced-fumble, interception game against Kentucky.
Boards had him as a Day 3 developmental corner with special teams value — the age was the flag, the length and the SEC tape were the sell. The Chargers took him with the second-to-last pick of the draft.
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Length
33 1/4-inch arms and a 6-9 1/8 wingspan let him contest catch points that most corners simply cannot reach.
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Press technique
patient at the line and comfortable putting hands on receivers, which is why he fits a Cover 1 and Cover 3 boundary role immediately.
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Tackling
70 tackles as a senior with two forced fumbles; he does not avoid contact and he rips at the ball on every wrap-up.
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Ball production
six interceptions and 15 pass breakups over his last three healthy seasons, including a Pac-12 top-five interception year in 2022.
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Positional flexibility
logged real snaps at both corner and safety, so a defensive coordinator can hide him in dime or push him to the boundary.
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Age
turned 24 during his only Florida season and entered the league at 24 with six years of college behind him and no developmental runway.
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Consistency
the 2023 collapse at Oregon (16 tackles, zero interceptions) is a real data point, not just a snap-count story.
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Hip fluidity
long-levered and upright out of breaks; quick-twitch slot receivers can create separation underneath before he redirects.
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One-year sample
the SEC production that got him drafted came in a single season, at his third defined role, at an advanced age.
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- 40 yd
- 4.45sp50
- Vertical
- 34.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 127inp50
- Three-cone
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| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Oregon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | Oregon | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Oregon | 14 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | Oregon | 13 | 49 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2023 | Oregon | 13 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024 | Florida | 13 | 70 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Career | — | 60 | 163 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 4 |
Five seasons at Oregon (47 G, 93 TKL) plus one at Florida (13 G, 70 TKL). Zero sacks and zero fumble recoveries are verified true zeros, not placeholders.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Late-round length-and-speed corner who sticks as a fifth defensive back and special teams contributor.
Long, physical boundary corner with ball production who became a real starter without elite fluidity.
Depth corner who bounces between rosters and lives entirely on special teams snaps.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
The Chargers never kept him. Bridges was waived at the August 26, 2025 final cuts and claimed off waivers by Dallas the very next day — a rare seventh-rounder valued enough to be poached rather than stashed. That claim was the season. He played 16 games as a rookie with two starts and finished with 23 tackles (17 solo), three pass breakups and an interception he returned seven yards, working as the Cowboys' fifth corner and a core special-teamer.
The honest retrospective is that the age flag that pushed him to 256 also made him usable immediately. Teams pass on 24-year-old corners because there is no projection left; Dallas took the exact opposite view and got a plug-and-play depth piece in a secondary that needed bodies. He is not going to become a starter through development, but a 6-2 corner who tackles, covers kicks and can survive two starts is a real NFL job. Getting claimed off waivers by a second team inside 24 hours was the loudest endorsement of the pick.
Data note: Five seasons at Oregon (47 G, 93 TKL) plus one at Florida (13 G, 70 TKL). Zero sacks and zero fumble recoveries are verified true zeros, not placeholders.