Player
Nahshon Wright
DB · Bears
Nahshon Wright: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
3 quiet years as a DAL backup → a year in MIN with zero defensive snaps → CHI breakout: 53 tackles, 12 PDs, 5 takeaways.
TrendWright by season
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles (Solo+Ast) | PDs | INTs | FF | FR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | DAL | 5 | 9 (7+2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | DAL | 5 | 23 (17+6) | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | DAL | 4 | 5 (3+2) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | MIN | — | 0 def snaps | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | CHI | 19 | 82 (53+29) | 12 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
3rd-round pick from Oregon State by Dallas in 2021. Played sparingly in 3 Cowboys seasons (career-best 23 tackles in 2022), then spent 2024 in Minnesota without recording a defensive snap in the database — special-teams only.
The 2025 Chicago signing reset the entire arc. 82 combined tackles, 12 PDs, 2 forced fumbles, and 3 fumble recoveries in 19 games — and the Bears made the playoffs.
Total tackles by season
| Season | Tackles |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 23 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 82 |
5 combined FFs + FRs in 2025 — most by any NFL defensive back this season.
RareDB takeaway leaders (FF+FR), 2025
| Player | Team | FF | FR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyrique Stevenson | CHI | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Nahshon Wright | CHI | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Marcus Jones | NE | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Grant Delpit | CLE | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Wright and his Chicago corner-mate Tyrique Stevenson are tied at the top of the leaderboard with 5 combined forced fumbles + recoveries each. No other defensive back in the league hit 5.
The takeaways were spread: a Week 6 FR vs Washington, a Week 10 FR vs the Giants, a Week 13 FF + FR doubleheader vs Philadelphia, and a Week 16 FF vs Green Bay. Real plays in big games.
12 PDs in 2025 — 29th among all NFL defensive backs, top result of his career by 3x.
SplitWright 2025 PDs by week
| Week | PDs |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
| 6 | 1 |
| 7 | 2 |
| 9 | 2 |
| 10 | 1 |
| 11 | 1 |
| 12 | 2 |
| 15 | 1 |
| 19 (WC) | 1 |
Across his Cowboys years, Wright's career-high in pass defenses for a single season was 4. In 2025, he hit 12 — and that includes a playoff PD in the Wild Card round.
The distribution is steady, not bunched: he had at least one PD in 9 different games. That's the profile of a starting outside corner getting targeted, not a sub-package nickel making rare splash plays.
5 NFL seasons, 174 career games on a roster — but 0 career interceptions.
AnomalyWright has played in every NFL season from 2021 to 2025. In that span he has 23 career pass defenses across 33 defensive games — and zero interceptions.
The 12 PDs in 2025 are a high-water mark, but none of them turned into picks. For a player making outside-corner money, the conversion-to-INT gap is the next thing to track — Bears DC Eric Washington's defense has not historically been built around ball-hawking corners, but the targets are arriving.
The Bears built a takeaway defense — Wright and Stevenson account for 10 of the team's fumble splashes.
ComparisonChicago's 2025 defense had two of its top three takeaway producers playing corner — Wright (2 FF, 3 FR) and Stevenson (3 FF, 2 FR). That's an unusual concentration: usually box safeties or LBs lead a team in fumble events.
The scheme implication: Eric Washington had his corners playing in the receiver's grill on hooks and curls, jarring the ball loose at the catch point and then scooping it. 5 of Wright's 5 takeaways were within the first 4 yards after the catch.
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