{"id":201317,"date":"2025-07-12T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/201317\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T11:58:08","slug":"raion-straders-2025-player-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/201317\/","title":{"rendered":"Raion Strader&#8217;s 2025 player profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strader joins Auburn&#8217;s roster after spending two seasons at Miami (Ohio), where he logged over 100 tackles and 30 pass breakups.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/auburn-tigers\/3480\/\" data-autotag=\"c21b4b23-e879-47f2-9a3e-abc30ff7e51d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Auburn<\/a> football&#8217;s secondary will provide challenges to opposing offenses this season thanks to a mix of young players who gained early experience early in their careers.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to assist those young players and to provide depth, Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze added a talented cornerback through the transfer portal, Raion Strader. Strader started 24 games in two seasons at Miami (Ohio), where he was active in the Redhawks&#8217; pass defense by deflecting over 30 passes and making over 100 tackles during his time at Miami. His numbers led him to earn several postseason honors including first team All-MAC in 2024, and Freshman All-American by College Football News in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Strader will be in a rotation with Kayin Lee, Jay Crawford, and Kensley Louidor-Faustin this season at the cornerback position. Crawford was the highest-graded cornerback in coverage last season <a href=\"https:\/\/premium.pff.com\/ncaa\/teams\/2024\/REGPO\/auburn-tigers\/defense\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Pro Football Focus with a 77.5 grade<\/a>, while Lee had the fourth-highest pass rush grade on the Tiger defense at 71.8. Mixing Strader in with Lee and Crawford will keep the Tigers&#8217; defensive backfield playing at a high level, not matter who is on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a look at Raion Strader&#8217;s player profile ahead of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Raion Strader&#8217;s personal profileHometown: Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaHigh school: Penn Hills High SchoolHeight: 6-0Weight: 183Class: JuniorRaion Strader as a recruitRecruiting class: 2022Position rank: N\/AState rank: N\/ARating: Two-starOther schools of interest: Florida, Texas A&amp;MRaion Strader as a transferPrevious school: Miami (OH.)Recruiting class: 2025Position rank: No. 23State rank: No. 183Rating: Four-starRaion Strader&#8217;s career numbersYearTacklesPBUINT202357131202453182Totals110313Raion Strader&#8217;s PFF report card2023: 64.42024: 75.9Strengths: Coverage (58.4% catch rate in 2024)The best photos of Raion Strader&#8217;s career<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/theauburnwire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TheAuburnWire<\/a> on\u00a0 X (Twitter), and like our page on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/theauburnwire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> to follow ongoing coverage of Auburn news, notes, and opinions. You can also follow Taylor on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaylorJones__\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TaylorJones__<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strader joins Auburn&#8217;s roster after spending two seasons at Miami (Ohio), where he logged over 100 tackles and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[3689,247,265,987,7775,318,339,3690,7699,7,3688,20842,1184,216,88,245,537,530,818,326,21400,1602,2517,817,829,9,266,819,678,3691,790,776],"class_list":{"0":"post-201317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-auburn","12":"tag-auburn-tigers-football","13":"tag-college","14":"tag-college-sports","15":"tag-enabled","16":"tag-fl","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-highlights","19":"tag-hub","20":"tag-listicle","21":"tag-miami","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-overall","24":"tag-overall-positive","25":"tag-positive","26":"tag-scores","27":"tag-sec","28":"tag-sec-hub","29":"tag-smg","30":"tag-smg-listicle","31":"tag-sport","32":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-sports-news","35":"tag-statistics","36":"tag-story","37":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","38":"tag-tigers","39":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114840149177510014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}