At his press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Chicago Bears General Manager Ryan Poles announced that fifth-round draft pick Zah Frazier would miss the entire 2025 season. Poles called placing him on the Reserve\/Non-Football Injury list a \u201ccomplicated deal\u201d but didn\u2019t elaborate on why Frazier missed all of training camp.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a situation that presented itself in a category that I would say [is] personal,\u201d he said. \u201cAs we dug into it to try and help him out, it revealed itself as something that happened before he got here. Credit to our staff for finding the root cause of what he was going through. He\u2019ll be down for the year, but he\u2019ll spend the time going to meetings, in the weight room, and with medical staff, preparing for next season to get ready to play. Kind of a bummer on the front end, but I think because of everyone\u2019s hard work and care here, we got him on the right path.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Frazier was a late bloomer in college, and he\u2019ll turn 25 in October, but his height (6\u20193\u2033), length (80 \u215b\u201d wingspan), and speed (4.36 forty) made him an intriguing prospect.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s the only draft pick who didn\u2019t make Chicago\u2019s 53-man roster, but he\u2019ll get to spend the year getting support from the franchise while getting his mind and body right for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At his press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Chicago Bears General Manager Ryan Poles announced that fifth-round draft pick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[15843,374,692,391,2493,7,14747,6,1034,2114],"class_list":{"0":"post-320784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-2025-season","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bears","12":"tag-chicagobears","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-next-season","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-ryan-poles","17":"tag-zah-frazier"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115098888837389982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320784","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=320784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}