{"id":654883,"date":"2026-05-08T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654883\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:45:07","slug":"nfl-world-reacts-to-bears-releasing-cb-zah-frazier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654883\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL world reacts to Bears releasing CB Zah Frazier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chicago Bears&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bears<\/a> have moved on from one of their 2025 draft picks before he ever stepped onto the field. <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/chicago-bears-waive-former-fifth-201340411.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cornerback Zah Frazier was released on Thursday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cornerback Zah Frazier was released on Thursday&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cornerback Zah Frazier was released on Thursday<\/a>, ending his brief time with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier was selected by the Bears in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft out of UTSA and was expected to compete for a roster spot last summer. Unfortunately, Frazier didn&#8217;t practice at all during training camp due to a personal matter and wound up missing the entire season because of it.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Still, the Bears had planned on him being in the mix for the 2026 season, though he had plenty of competition from players such as <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/players\/40175\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Terell Smith;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Terell Smith&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terell Smith<\/a> and rookie Malik Muhammad. Instead, Frazier becomes the first member of the 2025 class to move on from the organization and will attempt to restart his NFL career with another team. Here is how fans reacted to the surprising news of Frazier&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>NFL world reacts to Bears releasing Zah Frazier<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bears Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bears\/2026\/05\/07\/bears-reactions-zah-frazier\/89983845007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL world reacts to Bears releasing CB Zah Frazier;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;NFL world reacts to Bears releasing CB Zah Frazier&quot;}\" class=\"link \">NFL world reacts to Bears releasing CB Zah Frazier<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears have moved on from one of their 2025 draft picks before he ever stepped onto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,1735,190967,514,82,239127,239128],"class_list":["post-654883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-bears","tag-malik-muhammad","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-terell-smith","tag-zah-frazier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}