In joining the Bears, Muhammad will work with defensive backs coach\/assistant head coach Al Harris, who has a history of developing players into ballhawks. In his first year in Chicago in 2025, the defense led the NFL with 33 takeaways and 23 interceptions. Before becoming a coach, Harris was a two-time Pro Bowl cornerback during a stellar 14-year NFL playing career.<\/p>\n
“Just knowing his history, his history of the corners that he’s coached before, how he has played also, I know I’ve got a great coach,” Muhammad said. “And I know I’m coming into a great situation.”<\/p>\n
Muhammad is also familiar with one former and one current Bears cornerback.<\/p>\n
“Peanut Tillman was my chaperone at the combine,” he said. “He was giving me some tips on how he used to punch the ball out and how he used to prepare for games.<\/p>\n
“And actually, in a couple of my interviews, if they were to ask me, who were some of the corners that I watched in the league, I would mention Jaylon Johnson and be like, ‘Yeah, he’s actually nice.’ I don’t watch a lot of the new-age corners. I’m really like an old-school corner. But Jaylon Johnson is one of the guys that I mentioned.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In joining the Bears, Muhammad will work with defensive backs coach\/assistant head coach Al Harris, who has a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[263581,262389,262197,253441,17351,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-606366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2026pick5","9":"tag-article-bears-draft-report","10":"tag-draft-tracker-card","11":"tag-malik-muhammad","12":"tag-nfl-draft","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}