{"id":629681,"date":"2026-05-07T21:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629681\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:47:10","slug":"bears-waive-2025-fifth-round-pick-zah-frazier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629681\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears waive 2025 fifth-round pick Zah Frazier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cornerback Zah Frazier did not play any games for the Bears as a rookie and he won\u2019t be playing any with the team in 2026 either. <\/p>\n<p>The Bears announced that they waived Frazier on Thursday. Frazier was a fifth-round pick last season. <\/p>\n<p>Frazier was placed on the non-football injury\/illness list last August and remained on the list for the entire season. The team said that it was due to a personal matter, but neither he nor anyone else elaborated on the specific nature of that matter. <\/p>\n<p>The move opens up a spot on the 90-man roster in Chicago and the Bears will have a chance to fill it before or after this weekend\u2019s rookie minicamp. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cornerback Zah Frazier did not play any games for the Bears as a rookie and he won\u2019t be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-629681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629681","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=629681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}