The Pittsburgh Steelers
are hosting
Texas cornerback Malik Muhammad for a pre-draft visit on Friday.
Muhammad was a two-year starter at Texas. He was named second-team All-SEC in 2025. recording 30 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss with one sack, two interceptions and four pass breakups.
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Muhammad stands at 6-foot, 182 pounds. He has 32 3/8-inch arms and a hand size of 9 7/8″. He ran a 4.42 in the 40-yard dash and a 1.51 in the 10-yard split at the NFL Combine. He also posted a 39″ vertical jump and 10′ 10″ broad jump.
Muhammad scored an unofficial 9.45 Relative Athletic Score (RAS) out of a possible 10.00. This ranked 154 out of 2779 CB from 1987 to 2026.
Muhammad is projected as a late Day 2 to early Day 3 pick (rounds 3-4) in the 2026 NFL Draft
"Muhammad has good coverage talent to offset his slender frame. He can man up from press or off and is a plus pattern-matcher, staying in-phase and shadowing break points. He displays outstanding vision and adheres to his zone-cover principles, allowing him to play with ideal efficiency on all three levels," Lance Zierlein of NFL.com
wrote in a scouting report. "He can get outmuscled by big, strong wideouts inside the route and at the catch-point, but he doesn't give in and usually holds his own. He does a nice job of chopping pass-catchers down in space but a lack of play strength shows up in occasional broken tackles. Muhammad has Day 2 talent and starter-level ability."
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In addition to Muhammad, the Steelers also hosted Memphis offensive tackle Travis Burke
and LSU linebacker Harold Perkins Jr.
for pre-draft visits on Friday.
The Steelers have hosted 26 players for pre-draft visits so far, including three local visits which don't count against the 30 allowed pre-draft visitors.
This article originally appeared on Steelers Now
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