#15

Ceyair Wright

Senior defensive back on Nebraska's 2025 roster.

DB · Nebraska · Sr. · #15

6′0″ · 190 lb · Los Angeles, CA

CFB Index 36 · #253 of 364 cornersLow confidenceReturning to Nebraska for 2026

Recruiting

4★

CB recruit

No. 80 nationally · Signed with USC

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 defensive back on Nebraska's 2025 roster.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to USC in 2021.
Transferred from USC to Nebraska in 2024.

His career, year by year

How he projects

Erases the deep middle of the field.

The full scouting read

Ceyair Wright

DB · Nebraska · Sr · #15

Erases the deep middle of the field. Across five seasons and two programs, three head coaches: Donte Williams, Lincoln Riley and Matt Rhule. One game to point at: 4 tackles, 0.5 TFL against UCLA — Week 11, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2021USC4-8HC: Donte Williams · Balanced, fast tempo

2022USC11-3HC: Lincoln Riley · Balanced

2023USC8-5HC: Lincoln Riley · Pass-leaning, slow tempo

2024Nebraska7-6HC: Matt Rhule · Balanced

2025Nebraska7-6HC: Matt Rhule · Run-leaning

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

36Below cohort / limited sample #253 of 364?

Low confidenceFading6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (91st percentile). Concern: qb hurries (22nd percentile).

Box-score production (6)

Passes defended#218 / 2975 · 91st pct

Tackles#1415 / 2975 · 52nd pct

Sacks#1367 / 2975 · 51st pct

0.5

Solo tackles#1735 / 2975 · 40th pct

Tackles for loss#1936 / 2975 · 28th pct

1.0

QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct

Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home6g	1.7	0.0	0.0	0.7
Road5g	3.8	0.2	0.1	0.2

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-75g	2.0	0.1	0.0	0.6
Weeks 8+6g	3.2	0.1	0.1	0.3

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Matt Rhule

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Rotational

Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

36 · #253 of 364 corners

Former four-star. Now #253 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-Big Ten

Based on 2025: #61 of 77 Big Ten DBs

How the All-Big Ten estimate is computed

15% estimated, 95% confidence interval 13–17%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Nebraska	29	12	1.0	0.5	5	--	--
2024	Nebraska	39	30	1.0	1.0	6	2	--
2023	USC	10	7	1.0	0.0	2	--	--
2022	USC	26	19	0.0	0.0	2	1	--
2021	USC	2	1	0.0	0.0	--	--	--
Career		106	69	3.0	1.5	15	3	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 9 · 2025

W 28–21

vs Northwestern

4 TOT · 2 SOLO · 1 PD

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 7 at home.

With K. Williams — 1 TD · 62 AVG · 95 LONG · A. Wilson — 55 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 58 LONG

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	SACK	INT	PD	Note
Wk 2	W 68-0vs Akron	1	0	0.0	0.0	—	1
Wk 4	L 27-30vs Michigan	0	0	0.0	0.0	—	2
Wk 6	W 38-27vs Michigan State	1	0	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 7	W 34-31@ Maryland	4	3	0.5	0.0	—	0	Season-high 4 tackles
Wk 8	L 6-24@ Minnesota	4	1	0.0	0.0	—	1
Wk 9	W 28-21vs Northwestern	4	2	0.0	0.0	—	1
Wk 10	L 17-21vs USC	2	0	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 11	W 28-21@ UCLA	4	1	0.5	0.5	—	0
Wk 13	L 10-37@ Penn State	3	2	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 14	L 16-40vs Iowa	2	2	0.0	0.0	—	0
Bowl	L 22-44@ Utah	4	1	0.0	0.0	—	0
Total		29	12	1.0	0.5	—	5

How he plays

Play style

Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

11 games

29Tackles

12Solo

1TFL

0.5Sacks

5Pass def.

0INT

29 tackles. 5 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1 TFL.

Week 21 PD
Week 42 PD
Week 81 PD
Week 91 PD
Week 110.5 sacks

Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.

2026 Outlook

Nebraska

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive back · Nebraska

Returning around him

1 Nebraska player drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: -2 net (17 in / 19 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Nebraska · Last season: 7-6 (AP #25) · Talent rank #22 · 2026 recruiting class #88

DNA match

Player DNA

Centerfielder

Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Devin Dye’s 2025 season.

Devin Dye

86%match

Kansas · 2025

Andrew Mukuba

Clemson · 2023

NFL Rd 2 · Pk 32

83%

Cam Allen

Purdue · 2023

81%

Quinn Whitlock

North Texas · 2020

81%

Jason Simmons

Syracuse · 2022

NFL Rd 5

81%

Matches Devin on

Class year

Tackle volume

Weight

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Dorian Strong's graduate season at Virginia Tech (2024).

Dorian Strong

86%match

Virginia Tech · 2024

All-ACCNFL Rd 6

Cedric Woods

Louisiana Tech · 2024

85%

Cameron Lockridge

Fresno State · 2024

85%

Kempton Shine

Virginia · 2024

83%

Deshawn McCuin

San Diego State · 2024

83%

Matches Dorian on

Class year

Tackle volume

Weight

Player DNA

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