Player Dossier

2019-2024

New Mexico

Ishmael Az-Zahir

CB • 6'2" • 190 lbs • Slidell, LA, USA

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Ishmael Az-Zahir shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

7

Developing production for a corner

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

17

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · TCU

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Missouri • TCU • New Mexico
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: LSU

Player Story

Ishmael Az-Zahir built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a cornerback from Slidell, LA wearing No. 77, spending time with Missouri, New Mexico, and TCU. The clearest part of Ishmael Az-Zahir's career was...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.8853

Mater Dei · Santa Ana, CA

Committed To
Washington
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Ishmael Az-Zahir, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · TCU. Ishmael Az-Zahir shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
27
Passes defended
3

Quick Answers

Ishmael Az-Zahir quick answers

Latest team and position
New Mexico · CB
Career Tackles
27
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 6 entries · 19 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · TCU
Top game
LSU
Recruit profile
3-star · Mater Dei · Washington
High school pipeline
Mater Dei · 95 FBS recruits · 7 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 77 · Senior
2024 Tackles rank
1 tackles · CB 400th (top 91%) · Mountain West 462nd (top 85%) · National 5,254th (top 87%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonMissouri11-0--037
2020 Regular SeasonMissouri79-0-3032.2
2021 Regular SeasonMissouri57-0--038.6
2022 Regular SeasonTCU23-0--039.4
2023 Regular SeasonTCU36-0--041.2
2024 Regular SeasonNew Mexico11-0--036.4

Related Context

Ishmael Az-Zahir played CB for Missouri, TCU, and New Mexico. Across 6 tracked seasons, Ishmael Az-Zahir recorded 27 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2020 with Missouri.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

TCU paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2024 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Missouri, TCU, New Mexico.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Montana State

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2024 Regular Season · New Mexico

Games

1

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.6

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Montana State

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Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Montana State

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Montana State

Result
Sat 8/24vs Montana StateL 31-3511000

Player Story

Ishmael Az-Zahir story

Ishmael Az-Zahir built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a cornerback from Slidell, LA wearing No. 77, spending time with Missouri, New Mexico, and TCU. The clearest part of Ishmael Az-Zahir's career was his defensive production: 27 tackles and 3 passes defended across 19 career games in the available record. That gives Ishmael Az-Zahir's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Missouri

    2019-2021

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    TCU

    2022-2023

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    New Mexico

    2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

201920202021202220232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonMissouri04.20.8
2020 Regular SeasonMissouri39.71.23
2021 Regular SeasonMissouri05.91.2-3
2022 Regular SeasonTCU06.31.50
2023 Regular SeasonTCU08.31.80
2024 Regular SeasonNew Mexico04.20.60

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ LSU

Week 6 · W 45-41 · Conference game

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

43.9 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 43.9 takeover score.

#2

@ Tennessee

Week 5 · L 12-35 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

23.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 23.3 takeover score.

#3

vs BYU

Week 7 · W 44-11 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

12.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 12.2 takeover score.

#4

vs North Texas

Week 6 · W 48-35

0

Havoc Plays

11.1 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 11.1 takeover score.

#5

vs Georgia

Week 15 · L 14-49 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

10.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · TCU

0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 1.8 usage

41.2

#2

2022 Regular Season · TCU

39.4

0 primary · 6.3 efficiency · 1.5 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · Missouri

38.6

0 primary · 5.9 efficiency · 1.2 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games