Treydan Stukes

Summary

Treydan Stukes (23 years old) is a long, rangy cornerback who has played his entire college career at Arizona (2020–2025) with no completed transfers, briefly entering the transfer portal after the 2024 season before ultimately returning to the program. In 2025, Stukes started throughout the season and recorded 53 total tackles, three interceptions, and 11 pass breakups, earning him All-Big 12 recognition, building on multi-year starting experience and leadership responsibilities within Arizona’s secondary. Stukes has maintained solid academic standing and is widely viewed as a mature, resilient presence in the locker room, drawing praise from coaches for his preparation habits and steady demeanor, with no publicly reported significant off-field incidents. Teammates frequently point to his perseverance through adversity as a defining trait of his character and leadership style. From an injury standpoint, Stukes suffered a significant ACL injury in 2024 that cut his season short, but he returned in 2025 after missing the first two games of the season.

Strengths

• Auto Zone: Processes route distribution quickly from zone assignments and positions himself to squeeze throwing windows rather than just chasing routes. Maintains outside/inside responsibility appropriately in zone-match structures.

• Clean Pedals: Balanced and patient in his backpedal, allowing efficient transitions when driving downhill. Plays through hands at the catch point and competes without panicking.

• Instinctive: Reads stems well and understands down-and-distance tendencies. Not afraid to step up in run support or challenge intermediate targets and doesn’t get overly grabby when stressed.

• Wrapping Station: Average Tackling (4.47) and Run Support (3.13) analytics but film suggests he generally arrives under control and wraps rather than throwing shoulders.

Weaknesses

• Vertical Speed: Can be stressed by true vertical burners who force him to turn and run early. If initially beaten, doesn’t always have rare makeup burst to fully erase separation.

• Twitch: More comfortable with vision than mirroring two-way release slot types. Limited error margin and technique must stay clean.

• Press Limitations: Can struggle to reroute bigger, stronger wideouts at the line, which is a little unusual for his size profile.

• Ceiling Projection: Projects more as a steady CB2/CB3 in zone-heavy systems rather than a true shutdown boundary corner. Older prospect (23 on Draft Night) with a bit more wear on the tires.

Outlook

Stukes projects as a long, fluid boundary defender with easy hip transitions, competitive ball skills, and the recovery speed to stay attached vertically, giving him upside as an outside starter in the right system. He fits best in press-man and match-heavy zone schemes that allow him to disrupt releases at the line, use his length to crowd catch windows, and play aggressively downfield rather than sitting in extended soft coverage. Stukes is trending as a Day 2 prospect with a Round 2–3 projection, but our advanced metrics have him flagged as someone who could be a really good value for the team that selects him.

Pro Comparison: Tyson Campbell

Team Fits: JAX, DAL, PIT, SF, SEA