Samuel
Womack.
Samuel
Womack.
Toledo
Womack is a 5-foot-9, 189-pound corner who wins with quickness rather than size. The pro day numbers are the profile: a 4.18 short shuttle and a 6.87 three-cone alongside a 4.40 forty, which is a rare combination of change of direction and straight-line speed.
He plays with his eyes and his feet. In off coverage he reads the quarterback, drives downhill and gets his hands on the ball, which is how he broke up fifteen passes in each of his last two Toledo seasons. In press he is more vulnerable because 31 7/8-inch arms and a thin frame give him little margin against bigger receivers, and blockers wall him off in the run game. He is a nickel defender by build and by instinct, at his best in a zone shell where he can see the route develop.
Zone-heavy nickel defense — Cover-3 match and quarters — that keeps him off the line, lets him read the quarterback and asks him to trigger on throws in front of him.
Year 1: fourth corner and special teams contributor. Ceiling: full-time nickel in a zone-based defense.
A press-man defense that asks him to jam bigger receivers at the line and hold up in the run game on the perimeter.
His agility numbers only pay off when the scheme lets him play forward.
49ers CB Samuel Womack Toledo Highlights
Toledo cut-up showing the off-coverage triggers and pass breakups that defined his last two seasons.
Samuel Womack Film Review - Notre Dame 2021
Single-game breakdown against a Power Five offense, his best test in 2021.
Every Samuel Womack Rookie Season Interception
His NFL takeaways from the 2022 season in San Francisco's nickel package.
Womack came out of East English Village Prep in Detroit as a two-way player, piling up more than 1,000 receiving yards, twenty touchdown catches and eleven interceptions as a senior on the way to all-state honors. Toledo got him, and he stayed five seasons.
The development was gradual. He recorded two tackles as a freshman in 2017 and twelve in 2018, then broke through in 2019 with 59 tackles, fifteen pass breakups and two interceptions. He was nominated for the Burlsworth Trophy after the shortened 2020 season, and his final year in 2021 produced 32 tackles, another fifteen pass breakups, two interceptions and 58 return yards, enough for first-team All-MAC. Across five seasons he broke up 39 passes, a number that tells you how often the ball found him and how often he took it away.
The pro day made the evaluation. A 4.40 forty, a 4.18 shuttle, a 6.87 three-cone and a 36-inch vertical from a 189-pound corner are nickel traits in a scheme that values them, and San Francisco, which has made a habit of drafting small quick defensive backs, took him 172nd overall to compete inside.
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Change of direction
a 4.18 short shuttle and 6.87 three-cone, elite agility numbers that show up in how fast he flips his hips in the slot.
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Ball production
39 career pass breakups and five interceptions at Toledo, including fifteen breakups in each of his last two seasons.
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Eye discipline in zone
reads the quarterback from off coverage and drives on throws before the receiver turns around.
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Straight-line speed
a 4.40 forty with a 1.54 ten-yard split, quick enough to carry a vertical route from the slot.
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Experience
five seasons in the same program with steady year-over-year growth from special teams contributor to first-team All-MAC.
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Size and length
5-foot-9 and 189 pounds with 31 7/8-inch arms, undersized even by slot corner standards against bigger targets.
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Press coverage
limited to get hands on receivers at the line and gets stacked once a stronger target wins the initial contact.
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Run support
receivers and tight ends wall him off on the perimeter and at 189 pounds he lacks the mass to disengage and set an edge.
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Competition level
MAC schedule with limited exposure to the size and speed of receivers he would see every week in the NFL.
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Toledo | — | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | Toledo | — | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | Toledo | — | 59 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 1 |
| 2020 | Toledo | — | 20 | 0.5 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 2021 | Toledo | — | 32 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 0 |
| Career | — | — | 125 | 0.5 | 5 | 39 | 1 |
Season lines come from ESPN's college defensive splits and sum exactly to the career row: 125 tackles, 0.5 sacks, five interceptions, 39 pass breakups and one forced fumble. Interception return yardage totaled 63 across his career, 58 of it in 2021. Tackles for loss and fumble recoveries are not published in the splits consulted and are left out rather than entered as zeros. Games played by season are also unpublished and left blank. He recorded one punt return for no yards in 2018 and no other return work.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Late-round corner with real athletic traits who cycles between active rosters and practice squads.
Undersized, twitchy defensive back who turns athletic testing into a long run of meaningful nickel snaps.
Day 3 corner whose size limits stick and who never establishes a defensive or special teams role.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Four seasons in, Womack is a roster survivor rather than a contributor. He made the 49ers as a rookie and played a rotational nickel role, then went on injured reserve on September 16, 2023, and was activated on November 23. San Francisco waived him on August 27, 2024, and Indianapolis claimed him the next day.
The pattern has repeated on a loop since. The Colts waived him at final cuts on August 26, 2025, Tennessee claimed him the following day and waived him on November 26, and the Jets added him to their practice squad on December 2, signed him to a reserve/future contract on January 5, 2026, then released and re-signed him to the practice squad at cuts in August. Through the 2025 season he had accumulated 73 tackles, thirteen pass breakups, three interceptions, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. The quickness was always real; the size and the special teams value were never quite enough to hold a roster spot for a full calendar year.