Cortez Braham Jr. is a wide receiver and 2026 NFL Draft prospect who finished his collegiate career at the University of Memphis after previous stops at Hutchinson Community College, West Virginia, and Nevada. A native of Blythewood, South Carolina, Braham was a three-star prospect who began his career at Hutchinson CC, where he spent three seasons and accumulated 68 catches for 1,387 yards and 17 touchdowns before transferring to West Virginia in 2022. He spent two seasons with the Mountaineers but recorded limited production before transferring to Nevada for 2024, where he posted a career-best 56 receptions for 724 yards and four touchdowns and earned All-Mountain West honorable mention recognition. He followed his quarterback Brendon Lewis to Memphis for his final season in 2025 and had the best campaign of his career, catching 63 passes for 889 yards and eight touchdowns in 12 regular season appearances, leading the American Athletic Conference in receiving touchdowns and earning conference recognition.
Measured at 6-foot-2 and approximately 190 pounds, Braham is a physical, contested-catch specialist with a large frame for the position, legitimate deep-ball tracking ability, and the experience of producing at multiple levels of college football across a long collegiate journey. He showed at Memphis that he can function as a featured target in a passing game, including back-to-back 100-yard games and multiple multi-touchdown outings, and his size-speed combination gives him a clear red zone role at the next level. His primary limitations are his age and the level of competition he faced during his peak production at Nevada and Memphis, and evaluators will question how his contested-catch ability translates from the Group of Five to NFL defensive backs. Braham projects as a late Day 3 or priority undrafted free agent candidate with the physical tools to compete for a roster spot as a red zone and situational receiver.
