Four Bears Accept NFL Combine Invitations

Four former California football players – Nohl Williams, Craig Woodson, Teddye Buchanan and Marcus Harris – have accepted invitations to the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine, scheduled to take place Feb. 24-March 3 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The four Golden Bears will be the most at an NFL Combine since 2016, when Jared Goff, Stephen Anderson, Trevor Davis, Kenny Lawler and Daniel Lasco were all selected.

Top front office executives, coaching staffs, player personnel departments and medical personnel from all 32 NFL teams will be on hand to evaluate the nation's top football players eligible for the upcoming 2025 NFL Draft.

Williams, a 2024 consensus All-American, led the country in interceptions (7), which ties for seventh on Cal's all-time single-season list and was as many as any Cal player since Daymeion Hughes' eight in 2006, when he was the Lott IMPACT Trophy winner and the Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year. The Oxnard native also earned First Team All-ACC honors this season after finishing second in the conference in passes defended (15), fourth in passes broken up (8) while returning a kickoff for a touchdown during the Bears’ season-opening win over UC Davis.

Woodson, a Grand Prairie, Texas native, was the only Cal player to start all of the team’s 38 games over the last three seasons. He had career totals of 245 tackles, 9.0 tackles for loss (-21 yards), 18 pass breakups, five interceptions that he has returned for 41 yards and one touchdown, three forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, two quarterback hurries and one blocked kick.

Buchanan had a standout season for the Bears as a transfer in 2024, starting every game at inside linebacker and finishing third in the ACC with 114 tackles. Buchanan also added 12 tackles for loss (-62 yards), five sacks, seven quarterback hurries, four passes broken up and two forced fumbles. The San Francisco native’s tackles in 2024 were the most in a single season by a Cal player since consensus first-team All-American ILB Evan Weaver led the nation with a school-record 182 and ILB Kuony Deng added 119 in 2019.

Harris, originally from Portland, Ore., joined the Bears in 2024 as a transfer and went on to play in all 13 games for Cal. Harris registered 46 tackles, including 35 solo tackles, two interceptions returned for 19 total yards, five pass breakups and one forced fumble as a Bear.

Live coverage of the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine will begin on Feb. 27 on NFL Network and NFL+. For more information, visit nfl.com/combine.