Malik Mustapha

Golden Nuggets

• Served as team captain his senior year at Wake Forest University in 2023.
• Helped Weddington (NC) HS win a state championship in 2019 when he blocked a kick in the second half of the championship game.

Golden Nuggets

• Served as team captain his senior year at Wake Forest University in 2023.
• Helped Weddington (NC) HS win a state championship in 2019 when he blocked a kick in the second half of the championship game.

Goldmine

• Long before being drafted by the team, Mustapha has been a fan of the 49ers. Growing up in a house full of Dallas Cow- boys fans, he decided he wanted to find a different team to root for. At a young age, he started playing Madden and found that he loved utilizing former 49ers RB Frank Gore. The game sparked his love for the team and which stuck with him, making draft day a full-circle moment for him.

College

• Appeared in 39 games (22 starts) over four years at Wake Forest (2021-23) and Richmond (2020-21) and registered 192 tackles, 10 PDs, 3 INTs, 15.0 TFLs, 4.0 sacks, 4 FFs and 2 FRs. As a redshirt junior in 2023, started all 12 games at S and notched 80 tackles, 3 PDs, 1 INT, 0.5 sack and 1 FF as a team captain. In 2022, start- ed all 10 games and tallied 58 tackles, 3 PDs and 2 FFs, helping Wake Forest earn its second-consecutive bowl game with a victo- ry over Missouri in the Gasparilla Bowl. Appeared in 13 games as a redshirt freshman in 2021 and posted 37 tackles, 4 PDs, 2 INTs, 1 FF and 2 FRs, helping the Demon Deacons earn the ACC Atlantic Division and Gator Bowl titles. As a true freshman, appeared in four games during the shortened 2020 COVID-19 season and reg- istered 17 tackles.