Azeez Al-Shaair holds the MLB · Starter spot in Houston Texans’s linebacker room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Azeez Al-Shaair played 18 games in 2025 with a 94% snap share.

Azeez Al-Shaair is a 6'2", 228-pound linebacker from Tampa, Florida, who played college football at Florida Atlantic. Originally signed by San Francisco as an undrafted free agent on May 3, 2019, Al-Shaair spent four seasons with the 49ers before joining Tennessee in March 2023. In his first season with the Titans, he started all 17 games and recorded a career-best 163 tackles, the most by a Titans/Oilers defender since 1991. He was traded to Houston in March 2024 and currently enters his eighth season. In 2025, Al-Shaair recorded two interceptions and nine passes defensed.

49ers2019 – 2022

Titans2023

Texans2024 — present

CollegeFlorida AtlanticAcquiredAcquired from San Francisco 49ers · drafted thereHometownTampa, FL