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• Brock Bowers Stay at the top As one of The greatest tight end prospects of all timeThe Georgia Even if every college football player was eligible, superstar would remain the nation’s best tight end prospect.
• Colston Loveland Second: The rising Bowers is junior’s closest rival and he could be a top-round pick at the NFL Draft in 2025.
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The NFL is different from other sports leagues because players can only enter the NFL after three years of high school.
What if this rule was changed to allow players to enter the draft even after only one year of college? Here’s a look at the top 10 tight ends prospects for the upcoming draft. 2024 NFL Draft If everyone in college football were eligible to be chosen.
Editor’s note: Only players eligible for 2024, 2020, 2025 or 2026 NFL Drafts are considered. Incoming true freshman were not eligible.
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1. Brock Bowers, Georgia, 2024
As the The greatest tight ends in college football.Bowers is a clear choice at the top of this list. He could be the greatest tight-end prospect in NFL drafts history.
Three-time All-American, and two-time John Mackey award winner, he has no obvious weaknesses in his game. His only weakness is his size which is below average for the position. He’s an extremely versatile chess player with strong hands and elite after-the catch ability.
Brock Bowers Auburn Highlights pic.twitter.com/tyTMmv7SFo
— Colton Denning (@Dubsco) September 30, 2023
2. Colston Loveland, Michigan, 2025
Loveland grew from a promising tight end as a freshman to one the nation’s top tight ends by his sophomore year. He was ranked as the fourth-most valued FBS tight end in this past season. PFF wins above average metricThe fifth-ranked receiver in yards (649) was.
Loveland, at 6’5″ and 245 lbs, is nearly impossible to defend. His 2023 88.7% rate of open-targets placed him at the 97th per centile among college football tight end. Expect him to be projected as a first-round pick at the 2025 NFL Draft.
Colston Loveland made a crazy catch last year against Purdue during the Big Ten Championship????
— JD 〽️ (@MGoJDBlue) November 2, 2023
3. Ja’Tavion Sanders, Texas, 2024
Sanders is an oversized receiver at 6’4″ and 245 lbs. Sanders’ explosiveness at that size makes linebackers a poor match. His 78% separation since 2022 puts him in the 86th per centile of tight ends.
Ja’Tavion Sanders has a solid frame and brings speed to the middle of field. He is friendly with zone defenses.
His ball skills, his ability to catch balls in traffic and his effort as a defender are his best traits. https://t.co/0DbDOA8KhM pic.twitter.com/r0cqH36Pfn
— Taylor Kyles (@tkyles39) March 22, 2024
4. Mitchell Evans, Notre Dame, 2025
Evans was playing like a top tight end in the country until he tore his ACL after only eight games. His 422 receiving yardage ranked fourth in college football among tight ends before he went down. The only tight ends with more yards were Dallin Holker, Brock Bowers The following are some examples of how to get started: Cade Stover — all among the top seven tight end prospects on PFF’s big board for the 2024 NFL Draft. Evans’ 10 forced missed tackles during that span were second only to Bowers among FBS Tight Ends.
The junior finished the year 2023 with an average receiving grade of 83.7, placing him seventh. He excelled when it came to finding the weak spots against zone coverage. His 97.3 receiving grade was in the 96th centile. Evans, if he can regain his pre injury form, will be the ultimate security blanket to the new Notre Dame QB Riley Leonard in 2019.
Mitchell Evans you dirty dawg. pic.twitter.com/UHMiqfXrI5
— Bennett Wise WSBT (@BennettWiseWSBT) September 23, 2023
5. Cade Stover, Ohio State, 2024
Stover is a fundamentally sound and athletic tight end. He is a solid blocker. His positive run-blocking rating since 2022 has him in the 80th per centile. He has dropped only two targets out of 100 over the past two years, and he is a top tight end prospect for the 2024 NFL Draft.
Ohio State football will be back in 2022. On the road, Ohio State is able to come back in the fourth quarter and begin to pull away. A Cade Stover touchdown catch of 24 yards was made after he pushed his way through for 6 yards. pic.twitter.com/jbANAcWFBM
— JR’s Rankings ????????️⭕️ (@jrs_rankings) April 27, 2023
6. Ben Sinnott, Kansas State, 2024
Sinnott is a top athlete. He tested in the 97th per centile of tight ends. Kent Lee Platte‘s Relative Sports Score. The former walk-on had a Second-team All-Americans in the PFF This past season, his 167 receiving yard after contact trailed only Brock Bowers among Power Five tight ends. Sinnott, like Bowers can line up anywhere and succeed.
Ben Sinnott (@ben_sinnott) is both a productive TE and impactful lead blocker for @KStateFB Using play strength, leg drive, and toughness to create plays in the air and clear pathways on the ground
Unique athlete (????????⛳️) w/ unique alignments and versatility #ShrineBowl1000 https://t.co/tcZlyruErV pic.twitter.com/cg6IO9dlfb
— Shane Coughlin (@Shane__Coughlin) July 19, 2023
7. Jack Velling, Michigan State, 2025
Velling is the head coach Jonathan Smith’s successor Oregon State You can also find out more about the following: Michigan State. Veiling tied for the lead in receiving touchdowns in 2023 with eight tight ends in college football. Last season, Veiling’s 13 catches of more than 15 yards ranked him eighth among Power Five Tight Ends.
Jack Velling, the record-breaker pic.twitter.com/F4TBHcJMf9
— T.J. Mathewson (@tjmathewson) October 29, 2023
8. Benjamin Yurosek, Georgia, 2025
Yurosek’s Stanford receiving grade for 2022 dropped nearly 15 points (from 79.9 to 65.5), and he missed six games in 2023 due to a shoulder injury.
But he deserves to be included on this list because of what he did as a sophomore. In 2021 he was named an PFF First-Team All-Pac-12 Honoree, and ranked fourth in the Power Five tight ends after the catch with 335 yards. Yurosek, despite a couple of lackluster seasons, has 1,338 receiving yardage since 2021. He is the leading returning tight end in college football. The only three tight ends with more yards in that span are Brock BowersMichael Mayer and Dalton Kincaid. After dealing one of the worst quarterback scenarios at StanfordYurosek is going to be catching the passes of Carson Beck, the top returning signal caller in the country, next year.
#Stanford Benjamin Yurosek showed off his field stretching abilities tonight against Hawai’i. It’s something he’s done for the past two seasons.
pic.twitter.com/uVHKV2Vtxt https://t.co/74CHOUbPIO
— Devin Jackson (@RealD_Jackson) September 2, 2023
9. Caden Prieskorn, Ole Miss, 2025
Prieskorn missed three games in the 2023 season due to a knee injury. Memphis Transfer finally showed why he had been so highly coveted on the portal. Prieskorn’s receiving yards jumped to 449 in Week 4 and were the ninth highest among college football tight ends. Since 2022, Prieskorn has 1,051 yards receiving and 527 yards after catching. Both of these numbers rank him fourth among FBS’ tight ends.
He saved his best plays for the Peach Cup against No. 10 Penn State, who caught 10 of his eleven targets for 136yards and two touchdowns as the Rebels won.
Caden Prieskorn, of Ole Miss, made a spectacular catch in the Peach Bowl.
The Memphis transfer will return to school, and a TE is one to watch in the 2025 NFL Draft. pic.twitter.com/1H8OfurfpP
— Seven Rounds in Heaven (@7RoundsInHeaven) December 30, 2023
10. Theo Johnson, Penn State, 2024
Johnson is an exceptional athlete. His test scores are above the 99th percentile. Kent Lee Platte‘s relative athletic score. These freakish tools make him an extremely dangerous vertical threat. His seven receiving touchdowns ranked third among college football tight end players in 2023. He is also an excellent blocker, especially for someone of his size. Johnson is still developing but has a very high ceiling.
Penn State’s Theo Johnson, a tight end with a lot of talent, could be a steal. Such a fluid and agile athlete pic.twitter.com/F29pYI1uSX
— Joe DeLeone (@joedeleone) March 21, 2024
2026 Prospective to Know: Benjamin Brahmer, Iowa State
Brahmer played a very well rounded game during his first season in college. The former 3-star recruit led all true-freshman tight ends in receiving yardage (352) during the past season. His 68.4 rating for run blocking ranked 11th out of all Power Five tight end. Brahmer is a 6-foot-7 target that will be a challenge to throw to. He’s a prospect to watch for the next few seasons.
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