{"id":183858,"date":"2025-07-05T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/183858\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T17:15:07","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-summer-scouting-report-caleb-tiernan-ot-northwestern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/183858\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft Summer Scouting Report: Caleb Tiernan, OT, Northwestern"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer is here, and it is everyone\u2019s favorite time of the year, scouting time. Every year, we do Summer Scouting to preview college football for Bucs<\/a> fans, but also give them an idea of names to follow and watch in the fall as needs pop up for Tampa Bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Are we going to write about quarterbacks? You know it, but why? Because other NFL teams will draft them, just as they will draft every other position. It all matters whether these players end up on the Bucs, the Bears<\/a>, or the Steelers<\/a>. We write these so Bucs fans can be the most informed fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So if you are still with us, enjoy our latest Summer Scouting report as we prepare you for the Fall.<\/p>\n

Player Information<\/p>\n

Player:\u00a0<\/p>\n

School:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Height\/Weight:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Player Background<\/p>\n

– 4-Star Recruit<\/p>\n

– Played Basketball in High School<\/p>\n

– Academic All-Big Ten in 2024<\/p>\n

– All-Big Ten Honrable Mention in 2024<\/p>\n

Career Stats Heading into the 2025 Season<\/p>\n

– 39 Career Games<\/p>\n

– 30 Career Games<\/p>\n

Notable PFF Numbers Heading into the 2025 Season\u00a0<\/p>\n

– 63.7 PFF Run Blocking Grade<\/p>\n

– 78.4 PFF Pass Blocking Grade<\/p>\n

– 918 Run Blocking Snaps<\/p>\n

– 1,207 Pass Blocking Snaps<\/p>\n

Player Traits<\/p>\n

– Experience at both tackle positions offers versatility<\/p>\n

– Bulldozer in the run game<\/p>\n

– Generates good power and doesn\u2019t give up ground<\/p>\n

– Has good length to get and maintain leverage<\/p>\n

– Good base and balance allows for him to stay in plays longer as they extend<\/p>\n

Player Summary<\/p>\n

Caleb Tiernan proved last year that he is arguably the best offensive tackle prospect in the 2026 NFL Draft class. The Northwestern offensive tackle held his own against the best in the conference, such as Ohio State and Michigan, proving he can beat NFL talent. Tiernan thrives in anchoring, as well as run blocking, and it makes him a blast to watch. There isn\u2019t much he can\u2019t handle, which will make 2025 so interesting with new challenges such as Penn State on the schedule for him to prove himself once again to NFL-talent evaluators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer is here, and it is everyone\u2019s favorite time of the year, scouting time. Every year, we do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[247,265,210,374,322,211,692,391,318,339,324,19,7,20842,147,248,267,49,1225,88,6,15,35196,1640,3585,3588,245,537,1639,1644,520,57,530,818,817,829,9,266,376,819,426,209,250,1223,776,381],"class_list":{"0":"post-183858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-bay","11":"tag-bears","12":"tag-big","13":"tag-buccaneers","14":"tag-chicago","15":"tag-chicago-bears","16":"tag-college","17":"tag-college-sports","18":"tag-conference","19":"tag-draft","20":"tag-football","21":"tag-hub","22":"tag-lions","23":"tag-national","24":"tag-national-sports","25":"tag-ncaa","26":"tag-ncaa-big-ten-conference","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-nfl","29":"tag-nfl-draft","30":"tag-nfl-hub","31":"tag-nittany","32":"tag-northwestern","33":"tag-northwestern-university","34":"tag-overall","35":"tag-overall-positive","36":"tag-penn","37":"tag-penn-state-nittany-lions-football","38":"tag-pittsburgh","39":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","40":"tag-positive","41":"tag-scores","42":"tag-sport","43":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","44":"tag-sports","45":"tag-sports-news","46":"tag-state","47":"tag-statistics","48":"tag-steelers","49":"tag-tampa","50":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","51":"tag-ten","52":"tag-u0026","53":"tag-university"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}