Gadsden might look like a natural at tight end, but it was his second position in college football.<\/p>\n
He was recruited and spent his first season at Syracuse as a wide receiver, before switching to tight end ahead of the 2022 season.<\/p>\n
And it paid off in a big way, as he exploded in the offense catching 61 passes for 969 yards and six touchdowns, leading all tight ends nationally in receiving yardage.<\/p>\n
He even earned First-Team All-ACC honors in his first season at the position, setting the single-season record for receptions by a tight end, which he later broke again.<\/p>\n
4. Two-time state champion<\/p>\n
Attending American Heritage School in Florida, Gadsden spent his prep career as a wide receiver.<\/p>\n
And he was coached former NFL All-Pro Patrick Surtain, who was the head coach during his time at the school.<\/p>\n
Gadsden worked his way to becoming a three-star prospect and was a two-time state champion in Florida.<\/p>\n
Gadsden is now the second person in his family to make it to the pros.<\/p>\n
His father, a former wide receiver, played six seasons in the NFL for the Miami Dolphins from 1998 to 2003.<\/p>\n
The elder Gadsden caught 227 career passes for 3,252 yards and 22 touchdowns, and most notably caught Hall of Famer Dan Marino’s final touchdown pass.<\/p>\n
Gadsden’s Pop Warner team featured former Dolphins players Sam Madison (head coach), Dan Marino (offensive coordinator) and Jason Taylor (defensive coordinator). Gadsden’s father was an assistant coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gadsden might look like a natural at tight end, but it was his second position in college football.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,37,884,7,34,38,49,48,2028],"class_list":{"0":"post-2156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-2025-draft","9":"tag-app-homepage","10":"tag-articles-5-thing-to-know","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homepage-cp","13":"tag-homepage-headlines","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-football","16":"tag-oronde-gadsden-ii"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114406199424033027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","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=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}