{"id":840954,"date":"2026-03-29T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/840954\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:06:17","slug":"5-standout-performers-at-tight-end-during-pre-draft-process-for-jaguars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/840954\/","title":{"rendered":"5 standout performers at tight end during pre-draft process for Jaguars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking ahead to the 2026 NFL draft for the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>, here are the tight ends from this year’s class who have stood out above the rest in the athletic testing portion of the pre-draft process.<\/p>\n

To compare the athletic testing and measurements of each wideout, we will be using Kent Lee Platte’s Relative Athletic Score<\/a> (RAS).<\/p>\n

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In short, RAS is a way to compare a player’s athleticism and size to the rest of his position group through an easily digestible number based on height, weight, and athletic testing numbers. The RAS scale ranges from 0-10, and the closer to 10 a player scores, the better the athlete.<\/p>\n

While a player’s athletic testing certainly isn’t the be-all, end-all when it comes to the evaluation process, it very much is something that NFL teams pay attention to.<\/p>\n

Here are this year’s standout performers from the tight end position.<\/p>\n

Sam Roush, Stanford<\/p>\n

RAS: 9.99<\/p>\n

Roush caught 49 passes for 545 yards with two touchdowns this past season. Nearly 50% of Roush’s snaps came as a blocker, according to PFF.<\/p>\n

Evan Svoboda, Wyoming<\/p>\n

RAS: 9.87<\/p>\n

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Svoboda caught just 10 passes last season for 87 yards with a touchdown. The bulk of his snaps came as a blocker.<\/p>\n

Oscar Delp, Georgia<\/p>\n

RAS: 9.82<\/p>\n

Almost 70% of Delp’s snaps last season came as a blocker. As a pass-catcher, he hauled in 20 receptions on 28 targets for 261 yards with a touchdown.<\/p>\n

Tanner Koziol, Houston<\/p>\n

RAS: 9.72<\/p>\n

Koziol has been a big pass-catching threat in his college career, totaling 337 targets over four seasons. He’s been a reliable target, catching 70% of those passes and recording 24 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

John Michael Gyllenborg, Wyoming<\/p>\n

RAS: 9.72<\/p>\n

Gyllenborg has been targeted 120 times over the last three seasons. He’s caught 65% of those passes for 1,008 yards with seven touchdowns. His most productive year came in 2024, when Gyllenbord totaled 437 yards. In 2024, 36% of his snaps came as a blocker, while that figure jumped to 52% this year.<\/p>\n

Other top RAS performers at the tight end position<\/p>\n

Matthew Hibner, SMU: 9.66<\/p>\n

Eli Raridon, Notre Dame: 9.63<\/p>\n

Kenyon Sadiq, Oregon: 9.49<\/p>\n

Jack Endries, Texas: 9.44<\/p>\n

Eli Stowers, Vanderbilt: 9.39<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: 2026 NFL draft: Top 5 tight ends in athletic testing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking ahead to the 2026 NFL draft for the Jacksonville Jaguars, here are the tight ends from this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2060],"tags":[25172,7,221,212,125,2401,213,54562,6,38680,12576],"class_list":{"0":"post-840954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-eli-stowers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","13":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","14":"tag-jaguars","15":"tag-john-michael-gyllenborg","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-oscar-delp","18":"tag-tanner-koziol"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116312852782973853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840954","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=840954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}