{"id":841776,"date":"2026-03-29T22:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/841776\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:33:21","slug":"top-5-tight-ends-in-athletic-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/841776\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 tight ends in athletic testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 29, 2026, 9:05 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Looking ahead to the 2026 NFL draft for the\u00a0<a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>, here are the tight ends from this year&#8217;s class who have stood out above the rest in the athletic testing portion of the pre-draft process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">To compare the athletic testing and measurements of each wideout, we will be using Kent Lee Platte&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ras.football\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Relative Athletic Score<\/a>\u00a0(RAS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In short, RAS is a way to compare a player&#8217;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<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While a player&#8217;s athletic testing certainly isn&#8217;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<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Here are this year&#8217;s standout performers from the\u00a0tight end position.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a>Sam Roush, Stanford<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">RAS: 9.99<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Roush caught 49 passes for 545 yards with two touchdowns this past season. Nearly 50% of Roush&#8217;s snaps came as a blocker, according to PFF.<\/p>\n<p>Evan Svoboda, Wyoming<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">RAS: 9.87<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Svoboda caught just 10 passes last season for 87 yards with a touchdown. The bulk of his snaps came as a blocker.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Delp, Georgia<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">RAS: 9.82<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Almost 70% of Delp&#8217;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<p>Tanner Koziol, Houston<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">RAS: 9.72<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Koziol has been a big pass-catching threat in his college career, totaling 337 targets over four seasons. He&#8217;s been a reliable target, catching 70% of those passes and recording 24 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>John Michael Gyllenborg, Wyoming<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">RAS: 9.72<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Gyllenborg has been targeted 120 times over the last three seasons. He&#8217;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<p>Other top RAS performers at the tight end positionMatthew Hibner, SMU: 9.66Eli Raridon, Notre Dame: 9.63Kenyon Sadiq, Oregon: 9.49Jack Endries, Texas: 9.44Eli Stowers, Vanderbilt: 9.39Carsen Ryan, BYU: 9.26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 29, 2026, 9:05 a.m. ET Looking ahead to the 2026 NFL draft for the\u00a0Jacksonville Jaguars, here are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,95882,95936,95896,95888,95906,95902,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-841776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","16":"tag-sstsnjaguars","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","19":"tag-tagnational-sports","20":"tag-tagnfl","21":"tag-tagoverall-positive","22":"tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","23":"tag-tagsports-news","24":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116314846266634286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841776","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=841776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}