With Green Bay not owning a first-round pick in the upcoming draft, this year’s Prospect Primer series will take a position-by-position look at players projected as Day 2 selections (Rounds 2-3) potentially available to the Packers, who have the No. 52 and 84 overall selections on the second day of the draft.<\/p>\n
Here’s a trio of tight ends:<\/p>\n
News & notes: Played one year at USC and two at Ole Miss before transferring to Baylor for his final two seasons \u2026 Was limited by injuries at his second stop but broke out at Baylor, catching 30 passes for 395 yards and three TDs in 2024, then following up with 50 catches for 694 yards and six TDs last season \u2026 Named second-team All-Big 12 in ’24, then first-team All-Big 12 and third-team AP All-America in ’25 \u2026 Considered a matchup problem due to his size and massive catch radius, as his wingspan measurement of 84 3\/8 inches set a new combine record for tight ends \u2026 More a receiving and yards-after-catch threat than in-line blocker but could still grow into his frame \u2026 Also played basketball in high school in Florida.<\/p>\n
News & notes: Four-star recruit as a quarterback transitioned to tight end in college and wound up a Mackey Award winner as the nation’s best tight end \u2026 Texas native spent two years at Texas A&M and one at New Mexico State before his final two at Vanderbilt, where he caught 111 passes for 1,407 yards and nine TDs over the 2024-25 seasons \u2026 Wrapped up his college career as a first-team All-SEC and first-team AP All-America selection, along with the Mackey Award and William V. Campbell Trophy, also known as the “Academic Heisman” \u2026 Impressive athlete who recorded a 4.51-second 40, 45\u00bd-inch vertical jump and 11-3 broad jump at the combine \u2026 Major receiving weapon with after-catch skills and a long way to go as a blocker, but given recent position switch and body type, can develop and add strength there \u2026 Also a state champion high jumper in high school.<\/p>\n
News & notes: Indiana native spent three years at Purdue before his final season at Ohio State \u2026 Actually had his best pass-catching year, statistically, in 2024 at Purdue with 51 receptions for 685 yards and four TDs, finishing top three among TEs in the conference in catches and yards to earn third-team All-Big Ten honors \u2026 Caught multiple passes in 17 straight games for the Boilermakers \u2026 Elevated to first-team All-Big Ten in 2025 despite a drop in receiving production, in part due to Ohio State’s offense, to 43 catches for 448 yards and two scores \u2026 Shows more effectiveness as a blocker than some other tight end prospects in this draft, but could’ve potentially boosted his stock by staying in college for his final season of eligibility \u2026 Comes from a football family, as his dad, grandfather, cousin and two uncles all played college football, and his brother, Luke, is a tight end at Purdue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Green Bay not owning a first-round pick in the upcoming draft, this year’s Prospect Primer series will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,2514,2513,34,417,507,117115,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-859144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-greenbay","12":"tag-greenbaypackers","13":"tag-homepage-cp","14":"tag-news-all-news","15":"tag-news-national-feature","16":"tag-news-prospect-primer","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116364057494138982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859144","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=859144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}