{"id":870922,"date":"2026-04-21T01:14:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/870922\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T01:14:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:14:01","slug":"everything-jordyn-tyson-brings-outweighs-his-nfl-draft-red-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/870922\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Jordyn Tyson brings outweighs his NFL draft red flag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Put Jordyn Tyson in a generic uniform and it is easy to confuse him with Odell Beckham Jr. as he levitates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Or mistake him for Jaxon Smith-Njigba as he breaks in and out of routes to create easy separation.<\/p>\n

No wonder so many receiver-needy NFL teams are thought to be salivating at Tyson\u2019s ceiling. Including the Giants \u2014 armed with two first-round draft picks (No. 5 and No. 10) after trading Dexter Lawrence<\/a> \u2014 and the Jets (No. 16).<\/p>\n

\u201cHe does everything,\u201d one NFL scout who gave the same grade to Tyson and Malik Nabers (2024 class) told The Post. \u201cThe guy is just open. He is quick at the top of his route, his feet have no wasted movement, he has the speed to win downfield. Great hands. He checks a lot of boxes. He\u2019s slightly bigger than JSN but faster.\u201d<\/p>\n

And yet there is a fear that the 6-foot-2 Tyson will spend as much time on the sideline as Beckham, whose career was derailed by injuries after three brilliant seasons. Beckham worked out for the Giants<\/a> on Monday in his latest restart attempt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tyson missed 17 college games due to injuries (torn left ACL and other ligament damage late in 2022, broken collarbone in 2024 and hamstring injury in 2025).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s similar to the hesitancy that (foolishly, in hindsight) caused Smith-Njigba \u2014 the 2025 NFL Offensive Player of the Year \u2014 to slip in the 2023 draft after missing 10 games due to a hamstring injury during his final season at Ohio State.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll hamstrings heal,\u201d Dr. David Chao, the former Chargers team doctor and founder of Sports Injury Central<\/a>, told The Post. \u201cIf he had some sort of chronic history of hamstrings and was overly tight, you would\u2019ve found that out at the NFL Combine, so it didn\u2019t bother me at all he didn\u2019t work out at the combine and missed Pro Day because he wasn\u2019t 100 percent yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clavicle fracture doesn\u2019t bother me because he plays hard, it\u2019s a freak thing, and it heals. The only potential concern is that knee injury, but he\u2019s got three years of tape after this. The only thing you\u2019d say for a downgrade is, \u2018He\u2019s fine today but he\u2019s getting some arthritis\u2019 \u2014 but he doesn\u2019t move like he\u2019s arthritic.\u201d<\/p>\n

If anything, Tyson\u2019s movements are electric.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a big fan: The talent is impressive,\u201d one NFL offensive coach said. \u201cRoute runner-wise, he\u2019s like OBJ, but OBJ\u2019s hands were better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JordynArizona State wide receiver Jordyn Tyson watches teammates during the school\u2019s NFL football Pro Day. AP<\/p>\n

Giants general manager Joe Schoen saw Tyson\u2019s explosiveness firsthand Friday at Tyson\u2019s individual workout \u2014 the morning after the two dined together near Arizona State.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe can play inside and outside,\u201d a second offensive coach said. \u201cI see him as an ideal No. 2 receiver, which pairs well with Malik Nabers<\/a>. He lacks some strength against press coverage to be a true No. 1 \u2018X\u2019 receiver and doesn\u2019t have blazing speed to consistently run by you on the perimeter, but his hands and contested catches are really good. His body control and yards after catch are good. Toughness is a question mark.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toughness is a trigger word for Hines Ward, the former four-time Pro Bowler and Arizona State\u2019s receivers coach. Ward remembers when Tyson popped his hamstring in the third quarter against Texas Tech.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"WideWide receiver Jordyn Tyson #0 of the Arizona State Sun Devils runs after a reception against the TCU Horned Frogs. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to pull him out \u2014 a lot of scouts didn\u2019t know the story \u2014 and he\u2019s like, \u2018Coach, I love my brothers. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen. If this is going to be my last game, I want to do all I can even if I can\u2019t run the route,\u2019 \u201d Ward said last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe single-handedly on that last drive led us down all the way [four catches for 55 yards and a penalty drawn] and helped us win that game. That\u2019s where I learned about J.T.\u2019s toughness and who he is as a person. Sounds a lot like myself as a player. I didn\u2019t want to come out of the game. People questioning J.T.\u2019s toughness, I just laugh at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chao said, as a team doctor, he would \u201cyellow light\u201d Tyson in his medical grade turned in to a general manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t buy into \u2018injury-prone\u2019 for him,\u201d Chao said. \u201cYou are going to stop and look at his medicals, but he\u2019s not a red light. I don\u2019t see his health being the dominant feature of dropping him. His workout was more to check the box.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In the Giants\u2019 case, Nabers is coming off a torn ACL<\/a> but demands high-volume targets when healthy. The rest of the receiving corps \u2014 Darius Slayton, Darnell Mooney, Calvin Austin III and Jalin Hyatt \u2014 is not certain to be part of the 2027 roster but it\u2019s easy to see Nabers-Tyson as a Ja\u2019Marr Chase-Tee Higgins foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe injuries wouldn\u2019t scare me off,\u201d the scout said. \u201cHe\u2019s the best receiver in this draft, so it\u2019s worth a risk. Especially for the Giants: Jaxson Dart is not the most accurate quarterback and Tyson is going to help him by being open.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ward, the former Steelers great, is accompanying Tyson to the draft in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tell all the teams,\u201d Ward said, \u201cyou are going to get a winner.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Put Jordyn Tyson in a generic uniform and it is easy to confuse him with Odell Beckham Jr.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,56,255,6,15,15729,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-870922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-york-giants","10":"tag-new-york-jets","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nfl-draft","13":"tag-nfl-draft-2026","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116440048823489336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870922","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=870922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}