This Sunday is Nationwide Tight Ends Day. To have a good time, we’re wanting again at what critics needed to say about a few of at this time’s prime tight ends earlier than they performed within the NFL.
Mark Andrews | Baltimore Ravens
Andrews has been Baltimore’s main receiver thrice since becoming a member of the group as a third-round choose in 2018. He topped all tight ends with 1,361 yards in 2021 and has been to a few Professional Bowls.
The scouting chatter:
“Does not get up athletically towards the highest tight ends within the class,” wrote Matt Miller of Bleacher Report. “Does not present up on movie as a blocker and seems uninterested within the run recreation. Can lose battles towards bodily defenders and appears to remain out of site visitors.”
Andrews missed most of this 12 months’s coaching camp after being concerned in a automotive accident on the way in which to the group facility. He’s since recovered and appears to be heating up with 107 yards and three touchdowns in his final two video games.
Brock Bowers | Las Vegas Raiders
The Thirteenth choose on this 12 months’s draft, Bowers leads all NFL tight ends with 60 targets and 477 yards and is at the moment the Raiders’ main receiver
The scouting chatter:
“The one actual knock on Bowers is his lack of elite measurement,” wrote NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah, who had Bowers as his prime tight finish coming into the draft. “He does not have an extended, rangy physique sort within the 6-foot-5 or 6-6 vary. He’s constructed extra like an old style H-back. Clearly, there’s nothing he can do to enhance on this space. I do not see it as a serious subject, however some groups will fear about his capacity to carry up as an in-line blocker on the NFL degree.”
Jeremiah may need had some extent. Whereas Pro Football Focus offers Bowers prime marks total amongst tight ends, he ranks thirty first in pass-blocking. Nonetheless, with 47 catches in seven video games, Las Vegas is clearly thrilled to have him.
Travis Kelce | Kansas Metropolis Chiefs
Kelce might not have a landing this season and at the moment be tied with Pittsburgh’s Pat Friermuth with the Thirteenth-most yards (245) of any tight finish in 2024 however per Stamuse, his 11,573 yards and 74 scores are greater than any tight finish since he joined the league in 2013.
The scouting chatter:
“Suspended for a complete season for violating group guidelines,” famous NFL.com’s scouting report on the long run Corridor of Famer. “Just one season of manufacturing. Does not have blazing velocity. Not a tremendously explosive athlete. Does not come out of his breaks all that effectively.”
Kelce mentioned how his suspension got here up in a pre-draft interview with the Dallas Cowboys on his “New Heights” podcast within the offseason.
