Tight End Rankings 2027 NFL Draft

41 tight ends ranked

TIGHT END RANKINGS 2027 NFL DRAFT

Tight end is thin. None reaches our top fifteen and only one sits inside the top thirty-two, a top end bettered in five of the last seven classes.

LSU's Trey'Dez Green leads it, a basketball convert who checked into actual SEC hoops games before setting the school record for touchdown catches by a tight end, making second-team All-SEC as a sophomore and closing the year with two more scores against Houston. Oregon's Jamari Johnson caught 32 passes for 510 yards after transferring from Louisville, dropped two balls on 40 targets, and turned down the draft to return to Eugene. Temple's Peter Clarke is the outlier - born in London and developed at the NFL Academy, he dropped one ball on 42 targets and won six of nine contested catches while carrying a full inline blocking load.

Size is the common thread, all three at six-foot-six, and so is inexperience: one season of real production apiece.
LAST UPDATED: 11/03/2026

Player Rankings - Tight End

# Player Pos H/W/S Team Weight Height 40YD AVG POS RANK AVG OVR RANK Rating Summary
1

TE
Trey'Dez
Green

6-7 237lbs 4.65
TE
LSU   Mascot
LSU Mascot
237lbs 6-7 4.65 1 22.8
87.1
The body and the ball skills come along once or twice a class. Green is a basketball-bred mismatch who played SEC hoops less than two years...
2

TE
Jamari
Johnson

6-5 255lbs 4.74
TE
Oregon   Mascot
Oregon Mascot
255lbs 6-5 4.74 2 25.7
85.9
Johnson is a long, athletic move tight end who wins one-on-one on slants, digs and seams and makes the most of his catch radius. He showed...
3

TE
Luke
Reynolds

6-4 250lbs 4.50
TE
Virginia Tech   Mascot
Virginia Tech Mascot
250lbs 6-4 4.50 3 78.3
84.7
Reynolds has turned his five-star pedigree into production in his first season at Virginia Tech. He leads all FBS tight ends with 50...
4

TE
Terrance
Carter Jr.

6-2 245lbs 4.75
TE
Texas Tech   Mascot
Texas Tech Mascot
245lbs 6-2 4.75 4 82.2
84.7
Carter is a productive move tight end who has been a reliable target at two programs. He caught 48 passes for 689 yards as a first-team...
5

TE
Peter
Clarke

6-6 265lbs 4.65
TE
Temple   Mascot
Temple Mascot
265lbs 6-6 4.65 10 147.3
83.7
Clarke is an athletic, productive tight end whose journey from London to Temple's record book is one of the most unusual in the class. He...
6

TE
Eli
Finley

6-6 246lbs 4.75
TE
Louisiana Tech   Mascot
Louisiana Tech Mascot
246lbs 6-6 4.75 9 144
82.8
Finley has been a steady presence at Louisiana Tech for three seasons, a tall, athletic tight end who can line up inline or in the slot and...
7

TE
Lawson
Luckie

6-4 240lbs 4.65
TE
Georgia   Mascot
Georgia Mascot
240lbs 6-4 4.65 5 106.8
82.1
One Saturday carries the file. Luckie caught five balls against Ole Miss and three of them were touchdowns, a red-zone exhibition that...
8

TE
DJ
Vonnahme

6-4 241lbs 4.65
TE
Iowa   Mascot
Iowa Mascot
241lbs 6-4 4.65 6 116.6
81.3
The bowl game introduced him to everyone at once. Vonnahme caught seven passes for 146 yards against Vanderbilt, the second-biggest...
9

TE
Andrew
Rappleyea

6-4 242lbs 4.65
TE
Penn State   Mascot
Penn State Mascot
242lbs 6-4 4.65 7 121
81.3
Reliability is the resume. Rappleyea caught twenty of his twenty-two targets without a single drop, posting the best hands tape of any...
10

TE
Willie
Rodriguez

6-4 249lbs 4.72
TE
Kentucky   Mascot
Kentucky Mascot
249lbs 6-4 4.72 11 187.5
80.7
Rodriguez is a dependable, versatile tight end who has grown into a focal point of the Kentucky passing game. He catches what he gets,...
11

TE
Brody
Foley

6-6 260lbs 4.65
TE
Louisville   Mascot
Louisville Mascot
260lbs 6-6 4.65 16 297
80.2
Foley is a 6-6, 260-pound target who broke out at Tulsa in 2025 with seven touchdowns and first-team all-conference honors, a big red-zone...
12

TE
Benjamin
Brahmer

6-7 250lbs 4.65
TE
Penn State   Mascot
Penn State Mascot
250lbs 6-7 4.65 8 134.2
79.9
The silhouette sells itself, six-foot-seven with elite timed speed, and the production finally caught up. Brahmer led Iowa State in...

2027 NFL Draft Athleticism Chart - Tight End

We've compared players post combine 40 times and weight and charted them on the scatter chart below. You'll find the 40 time on the Y-axis and on the X-axis the weight in pounds.
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2027 NFL Draft Athleticism Chart - Tight End

We've compared players 40 times and weight and charted them on the scatter chart below. You'll find the 40 time on the Y-axis and on the X-axis the weight in pounds.
The exceptional athletic freaks (determined by the combination of speed vs weight) will be found at the top right of the chart while the less impressive athletes will be sitting towards the bottom left.