Tight End Rankings 2027 NFL Draft

#	Player	Pos	H/W/S	Weight	Height	40YD	AVG POS RANK	AVG OVR RANK	Rating	Summary
4	TE Terrance Carter Jr.	6-2 245lbs 4.75	TE	245lbs	6-2	4.75	3	76.8	84.1 MORE>>	Call him whatever the depth chart needs, the ball keeps finding him. Carter caught 55 passes for 624 yards in Texas Tech's Big 12...
14	TE Trey Leckner	6-3 232lbs 4.72	TE	232lbs	6-3	4.72	15	264	74.8 MORE>>	The hands keep him on the field; the rest keeps him off draft boards. Leckner caught 24 passes with one drop for Washington State, scored...
15	TE Dorian Thomas	6-4 239lbs 4.72	TE	239lbs	6-4	4.72	12	228.5	73.7 MORE>>	Seventy-seven targets, zero drops. Thomas built the most reliable receiving season in this tight end group at New Mexico, catching 56...
13	TE DJ Vonnahme	6-4 240lbs 4.65	TE	240lbs	6-4	4.65	8	131.8	74.8 MORE>>	The bowl game introduced him to everyone at once. Vonnahme caught seven passes for 146 yards against Vanderbilt, the second-biggest...
10	TE Andrew Rappleyea	6-4 251lbs 4.65	TE	251lbs	6-4	4.65	5	99	79.3 MORE>>	Reliability is the resume. Rappleyea caught twenty of his twenty-two targets without a single drop, posting the best hands tape of any...
8	TE Lawson Luckie	6-4 240lbs 4.65	TE	240lbs	6-4	4.65	7	121	80.4 MORE>>	One Saturday carries the file. Luckie caught five balls against Ole Miss and three of them were touchdowns, a red-zone exhibition that...
7	TE Walker Lyons	6-4 245lbs 4.75	TE	245lbs	6-4	4.75	14	241	81.9 MORE>>	The efficiency hints at a bigger role that never arrived. Lyons spent 2025 as USC's second tight end and turned 26 targets into twenty...
6	TE Luke Reynolds	6-4 250lbs 4.50	TE	250lbs	6-4	4.50	9	137	82.1 MORE>>	Separating the player from the wreckage is the whole assignment. Reynolds was the top tight end recruit in the country two cycles ago and...
18	TE Riley Williams	6-5 273lbs 4.80	TE	273lbs	6-5	4.80	16	531	68.2 MORE>>	The 2025 season lasted two games, one catch and a torn labrum. Williams arrived at Oregon State by way of Miami, where he signed as a...
11	TE Jaden Platt	6-5 260lbs 4.65	TE	260lbs	6-5	4.65	13	234	79.1 MORE>>	Arkansas asked him to do the quiet work, and the file reads accordingly. Platt logged the heaviest inline workload of any tight end in this...
2	TE Jamari Johnson	6-5 257lbs 4.74	TE	257lbs	6-5	4.74	1	21.1	86.8 MORE>>	Oregon spent 2025 rotating two NFL tight ends, and the backup might have the higher ceiling. Johnson opened the season behind the...
17	TE Jelani Thurman	6-6 250lbs 4.75	TE	250lbs	6-6	4.75	17	534.5	72.0 MORE>>	Three years at Ohio State produced almost no targets and remarkably clean film. Thurman ran twenty-five routes all season behind a loaded...

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.
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.

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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.