Tight End Rankings 2027 NFL Draft

18 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: 09/28/2026

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 240lbs 4.65
TE
LSU   Mascot
LSU Mascot
240lbs 6-7 4.65 1 21.3
87.3
The body and the ball skills come along once or twice a class. Green is a basketball-bred mismatch who checked into actual SEC hoops games...
2

TE
Jamari
Johnson

6-5 257lbs 4.74
TE
Oregon   Mascot
Oregon Mascot
257lbs 6-5 4.74 2 22.4
86.8
Johnson is an above-average athlete for the position, a 257-pound move tight end who wins one-on-one on slants, digs and seams and...
3

TE
Terrance
Carter Jr.

6-2 245lbs 4.75
TE
Texas Tech   Mascot
Texas Tech Mascot
245lbs 6-2 4.75 3 83.8
84.8
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...
4

TE
Peter
Clarke

6-6 265lbs 4.65
TE
Temple   Mascot
Temple Mascot
265lbs 6-6 4.65 7 119.7
84.2
Every cycle hides one of these in the Group of Five. Clarke is a London product still new to the sport who put together the most efficient...
5

TE
Luke
Reynolds

6-4 250lbs 4.50
TE
Virginia Tech   Mascot
Virginia Tech Mascot
250lbs 6-4 4.50 5 104.5
82.5
Reynolds is a five-star tight end whose move to Virginia Tech unlocked a productive start, a reliable, big-framed target who piled up...
6

TE
Brody
Foley

6-6 260lbs 4.65
TE
Louisville   Mascot
Louisville Mascot
260lbs 6-6 4.65 11 216.5
82.3
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...
7

TE
Walker
Lyons

6-4 245lbs 4.75
TE
USC   Mascot
USC Mascot
245lbs 6-4 4.75 12 253.5
81.9
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...
8

TE
Lawson
Luckie

6-4 240lbs 4.65
TE
Georgia   Mascot
Georgia Mascot
240lbs 6-4 4.65 9 167.3
80.4
One Saturday carries the file. Luckie caught five balls against Ole Miss and three of them were touchdowns, a red-zone exhibition that...
9

TE
Benjamin
Brahmer

6-7 255lbs 4.65
TE
Penn State   Mascot
Penn State Mascot
255lbs 6-7 4.65 6 107.6
79.6
The silhouette sells itself, six-foot-seven with elite timed speed, and the production finally caught up. Brahmer led Iowa State in...
10

TE
Andrew
Rappleyea

6-4 251lbs 4.65
TE
Penn State   Mascot
Penn State Mascot
251lbs 6-4 4.65 4 104
79.3
Reliability is the resume. Rappleyea caught twenty of his twenty-two targets without a single drop, posting the best hands tape of any...
11

TE
Jaden
Platt

6-5 260lbs 4.65
TE
Arkansas   Mascot
Arkansas Mascot
260lbs 6-5 4.65 14 281.5
79.1
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...
12

TE
Brett
Norfleet

6-6 263lbs 4.66
TE
Missouri   Mascot
Missouri Mascot
263lbs 6-6 4.66 10 210
78.0
The outline is a pro tight end; the season kept smudging it. Norfleet set career highs with 31 catches and five touchdowns, saving his...

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.
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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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.