In the Draft last year, the closed wing Brock Bowers was the tenth place in general to the Raiders and went to be named a first All-Pro-program team and have Arguffy the best season for a first-year closed wing in the history of the NFL. It was a unicorn at the University of Georgia and that talent that he showed at the university made the transition of professionals.
This time, there are two very talented players at the top of the position of the closed wing, but still both fall shorts of Bowers when it came out. However, there is much to like this class of closed wing, especially in the talent that you can find after the Round 1. NFL teams should be able to find taxpayers in the Draft and no matter what kind of ability to look for (traditional and, flex or “move” wing closed), surely there will be something for everyone.
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10. Jackson Hawes, Georgia Tech
If Hawes could show more reception skill while I was in Georgia Tech, it would probably be higher in this list because a pateador of good faith as a racing blocker. Unfortunately, NFL teams like their wing closed to be a bit more athletic and have some recurrent skills. Hawes is a type of setback with little or no value as a hunter, but it will give you an effort of 110 percent when you ask you to open holes for your corridor. He puts everything he has in touch and conducts constantly through his man. He wants to finish the defenders on Earth every play, which is a behavior that any team would love to add to his list.
9. Mitchell Evans, Notre Dame
Evans fought the injuries before in his career, but managed to stay relatively healthy in his last year for Fighting Irish. It has an ideal size (6’5, 258 pounds) and is tested quite well in the NFL Combine and the professional day of your school (4.72 40 times).
There are no elite features that are highlighted in the Evans game, but it is a complete closed wing that helped take its team to one of the best records in the country and an appearance in the university football playoff. Evans is a safe goal in the middle and sewing for its quarterback. He will take his facma mask to his opponent and give a great effort as a blocker.
8. Jake Briningstool, Clemsson
At 6’6 and 241 pounds, briningstool is a high closed wing and inclined with short arms (31 3/4 “) and small hands (sub-8”). It passed more than half or its snapshots flexed as a slot receiver where he won as a long -term sewing stretcher. Leave Clemson as the leader of all times of career receptions for a closed wing with 127.
Similar to the closed wing of the Bengals, Mike Gesicki, Briningstool is a modern closed wing “F” that won the being used as a race blocker so often online. However, he showed a good effort as a “movement” blocker when asked to lead to space or from a wing place. The will is there, but it will have to spend time in a professional weight room before it can become a pro.mitchell Evans SB
7. Helmet Gunnar, Texas
The helmet was very bad in the NFL combined with a 4.84 on the 40 -yard board and a vertical jump of 30 “. At 6’5 and 241 pounds, those are quite disappointing numbers when considering the weapons of mismatch that the modern closed wing has award.
At the same time, the helmet was more than productive for one of the best offenses in the country, leading the Lonshorns at receptions (60) and the third position in the country in yards after capture (420). His receptions and total yardas reception (768) were also records of a season for a closed wing in the history of the program.
Whether you like your test results or not, the helmet is a football effortless receptor with a natural feeling of avoiding taclers and maximizing additional yards for your team. Nor is it left behind as a blocker, which is something that the teams will covet and help them face their lack of long speed and explosiveness.
6. TERRANCE FERGUSON, Oregon
Ferguson is an athletic wing that wins with remarkable body control and a wide capture radius. The four -year starter in Oregon was the fastest closed wing in the NFL Combine this year with a 4.63 to 6’5 and 247 pounds. His vertical jump of 39 “was also tops in the position shown by his remarkable basketball background.
In Oregon’s offensive, Ferguson, a useful blocker in a variety of lineups, which include in the space where their athletics can shine against smaller defenders. As a route, it is physical through the press and has a sauce sauce to break the routes with a good time for your quartback.
5. Elijah Arroyo, Miami
Now Arroyo is a prospect that could end better than a few of the boys ahead of him on this list, and one of our voters placed him secondly.
With 6’5 and 250 pounds, Arroyo has an excellent size and length to carry with the ability to run on a fluid route. He did not try in the combine or on his professional day due to a bone prira that suffered his time in the Senior Bowl. However, the film and statistics paint the image of sufficient athlete explosiveness that opened a lot for the Miami Marshal, Cam Ward.
Arroyo averaged 16.9 yards by capture and caught seven touchdowns in 2024. It is most likely that it is a closed wing of “moving” at the next level that can move the offensive formation to create mismatches for a cunning game player.
4. Harold Fannin Jr, Green Bowling
Fannin was the most prolific closed wing in the country last season, since it accumulated 1,555 reception yards in 117 trapped (both FBS season records) to go with 10 touchdowns and enrut Honors All-American All-American.
Despite his mass production, Fannin Actaal had a disappointing performance in the combine tests of this year. He ran only a 4.71 in the 40s, but published a fairly strong number in the drill of three cones (6.97) and vertical (34 inches).
Fannin does not run sharp routes, but understands the defensive coverage enough to know how to slightly fold his voice and get away from the defenders to expand the room of his field marshal by mistake. He is also extremely fighter after capture.
It is hard as an online blocker, so the appropriate equipment will have to use it as a closed wing flexed in the slot or off the field.
3. Mason Taylor, LSU
Taylor, son of Dolphins and the Pro Jason Taylor’s Pro Jason Football Hall, is a complete closed wing that has increased the draft of this after a strong performance in this year’s Senior Bowl and an impressive performance in the LSU Pro Day.
The Taylor of 6’5 and 251 pounds has great hands of 10 “that it uses to remove clean raisins from the air and outside its frame. It makes the ball tracked with ease and is a real weapon in the seam that uses excellent body control to enclose the supporters to give their easier field marshal They have been the experts in which they have not been the experts in which there are not their experts in which experts do not approach.
2. Colston Loveland, Michigan
Colston Loveland is the epitome of the modern closed wing in the NFL. It has more a set of flexible skills, but it still has enough in the stock market as a racing blocker so as not to be a responsibility when it is in the field like the Te1 equipment. With the best route that runs in the class for its position, Loveland can win at the three levels of the field, especially in the red zone here, you can use its length and impressive capture radius to make Tigt-Wow much easier for your quarterback.
Like the best of the league, Loveland will be the best mismatch of a team in the slot, since it can escape the supporters and eliminate defensive backs easily. A 6’6 ”and almost 250 pounds, Loveland exhibits excellent breaks on short routes to intermediate to turn it into a nightmare into the third intention.
One of our voters had him as the best wing closed on the board, but that was all.
1. Tyler Warren, Penn State
While the term “Swiss Army Shife” is linked to a runner or runner receiver or an open receiver, Warren deserves that description and something with the way it was used in the Penn State offensive last season.
At 6’6 and 256 pounds, Warren caught eight touchdowns (to go with 104 receptions and 1,233 reception yards) and also ran for four scores and went through one as a Wildcat Won field marshal) and this year and this year and this year and this second team all -American, and the end of the Big Ten in the year.
The first -round wing generally takes approximately one year to really become impact players at the next level, but like Bowers a year ago, Warren is ready to start running in the NFL. If there is a job that needs, sealing the advantage in the race game, making a crucial capture in the third Down or being the field marshal for an infamous “thrust”, Warren is your boy.
