Top 10 Tight Ends in the 2026 NFL Draft

All right, Dalton, let's start off our top 10 tight ends list.

Go through 10 through 6 for the people in this draft.

10 through 6 for me.

I've got at number 10, Sam Roush from Stanford.

Number nine, Dalen Bentley from Utah.

Number eight, Eli Raridon from Notre Dame.

Number seven, Tanner Koziol from Houston.

And number six, Michael Trigg from Baylor.

All right, a few, uh, common names for me as well.

Number 10 for me, though, is Daquan Wright from Ole Miss.

Number nine, Tanner Koziol from Houston.

Number eight, Nate Borkhuter from Texas A&M.

Number seven, Dalen Bentley from Utah.

And number six, Michael Trigg from Baylor.

Let's start off, Dalton, with a couple guys that, uh, were on my list that weren't on your list and were on your list that weren't on my list.

Tell me more about Sam Roush, the tight end from Stanford.

I was a little bit lower on Sam Roush, but due to the, uh, the upside there, what did you like about the Stanford tight end?

Yeah, there's some good upside, and I think he's a balanced football player who's got some good aggression as a blocker, and I think he's a pretty fluid route runner.

We saw him down at the Senior Bowl as well.

I thought he had a decent week.

And look, the production and the grading even is gonna be hard to look at on the receiving side, in part because, well, he played on a Stanford team that was pretty much dysfunctional-

Yeah

... offensively, right? So when he did have opportunities, especially in the short and intermediate range horizontally, to produce, he did that when he got good balls.

I do think he is more likely a depth piece.

You're talking about a potential tight end two type of player.