NFL Draft
12/18/24
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Tre Harris 2025 NFL Draft: Scouting Report For Ole Miss Rebels WR
Height: 6030 (unofficial)
Weight: 210lbs (unofficial)
Year: Fifth-Year Senior
Pro Comparison: DeVante Parker
Scouting Overview
Ole Miss Rebels wide receiver Tre Harris is a physical height/weight/speed combination on the perimeter who thrives tracking the football and winning down the field. Harris has effective physicality at the line of scrimmage, some crafty double moves to create false steps on the perimeter, and the desired ball skills to go airborne and attack the football at its highest point.
The Ole Miss offense hasn’t necessarily cultivated a complete skill set at the wide receiver position, and Harris lacks the kind of short-area agility and quickness to thrive running certain hard-angled routes. However, his size and linear explosiveness will play well as a vertical threat in an NFL passing offense.
He’ll have the chance to further round out his ability to play through press and win on in-breakers into the teeth of the defense as he continues to develop.
2025 NFL Combine Results
TBD
Positives
- Tall and long frame with strong hands to attack the football at the catch point
- Very strong ability to control his pace and tempo to maintain late separation on the vertical plane
- Will run through weak press challenges and actively uses hand fighting to create separation in the contact window
Negatives
- Lacks appeal as a slot option due to linear athleticism and explosiveness vs. short-area quickness
- Limited route tree at Ole Miss that hasn’t expanded his skill set as a route runner
- Has not illustrated a consistent appetite as a run blocker despite his stature and physicality
Background
Harris is from Lafayette, LA, and played high school football for Ovey Comeaux HS. There, he was a standout two-sport athlete who played basketball and football — and played quarterback for the program. Ranked as a 2-star recruit (247 Sports), Harris committed to play as a wide receiver and enrolled at Louisiana Tech as a member of the 2020 recruiting class.
Harris played in 7 games as a true freshman during the COVID-19 college season while retaining his first year of eligibility and emerged as a starter for the program in 2021. He was named First Team All-Conference USA in 2022 before entering the transfer portal and committing to play for Ole Miss as a 4-star transfer.
He set a program single-game record with four receiving touchdowns in his first game with the Rebels. He enjoyed two successful and productive seasons with the Rebels, including being named First Team All-SEC in 2024 despite missing time with a hip/groin injury. The injury cost Harris four full games and portions of two others, including a reaggravation against Florida in the regular season finale.
Tale Of The Tape
Harris is an explosive play down the field waiting to happen. On instances in which he’s granted a free release off the line of scrimmage, he is capable of overwhelming flat-footed coverage and working behind safeties.
He pairs this burst off the line of scrimmage with good hand usage inside the contact window to create space for himself on slants and hitches. That’s the vast majority of his route role at Ole Miss — 60 percent of his routes were go/fade, slant, and hitches. Harris is not a big-time twitch athlete, but his strides on open grass will eat up a lot of distance and, when paired with how well he fights with his hands, yield consistent results stacking down the field.
It is easy to love how he addresses and attacks the football on targets, especially given the nature of his routes. He does not allow defenders to creep back into his hip when he’s stacked on the outside and works back to the football on his static hitches and his runaway slants.
He is a capable accuracy eraser who showcases good extension skills and body control to open his frame back to back shoulder throws or extend on errant passes that test the fringes of his catch radius. Harris has showcased good concentration in these instances and has won through contact at the catch point.
He’s dynamic enough to live in this role early on, but route development will be the key to unlocking a more profound and capable player. This isn’t a DK Metcalf-level talent with dominant size or hyper-explosive speed, so he’s likely facing growth or a ceiling on his profile as a player.
He’s also lacking a second level of short area twitch and agility and his foot speed to release with agility is modest, affording him a prolonged window in the contact area to firmly set hands on his frame and squeeze him to the sideline.
As a physical receiver, one area of growth that feels like low-hanging fruit is embracing his role in the run game. Ole Miss often spaced receivers out to create more grass on their inside run game, but he’s been given opportunities to press down on nickel corners or safeties and help create 1s-on-1s on the perimeter. He can selectively showcase good functional strength and pad pop in these reps but does not play with great urgency to seal and plaster defenders. His reps with corners blocking 1-on-1 in space show good length and some nice hand strength but would be aided by more strain to frame and seal for his back.
Another item that should be high on Harris’ development plan is his release packages. Because of his foot speed and lack of initial burst, he’ll need to add variety in his ability to set up and beat corners off the line against heavy press.
That can be mitigated with alignment, but he’s not an overly appealing long-term slot option (he has less than 150 snaps here in five seasons). If Harris can add more proficient releases to win leverage early, it would greatly benefit his consistency as a reliable option.
Ideal Scheme Fit, Role
Harris projects best as a big-bodied Z-receiver in the NFL. He thrives running the vertical routes, and although he possesses the physicality to play through press as an X-receiver, his ability to play through contact at the top of routes in isolation will need to see his route running improved.
Harris can ultimately develop into an isolation X receiver, but in the immediate sense, his impact is likely to come with more room to work off the line of scrimmage and attack teams vertically.
Grade: 77.50/100.00, Second Round Value
Big Board Rank: TBD
Position Rank: TBD
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