NFL Draft
2/26/25
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Terrance Ferguson 2025 NFL Draft: Scouting Report For Oregon Ducks TE
Height: 6047 (verified)
Weight: 245lbs (verified)
Year: Senior
Pro Comparison: Luke Musgrave
Scouting Overview
Oregon Ducks tight end Terrance Ferguson looks and plays like a flex tight end. His performance in the Oregon passing game features a good look at how he’d be optimized at the NFL level, too. He’s effective running hitches and shallow crosses underneath while offering a big-bodied presence up the seam with good concentration and body control.
However, his room for growth lies in his contributions beyond being a big receiver. He may be the victim of a culture shock when he’s required to offer more sturdy contributions in the run game moving forward, which creates a challenging developmental curve.
2025 NFL Combine Results
| Position | Name | School | 40-Yard Dash | 10-Yard Split | Broad Jump | Vertical Jump | 3-Cone Drill | 20-Yard Shuttle | Bench Press |
| TE | Terrance Ferguson | Oregon | 4.63 | 1.55 | 122 | 39 |
Positives
- Boasts length and fluidity to help boost his catch radius on errant throws
- Profiles exactly what you’d want a slot seam threat to look and move like
- Has the ball tracking skills to pivot and elevate to attack the football in the air
Negatives
- Is a receiving threat, first and foremost, whose contributions in blocking are limited
- Is surprisingly non-physical at the catch point when attempting to receive through contact
- Can be brought down far too easily by slight contact with the ball in his hands
Background
Ferguson is from Littleton, CO, and played high school football for Heritage HS. There, he was a star athlete who lettered in football, basketball, lacrosse, and track & field. Ferguson was a 4-star recruit (247 Sports) who competed as a two-way player before committing to playing on the offensive side of the football as a stretch weapon. Ferguson received interest and offers from programs like Florida, LSU, Ohio State, Penn State, Ole Miss, Tennessee, USC, and more before ultimately committing to the Ducks as a member of their 2021 recruiting class.
As a true freshman in 2021, Ferguson logged eight starts in 14 contests for the Ducks but was a limited contributor in the passing game. He nearly doubled his targets and receiving production in 2022 as a sophomore and was named Honorable Mention All-PAC 12.
His production made another leap in 2023 as a junior, and Ferguson was named First Team All-PAC 12. He then finished his career with a strong senior season and personal bests in receptions and yards. Ferguson did miss two games with an emergency appendectomy in 2024.
At the end of his Oregon career, Ferguson holds school records for career receptions and touchdowns by a tight end. He accepted an invitation to compete in the 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl.
Tale Of The Tape
Ferguson has the ability to develop into an impactful piece of the puzzle for an NFL passing attack. He won't be a universal tight end on account of his frame and how he applies his physicality to the position. However, he boasts the right kind of straight-line speed and fluidity for his size to serve as a potential middle-of-the-field separator.
In the passing game, Ferguson ran a healthy balance of vertical routes, deep and shallow crosses, hitches, and out routes. The tree distribution is diverse enough that he can take advantage of different coverage leverages in an offensive system that implements sight adjustments and option routes off the stem. He’s at his best over the middle of the field and shows good concentration to track the ball and not be deterred by potential hits. Ferguson boasts a career drop rate of five percent and does well with adjusting his frame to targets off his midline.
Ferguson’s body control shows up on passes that are on his back hip, down low that he must dig out, and high and over the rim. He’s capable of elevating, and his basketball background is apparent in how he can attack the football.
With that said, he’s surprisingly inefficient in contested targets. While he shows good concentration, Ferguson can be jarred and disrupted through his frame and could be a more consistent “box out” presence at the catch point. He converted just 36 percent of his contested targets throughout his four-year career with the Ducks.
He’s a straight-line athlete with good body fluidity, but his creativity with the ball in his hands is fairly modest. There aren’t a lot of rumbling runs through the secondary, and he can be tripped up and brought down by contact that other big-bodied pass catches may have success running through instead.
This dynamic creates a unique balance of his focus as a receiver in the middle of the field but simultaneously having some conflict with his play and the physicality of playing in that region of the field.
In the run game, Ferguson offers sufficient ability in the fringes of the core. He’s not overly sticky but has enough size to create an initial displacement or seal with angles depending on the designed intent of the run. This is not a player who will showcase a lot of value playing as a traditional Y-tight end who plays with his hand in the dirt.
His build doesn’t afford him the kind of punch power, core strength, and lower-body drive to create displacement on the line of scrimmage. As such, his passing contributions are limited in protection as well, and he’s better suited to be released out into routes than to try to aid the protection scheme. He should be regarded as a low-yield player in these elements of the position.
Ideal Scheme Fit, Role
Ferguson projects as a developmental flex tight end at the NFL level. His receiving chops and athleticism are desirable qualities that would make him a great fit in a vertical passing offense.
However, his balance and framing as a space blocker must improve before he can be anything other than a situational route runner.
Grade: 71.00/100.00, Fifth Round Value
Big Board Rank: TBD
Position Rank: TBD
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