NFL Draft
3/5/25
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Jalin Conyers 2025 NFL Draft: Scouting Report For Texas Tech Red Raiders TE
Height: 6034 (verified)
Weight: 260lbs (verified)
Year: Redshirt Senior
Pro Comparison: Brayden Willis
Scouting Overview
Texas Tech Red Raiders tight end Jalin Conyers is an intriguing offensive weapon with the makings of a flex tight end and hybrid pass catcher for an NFL offense. Conyers first flashed his talents at Arizona State as a big-time run-after-catch threat and athlete.
He’s illustrated growth and development throughout his final season of college ball. He’s a surprisingly fluid and graceful big man in space and has the balance and wiggle to force missed tackles with the ball in his hands. He still requires added precision and technique in his route running and blocking ability but should be considered a developmental talent who can, in time, become an impactful role player.
2025 NFL Combine Results
TBD
Positives
- Has more flexibility, body control, and fluidity than he should for a player of his stature
- He has alignment versatility as a big slot, H-back, and in-line player, and he’s taken direct snaps
- Has the natural frame to be an effective angular blocker, and his ability to arc release and block in space can help teams that want to attack outside the numbers
Negatives
- His route running precision is still in need of added focus and precision to help him separate against man coverage
- The role Conyers filled in the Texas Tech spread offense has some non-relevant spacing opportunities for the NFL game
- Opportunities as an in-line player to be a traditional Y or play in 11 personnel feel a way away
Background
Conyers is from Gruver, TX, and played high school football for Gruver HS. There, he was a multi-sport talent who played basketball, baseball, track & field, golf, and football. Early in his high school career, he played quarterback before converting to tight end.
He was ranked as a 4-star recruit (247 Sports) and initially committed to Oklahoma over offers from LSU, Georgia, Ohio State, and others. Conyers played one season at Oklahoma in 2020, redshirting without game action as a member of their 2020 recruiting class before entering into the transfer portal and enrolling at Arizona State.
Conyers played three seasons at ASU from 2021 to 2023, playing in 34 games with seven starts. His most productive season came in 2022 as a redshirt sophomore, when Conyers posted 38 catches for 422 yards and five scores. Conyers was credited with 18 forced missed tackles in the final five games of that season before finishing the 2023 season among the top-10 in yards after catch among FBS tight ends.
Conyers transferred after the 2023 season to Texas Tech for his final year of college eligibility and was a productive hybrid weapon. For his play, he was named Second Team All-Big 12 and accepted an invitation to the 2025 East-West Shrine Bowl to culminate his college career.
Tale Of The Tape
What a fascinating piece of the puzzle Jalin Conyers is capable of being for a creative offensive mind!
This is a big-bodied athlete with surprising grace in his game. His prolific prep background as an athlete is evidenced when you watch some of the examples of body control and movement skills both in space and with the football in his hands.
Conyers has plenty of experience handling the football in different ways. Still, his role for Texas Tech, to get the ball quickly into his hands in underneath patterns out of split flow play action or shallow crosses, breeds a lot of chances to catch runaway opportunities against man coverage with defenders fighting through traffic.
If successful, Conyers has illustrated good open-field speed and physicality with his free arm to stave off pursuit from angles. He’s a difficult assignment to bring down 1-on-1 on the edges, and Conyers pairs the raw size with a subtle wiggle to break down tacklers in the secondary and freeze them as they brace for contact.
Conyers isn’t a prolific route runner, which will be one of the bigger barriers to how quickly he can assimilate himself into an NFL offense. Traditionalists will likely be cooler on his projection — as this isn’t a plug-and-play talent as a static Y, and he’ll be best optimized in similar ways to what he got at Texas Tech.
He was often detached from the core, put in motion at the snap, and used for horizontal stretching of the box with his speed at the snap. The Red Raiders asked him to cut, slice, or bluff the end of the line of scrimmage. In these instances, he was an early progression target in the flat. They’ve run some quick perimeter hitters with him to set up blocks and get the ball in his hands quickly, as well.
The Shanahan branches will likely love him. That said, those roles are overly complex, and while he has every bit of size, physicality, and athleticism to execute it, his mastery of assignment could require a multi-year investment.
As a blocker, he offers size and sufficient grip stretch to play in space. He can bully safeties and corners on his arc releases towards the numbers. He shows good cadence and vision in instances in which he was put in the backfield and charged with leading around the corner in the red area or in short yardage to play off of his background and history of direct snaps.
Conyers has 29 career carries and 10 forced missed tackles on these opportunities. As a high school quarterback, he also received seven pass attempts during the past two years in direct snap packages, and he completed six of them for 40 yards and a score.
In all, Conyers has plenty of room to grow with his first contact and ability to sustain blocks at the point of attack. He also needs to add more precision to his routes to win as a true route runner at the NFL level.
However, the multifaceted dynamics of his game are an exciting opportunity for a team to gobble up and try to maximize on Day 3.
Ideal Scheme Fit, Role
Conyers projects well for heavy-personnel-focused schemes. He blurs the lines between a big slot and a tight end and, at times, a fullback. He’s a talented athlete with the ball in his hands and should be given ample opportunity to develop his route running ability to become a more prolific weapon.
In the meantime, play-action passing schemes can take advantage of his alignment versatility to give him favorable angles in blocking schemes and get him the ball quickly underneath on a play pass.
Grade: 71.00/100.00, Fifth Round Value
Big Board Rank: TBD
Position Rank: TBD
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