A Hater’s Guide To The 2025 Rookie Tight End Class

Welcome to part two of this year’s Hater Series, if you missed it, be sure to check out part one about this year’s quarterback class, part two looking at the running backs, and part three checking on the receivers. For the last several seasons I have written my Hater’s guide to the NFL draft. There are several of them, and if you think you’ll enjoy looking back at me trashing picks in years passed, you can find them on my DLF author page. As a pessimist, this is my favorite thing I do every year. The pre-draft process is such a big part of the NFL and arguably even a bigger part of dynasty fantasy football, so when we finally watch the NFL draft and everyone can’t wait to sing the praises of their favorite rookies, all I can think if is all the reasons why they’ll fall flat on their faces. Let’s take a look at this shockingly deep 16-player tight end class..

1.10 Colston Loveland, TE CHI

Let’s get super excited about another Bear who will only find ways to disappoint and hurt you. With every new coach and GM and draft pick, Chicagoans get unreasonably optimistic for the year ahead, only to be smacked down by the reality of life, time and time again. Oh Chicago, Loveland is only here to hurt you.

1.14 Tyler Warren, TE IND

Let’s take a look at the Colts’ recent history of drafting tight ends, shall we? Since Dallas Clark in the 2003 draft, the Colts added Will Mallory, Drew Ogletree, Jelani Woods, Kylen Granson, Justice Cunninham, Dwayne Allen, Coby Fleener, Brody Eldridge, Steve Justice, Jacob Tammee, Tom Santi, Jacob Tamme, and Ben Hartsock. Welcome to the club, Warren.

2.10 Mason Taylor, TE NYJ

Did you know Mason Taylor is Jason Taylor’s son? The media has barely covered it at all.

2.14 Terrance Ferguson, TE LAR

According to his scouting report from Lance Zierlein, Ferguson is a “productive pass catcher with good size but an alarming lack of tenacity and fire when it’s time to run block”. Jeez. A pro coach is going to love watching his new rookie tight end lackadaisically run block on film each week. I’m sure that type of effort will earn him plenty of extra snaps and targets the following week.

2.18 Elijah Arroyo, TE SEA

Most skill players skip the bench press portion of the combine, but not Arroyo. He opted to zig while everyone else zagged, ONLY doing the bench press. I like where his head is at.

3.03 Harold Fannin Jr, TE CLE

When it comes to tight ends, the smaller the better, right?

4.18 Gunnar Helm, TE TEN

When you severely roll your ankle just trying to start the 40-yard dash, you’re probably not the most graceful ballerina at the ball. You see that reflected in his RAS score, although to be fair, he put up those numbers with his sprained ankle.

5.27 Mitchell Evans, TE CAR

Evans comes in with a 77th percentile height, a 72nd percentile weight, but somehow a 16th percentile wingspan, a 12th percentile arm length, and a 25th percentile hand size. He has the build of a T-rex.

5.29 Oronde Gadsden II, TE LAC

Another Nepo baby.

5.37 Jackson Hawes, TE BUF

Although he kinda looks like a dope, he played at Yale for four seasons before transferring to Georgia Tech for his final college season. He is going to be a blocking option in the NFL and isn’t going to bring much to the table in terms of fantasy production.

5.39 Robbie Ouzts, TE SEA

You’ll never be able to convince me that Robbie Ouzts isn’t a grizzled 48-year-old, seasoned police lieutenant who was looking to bust college kids drinking and got too deep undercover and now he has to stay committed to the ruse so he doesn’t blow his cover or the case.

6.26 Gavin Bartholomew, TE MIN

I’m not going to lie, I like the two-sided look Bartholomew can pull off. He’s a real-life mullet in the flesh. On the left, he’s ready for important meetings in a Fortune 500 boardroom. On the right, he’s ready to drink Keystone Light out of a metal mop bucket in his boxers on a balcony. Business in the front, party in the back.

7.03 Thomas Fidone II, TE NYG

Guess who was a higher-rated prospect at tight end coming out of high school than that bum Brock Bowers? That’s right, ole Tommy Fidone the second! NFL.com’s player comp for him is Josh Oliver, and Josh Oliver is no Brock Bowers.

7.25 Caleb Lohner, TE DEN

Everyone thought the Broncos and Sean Payton were going to get their hands on a dynamic tight end, a playmaking difference maker, in this draft. Was it going to be Colston Loveland? Maybe Tyler Warren? Nope, it’s this guy.

7.32 Moliki Matavao, TE NO

As a college freshman at Oregon, he tallied nine receptions for 75 yards and one score. He followed that with a sophomore campaign where he hauled in ten receptions for 134 yards and one score. What was in store for him as a junior at UCLA, 11 receptions? Instead he crushed expectations, registering 14 receptions for 283 yards and doubling his career touchdown total in one season with two more scores.

7.39 Luke Lachey, TE HOU

Iowa has been pumping out reliable, steady NFL producers at tight end for several years now. Lachey is here to put an end to all that.

Whelp, this concludes this year’s hater series. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you’re bored and have nothing to do, go back and check out my versions from previous seasons too. Good luck this season, but clearly don’t expect any help from any of the bums in the 2025 draft class.

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John DiBari

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Like a true degenerate, John has over 20 years of fantasy experience across all sports. Nowadays he primarily focuses on dynasty and redraft football, fantasy golf, and fantasy hockey and has written about each across multiple platforms for nearly 5 years. He loves rookie mock drafts and can always find a negative, pessimistic angle on all your favorite players.