Vanderbilt's Eli Stowers is amongst the most elite athletes in the 26 NFL draft, and he is an impact tight-in prospect.

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Welcome back to the Locked-on NFL Draft podcast.

I'm Damian Parson.

That's Keith Sanchez.

On today's episode, we're breaking down Vanderbilt elite athlete in tight-in,

Eli Stowers.

We want to explain the grade, give you the NFL comps, go over the concerns we have for

this game and his profile, but we're going to kick the show off with the pros, as always.

We start with the good news and why you should like him as a prospect.

Keith, when you think about Eli Stowers, what's that superpower?

What's that a trait for him going into the NFL?

This was a guy that came in at what, 6-4 or so, 6-5, what, 2.30, 240, jump 45-and-a-half inch in the

vert, I believe.

Pretty much, I mean, it was multiple guys to jump 43 inches and a half. I think he jumped 45 and a half. Uh, and he also ran what in the four fours, uh, or four, five flat somewhere in there in the 40 yard dash. Eli Stowers playmaking tight in for Vanda, but what's that a trick that super power for him? Yeah, I, D.P, you have to go athleticism, right? You talked vertical. You talked 40-yard dash.

Just his high-level testing, right? And for a tight-in DP, that was what he did at the combine.

It's all-time, right? As far as all-time numbers, I mean, he ranks up towards the top.

When you look at, I went on mock draftable, I believe, and I think that span was from, I think since 1999 or something right there. So close to about 20 years of data points. And from there, DP, when you look at tight ends, he ranks towards the top and 40-yard dashes, right? The vertical, things like that. So you allow

the athleticism be able to translate on the field to what's the superpower and there's versatility

in being a mismatch issue, that he's going to line up at tight end or say he's a tight end, but you

have to have somebody as far as a defensive back that can cover wire receivers because that's

wire receiver testing notes right even if he tested as a wire receiver DP he still would have probably

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