2025 Scouting Report: TE Tyler Warren, Penn State
Bio:
Height: 6’5”
Weight: 256
School: Penn State
Career Stats: 56 Games; 158 receptions, 2,069 yards, 22 TDs; 31 rush attempts, 245 yards, 6 TDs
2024 Stats: 16 Games; 104 receptions (T-2nd), 1,233 yards (7th), 8 TDs (T-36th); 26 rush attempts, 218 yards, 4 TDs
Accolades: Academic All-American (2024) | Tied FBS record for receptions in a game for a TE (17) | 2024 John Mackey Award winner (Top-TE)
Without a doubt, the consensus #1 TE in the 2025 class is Tyler Warren, and you can’t really fight it. No one is questioning him. Others like Colston Loveland, Elijah Arroyo, and Harold Fannin (next report) are getting a lot of love, but Warren is always viewed as the top dog.
I believe this is warranted. Warren isn’t the best TE prospect ever, he isn’t extremely athletic like Kyle Pitts or OJ Howard. He is more in the same light as the boring TEs that, at the end of the day, produce. Flashy tight ends have their moments, but the guys that stick around and have long/hall of fame worthy careers are the prospects that aren’t athletic freaks, but understand the position.
Would you rather have Jimmy Graham or Rob Gronkowski? We all know the jokes about Gronk’s intelligence, but he had a knack for playing tight end. Jimmy Graham was a former basketball star-turned Tight End, but it’s Gronk every day of the week and as many times as you could throw to him on Sunday.
In today’s NFL, it’s “Would you rather have Kyle Pitts or Brock Bowers?”
The TE and QB positions might be the only two skill positions in the NFL that aren’t dominated by athletes.
How good is Warren? Despite what I just said, he is an incredible athlete. Not in terms of blazing speeds and agility, but in terms of being good at everything. Warren was extremely successful for Penn State, not just playing the TE role, but he was taking snaps in the wildcat, as a running back, would throw the ball, and he even snapped the ball a handful of times throughout his college career. And it wasn’t just some gimmicky ‘let’s try to make something happen’ play. This was scripted. He sort of is the next Taysom Hill in that regard, except he’s a better tight end than Hill has ever been.
Everything he did was effective.
In 2024 he had 26 carries, 218 yards, and 4 TDs. That’s 8.4 yards per carry. We saw him play the role of power back, trying to hammer the ball forward for a short gain, leap over the offensive line to score, and he also displayed an unexpected elusiveness on other runs.
He was 3/6 on pass attempts with a passing TD. Not quite as skilled a passer as Taysom, but he’s got a respectable arm.
As a traditional TE Warren was the #1 receiver for Penn State. He runs good/smart routes, finding the opening in defenses and getting there. He has nice hands, can take a hit as the ball is coming to him… like I said, everything he did was effective.
Off the field I have no concerns with him either. Warren was an All-Academic player who earned two degrees and has no injury history. Slam dunk of a pick if you ask me.
The Data on Tyler Warren:
Just wanted to highlight a statline/a catch of Warrens, this was my introduction to him… watching this game live a few months ago.
Drew Allar Finds Tyler Warren For The TD vs. USC | Penn State Football | 10/12/2024
In that game, he had 17 catches, 224 yards, 1 TD; 1 run for 4 yards; 1 pass for 9 yards; and one snap at center.
| StrengthRtg | AgilityRtg | HandsRtg | H | W | Last | First | Team | adjYds/Tgt | adjTgt/TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.885 | 8.197 | 7.361 | 77 | 256 | Warren | Tyler | Penn State | 12.8 | 15.2 |
Draft Outlook:
Warren will be a first-rounder. If not to Indianapolis, someone out there will pick him up. If I were GM, I’d probably pass on him in all honesty. He’s not a Brock Bowers ‘great’ TE prospect. If he were, I would have said it by now. I think Warren is a good, potentially great player, but I think the same of a few other tight ends (Loveland, Mason, Arroyo) in the draft. For his price, it’s a no-go for me.
Career Outlook:
He’ll be drafted high so he’s slated to be a starter Week 1. I think Warren will be a fun player to have in the league, but could potentially be frustrating to have if the coaches try to get too cute with him too often. If he just played a traditional TE role I’d be more excited. I also wouldn’t be too surprised if Warren immediately becomes his QBs best friend and takes the league by storm like LaPorta and Bowers the last two seasons.
Image Source: (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
