Top 25 Tight Ends Ranked: 2024 College Football News Preview

Brock Bowers was special, but overall the tight ends were - somewhat shockingly - just okay last season. Six were selected in the first two rounds in 2023, but that was hardly the norm.

Last year Bowers was selected 13th by the Raiders, but that was about it. There were plenty of mid-round picks, but most of them were fliers. There isn't a Bowers in this year's draft, but the position should be more prominent. And why?

The transfer portal. More teams found the missing pieces they needed to be more active in their respective passing games.

Our 25 best tight ends going into the 2024 college football season are ...

2024 CFN Preseason All-Conference Teams
AAC | ACC | Big Ten | Big 12 | CUSA
IND | MAC | MWest | SEC | Sun Belt
College Football Preview 2024: All 134 Teams

2024 CFN Top 25 Position Rankings
QB | RB | WR | OT | OG | OC
EDGE/DE | DT | LB | Safety | CB

1 Colston Loveland, Jr. Michigan

2 Brant Kuithe, Sr. Utah

3 Oronde Gadsden II, Jr. Syracuse

4 Mitchell Evans, Sr. Notre Dame

5 Caden Prieskorn, Sr. Ole Miss

6 Bryson Nesbit, Sr. North Carolina

7 Jake Briningstool, Sr. Clemson

8 Mark Redman, Sr. Louisville

9 Rivaldo Fairweather, Sr. Auburn

10 Oscar Delp, Jr. Georgia

11 Gavin Bartholomew, Sr. Pitt

12 Ben Yurosek, Sr. Georgia

13 Terrance Ferguson, Sr. Oregon

14 Holden Willis, Sr. Middle Tennessee

15 Maliq Carr, Sr. Houston

2024 CFN Top 25 Position Rankings
QB | RB | WR | TE | OT | OG | OC
EDGE/DE | DT | LB | Safety | CB

16 Alex Bauman, Jr. Tulane

17 Sean Brown, Sr. Jacksonville State

18 Eli Wilson, Sr. Appalachian State

19 Mason Taylor, Jr. LSU

20 Harold Fannin, Jr. Bowling Green

21 Oscar Cardenas, Sr. UTSA

22 Kendall Karr, Sr. Coastal Carolina

23 Anthony Torres, Sr. Toledo

24 RJ Maryland, Jr. SMU

25 Jack Endries, Soph. Cal

2024 CFN Preseason All-Conference Teams
AAC | ACC | Big Ten | Big 12 | CUSA
IND | MAC | MWest | SEC | Sun Belt
College Football Preview 2024: All 134 Teams