This was not meant to be a very good year for tight ends in the draft, and the results pretty much shook out as such. No tight ends were taken in the first round and the top player at that position taken was Cole Kmet at 43rd to the Chicago Bears, a team teeming with TEs.
In fact, Kmet was the only tight end drafted in the top 90 as the next one off the board wasn’t until Devin Asiasi to the New England Patriots at 91. It was at that point that the draft really started for tight ends who seemed to have an above-average shot of catching on with a team, which ended with the LA Rams selecting Brycen Hopkins at pick 136.