There are few positions in football as difficult and intricate as tight end, so it was always going to be a long learning curve for Jacob Harris since he didn’t begin his football career until 2018. The former soccer star with exceptional athleticism caught his first 19 passes as a senior at UCF in 2019, then another 30 passes in 2020, finishing with 987 yards in college.
The L.A. Rams used a fourth round pick on Harris in 2021, a very high selection for a receiver with 49 catches on a football field in his life, but there are few tight ends in the NFL who are as fast as he is (4.