There’s been a lot of great discussion about Washington’s increasingly crowded tight end room over the course of the past week, and the development of tight ends is something I’ve written about a fair amount in the past. Perhaps it’s the combination of those two things, in conjunction with the usual offseason lull, that caused this article idea to come to me as I slept last night: How have the top tight ends in college football made the leap to the NFL, relative to the other players at the position in their draft classes?
Each year, since 2000, the John Mackey Award has been presented to “college football’s most outstanding tight end.