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Photo by Rob Leiter via Getty Images The tight ends who had the best day at the NFL Scouting Combine this year are probably Hunter Henry and Austin Hooper. Four years after they were the first two tight ends selected in the 2016 NFL Draft (another “poor” class, as Henry went 35th and Hooper didn’t go next until pick 81), college football has produced little in the way of premium prospects at the position for 2020. In a class that features at least one elite prospect at nearly every position, including quarterback, edge rusher, defensive tackle, cornerback, the things that Isaiah Simmons does, plus four tackles with top-10 consideration and one of the deepest receiving classes of all-time, tight end may not see its first player off of the board until round three. Cole Kmet, Harrison Bryant, Adam Trautman, and Albert Okwuegbunam have the most attention right now, but it won’t be surprising to anyone if there isn’t a tight end off the board by the 50s. Or later. And that’s great news if you’re about to be a fre
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