2021 NFL Draft prospect profile - Kyle Pitts, TE/WR, Florida
Could Pitts be the game changer at the NFL level that some think he will be?
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Every draft class has players who capture the imagination of evaluators around the NFL and the media alike. Some of these players define their positional archetypes and project to be great as soon as they stop on an NFL field. Other times, however, the League is faced with players who defy convention and offer a skill set the NFL has only rarely seen before.
Florida tight end Kyle Pitts is one of those players. Tipping the scales as 6-foot-5 5/8 inches, and 245 pounds, he looks more like an industrial sized receiver than an undersized offensive tackle. And that defines his game as well. While the NFL has seen more and more “hybrid” tight ends who are receivers first, following in the footsteps of Dallas Clark, Tony Gonzalez or Jimmy Graham, they have only rarely seen a player like Pitts.