Brock Bowers NFL Draft Profile: The Best Tight End Ever from Georgia Football

Brooks Austin | Apr 8, 2024

Georgia tight end Brock Bowers (19) celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the first half of a / Joshua L. Jones / USA TODAY NETWORK

Georgia tight end Brock Bowers will be the first tight end taken in the 2024 NFL Draft. Here's a breakdown of just what Bowers will bring to the NFL level.

Former Georgia tight end Brock Bowers is a two-time national champion and a two-time John Mackey Award winner. He's the first and only tight end in the award's 23-year history to win the award twice and will go down as the greatest tight end in Georgia football history, and arguably the greatest college tight end ever. In the 2024 NFL Draft, it's not a matter of whether or not he will be the first tight end taken, but rather to whom and when.

Bowers spent three seasons at Georgia and they are some of the more statistically gaudy stat lines at the position that we've seen.

• 2021 - 56 receptions / 882 yards / 13 TDs
• 2022 - 63 receptions / 842 yards / 7 TDs
• 2023 - 56 receptions / 714 yards / 6 TDs

Had he not suffered a high-ankle sprain causing him to have tight-rope surgery following their matchup against Vanderbilt in 2023, Bowers was on pace to be the first target to have over 1,000 yards receiving at Georgia. He was the first non-RB to have 1,000 yards from scrimmage in well over a decade at Georgia in 2022. His Georgia career from a statistical standpoint will likely go unmatched at the tight-end position moving forward.

Additionally, Bowers was the model for Georgia's work ethic during his time for the Bulldogs. His work ethic and attitude are the stuff of lore around this Georgia football program. He only missed three games following ankle surgery this fall. His return to action in 26 days following tight-rope surgery is now the new standard for the timetable to return, it's the fastest return to action from a now common surgery that the college football world had seen.

Wherever he goes in the NFL Draft, the team is getting a football-loving, hard-to-tackle, harder-to-cover tight end for the forseeable future.

ne on that front. The next step as far as new additions go will be what Georgia decides to do when the spring transfer portal window opens in the coming weeks.  

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