PHILADELPHIA —The Eagles selected Vanderbilt tight end Eli Stowers with the 54th pick in the second round on Friday.Stowers is a move tight end who has tremendous upside as a pass catcher. He has good size (6-3, 239 pounds) and is an elite athlete. At the NFL Combine, he ran a 4.51 40-yard dash, a 1.59 10-yard split and recorded a 45.5-inch vertical jump.
Stowers finished the 2025 season with 62 receptions for 729 yards and four touchdowns. He has great body control and made a handful of acrobatic catches.Stowers played quarterback at John H. Guyer High School in Denton, Texas and went to Texas A&M as a QB.
That experience helps him now because he understands how to beat coverages. Stowers is confident he will develop into a better blocker and expand his receiving skills.“My strengths are in my athleticism, being a matchup problem, because I have a rare ability in terms of athleticism and also size to be able to create some mismatches and then also being able to catch the ball,” Stowers said at the NFL Combine. “I’ve taken a lot of strides in my run blocking over the last two years.
I think I’ve gotten a lot better, and I think I continue to get a lot better as well.”Stowers could play in 12 personnel packages with starting tight end Dallas Goedert. He could align more from the slot than as in-line blocker.Read the original article on NJ.com. Add NJ.com as a Preferred Source by clicking here.