NFL Draft - Trey McBride of Colorado State is the clear leader among this year's tight end prospects, according to Football Outsiders' new Travis projections for college tight ends. But he falls far short of the top receiving tight end prospects of the last 20 years.
Yes, it's time to introduce another Football Outsiders rookie projection system to join our usual lineup of QBASE, BackCAST, Playmaker Score, and SackSEER. Our new system projects receiving yardage for tight ends and I'm calling it Travis. That stands for:
Tight end Receiving Value System
I could capitalize it something like TRaViS but I decided that looks weird so we'll go with just "Travis" for now.