{"id":110555,"date":"2021-04-22T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=110555"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:02:37","slug":"2021-nfl-draft-tre-mckitty-player-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2021\/04\/22\/2021-nfl-draft-tre-mckitty-player-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 NFL Draft: Tre&#8217; McKitty Player Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tre\u2019 McKitty 2021 NFL Draft Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Position: <\/strong>Tight End<br \/>\n<strong>Height:<\/strong> 6\u2019-4\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Weight<\/strong>: 246 pounds<br \/>\n<strong>School<\/strong>: Georgia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2021-nfl-draft-profiles\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>More 2021 NFL Draft Profiles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Tre\u2019 McKitty 2021 NFL Draft Profile<\/h2>\n<p>After spending his final year of collegiate eligibility at Georgia, tight end Tre\u2019 McKitty hopes to continue his football career at the professional level via the NFL Draft. McKitty is coming off of a relatively disappointing year as a pass-catcher, recording just six receptions on nine targets for 108 yards and a touchdown. However, Georgia\u2019s pro-style offense allowed him to show off his much-improved work as a blocker.<\/p>\n<p>Tre\u2019 McKitty began his college football journey as a three-star recruit. Having received offers from Auburn, Georgia, and Miami, the tight end eventually settled on Florida State. McKitty spent most of his time there as a receiver. Throughout his three years with Florida State, McKitty recorded 50 receptions for 520 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<h3>Strengths<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Good receiving ability for the position with a large catch radius;<\/li>\n<li>Strong runner that can pick up yards after the catch;<\/li>\n<li>Decent on-field athleticism that should translate to the NFL;<\/li>\n<li>Can catch the ball away from his body and isn\u2019t afraid to take a hit;<\/li>\n<li>Has experience playing in the slot;<\/li>\n<li>Showed some signs of life as a blocker last year;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Weaknesses<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Even with improved tape in 2020, still profiles as a below-average blocker;<\/li>\n<li>Struggles to beat man coverage;<\/li>\n<li>Doesn\u2019t run too many routes;<\/li>\n<li>Scheme-limited receiver that lacks the speed to blow past linebackers;<\/li>\n<li>Not much lateral agility, won\u2019t shake too many NFL defenders with his cuts;<\/li>\n<li>25<sup>th<\/sup> percentile dominator is not good for someone whose calling card is in the receiving game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NFL Comparison<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WrigTi01.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Wright<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Teams With Need At Position: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/nfl-teams2\/patriots\/\" target=\"_self\">New England Patriots<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/09\/05\/predicting-2018-carolina-panthers-team-award-winners\/\" target=\"_self\">Carolina Panthers<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/nfl-teams2\/washington\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Football Team<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/nfl-teams2\/seahawks\/\" target=\"_self\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/nfl-teams2\/jaguars\/\" target=\"_self\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Projection<\/strong>: 5<sup>th<\/sup>\/6<sup>th<\/sup> Round<\/p>\n<h3>Bottom Line on Tre\u2019 McKitty<\/h3>\n<p>Finding reliable pass-catching tight ends in today\u2019s day and age is one of the hardest tasks in the league. Tre\u2019 McKitty didn\u2019t exactly light up the stat sheet throughout his college tenure, and he ended his career with his least-productive season as a receiver. That said, the Georgia product has the tools to haul in some passes at the NFL level.<\/p>\n<p>Travis Kelce he\u2019s not, but he\u2019ll get his hands on just about anything thrown his way and is hard to take down after the catch. Athleticism is everything at the tight end position, and McKitty appears to have NFL-caliber athleticism. It\u2019s impossible to know for sure with the NFL Combine (Pro Day numbers should always be taken with a grain of salt), but his film is encouraging. Blocking was McKitty\u2019s biggest issue prior to 2020, but he put together some nice tape during his first season at Georgia. If you\u2019re an optimist, you could say that the pro-style scheme played to his strengths.<\/p>\n<p>However, the more likely option is that he a 22-year old dominating teenagers. That improved blocking probably won\u2019t translate against the much higher competition on the NFL, so he\u2019ll be a tight end in name only. This isn\u2019t a great thing for McKitty\u2019s outlook, especially considering he struggles against man and doesn\u2019t have that big of a route tree. He also isn\u2019t the fastest, which means that he\u2019s really only as good as the scheme allows him to be. There\u2019s room in the NFL for players like that, but he probably won\u2019t ever develop into anything more than a league-average TE2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2021-nfl-draft-profiles\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>More 2021 NFL Draft Profiles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"K9xMeDDzQQ5Jw8MUGXQqiA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1229843724\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'K9xMeDDzQQ5Jw8MUGXQqiA',sig:'WvN85bwJyq1Kfwas-B14kL5mD9ld0JWRO42Ib_E_XNM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1229843724',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tre&#8217; McKitty showed some signs of life as a blocker and hopes to bring that momentum with im to the pros via the 2021 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":110556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1647,33760],"tags":[2030,8046],"class_list":["post-110555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-draft","category-profiles","tag-nfl-draft-profiles","tag-tre-mckitty"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246967,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110555\/revisions\/246967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}