Question

There’s some chance that the first two tight ends selected in the draft will both be Iowa Hawkeyes. T.J. Hockenson might go in the first round, and Noah Fant could be gone by the end of the second. When was the last time a school had two tight ends selected in the first four rounds of a draft? One has been named to two Pro Bowls, while the other was the tallest tight end in the league last year.

Answer

Stanford. Zach Ertz and Levine Toilolo were selected in the 2nd and 4th rounds of the 2013 draft. Toilolo started his career with the Falcons (like Ertz, he’s played in a Super Bowl game) but played with Detroit last year. In the Super Bowl era, only one other school has had two tight ends selected in the first four rounds, but it’s an obscure pair and from long, long ago – Morgan State in 1970, with Raymond Chester and Ara Person in the 1st and 3rd rounds. Hockenson and Fant, by the way, were on the same college roster as George Kittle in 2016. Kittle was a 5th-round pick and broke the NFL’s single-season record for yards by a tight end last year.