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[2024 NFL Draft/4-123] Cade Stover, TE, Ohio State

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0 drops last year is wow.
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The best part of this is that he had a garbage QB last year too.

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The best part of this is that he had a garbage QB last year too.
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Finally somebody is talking about it.

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He reminds of Owen

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4. Cade Stover, TE, Ohio State Buckeyes
Height: 6-4, Weight: 247 lbs, 40-yard-dash:4.65

SPORQ: 70.6, Former: 4-star, Age: 23.9

Proj. Draft Capital: Round 3 (TE3)

Brett Whitefield Film Score: 75.6 (TE6)

Prospect Profile
Stover was named Ohio’s Mr. Football as a high school senior (playing linebacker and running back), and in basketball, he led Lexington High to the state final four his junior season and also set the school's all-time scoring record that same year. Perhaps somewhat understandably (given his inexperience at the TE position), he accomplished very little throughout his first three seasons at Ohio State (5 total catches), playing behind Round 3 pick TE Jeremy Ruckert. With Ruckert gone, Stover “broke out” in 2022 – 36 catches, 406 yards (4th on the team), and 5 touchdowns. Stover would then improve upon those numbers in his 5th and final season with the team – 41 catches, 576 yards (2nd-most on the team), and 5 touchdowns.

Those numbers might not immediately stand out, but they should within a broader context. Stover ranked 2nd on the team in receiving yards last year, behind Marvin Harrison Jr. (the near-unanimous WR1 in the class) and ahead of Devy WR4 Emeka Egbuka, senior Julian Fleming (Devy ~WR70), Devy WR7 and 5-star sophomore Carnell Tate, and Devy WR17 and 5-star sophomore Brandon Inniss. In other words, that’s some pretty insane target competition. And once accounted for, Stover’s production profile appears significantly more impressive.

It’s also worth pointing out that Stover played through much of the 2023 season with a nagging knee injury. As far as I can tell, this injury first popped up against Penn State (causing him to wear a bulky knee brace throughout the remainder of the season). He went 0-0-0 in the following game (Wisconsin), then sat out the next week against Rutgers, and then continued to play through this injury throughout the remainder of the season. Despite this injury, he opted to play in the team’s Bowl Game against Missouri, but played more sparingly (41% route share) and turned in another 0-0-0 line. You’d think this injury might have impaired his per-route efficiency metrics, but his 2.04 YPRR was still the best single-season mark of any non-Bowers TE in the class (min. 225 routes). And he was historically efficient on a per-target basis. He ended the season with an 11.3 YPT average – the 6th-best mark of any Power 5 TE (min. 50 targets) since 2015, behind seasons from Bowers (2X), Kyle Pitts, T.J. Hockenson, and Irv Smith Jr. And across his career, ranks 2nd-best in the class by career YPT over expectation (+21.9%), in between Bowers (+33.5%) and Bell (+21.5%).

Beyond that, it’s also important to point out that Ohio State has rarely used their TEs in the passing game. (This makes a lot of sense, as Ohio State’s WR room has been legendarily elite since Brian Hartline joined the staff.) Since 2015, Ohio State has seen three of their TEs get drafted on Day 2. And Stover easily blows them all away (or, really, any TE in Ohio State history) in every meaningful statistical category. Since 2015, Ohio State has never seen a TE eclipse 310 receiving yards, nor clear a 1.30 YPRR average. Stover, meanwhile, easily cleared 310 yards twice (406 and then 576), and also averaged 2.04 YPRR in his final season — the best single-season mark from any non-Bowers TE in the class (min. 225 routes). As a final bonus, he ranks 3rd-best in the class by career yards after the catch per reception (6.5), behind only Bowers and Bell.

TL;DR / Conclusion
My model didn’t immediately love Stover, but I feel like I can make a compelling upside argument for him. I would say definitively that he has no worse than the fourth-best analytics profile in the class. In terms of the fantasy range of outcomes, I envision Stover as either “Cade Otton on Will Fuller’s Steroids” or “90% Dalton Kincaid.”
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I trust his analysis

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Can we get anything for Quitoriano lol

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Can we get anything for Quitoriano lol
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A corn dog maybe. Big maybe

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Feel bad for the guy, but he has always been hurt. Hope he gets his opportunity somewhere...just no room here

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