Elijah Higgins should rise on 2023 NFL Draft boards this fall. Why? _RyanFowler_ breaks down the unique Stanford talent and the skills that'll translate to Sundays. FrontOffice33 | NFLDraft | GoStanford
Built like a modern-day tight end, it remains to be seen where Higgins will ultimately find his niche on Sundays. While he can run like a wideout, offering unique matchups over slower safeties and smaller linebackers, there remains a massive amount of room for him to grow in the ground game if he looks to earn a spot on a 53-man roster as a tight end convert—a route that a few scouts believe is his quickest path to snaps.
Projected as an ‘F’ at the next level, while we can sit here and play hypotheticals toward his draft ceiling as a tight end, his prowess as a physically overpowering ‘X’ in the Cardinal offense has got us to this point in the first place. He can flat-out play on the outside, and while most of the attention this fall will be centered around McKee—a potential tier-one prospect—Higgins slots in as one of the country’s most intriguing upperclassmen.
While it’s nice to see him push vertical and outrun Pac-12 defenders, he excels in doing the dirty work over the intermediate areas of the offense. While it seems like common knowledge at his height and weight to understand the optics of winning in a phone booth, Higgins’ innate ability to not only seal linebackers on his hip but to haul in a catch, only to stick his foot in the ground and quickly work up to his elite speed is a skill set unmatched by many in the nation.
For someone whose route tree will only continue to expand moving forward, the fluid-moving, densely-built Elijah Higgins should rise on draft boards as attention swarms to Stanford this fall.
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