The 2024 NFL Draft is getting close, making it an excellent time to highlight some of the class' best players with scouting reports. Each report will include strengths, weaknesses and background information.
Here's our report on Ben Sinnott.
Sinnott is an interesting player as you project and transition him to the next level. His alignment versatility is his defining attribute. He lined up attached, detached, in the backfield and off the ball in wing alignments.
Sinnott was featured running different routes from these multiple alignments and was deployed predominantly as a movement blocker in the run game. Though there were snaps in which he was asked to block DL at the point of attack.
He will likely transition to the NFL as a combination of H-back and second TE with his alignment versatility and ability to run routes from different locations within the formation. He is a moveable chess piece of a player with enough play speed and route speed to be a three-level dimension in the passing game, even though he is not a naturally explosive accelerator and did not show much run-after-catch juice.
There may be more there to unlock as a receiver, depending on deployment within the offense. He is more of a straight-line linear mover, so he would work best in a passing game that featured him more on those kinds of routes like crossers and vertical concepts. Sinnott, while not big for his position, proved to be an effective blocker in Kansas State's offense, executing multiple concepts. He would be at his best as a movement blocker rather than a static point-of-attack blocker.
Overall, Sinnott’s versatility will make him a team- and scheme-specific prospect, but there are athletic and physical limitations to his game as both a blocker and receiver that will prevent him from becoming a No. 1 tight end.
Sinnott played 38 games, starting 28, in his three-year career at Kansas State. He was First-team All-Big 12 in both 2022 and 2023.
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