Cal TE transfer Jack Endries commits to Texas
The Longhorns needed to add a playmaker at tight end and found one on the West Coast. Cal transfer Jack Endries committed to Texas, bolstering Jeff Banks’ position group for the 2025 season.
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Endries, the No. 27 overall prospect to enter the portal this cycle and the No. 3 tight end, caught 56 passes for 623 yards and two scores last season.
Here’s Inside Texas’ Ian Boyd on Endries
There are generally three main types of tight end you find at the college level. There are the guys who are really good blockers who lack much agility or ball skills to do much as receivers, the guys who have receiver-like agility and ball skills but aren’t physical or reliable blockers, and then the guys who lack high level skill in either realm but are functional at both blocking and receiving.
Endries fits somewhere between the “jack of all trades, master of none” sort of tight end and the “big receiver” end of the spectrum. He’s definitely more of a receiver than a blocker but he’s not an elite receiver nor a bad blocker.
Some of his 56 receptions in 2024 demonstrated a certain niftiness as a receiver but also the classic tight end knack for boxing out defenders and catching contested throws in the middle of the field.
You won’t see Endries torch people after the catch or execute elite level routes like a big receiver might, but he’s reasonably quick and knows how to get open from the typical tight end alignments.
As a blocker, it’s a mixed bag. He’s not an unwilling blocker, but he’s not particularly strong and certainly not very skilled. If you watch him try to block Edges on split zone the limitations of his approach are apparent.
Endries can move around to different alignments to block linebackers and defensive backs, run routes in the seams, and do real damage in the play-action game. He’s not quite as good of a blocker as Helm or as athletic a receiver as Ja’Tavion Sanders but he can reliably execute many of the same assignments. If Texas can win this recruitment, it’ll be much easier to build a consistent and functioning offense in 2025.
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Endries joins Emmett Mosley as Longhorn additions on offense made via the transfer portal following the 2024 season.
