Trey McBride, TE, Colorado State: 2022 NFL Draft Scouting Report
Background
Trey McBride was a three-sport star for Fort Morgan high school in Fort Morgan, Colorado. While there, he played football, basketball, and baseball. He was named to the All-Colorado team both his junior and senior seasons for football, and he holds the Fort Morgan High School career records for points scored in basketball and home runs and RBIs in baseball. He’s a well-rounded and complete athlete.
A three-star prospect out of high school, Trey McBride had offers from Colorado, Kansas State, Navy, Cal, and Wyoming, in addition to Colorado State.
In McBride’s freshman season with the Rams, he didn’t see the ball much, accumulating only seven catches for 89 yards and a touchdown, despite appearing in 12 games. The year wasn’t a total loss for him though, as he was name to the All-Academic team for the Mountain West Conference.
His breakout came the next year, in 2019, as he racked up 560 receiving yards on 45 grabs, while also hauling in four touchdowns. He was a regular starter and made first team all-conference for the Mountain West.
2020 was an abbreviated season for the Mountain West Conference as a whole, and Colorado State only played four games. Trey McBride seriously considered transferring before the season began, going so far as to enter the transfer portal, but ended up remaining with the Rams. He was named a team captain and secured All-Mountain West honors in the shortened campaign, tallying 22 receptions for 330 yards and four touchdowns. McBride really attracted the attention of scouts after this season, due in large part to his 15 yards per catch average and one touchdown per game production.
Then came the 2021 season, which we touched on in the previous slide. It should be noted that Trey McBride put up fantastic numbers (90 catches, 1,121 yards) on a middling Colorado State team that went 3-9, had a quarterback (Todd Centeio) with a 60.8% completion percentage and 15-10 touchdown-interception ratio, and had no running backs that averaged more than 4 yards per carry. The next best receiving yardage total on the Colorado State team was wide receiver Dante Wright, who had 554 receiving yards. The point here is that Trey McBride was by far the best player on his offense, and, despite opposing teams game planning to stop him, he still lit up the Mountain West and secured his status as a top-70 pick in the 2022 NFL Draft.
With that said, let’s dig into some of his strengths and weaknesses.