Chris Brazzell - 2026 NFL Draft Profile & Comparisons

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This is Tennessee wide receiver crisp brazzle.

We have another one. They all look the same.

Six foot four, 198 runs four, three, seven.

You have to find them on tape. You can look right next to the sideline.

That's where it lines up. You can see them running pretty much two routes.

A downfield route, whether that's a poster or a go ball or a little hitch.

That's kind of the extent of his game right now.

With all that said, the draft beauty, fancy football community is in love with crisp brazzle.

We need to figure out, and the big question for this entire episode is how is he different than Jalen Hyatt?

How is he different than Dante Thornton?

Just a couple more stats out here. He's about 22 years of age.

He spent two years at Tulane, the last two years at Tennessee.

A cool 15.4 average depth of target.

He had 23 targets, one to nine yards on the field.

35, 10 through 19 yards this past season.

Then 28, 28, 20 plus yards down the field.

On those 28 targets, 13 receptions,

509 yards, 20 plus yards on the field, and six touchdowns.

Again, I wind it all the way back.

Why might he be different than the Jalen Hyatt and Dante Thornton's of the world?

He's a lot bigger than Jalen Hyatt.

For example, we got like 20 pounds and like four inches, which does matter.

I think that he's got a better chance of, you know, surviving on the outside and winning some of these high pointed balls down the football field.

And he's going to have to get really good at that.

Because like you said, so much of his game is right now built on winning down the football field.

I don't think that he was like awesome playing through contact and fighting through the contact down for the football.

Some of the back shoulder throws to when he's like going up in the air.

I thought it was pretty inconsistent.

I think if you turn on like, you know, the UAB game, you're just being pushed out of bounds too often.

So he's better because he's bigger.

But it's still the same exact worries.

Like I see him inside the slot a couple times.

But these corners are so fearful of him that it's almost like just like off coverage for so much of the game.

It's the same exact route.

And I think the NFL caliber corners are so much better than the college corners that what he's getting away with in college.

Like I'm not sure if I can see him or if I can project him to be able to do it in the pros.

So I asked myself that same question.

And when watching every single one of these games.

And I came away with kind of two routes.

Okay.

Two recessions.

He ran a legit route in press coverage versus Georgia.

A normal tight-ish alignment.

He took that inside release with the corner back with outside leverage.

That's where he has to get to is to the sideline.

So at 14 yards he swipes the corner forward breaks outside creates a massive five yard gap five yards of space.

And then ends it with an hands catch all frame.

And you go and watch the Mississippi State game.

A tight alignment in the red zone release post versus press coverage elevates for a touchdown.

I bring up those two plays because I'm not even sure you can point to one singular snap per game that says he is different than all this other cycle of Tennessee White receiver.

And just a quick reset on that.

I mean, the reason why this is difficult is just the pure spacing that the balls offense brings the table.

I mean, they will line someone basically on two opposite sidelines.

Maybe two feet in bounds off of those.

Everything is built off this vertical line.

You have hinge route.

You have comebacks.

Maybe a couple of slants off of those.

And just to put that in perspective.

I have two.

I see three targets this past season outside the numbers versus 36 over the middle of the field.

And I'm even wondering if I went back and counted as 36 over the middle of the field.

I could even get to that number.

Yeah.

I thought some of his dig routes and stuff when he would run them on occasion.

I didn't know that you'd come out of his out of the break, like with that much intensity and sell.

Like there's one like a deflected ball up and for an interception stuff.

I don't know, man, like just looking at the Julian Heights stuff for the comparison.

There's 106 yards per game is a true junior and Chris Brasel is a little bit older, averaging 85 yards per game.

Like, there was a reason why some of us, like, were tricked a little bit by Jalen Hayes and, yeah, yeah, so some of us, me, uh, uh, as like a second round player.

But like, this is, I think that's a good conversation with like, Hyatt versus Cedric Toman, for example, because they were in the same draft fast and in the same offense.

And I like Cedric Toman because he actually ran in breakers. He showed toughness. He showed compete at the catchpoint, even coming out of this offense.

And so you can still show it in this system. It's just going to be, I think, in a different package and then what exactly translates.

And you can be just a downfield receiver. Like if that's what you're calling card and you come in for, you know, you're the number three or number four wide receiver and you're not playing all the snaps and stuff.

And you're just so fast that you have to be respected. That's an NFL role. And I think that's the role I would absolutely sign up for him. I just don't think that role is a top 50 pick. And I, I, yeah, I have not been sold that he's going to turn into now he's like turning into the Alex Pierce kind of profile.

Well, now he's doing a bunch of in breakers has a good feel and a lot of toughness and stuff. I am not sold on that projection. And I think that we've kind of thought that it's going to happen way too often.

And the reality is the downfield guys kind of usually just stick as downfield guys and they need to be realistic at what that should mean in the NFL draft, where I think that's more of a third or fourth rounder, not a top 50 selection.

Alex Pierce is the hope for all of these players, you know, be a role player early on, really master that and develop in year three or year four.

I mean, the issue here again is free access post over and over. And then once you kind of clear these underneath corners or guys and man coverage, then you basically just run to space because there's going to be so much open field.

And the quarterback just lobs the ball into that area. Now, if I was to say, who do I like more Chris Brazl, Dante Thornton and Jalen Hyatt, Brazl is easily the number one for me. Like I actually have hope more hope, I should say of him.

Then I did the other types because there are some wow ball skill moments, I felt. And then there's plenty of other occasions where he's very light on those tight window targets.

He's kind of the nail in the equation. And like you said, even against like UAB and Vanderbilt, he was thrown around. I mean, there were multiple snaps. I think against UAB where he was pushed four yards and continues in the paint.

Continuances route gets back in bounds and tries to catch the football. So everyone seen that Georgia game. He was dominant. He crushed that contest. I mean, that long touchdown through pass interference is fantastic stuff. It's just the inconsistency in that department where you can throw out a handful of snaps where he was great with it and a handful of other snaps where he looks lightweight.

Yeah, it's just really tough. Like the other one was like just like not prepared to get any snaps with the Raiders last year. And he almost had the exact same physical profile as Brazl does like this is like extremely great opportunity for to for sure.

Yeah, and like these guys like it's just the first year. It's hard to like hit the ground running when you're in this really bonkers offense. And then it gets into like year two, year three. And then all of a sudden there's somebody else that they've drafted or signed to kind of take the role. Like I think there's like some MVS to his game. You know, like that's kind of what we're shooting for here.

I think it's like a realistic kind of role in player type for him. And like you're going to have to deal with some of the drops down the field, some of the lack of toughness from time to time. He could run by you though.

And it's like MVS, I think always was probably a number three or number four wide receiver who can has a kind of one role. And I think that's what I would be aiming for here. And I like that closer to like 80th overall, not 45 45.

I wrote down tycoon Thornton. Now he's about two inches shorter 15 pounds lighter, but even tycoon Thornton now have a role in carving out an opportunity in the NFL. It is purely as a downfield player. Yeah. And it's taken a while.

It has definitely taken well. Chris Brazel is fast on the field. Apparently he was also fast off of it. I didn't want to bring up that because this is happening with other wide receivers across the league on August 8th this past year.

Driving with his spin the license and speeding going just 65 into 35 mile per hour zone. So it's not like the 130 that was just school. Well, it's probably it's a school.

I get why people are really interested in this. And we see this in all different, you know, types of players once they reach the NFL that just have high potential that if you just kind of shoe shoe these away, you're going to miss out on the one that actually hits.

I'm okay kind of missing out if sure if it happens here with Chris Brazel because there are so many other wider receivers in this class that I would want to take a chance on.

Yeah, these seems, you know, only have seven rounds and maybe seven eight nine picks to make that also offers, you know, some vertical ability because it's not just speed with that. As we see across the league, not all the fastest guys are the best on the field and the best guys on the field aren't always the fastest.

That to me, this is not a linear skill set per se, even though he was a linear player in college. I just throw my hands up and say, I don't know. I don't know what's going to be. It's a total mystery box. And that's just not really my type of player here.

Look at at the free agency period, Marquis Brown sounds for five million dollars, Taikwan Thornton, five point five million dollars, Darnell Mooney, three million dollars, you know, like if you need a just vertical guy in an offense, like you can get these guys every single free agency for almost no money.

And I just don't think there's a whole lot of value with it now. If there was a cut up that I'm missing that he's showing a lot of dig routes, out routes, you know, that he's going to actually kind of threaten the field and more than just one capacity.

I like to see it. I just didn't find that this time around. So I just want to put them in that bucket.

Yeah. And maybe before we rank all these water severs, which by the way, subscribe to the channel. We're going to post a prospect rankings video for all the water severs probably next week. I should go back and watch this 2023 stuff at Tulane because that was his other most productive year, you know, 44 catches, 711 yards, five touchdowns.

And then, you know, this past year, 62 catches, like I said, a hundred a thousand yards and a nine scores. I'm assuming to put myself and other people shoes that they are just anticipating because you do see the fluidity. You do see kind of stop start.

You do see some really well moments that he can just be a route winner because of his size, his athleticism at all three levels.

And right now other than, again, maybe one route or one catch out of every two games, that's just not something that I am confident in.

And I would just warn, I don't think that if you're running a vertical route and you kind of do that little tractor pads and then keep running, that's not like route running, like that doesn't take a whole lot of technique and stuff. There's way more stuff, the more important stuff happening at the break point, a little bit of a push off, you know, the releases that type of stuff. It's not just like a double move where you padded your feet for a second.

All right, that doesn't go and watch other videos that we have on the channel. We've posted McIleman and Casey Concepcion and Chris Bell and even Ted Hearst. I mean, I think the conversation that teams are going to have here with Chris Brazel versus Ted Hearst versus something like Bryce Lance will be fascinating and how they stack those will have, again, individual, individual videos on each of those. So hit subscribe and we'll see you over there.

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