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- Updated: Apr. 25, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
- Published: Apr. 25, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
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Cincinnati Bearcats tight extremity Joe Royer
CLEVELAND, Ohio — With nan No. 170 selection, nan Browns drafted tight extremity Joe Royer successful nan 2026 NFL Draft.
Cleveland has their tight extremity of nan early successful Harold Fannin Jr., who group nan franchise rookie grounds for receptions (72).
But Royer’s intangibles could not only make immoderate room for him successful this offense, but perchance create a one-two punch pinch Fannin.
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There are 3 areas that Royer did good successful during his last twelvemonth astatine Cincinnati: blocking, hands, and yards aft catch.
- Blocking
Royer was a coagulated blocker successful nan pass-protection.
Among qualifying tight ends from nan Big 12 convention during nan 2025 regular season, Royer classed eighth successful pass-block grading (72.4), per Pro Football Focus.
Royer allowed 1 sack and 2 backmost pressures.
- Hands
This Browns discourtesy seen a adjacent stock of dropped passes.
In 2025, nan Browns tied for ninth successful astir dropped passes (25). In 2024, they led nan NFL (49). In 2023 they vanished 2nd (42).
Royer, connected nan different hand, dropped zero passes during his last assemblage season.
Zero.
That’s what you telephone dependable catching erstwhile needed.
- YAC
Coming retired of Bowling Green, Fannin was noted for his expertise to summation yardage aft nan catch, and vanished nan 2024 assemblage regular play classed 16th successful YAC mean (7.5).
The very adjacent year, nan aforesaid sentiment is made for Royer.
During nan 2025 assemblage regular season, Royer was 1 of nan champion among tight ends, tying for sixth successful YAC mean (8.9), per PFF.
While he was only targeted 33 times, he made nan astir of them erstwhile retaining nan shot for other yards.
Irie Harris joined The Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com, arsenic a Cleveland Browns newsman successful August of 2022. Harris focuses connected telling nan communicative done nan eyes of analytics and data, and periodically delivers...
