2023 Senior Bowl Risers & Fallers: Luke Musgrave

The competitive fires were on display at Senior Bowl all week. Players were giving it their all with dreams of the NFL Draft swirling in their heads. Thor Nystrom, Derek Brown, Crissy Froyd and Mike Maher were on-site in Mobile, AL to cover all of the practices, press conferences and interviews. Here are some final takeaways about TE Luke Musgrave.

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Senior Bowl Riser: Oregon State TE Luke Musgrave

Musgrave’s max speed of 20.05 mph is the fastest time Zebra has tracked for a tight end at the Senior Bowl during the five years it has done it. He’s the only tight end at the event during the tracking era to crack the 20 mph mark.

Musgrave didn’t blow me away in practices. But he was consistently solid. And Musgrave noticeably moved better than any other tight end in Mobile. Along every metric.

He’s smoother, he’s faster, his cuts are cleaner, he’s more fluid in space. Musgrave runs snappy routes, consistently creating throwing windows for his quarterbacks. He had some strong catches in Mobile this week. His hands weren’t perfect – but they were good enough.

Some were hoping for Musgrave’s national coming-out party this week – for him to make a strong argument that he should be viewed as a Round 1 candidate. We didn’t get that.

But Musgrave emphatically proved his worth as an NFL prospect. He’ll lock himself into the top-50 picks with a strong showing at the NFL Combine.