| Penn State Nittany Lions – No. 44 | |
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| Position | Tight end |
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| Born: | (2002-05-24)May 24, 2002 (age 22) |
| Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Weight | 256 lb (116 kg) |
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| High school | Atlee (Mechanicsville) |
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Tyler William Warren (born May 24, 2002) is an Americanfootballtight end. He playedcollege football for thePenn State Nittany Lions, where he won the 2024John Mackey Award.
Warren was born inMechanicsville, Virginia, on May 24, 2002.[2] He attendedAtlee High School in Mechanicsville, where he played baseball, basketball, and was the starting quarterback on the football team.[3] He threw for 876 yards and nine touchdowns and also rushed for 554 yards and seven touchdowns during his junior season.[4] As a senior, Warren passed for 1,149 yards and 14 touchdowns while also rushing for 677 yards and 10 touchdowns.[5] Warren initially committed to play college football atVirginia Tech over offers fromVirginia andSyracuse, but later decommitted and reopened his recruitment.[6] He later signed to play atPenn State.[7]
Warren played in two games during his true freshman season with Penn State while maintaining aredshirt on the year.[8] He played both tight end and fullback as a redshirt freshman and had five receptions for 61 yards and one touchdown and also rushed six times for six yards and two touchdowns.[9] Warren caught 10 passes for 123 yards and three touchdown during his redshirt sophomore season.[10] He tied a college football record for tight ends with 17 receptions againstUSC.[11] At the conclusion of the 2024 regular season he won theJohn Mackey Award as the nation's top tight end.[12]
| Season | Games | Receiving | Rushing | |||||||
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| GP | GS | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 61 | 12.2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1.0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 123 | 12.3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 13 | 12 | 34 | 422 | 12.5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 16 | 16 | 104 | 1,233 | 11.9 | 8 | 26 | 218 | 8.4 | 4 |
| Career | 56 | 31 | 153 | 1,839 | 12.0 | 19 | 32 | 224 | 7.0 | 6 |
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | |||||||||
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| 6 ft5+1⁄2 in (1.97 m) | 256 lb (116 kg) | 31+3⁄4 in (0.81 m) | 9+1⁄2 in (0.24 m) | |||||||||
| All values fromNFL Combine[13][14][15] | ||||||||||||