Tyjae Spears is a budding star who has a chance to be immensely productive at the NFL Level. He completed his collegiate career with eight straight 100-yard rushing performances, including a 205-yard outing in the Cotton Bowl against USC, along with four touchdowns. Spears has the look of a valuable role player in an offense immediately, offering electric athletic ability and schematic versatility to an NFL team.
Tyjae Spears
RB – Tulane Green Wave
HT: 5086
WT: 196
Year: Super Redshirt Sophomore
High School: Ponchatoula (Ponchatoula, LA)
Rating: 3-star (0.8416)
Projected Draft Grade: Immediate Role Player
Projection: 3rd/4th Round
Tyjae Spears scouting notes
Pros:
- Excellent speed. An absolute burner. Angle breaker.
- Changes direction decently well. Very shifty.
- Acceleration is seamless and very fast.
- Extremely explosive athlete.
- Reads blocks extremely well. Always seems to find the hole. Pops through and can follow the wormhole.
- Manipulates defenders so well with his movement. Understands how to set them up very well.
- Runs well between the tackles. Excellent contact balance, almost never goes down on first contact.
- Almost unstoppable in space. So difficult to bring down. Quick enough to continuously take bad angles.
- Very capable and effective receiver out of the backfield. He can be used in a variety of different ways. Very reliable as a check-down option.
- Can make catches through contact decently well.
- Decent route runner.
- Very effective pass blocker. Excellent power.
- Positions himself very well. Very quick to recognize when he needs to pick up defenders in protection.
- Great kid, very humble and a great worker.
Cons:
- Runs with a low pad level and can create power situations in space. Not good at generating power in a scrum.
- Not much of a brute. Doesn’t have that kind of size or running strength.
- Doesn’t have a wide variety of moves to try and spring himself into space. Much more willing to just lower his head.
- Wasn’t asked to do it much but is decent as a chip blocker.
