I think the Pro Football & Sports Network All American selections have a much greater impact on draft standing than AP or Coaches polls. I don’t know which round Tanner will be drafted in, but I think he will be the first tight end selected.
Great News for Tanner !
And great for Coog Recruiting !
Great kid and he is so lucky to have a great family around him.
Happy for Tanner Koziol. The gold standard for TE at UH is Riley Odoms, but I would put Koziol in the top three TEs UH all time. I wish UH had Koziol for more than one year.
Heck yeah! Big congrats to our TE.
…and friends he choose to play for us. Let that sink in. I trust in HCWF.
And he even left a P2 after Spring training to join us!
He probably realized in Spring training that Wisconsin was really going to suck this year, and sought out something better.
I believe Carl Hilton was an All-American TE as well.
Sporting News 1st team.
I wonder if Koziol’s pro career as a receiver will be better than Hilton’s.
Hilton had only three career NFL receptions.
Hilton was an unbelievable athlete at 6-5 235.
Goes to show that while a lucky few make fortunes in pro sports, there are a jillion physically gifted guys who only get a cup of coffee in the bigs, if that.
Tom Beer and Don Bass were pretty solid TEs and high draft picks for UH too.
If you want to read a funny football history book, check out Beer’s Sunday’s Fools about him playing for 2 of the worst franchises (at the time) in NFL history.
My top three UH TEs are Odoms, Hilton and Bass. Koziol is right up there. Alvin Ruben was a high school All American at Baytown Lee in 1976, and played TE at UH, but was moved to DE after his first year. Ruben had a nice career in the NFL playing for Green Bay and Denver.
We have to mention that during the Run and Shoot era, UH did not have a TE on the roster.