Senior Bowl 2024: Latest Accepted Invites, Player Profiles

Tulane QB Michael Pratt

Height: 6-foot-2 1/2 (v)

Weight: 219 (v)

Arm: 32 5/8 inches

Hand: 9 1/4 inches

Michael Pratt is a true senior who has started 45 career games at Tulane. NFL scouts value quarterbacks who elevate programs and make people around them better, and Pratt has done both of those things. He led the Green Wave to a Cotton Bowl win over USC last season and to the highest Group of Five ranking this season. Aside from his vast game experience, the things to like about Pratt are his poise, toughness, ability to work through progressions and improved deep ball accuracy. 

He’s also more athletic than many people will give him credit for. I have been around Pratt and this Tulane football team enough over the years to know that he’s highly respected in the locker room, and it’s clear after talking to him that he’ll crush the interview portion of the pre-draft process. The former home-schooled kid from Boca Raton has the tools and, more importantly, the makeup to be an eventual starter at the NFL level.

Kansas State OG Cooper Beebe 

Height: 6-foot-3 1/4 (v)

Weight: 331 (v)

Arm: 31 1/2 inches

Hand: 9 5/8 inches

Cooper Beebe, a fifth-year senior and four-year starter (45 games), has gotten reps primarily at left guard but has also seen time at both tackle spots. He is one of the toughest maulers in this year’s draft. Beebe has put some fun stuff on tape the past couple years because you normally don’t see guys as beefy as him get out in space and hit targets like he does. Beebe has also added to his résumé this year by playing some defensive tackle for the Wildcats over the past month. 

On my recent visit to Manhattan, Beebe shared that he was recruited to Kansas State as a defensive lineman and coaches joked that they moved him to the offensive line the day he arrived on campus. In a league that puts a premium on smart, tough, dependable and versatile offensive linemen, Beebe is an easy player to project into a starting role early in his career. 

Based solely on my limited interaction with him at the school, Beebe is a guy who offensive line coaches around the league will be pounding the table for in April draft meetings.

Kansas State TE Ben Sinnott

Height: 6-foot-4 (v)

Weight: 245 (v)

Arm: 31 3/4 inches

Hand: 9 1/2 inches

Kansas State has long been known for its walk-on program, and Ben Sinnott will go down as one of the best in program history. The former six-sport high school letterman (football, hockey, baseball, track, tennis and golf) has gained nearly 50 pounds since arrived in Manhattan four years ago and has developed into one of the top receiving tight ends in this year’s draft. 

After watching him get open and make plays on tape the past couple years, it’s hard to believe that his only offer out of high school was a partial scholarship to FCS-level South Dakota. Sinnott is clearly Wildcats QB Will Howard’s go-to guy when things break down, and Sinnott likely would have been even more productive at the college level if Kansas State had more perimeter play-makers to stretch the field. Most NFL scouts see Sinnott as a reliable pass-game piece early in his NFL career.

New Hampshire RB Dylan Laube 

Height: 5-foot-10 (v)

Weight: 203 (v)

Arm: 29 1/4 inches

Hand: 9 1/8 inches

First off, let’s get one thing straight: Dylan Laube isn’t Christian McCaffrey. We’ve seen some lazy white-running-back comparisons out there on the internet, and if we’re playing that game, the better comparison is former New England Patriots third-down back Danny Woodhead. Now that we’ve addressed the McCaffrey thing, because it’s unfair to pin that on Laube, let’s focus on his skill set. 

He’s a good runner at the FCS level, but the thing that separates him from most backs in this draft class and what earned him a Senior Bowl invite is his versatility and his prowess in the passing game. We watched some tape on Laube over the summer, and what really caught our attention was his record-setting receiving day in a “play-up” game against FBS team Central Michigan where he caught 13 passes for 297 yards. Laube is the type of versatile sub-downs back that every NFL team is looking for because he catches the ball well out of the backfield and can legitimately run detached routes from the slot. 

He is better at the top of the route than most college wideouts, and he tracks and catches the ball downfield far better than most running backs. Like most small-school players, the week in Mobile will be huge for Laube, who is the first UNH player in the Senior Bowl in 36 years. Heading into the pre-draft process, Laube is more of a late-round player for most teams, but if his play-making ability from FCS tape translates against the best of the best from around college football, he should get pushed into more early-Day-3 conversations.

Florida State TE/FB Jaheim Bell

Height: 6-foot-1 7/8 (v)

Weight: 229 (v)

Arm: 32 1/4 inches

Hand: 10 inches

One of the biggest reasons Florida State is undefeated and in the No. 4 spot for the College Football Playoff is the work the team did in the portal this offseason. That includes getting former South Carolina play-maker Jaheim Bell. Players who can do many different things usually shine at the Senior Bowl, and Bell is among the most versatile play-makers in this draft class. 

Over the course of his career, Bell has seen extensive time in the backfield at both running back and fullback; he’s been split out wide and attached as an in-line Y at the line of scrimmage; and the majority of his pass game reps have come out of the slot. Perhaps the best thing about him is what he does when he gets the ball in his hands. He’s an aggressive runner with natural feel who bounces off and runs through contact, so he will be a fun player for NFL teams with creative offensive minds. We did not invite a true fullback to this year’s Senior Bowl, so when teams go with 21 and 22 personnel, expect to see Bell in the backfield. 

Houston Christian OLB Jalyx Hunt

Height: 6-foot-3 (e)

Weight: 245 (e)

Jalyx Hunt is a classic late-bloomer who went from a career backup in the Ivy League (one start in three years at Cornell) to an all-conference player at Houston Christian to a Senior Bowl invitee — all in just two short years. When we were traveling the state of Texas in August, Hunt was already generating buzz among NFL scouts before the season started, just based off how he looked and moved in practice. 

While there aren’t any verified measurements on him yet, it’s easy to see on tape that Hunt is a long-bodied athlete with significant growth potential. He’s going to measure right around six-foot-three, he looks to have 33- to 34-inch arms and he’s been as heavy as 255 pounds, so it’s not a stretch to think he could easily carry 265 pounds once he gets into an NFL nutrition and strength program. 

Right now, most NFL teams we spoke to during our roster-build process had mid-Day-3 grades on him as a developmental outside linebacker and an immediate special teams contributor, but teams could push him up into the fourth-round range if he shows some of the same athletic pass rush flashes in Mobile against top competition that he did on FCS tape.