A big-bodied weapon who broke out in 2024, TCU wide receiver Jack Bech has propelled himself into one of the top players at his position in the 2025 NFL Draft.
As he comes off of the best season of his collegiate career, Bech has the intriguing tools that have him firmly on the radar of NFL teams and draft analysts alike.
Jack Bech’s Draft Profile and Measurements
- Height: 6’1″
- Weight: 214 pounds
- Position: Wide Receiver
- School: TCU
- Current Year: Senior
Bech’s Scouting Report
Coming out of Lafayette, Louisiana, Bech was a standout receiver at St. Thomas More High School as a three-star recruit. Originally a commit to Vanderbilt, he flipped his decision to play college football for LSU. His late older brother, Tiger, was a wide receiver at Princeton.
In his true freshman year, Bech played in 13 games, starting in seven. He finished the year with 43 catches, 489 yards, and three touchdowns. He spent 25.1% of his reps as an in-line tight end, playing predominantly in the slot for LSU.
Though he played a bigger role for the Tigers in 2021, his production dipped a bit in 2022. He played in 12 games and started in four. He caught 16 passes for 200 yards and a touchdown, not dropping any of the 23 targets thrown his win. After his sophomore year, he entered the transfer portal and committed to TCU.
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Bech played in eight games for the Horned Frogs in 2023, catching 12 passes for 146 yards. He played predominantly in the slot with a targeted passer rating of 86.7.
Though he experienced modest production through his first three seasons in college, Bech truly came into his own in 2024. He finished the year with 62 receptions for 1,034 yards and nine touchdowns, averaging 16.7 yards per catch.
In his final year of college, Bech had a drop percentage of just 1.6%. He was second-team All-Big 12 and led TCU in all major receiving categories.
In the 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl, he caught the game-winning touchdown on a pass from Memphis quarterback Seth Henigan.
Strengths
- Well-built wide receiver with a large catch radius and a strong frame.
- Versatile weapon with inside-outside experience.
- Sure-handed pass catcher with a career drop percentage of just 2.9% on 200 career targets.
- Showcases good spatial awareness on tape, as he knows how to exploit soft spots in zone coverage.
- Coordinated receiver with fluid hips that help him across the middle of the field.
- Does a good job of adjusting his tempo and footwork as a route runner depending on what coverage he sees.
- Makes catches away from his frame consistently, and he has the reliable hands needed to secure the ball in tight windows.
- Thrives on the underneath, excelling on drags and seams.
- Capable blocking wide receiver whose sporadic experience as a tight end early in his collegiate career shows in his strength and effort.
- Tough runner with good contact balance after the catch.
- Showcases very good focus and ball skills on vertical route concepts, squaring up well to the ball in the air and tracking very well.
Weaknesses
- Average athlete on tape.
- Straight-line athleticism is rather run of the mill, as he doesn’t have the long speed needed to consistently stretch the field and get open with pure speed.
- Isn’t the type to make defenders miss consistently in space, as his agility after the catch limits his YAC ability.
- One-year wonder from a production perspective who will need to prove that his 2024 level of play is sustainable.
- Overall burst coming out of his breaks isn’t bad, but he doesn’t have the top-notch explosion as a route runner to get open consistently.
Current Draft Projection and Summary
A tough, versatile wide receiver who does the little things right, Bech was as reliable as they come in 2024.
He’s a big, physical weapon who competes hard at the catch point and has the hands and ball skills needed to make catches in contested catch situations. Whether it’s out wide or in the slot, he’s capable of coming down with most throws that come his way.
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Bech is a smart football player with good spatial awareness as a route runner. He does a good job of working himself open against zone coverage, and his intelligence allows him to serve as a reliable security blanket possession receiver.
There are athletic limitations with Bech, who doesn’t have elite burst off the line of scrimmage or the speed needed to stretch the field vertically. His agility after the catch is average, and his ability to sink his hips into his cuts doesn’t stand out on tape.
While he has a capped ceiling at the NFL level, Bech can come down with catches against man or zone coverage. He’s a smart receiver who can win inside or outside, and with his physicality and ball skills, he could be a good WR3 at the next level. With that as his ceiling, he feels like a Round 3 selection.