Michael Trigg Prospect Profile
Background
Michael Trigg grew up in the Tampa area and attended Seffner Christian Academy, where he played quarterback, tight end, and defensive end, averaged over 20 points per game on the basketball court, and piled up nearly 1,900 all-purpose yards and 29 touchdowns as a senior. He committed to USC as a four-star recruit, then after his freshman year, transferred to Ole Miss with quarterback Jaxson Dart. In his first game as a Rebel, he scored a school-record three touchdowns and then missed significant time with a broken collarbone. He was cited for missing practices after being medically cleared from injury and left Ole Miss in 2023 with just 28 combined catches across three seasons. After transferring to Baylor, he faced a one-game suspension against BYU in 2024 because of undisclosed disciplinary reasons. In 2025 he played the best football of his career, 50 catches for 694 yards and six touchdowns, a single-game Baylor tight end record against Kansas State, a Mackey Award finalist nod, and first-team All-Big 12 honors, before declaring for the 2026 NFL Draft.
Physical Attributes
Trigg did not work out at the combine because about one week before, he tweaked his hamstring. However, he made headlines in Indy with a TE record-breaking 84 3/8" wingspan. He waited to test further until his pro day, where hopefully he was still hurt or his now viral jump would be massively concerning. On tape, he has a weird combination of athleticism that comes out in random moments. He is all of really strong, very agile for his size, quick, and fast yet he does not use it that often? It's weird.
Data and Tape Analysis
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If it wasn't for Omar Cooper Jr, that is catch of the year. And the whole sizzle reel shows his upside. He gets defenders to bite on routes, has a huge catch radius where he vacuums in balls that have no right being caught, and can even make something happen with his feet.
What that does not show is what the radar does. Trigg cannot block well at all. It is wildly erratic, and almost never sound fundamentally. He has the strength and size to still make it work sometimes, but it seems more by accident than on purpose.
Even with all those otherworldly skills in the highlights, Trigg is inconsistent as a receiver as well. His low contested catch rate and high drop rate highlight just that. Sometimes he is out there and makes those defending him look like BBQ chicken, and other times, he looks like a Goliath being happily taken down by David.
Grade and Outlook
The highs are very high and the lows very low with Michael Trigg. His upside is there, but I can't imagine someone who spent five years in school deciding not to block and keeping his mercurial ways, ridding himself of them now.
Grade: 4.2 (4th Rounder)