Andrew
Ogletree.
Andrew
Ogletree.
Youngstown St.
Ogletree is a 6-foot-5, 261-pound tight end whose calling card is the part of the job most people skip. He is a willing, physical in-line blocker who latches and finishes, and 26 bench press repetitions at his pro day matched what the tape showed about his upper-body strength.
He was a first-team all-Ohio basketball player in high school, and the body control transfers: he adjusts to the throw, plays above the rim on jump balls and has strong, reliable hands in traffic. What he is not is a separator. A 4.71 forty and a 7.31 three-cone are ordinary for the position, he does not threaten a seam against professional safeties, and his route running is still basic.
A two-tight-end run offense that uses him as an attached Y in heavy personnel and asks him to seal the edge rather than win routes.
Year 1: TE3 and blocking specialist in heavy packages. Ceiling: starting Y tight end in a run-first offense with 25 catches a year.
A spread passing attack that flexes its tight end into the slot and needs him to beat a nickel corner one-on-one.
His job description was written by the run game coordinator, not the pass game coordinator.
Director's Cut — Drew Ogletree vs. Saints
All-22 breakdown of his blocking and route work in a starting role.
Drew Ogletree Blocking Snaps vs Cleveland
The in-line blocking tape that is the core of his professional value.
Youngstown State TE Andrew Ogletree after the Hula Bowl
All-star week interview from the event that put him on draft boards.
Ogletree grew up in Dayton, Ohio and played both football and basketball at Northridge High School, earning first-team all-Ohio honors in each and the state basketball coaches' Division 3 player of the year award. No Division I program recruited him, so he went to the University of Findlay, a Division II school in northwest Ohio.
He caught three passes for 29 yards there in 2016, then 23 for 328 and five scores in eleven games in 2017, and 28 for 428 with five more touchdowns in 2018, which earned honorable-mention All-G-MAC recognition. He did not play in 2019 and transferred up to Youngstown State of the Football Championship Subdivision.
The move up did not produce numbers. He played all seven games of the spring 2021 season with two starts and caught twelve passes for 109 yards, then made 28 catches for 282 yards without a touchdown in the fall. He raised his profile at the Hula Bowl and tested respectably at his pro day with a 35-inch vertical and 26 bench repetitions. The evaluation was straightforward: a genuinely good blocker with basketball ball skills, two levels below the competition he would face, with no receiving production at either stop to promise anything more.
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In-line blocking
he attaches, sustains and finishes at the point of attack, which is the rarest skill in a modern tight end class.
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Hands and body control
a high-level high school basketball player who tracks the ball and adjusts late in tight windows.
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Upper-body strength
26 bench press repetitions at his pro day, and the grip strength holds up against defensive ends.
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Red-zone frame
6-foot-5 and 261 pounds with a 35-inch vertical, a real target above the rim inside the twenty.
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Development curve
he went from Division II to the Football Championship Subdivision to an all-star game in three years without plateauing.
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Level of competition
four years of Division II and two of FCS football, with no snaps against defenders anywhere near NFL speed.
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Receiving production
28 catches for 282 yards and zero touchdowns in his final season is not a profile that projects to targets.
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Athletic separation
a 4.71 forty and 7.31 three-cone mean he does not stress a seam or win against man coverage down the field.
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Route detail
his release package and stem work were raw, and he needed technical coaching before he could be trusted on third down.
| Yr | Team | G | Rec | Yds | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Findlay | — | 3 | 29 | 0 |
| 2017 | Findlay | 11 | 23 | 328 | 5 |
| 2018 | Findlay | — | 28 | 428 | 5 |
| 2020 | Youngstown St. | 7 | 12 | 109 | 0 |
| 2021 | Youngstown St. | 10 | 28 | 282 | 0 |
| Career | — | 28 | 94 | 1176 | 10 |
cfbstats does not cover Division II, so the three Findlay seasons come from the official Youngstown State biography, which itemizes each year and credits him with 54 catches for 785 yards and ten touchdowns over his Findlay career; the itemized seasons sum exactly to that total, which also confirms the zero touchdowns in 2016. The two Youngstown State lines come from the official conference statistics, with games played counted from the season logs: all seven games of the spring 2021 season played as the 2020 schedule, and ten in the fall. He did not play in 2019 and no season is listed for that year. Games played at Findlay in 2016 and 2018 are not published by either school, so those cells are left empty rather than filled with a number, and the career row therefore carries no games total.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
TE2 who lives on blocking snaps and a handful of red-zone targets a year.
Mid-round tight end who blocks well enough to start and grows into a 50-catch role.
Depth tight end who bounces between rosters without ever owning a role.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
The professional career started a year late. Indianapolis placed him on injured reserve on August 18, 2022 after he tore an ACL in training camp, so his rookie season disappeared before it began. He came back in 2023 and played twelve games with nine starts, scoring his first NFL touchdown against the Rams in Week 4 and finishing with nine receptions for 147 yards and two scores. Off the field, he was arrested in Hendricks County that December on domestic violence charges that were dismissed with prejudice on March 5, 2024.
He has been a blocking tight end ever since. He played all seventeen games in 2024 for nine catches and 109 yards, and made fifteen appearances with five starts in 2025 before a neck injury suffered against San Francisco in Week 16 put him on season-ending injured reserve on December 27. The Colts re-signed him to a one-year deal on March 13, 2026. Four seasons, 22 catches, 283 yards and four touchdowns — a sixth-round Division II tight end who became a real NFL blocker and nothing more, which is roughly what the pick was worth.