Teagan
Quitoriano.
Teagan
Quitoriano.
Oregon St.· 6'6"· 258 lb
Quitoriano is a 6-foot-5 1/2, 258-pound tight end who earns his snaps with his hands in the dirt. He aligns attached to the formation, fires off the ball with good pad level and sustains through the whistle, and the 22 bench reps translate to a real punch at the point of attack.
The receiving work is a complement rather than a weapon. He is a straight-line mover with a 4.94 forty who runs seams and flats, finds the soft spot against zone and catches cleanly through contact, but he separates from nobody in man coverage and his route tree at Oregon State stayed narrow. Forty career catches across four seasons is the honest ceiling of his college role. Everything he offers flows from being the extra lineman in a heavy package.
Run-first offense built on outside zone and heavy personnel that lines him up attached to the tackle as the point-of-attack blocker and uses him off play-action rather than in the route progression.
Year 1: TE2 blocking specialist and core special teams player. Ceiling: full-time starting Y in a two-tight-end running offense.
A spread passing attack that detaches its tight end into the slot and asks him to win one-on-one against safeties and nickel corners.
His value is measured in run lanes, not targets.
Teagan Quitoriano - TE - 2022 NFL Draft
Pre-draft Oregon State cut-up covering both the in-line blocking and the limited route work.
2022 OSU Pro Day: Teagan Quitoriano
Full pro day workout showing the frame, movement and catching drills teams evaluated.
Every Teagan Quitoriano Rookie Season Touchdown
His two rookie-year scores for Houston, the high point of his NFL receiving work.
Quitoriano is from Salem, Oregon, and stayed close to home at Oregon State, where he spent four years in a program that leaned heavily on the run and used multiple tight ends to do it. He played three games as a true freshman in 2018 and six apiece in 2019 and the shortened 2020 season.
His senior year was the largest role he ever held: eleven games, nineteen catches, 214 yards and three touchdowns. The career file came to 26 games, 40 receptions, 512 yards and six scores, numbers that would normally be a non-factor in a draft evaluation. What kept scouts interested was the blocking tape on an offense that ranked among the better rushing units in the Pac-12, where he was consistently the point-of-attack tight end on outside zone.
The workout confirmed the profile. At 6-foot-5 1/2 and 258 pounds with 33 3/4-inch arms and 22 bench reps, he had the frame and strength teams want in a Y. The 4.94 forty, 7.33 three-cone and 32-inch vertical put a hard ceiling on the receiving projection. Houston took him 170th overall as a blocking specialist who could grow into a third-down option if the hands held up.
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In-line blocking
plays with leverage and sustains through the whistle as the attached tight end in an outside zone running game.
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Play strength
22 bench reps at 258 pounds, enough functional power to handle a defensive end on the edge of the formation.
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Frame and length
6-foot-5 1/2 with 33 3/4-inch arms and a 6-foot-6 3/4 wingspan, a genuine Y-tight end build.
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Hands through contact
caught the ball cleanly in a limited role, with a 20-yard average as a sophomore on seam and play-action throws.
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Scheme experience
four years in a run-first Pac-12 offense that asked him to do exactly what an NFL blocking tight end is asked to do.
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Receiving production
40 catches for 512 yards across four college seasons, with no year above nineteen receptions.
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Separation
a 4.94 forty and 7.33 three-cone mean he cannot uncover against man coverage or threaten a defense vertically.
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Route tree
ran a narrow menu of seams, flats and play-action crossers, with no evidence he can win from a detached alignment.
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Explosiveness
a 32-inch vertical and 9-foot-9 broad jump are modest for the position and cap his value in the red zone.
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| Yr | Team | G | Rec | Yds | TD |
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| 2018 | Oregon State | 3 | 2 | 13 | 0 |
| 2019 | Oregon State | 6 | 5 | 100 | 2 |
| 2020 | Oregon State | 6 | 14 | 185 | 1 |
| 2021 | Oregon State | 11 | 19 | 214 | 3 |
| Career | — | 26 | 40 | 512 | 6 |
Season lines come from the published Oregon State career table and reconcile exactly with the career row in every column: 26 games, 40 receptions, 512 yards and six touchdowns. The 2020 total covers the Pac-12's shortened pandemic schedule. Blocking snap counts, which are the core of his evaluation, are not published anywhere and cannot be represented in this table; the receiving line understates his actual playing time. No rushing or return production is listed because he recorded none.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Y tight end who moves between teams on modest deals because the blocking always plays somewhere.
Blocking-first tight end who carves out a long-term roster role and produces in short bursts when injuries open snaps.
Backup tight end whose limited receiving role leaves him cycling through practice squads late in a career.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Injuries have defined the professional career. Houston put him on injured reserve on September 1 of his rookie year, activated him hours before the Week 8 Thursday night game against Philadelphia, and he caught a two-yard touchdown for his first NFL reception. He finished 2022 with seven catches for 113 yards and two scores in nine games with six starts, including an 83-yard afternoon against Indianapolis in Week 18 that remains the best game of his career.
It has been a scramble since. He went on injured reserve again on October 31, 2023, and the Texans waived him with an injury settlement the following September. Chicago signed him to the practice squad, Houston signed him back off it three weeks later, and Atlanta added him in March 2025, where he played all seventeen games with one start and recorded a single special teams tackle. Arizona signed him in March 2026, released him at final cuts and brought him back to the practice squad. Nine career receptions for 146 yards is the return; five organizations have valued the blocking enough to keep him employed.