{"id":870302,"date":"2026-08-27T13:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870302\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:42:12","slug":"nfl-players-who-should-consider-taking-advantage-of-new-cfb-eligibility-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870302\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Players Who Should Consider Taking Advantage of New CFB Eligibility Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Denver Broncos added Dallen Bentley to a crowded tight end room. This offseason, they re-signed Adam Trautman and Nate Adkins. In April, Denver drafted Justin Joly and Bentley in the fifth and seventh rounds, respectively. Evan Engram leads the group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Despite a breakout 2025 collegiate year, hauling in 48 passes for 620 yards and six touchdowns, Bentley still has room for growth as a pass-catcher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Bleacher Report scout <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25403306-dallen-bentley-nfl-draft-2026-scouting-report-denver-broncos-te\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Harms<\/a> noted Bentley needed to improve in the nuances of playing the position in a receiving role.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">&#8220;Bentley struggles to defeat man coverage and lacks the short-area quickness, consistent physicality, and route nuance to shake defenders. Has the size and frame to dig out defenders as a blocker, but needs to refine his hand placement, pad level, and power to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Bentley should consider returning to the collegiate level to further refine his skill set and build on his productive 2025 campaign at Utah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denver Broncos added Dallen Bentley to a crowded tight end room. This offseason, they re-signed Adam Trautman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-870302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}