A late-blooming, high-effort tight end who spent four invisible years at Michigan before reinventing himself at SMU, Hibner's calling card is his fluid athleticism and surprising route-running polish for a player with only two years of meaningful college production. He flashes legitimate seam-stretching ability and showed at the Senior Bowl that he can win with hip fluidity, hand-eye coordination, and competitive catches in traffic — the kind of reps that make scouts look twice at a guy ranked outside the top 250. The blocking is developmental and the production sample is razor-thin, which creates real risk that his Senior Bowl week was the peak rather than the floor. If a coaching staff is patient enough to develop his inline blocking and can scheme him into space early, there's a TE2/move TE ceiling here — but the margin for error is almost nonexistent for a 24-year-old with 55 career college catches.

• ✂️Fluid hips and malleable breaks create genuine separation through zones — rare movement quality for 6'5", 252 lbs
• 🤲Outstanding upper-body strength (led all TEs at combine with 28 bench press reps) translates to contested-catch ability and blocking potential
• +Consistent Senior Bowl performer who earned evaluator respect over three days of practice with day-over-day reliability
• 🧲Good hand-eye coordination and ball-tracking ability, especially over the middle on seam routes
• 🏎️4.57 combine 40-yard dash demonstrates plus timed speed for the TE position at his weight

• 🤲Severely limited production sample — only 55 career college catches across 6 seasons, with meaningful reps only in final two years at SMU
• 🪵Blocking technique is raw and underdeveloped; needs to improve pad level and explosiveness off the line as an inline TE
• −Size concerns at the NFL level — listed variously between 6'4" and 6'5", which is on the shorter side for an every-down TE
• −Late breakout at age 24 raises developmental ceiling questions — may be closer to his peak already than younger prospects