The Green Bay Packers hosted an official top-30 visit with Baylor tight end Ben Sims ahead of the 2023 NFL draft on Wednesday.
The list of reported pre-draft visits for the Packers can be found here: Tracking Packers; official pre-draft visits ahead of 2023 NFL draft.
Sims (6-4, 250) caught 78 passes for 785 yards and 12 touchdowns over 43 games and 30 starts at Baylor. He was an All-Big 12 selection in both 2021 and 2022, when he caught 62 total passes and scored nine of his 12 touchdowns.
According to Pro Football Focus, Sims dropped only two passes on 42 targets, forced five missed tackles and caught one pass over 20 yards in the air in 2022. He averaged under 1.0 yards per route run (poor) and received poor run-blocking grades.
Although not invited to the combine, Sims ran the 40-yard dash in 4.58 seconds, hit 36″ in the vertical leap, covered 10-2 in the broad jump, finished the three-cone drill in 7.46 seconds and the short shuttle in 4.41 seconds and completed 15 reps on the 225-pound bench press at Baylor’s pro day.
Dane Brugler of The Athletic rates Sims as the 26th-best tight end in the draft class and a likely priority free agent following the draft.
The Packers could see Sims as a player with the size and athleticism to develop at tight end, a position lacking depth and talent entering the draft. Green Bay has seven picks on Day 3 if Sims is a draftable player on the Packers’ draft board.
