Will highly productive BYU receiver Chase Roberts get picked in this weekend’s NFL draft?
Will BYU receiver Chase Roberts' age, 25, work against him in NFL draft this weekend?
BYU wide receiver Chase Roberts (33) runs the 40-yard dash at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. | Michael Conroy By his own admission, former BYU receiver Chase Roberts did not perform well at February’s NFL Combine in Indianapolis.
“I was dead last (among 34 receivers) in the 40-yard-dash,” Roberts said. “It obviously didn’t go how I wanted it to. ” Although he improved his 40 time to 4.
51 at BYU’s pro day last month when he was considerably more healthy, that time of 4. 64 seconds in Indy in front of a national television audience, in addition to the 25-year-old Roberts’ age, could keep one of the most-accomplished and productive receivers in BYU history from hearing his name called when the NFL draft is held this week in Pittsburgh. Most mock drafts say Roberts won’t be taken in any of the seven rounds and will likely be signed as a priority free agent; others, such as one by Jaime Eisner of The Draft Network , have him going in the seventh round.
I have established a faith and trust in God that I know will carry me far in the NFL if it is His will. former BYU receiver Chase Roberts “If Chase wasn’t 25 he is probably a mid-round pick,” noted his agent, Carter Chow of Red Envelope Sports. “… I still think he gets picked, but it will be late.
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