Towering 6-7, 250-pound target who spent three seasons at Iowa State and arrives at Penn State off a career year — 37 catches, 446 yards, six touchdowns — with Phil Steele preseason All-America billing waiting for him. Brahmer's catch radius is the sales pitch; small-town Nebraska production (back-to-back 1,000-yard high school seasons at Pierce) built a natural ball-winner, and the 17.9-yard average during his injury-shortened 2024 shows the seam-stretching lives in the frame. Penn State's recent tight end lineage gives him a proven usage template to step into. However, the career-best season was still only 37 catches — he has never been a volume weapon — and a 6-7 build raises the standard leverage questions tall tight ends always have to answer at the next level. The scheme fit is the bet here. If Penn State feeds him the way it has fed its recent tight ends, he is a Day 3 pick in 2027 with red-zone specialist value; the tools still read better than the target share.