Editor’s note: This story originally ran the week of Senior Bowl at the end of January 2025.
Mobile, wing. A leading racing play in the Senior Bowl can put a draft leaflet on everyone’s radar, raise its draft stock or raise it to a new level, even months before selections are made in April.
For Jack Bech, he also helped him cry.
The 6 -foot recipient of TCU caught the player player of the game at the Senior Bowl 2025, taking a knee in the score area after scoring.
Making plays is what Hey had done all week. In Wednesday’s practice, there was a long launch of the Alabama field marshal, Jalen Milroe, for the right side line, perhaps a little lower. Bech returned, turned around and made a jump of jump with two defenders about him.
Hey, they did an Orange T -shirt No. 7, not He. 18 Hello in TCU while enjoying a 2024 season, with 62 trapped for 1,034 yards and nine touchdowns.
This week, to the number of his brother.
Martin “Tiger” Bech, 27, a former Princeton receiver and New York Stock Exchange Corridor, was killed in the attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans in the early hours of New Year’s Day, one of the 14 victims as a man led a truck through a crowd. This week is the first time that Jack has had the opportunity to return to the normality of football, playing in the exhibition game for the NFL perspectives.
“My family and I have definitely felt all the love and support of all, and it really helped us try to make the most of this situation,” said Bech, who is close to Lafayette, Louisiana, and had more than 30 relatives.
Bech (rhyme with “mesh”) is not the only Senior Bowl player who paid tribute to Martin in the game. All the players of both teams had a sticker on the back of their helmet, with the number 7 in orange and black tiger stripes.
Bech also has a more permanent reminder or his brother. As there was talk to journalists in the field after practice, the shirt was removed, showing a couple of new tattoos. The first, in his clavicle under the left shoulder, reads “7 to heaven” in the script, and on his heart, he has been in the Roman numbers the dates of his brother’s birth and death: “I.xvii.mcmxcvii-iimmxxv”.
“I have angel wings,” Bech said when asked about using his brother’s number. “I have the best guardian angel of all of them, it takes me to where I am now. This was his last test for me, knowing that if I can get this, anything that is thrown to me will notice compared to this.”
Jack Bech shows journalists the tattoos in his chest he received in memory or in his murdered brother.
He has a difficult month for Bech for Bech, dealing with the loss of his brother Saudden, but he has also given him a new feeling of gratitude for the time he has, for the privilege of playing the game he loves, knowing how quickly things can be away. This week is the best opportunity to convince NFL that he has talented talented enough to play on Sunday this fall and beyond.
“I am very blessed to be in a position to be in front of these teams, so I love it,” Bech said. “I wake up everything and thank God for putting myself in this position, to make the most of every opportunity I get.”
Bech is seen as a midft leaflet of half of the round, with physical game, acute route and the ability to make captures disputed in the air like the one he did on Wednesday. Catching Passes is a family business and Martin’s uncle, Brett, played receiver in LSU and three seasons with the 1997-99 Saints.
A year ago, Bech was on the Radar of the NFL or the Senior Bowl, with a total of four touchdowns in its first three years of university, including two in LSU. But it emerged big, especially in the second half of the season, totaling 647 yards and six touchdowns in the last five games. In the final of the TCU season, he caught a touchdown pass in the last quarter to give the frogs horns the advantage forever in a victory over Stanford. That led him to declare as a first -year student for the Draft, and on Saturday it was his great opportunity to appear at the NFL.
“I want the teams to know a high level at my game speed. I can stretch the field,” he said. “I know the game super good, all the small nuances, the bees capable of attacking the coverage. It does not matter who happens in front of me, I do not shudder and I do the best one that can every time.”
Greg Auman is an NFL reporter for Fox Sports. Previously a decade passed by covering the Bucaneros For him Tampa Bay Times and Atlético. You can follow it on Twitter in @Gregaman.
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