The summer before Gunnar Helm’s junior year of high school, Cherry Creek offensive-line coach Det Betti stepped back for a moment during a practice and took stock of a rather appalling personnel discrepancy. There were 25 kids, give or take, in Cherry Creek’s wide-receiver line. There were about three, in total, in their tight-end group.
So Betti went over to Helm, standing among a clogged crop of receivers, a bigger kid who had yet to crack varsity.
Why don’t you try tight end?
“I remember him saying, ‘Well, Coach, I really don’t know how to block anybody,'” Betti recalled to The Denver Post, earlier in April.
Helm learned. He went to Texas out of Cherry Creek, a fairly unheralded three-star recruit, and blocked for the majority of his freshman year. Then another. Then another. Before his senior year, a vacancy in the Longhorns’ tight end room popped open, and Helm went to tight ends coach Jeff Banks and told him he wanted to play in the NFL.
Now, a journey from Englewood complete, Helm’s officially an NFL tight end, snapped up by the Tennessee Titans in the fourth round of the NFL draft at pick No. 120.
But he won’t settle, simply, at hearing his name called Saturday.
“Coaches say, ‘What do you want out of this, out of this whole thing?’” Helm told The Post earlier in the month. “And some guys are like, ‘Well, I want to say I played in the NFL.’ And I think that’s just kind of selling yourself short a little bit.
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Helm broke out at Texas in 2024 as a pass-catcher after largely blocking for three years, racking up 60 catches for 786 yards as one of the more productive tight ends in the nation. The Titans were in on a tight end in the middle rounds, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Post, and Helm will head to Tennessee to catch passes from No. 1 overall pick Cam Ward.
“I know this — he’ll compete his butt off for Tennessee,” Helm’s high school coach Dave Logan told The Post. “They’re getting a really good athlete, big athlete, that is gonna be versatile enough that they’ll be able to play him at different spots.”
He’s the second tight end from this class to see an NFL journey continue from Colorado, as the Rams took Littleton native Terrance Ferguson in the second round.
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