The Seahawks added another weapon to their offense in the second round of the 2025 NFL Draft, selecting University of Miami tight end Elijah Arroyo with pick No. 52.

"It feels unreal," Arroyo said on a conference call after being selected. I'm still trying to take it all in. It's a surreal feeling. I'm blessed."

Arroyo, who is 6-foot-5, 254 pounds, averaged an impressive 16.9 yards per reception in his final season in Miami, catching 35 passes for 590 yards and seven touchdowns.

That 2024 performance helped Arroyo earn second-team All-ACC honors in a strong final season in which he started all 13 games after being limited to 11 games in his previous two seasons due to injury.

Arroyo was better known as a pass-catching tight end in college, but prides himself in being a versatile and well-rounded tight end.

"I lined up everywhere throughout my college career," Arroyo said. "Really, everywhere on the field. I feel like that's where I thrive, just being able to spread out and create mismatches."

Arroyo later added, "I'm an elite competitor. You look on film, you know exactly what you're going to get with me, that's tremendous effort and just everything out of me in general. In the pass game, I can stretch the field; I'm basically like a receiver out there. I can run every route in the route tree, I understand how to get open, I understand zones. I feel like I'm a great overall tight end."

As for his blocking, Arroyo said, "I did a decent amount. I really improved these past couple of years, and there's still a lot more room for improvement as a far as my in-line blocking. Just learning how to help the offense any way I can."

While Arroyo is from Florida and played his college football in Miami, he didn't spend his entire childhood in the Sunshine State. Because of his father's job selling timeshares, Arroyo and his family moved to Cancun, Mexico, when he was 7, staying for five years before moving to Frisco, Texas.

"I had just started playing football before I moved down there, so that was my biggest concern as a 7-year-old moving to a different country," he said. "I asked my mom if they had a football team, and they said yes, they found me a football team. So I was cool with it."

On playing football in Mexico, Arroyo said, "It was really the same other than being in a different language. You really learn that it's still the same sport, it's still football. There's different ways to learn the game."

NFL.com Lance Zierlein's Analysis of Arroyo

Arroyo enters the evaluation process with questions to answer after a knee injury took chunks of two seasons from him. He displayed a willingness as both a point-of-attack and move blocker, but his technique and play strength will need upgrading. He's an average athlete who struggles to beat man coverage but appeared to get faster and more fluid as the 2024 season wore on. He plays with awareness in space and secures throws with sure hands in traffic. Arroyo is a move tight end whose medical and athletic testing need to check out to give him a legitimate shot at being a productive pro.