Jonah Trinnaman has the best chance of BYU's undrafted players to make an NFL roster

Tejan Koroma (left) and Jonah Trinnaman are two BYU Cougars looking to make NFL rosters after being undrafted (Source: ESPN960.com).

Fred Warner was the only BYU Cougar with the good fortune of being selected in the 2018 NFL Draft. However, that doesn't mean the dream is dead for the rest of BYU's seniors who aspire to play professional football. Many undrafted free agents make NFL rosters each year. BYU had four last year alone (Taysom Hill, Kai Nacua, Michael Davis, and Harvey Langi). From there, they can prove the doubters wrong, and land a big contract in a few years, like Daniel Sorensen.

This year, BYU has five other players hoping to follow a similar path. Jonah Trinnaman, Micah Hannemann, and Tomasi Laulile inked undrafted free agent deals. Tejan Koroma and Tanner Balderee have invites to mini-camp. As true blue BYU fans, we want all of them to be on a roster and suited up for game one, but if you had to pick just one, which undrafted player has the best chance to make the 53-man roster?

Blue Cougar Footbal made that its poll question this week, and the official results are below.

Official Results
41% Jonah Trinnaman
36% Tomasi Laulile
13% Other (Koroma/Balderee)
10% Micah Hannemann 

It is an uphill battle for all five players, but Trinnamann's dazzling pro day seems to still resonate with fans. Perhaps Trinnamann's shear athleticism goes give him the best chance to make a 53-man roster, but it is hard to see Arizona being that place. Larry Fitzgerald is still the alpha receiver there, and several proven, talented receivers surround him. The quarterback situation doesn't seem favorable for a free agent wide receiver either. Sam Bradford is a newcomer trying to fend off rookie, first-round draft pick Josh Rosen. Both will be focused on working with the veterans, not a guy like Trinnaman.

Maybe Trinnaman follows the Taysom Hill route, and lands somewhere else after an impressive preseason.

Laulile is one of four defensive tackles on the current Colts roster on ESPN.com, which is a positive. However, he is at least 30 pounds lighter than the others. The biggest obstacle for Laulile, in my opinion, is not his size, but the fact that he didn't play last year. He was a senior at BYU in 2016. He wasn't a practice squad player last year. He was "out of football" for a year. That isn't helpful.

Hannemann is in a favorable situation, much like Kai Nacua last year, because it is the Browns. Cleveland desperately needs to find guys who can win games together. For that reason, they are willing to look longer at free agents to see if they are the right fit. I don't think Hannamann is better than Nacua, but sometimes, making a roster is more about being in the right place at the right time.

Koroma and Balderee have a significantly harder road to making an opening day roster. They aren't undrafted free agents. They got mini-camp invites. They don't get to go to training camp. All they get is the mini-camp. They must do something there to adequately impress to get invited back to training camp.

The Browns already have a solid tight end with David Njoku. While Balderee will always have a spot in BYU history for his two big plays in overtime to beat Mississippi State in 2016, he very unlikely has a spot on the Cleveland roster.

Koroma was very good at BYU. How he is stuck with just a mini-camp invite is surprising. If he couldn't get at least a free agent deal after what he did at BYU, then I don't think there is anything he can do to fight his way on to a roster. It is probably unfair, but that's the NFL.

Thank you to everyone who voted. A breakdown of the votes from each polling source is below.

BCF	Vote Breakdown	Twitter
30% (9)	Jonah Trinnaman	50% (19)
10% (3)	Micah Hannemann	11% (4)
43% (13)	Tomasi Laulile	29% (11)
17% (5)	Other (Koroma/Balderee)	10% (4)
100% (30)	Total	100% (38)

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