Like to see us sign C.J. Anderson :cool:

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Chris Ballard last night mentioned the special feeling at Dez Bryant’s Pro Day years ago. So I just asked him if the Colts would be interested in the free agent WR. “Well, Dez Bryant’s a heck of a player. We’ll see.” Wrapping up the draft remains immediate priority, obviously.

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Sounds good to me. Good compliment to Hilton. Hopefully a veteran RB can be had as well.

End of q3. Pacers by 25

Damnit. There goes Green. Carroll will turn him into a player.

Tyquan Lewis had an RAS score of 9.53, and Turay had a 9.32. Definitely good athletes. Braden was a 9.71.

https://relativeathleticscores.com/2...aft-class-ras/

Lorenzo Carter was a 10. I'm not sold on Turay. Hopefully he proves me wrong.

No we aren't.

Oh I have no problem with those picks. It just puts to bed the whole idea that Ballard is a guy who is strictly going BPA.

Really, a guy who runs only 2 or 3 routes and has a less than 60% catch rate?

Hmm rare that someone mentions a guy I haven't heard of. Don't know anything about him. Says he would make a good 3-tech in a 4-3. And apparently also according to walterfootball, Tyquan Lewis also had a good week of practice at the senior bowl.

I remember Turay impressing during practices that were on ESPN.

Not saying I don't want a better CB but I don't see where it'll come from this year.

"set at CB other than depth" means the Colts have zero depth at CB after losing Melvin.

I can give CB the benefit of the doubt re: Nelson over R. Smith in Round 1, especially if he feels D. Leonard can do almost everything, if not everything, Smith can do and was definitely going to be available in Round 2.

I can give CB the benefit of the doubt re: B. Smith at #37 if he feels Smith can move to tackle and, given his athleticism and frame and IQ, be at least as good as any remaining RT still on the board.

I can give CB the benefit of the doubt re: picking Turay IF he's already put himself in a position to get a CB like Davis later on.

I can give CB the benefit of the doubt re: picking T. Lewis IF he's already picked a CB like D. Jackson or I. Oliver earlier in the draft.

I have a far harder time giving CB the benefit of the doubt, on a team that already has Sheard, Basham and Simon on its roster, and has signed Autry as an FA, when it comes to burning 2 draft picks on BOTH Turay and Lewis.

I can only guess that it means CB must truly like Tremon Smith a lot and expects him to still be available, maybe, with one of the 5th round picks.

Yeah I saw that. Turay and Carter seemed the same to me. Kinda underachievers. Maybe they went with Turay after working with him at the senior bowl. Hope he works as well.

Since everyone has been talking about CB, I think Anthony Averett would be a good get at 104. Don't like the Jaguars getting Ronnie Harrison.

Two CB's I like for tomorrow is Anthony averett and Parry Nicholson.

I really like Davontae Harris.

Hurst at 104 would be a really good get. Getting a top 50 talent at 104 due to medicals would be a huge win.

Ideal Day 3:

104) DT Maurice Hurst
140) LB Genard Avery
169) CB Holton Hill
221) DE John Franklin-Myers

UDFA focus on CB, WR, RB, TE

Guys I like tomorrow

Hurst / Trenton Thompson
Daeshon Hamilton /Keke coutee/ Jaleel Scoot /Deontay Burnett
Nyheim Hines/Ito Smith/Kallen Ballage
Rashad Fant/Parry Nicholson /Anthony Averett
Shaqeen Griffen/Obo Okronkwo

Yeah, I'm not sold on Turay either. Didn't like this pick at all, but hopefully Ballard and Reich know more than I do.

Trenton Thompson is another guy the Colts are likely looking at. Big, long, athletic DT. Since Ballard went for Turay, I have to think Ade Aruna is on his radar tomorrow as well, though he may be more of a PFA.

the one that's probably head and shoulders above the rest in terms of raw talent is Hill. Physically he's a late-first, early-second round prospect.

Unfortunately, he's also a guy who missed several games on suspension due to team rules violations, so if I'm Ballard I'd want to be 100% convinced he's gotten all of that out of his system before I invested a draft pick on him.

Wasn't enamored with several of our 2nd round picks, I understand Ballard wants to strengthen the offensive and defensive lines, but a couple of these guys were reaches, we could have probably found some of these same guys, or similarly talented guys later, and could have traded back to get them if these were the guys Ballard targeted.

As someone else said, these picks seemed like Grigson picks. I sure hope Ballard knows what he's doing. We really need a quality WR now.

Mike Mayock on our 2nd round picks

You made that up right? There's no actual human named that.

I’m underwhelmed by the Day 2 picks on paper. Hopefully the analysts that I trust were more wrong than Ballard.

Day 3 possibilities, Tyrell Crosby (if Ballard thinks he's an OT and not an OG), Deshean Hamilton, Nyheim Hynes, Davontae Harris, Genard Avery, Simmie Cobbs, Royce Freeman, Shaquem Griffin, Marcus Allen

I read Hill had some character questions surrounding him, that is why I left him off. I don't see Ballard drafting anyone with character concerns when he is trying to build a locker room. I'll add Quentin Meeks to that list as well of guys I like..

Freeman went to the Broncos. I like Allen, good playmaker in the secondary. It it a good safety class this year. I think Kyzir White is still available and he reminds me of a Cam Chancellor type who will light people up.

I kinda see him as a 3-4 end since he doesn't have a lot of pass rush potential. Turay did something at the senior bowl that really impressed them and made them think he can be a rusher. But they did say they will have waves of DL attacking, 8 players. So if they can move inside on passing downs that probably makes them more valuable to Ballard.

I'm still hoping for Hurst. I haven't been screaming this much for a player since I was yelling at grigson to spend at least a 7th on Burfict, and a 7th on Lael Collins.

Well, partially right

Sounds like a poor man's Roquon Smith, so I like the pick.

Isn't the guy unemployed? That would make a guy humble.

Yes, it does. Now we can push for an opening in the middle and those edge guys cannot tee off.

Griffin at 67 is my hope

This is why he chose basketball, even though he has a football body. The guy folds when he gets hit hard.

I'm fairly happy with the draft so far. Has there been a huge impact? I dunno, define huge. I think any concerns over the o-line should be quelled at this point.
Nelson is an immediate starter at LG, and anchored between Kelly and Castonzo, the left side will be a strength.
Smith will be the RT. He has the length and footwork to play that position, and he would have been the RT at Auburn except injuries to other players forced him to play the RG spot. So we just need either Mewhort, Slauson, Goode, Haeg or Clark step up to play that spot, the rest provide pretty decent depth.
On that point, this looks like a good line: Castonzo, Nelson, Kelly, Slauson, Smith.
That's a pretty massive revamp over last year's line.
Also, here's a good writeup on Smith from a few months ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NFL_Draft/c...ith_ol_auburn/

Also Mathis seems to have been scouting Turay and is really high on him.

Cato June tweeted that Leonard is a mix of Keith Bullock and David Thornton. He apparently coached against his team in college.