{"id":12115,"date":"2025-04-30T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/12115\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:27:09","slug":"colts-pick-arizona-state-qb-sam-leavitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/12115\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts pick Arizona State QB Sam Leavitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an incredibly early 2026 NFL mock draft from Pro Football Focus, the Indianapolis Colts are addressing the quarterback position.<\/p>\n<p>In an incredibly early 2026 NFL mock draft from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/draft-2026-nfl-mock-draft-way-too-early-arch-manning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Football Focus<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a> are addressing the quarterback position.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, a full year out, accuracy with these mocks isn&#8217;t the purpose; rather, they can more so help put top prospects on your radar heading into the upcoming college football season.<\/p>\n<p>In this mock, the draft order was based on current Super Bowl odds, so the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/indianapolis-colts\/338\" data-autotag=\"d3fda36a-3eb5-4700-8763-caba831c06ae\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colts<\/a> held the eighth overall pick. PFF&#8217;s duo of Max Chadwick and Dalton Wasserman, the two who put this mock together, had the Colts picking <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/arizona-state-sun-devils\/3463\/\" data-autotag=\"2e01ffe4-6aa4-4121-b8ae-0ae5f65cffc9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arizona State<\/a> quarterback Sam Leavitt.<\/p>\n<p>Before highlighting Leavitt, I guess let&#8217;s start here: If the Colts hold the eighth overall pick next year, things obviously went poorly in 2025. The trickle-down effect from there could be a massive overhaul, which includes a new GM, a new coaching staff, and a new quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>That isn&#8217;t what PFF is predicting with this mock. Again, Super Bowl odds determined the draft order, but it&#8217;ll be the Colts&#8217; reality if they&#8217;re picking in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt finished the 2024 season&#8211;his first as a starter&#8211;completing 61% of his passes at 8.1 yards per attempt with 24 touchdowns, and he was very good at taking care of the football, throwing only six interceptions with a turnover-worthy play rate of just 1.1%. Leavitt also rushed for 502 yards as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leavitt had a brilliant first season as Arizona State\u2019s starter and is poised to become the engine of the Sun Devils\u2019 offense after Cam Skattebo\u2019s departure to the NFL,&#8221; wrote PFF. &#8220;Leavitt\u2019s 88.9 PFF overall grade ranked ninth among qualified quarterbacks last season, while his 1.1% turnover-worthy play rate tied for third. If he further develops his chemistry with top receiver Jordyn Tyson, he could have a massive season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an incredibly early 2026 NFL mock draft from Pro Football Focus, the Indianapolis Colts are addressing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[247,265,375,387,2005,378,7,2004,392,2381,248,267,246,88,6,245,264,818,817,829,9,266,376,819,377,776],"class_list":{"0":"post-12115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-arizona-state-sun-devils-football","12":"tag-colts","13":"tag-devils","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-indianapolis","16":"tag-indianapolis-colts","17":"tag-indianapoliscolts","18":"tag-national","19":"tag-national-sports","20":"tag-neutral","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-overall","24":"tag-overall-neutral","25":"tag-scores","26":"tag-sport","27":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-sports-news","30":"tag-state","31":"tag-statistics","32":"tag-sun","33":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114426206276678025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}