PFF’s pass rush win rate<\/a> metric–or how often a pass rusher beats the blocker across from them. In that regard, Latu ranked 27th out of 119 eligible defensive ends, and oftentimes, when there is consistency, the production will follow.<\/p>\nThe second reason that I’m bullish on Latu is the new Colts’ defensive scheme under Lou Anarumo.<\/p>\n
Making things difficult for the entire Colts’ pass rush last season was that opposing quarterbacks often picked apart the secondary with the quick passing game. When the ball is out of the quarterback’s hands so quickly, it makes getting home regularly quite difficult.<\/p>\n
But this season, this new-look defense will be more aggressive and utilize disguises in coverage, which can help take away those quick throws and lead to hesitation, providing an extra split-second or two for the pass rush, and that can be all it takes to turn a completion into a pressure or sack.<\/p>\n
“He does it the right way,” Steichen said\u00a0via the team site<\/a>\u00a0of Latu earlier this offseason. “The way he works, his work ethic is tremendous. I think you’ll see a big jump from Year 1 to Year 2. I think he had four (sacks) his rookie year, if we can get into double digits in Year 2 that’d be tremendous.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Colts DE Laiatu Latu is a top breakout candidate for the 2025 season. Our team of NFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[247,265,2005,7,20842,2004,392,2381,6657,667,6658,248,267,88,6,35196,245,537,530,9,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-162130","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-colts","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-hub","13":"tag-indianapolis","14":"tag-indianapolis-colts","15":"tag-indianapoliscolts","16":"tag-laiatu","17":"tag-laiatu-latu","18":"tag-latu","19":"tag-national","20":"tag-national-sports","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-nfl-hub","24":"tag-overall","25":"tag-overall-positive","26":"tag-positive","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114754384283707245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162130","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=162130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}