{"id":745306,"date":"2026-02-11T17:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/745306\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:58:21","slug":"indiana-pro-day-announced-best-2026-nfl-draft-prospects-for-colts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/745306\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Pro Day announced; best 2026 NFL draft prospects for Colts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 11, 2026, 11:01 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Pro Day season is nearly here for the <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a> and their 2026 NFL draft prep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A big one will reportedly be taking place on April 1st, when Indiana host their Pro Day in Bloomington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">According to Field Yates of <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=83224X1595658&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2F&amp;xcust=SC1-SCLT&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fcoltswire.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fnfl%2Fcolts%2F2026%2F02%2F11%2Findiana-pro-day-announced-best-2026-nfl-draft-prospects-indianapolis-colts%2F88623615007%2F\" data-v-afl=\"\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>, a &#8220;big NFL contingent&#8221; will be in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">So, if the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/indianapolis-colts\/338\" data-autotag=\"d3fda36a-3eb5-4700-8763-caba831c06ae\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Colts<\/a>&#8216; organization is a part of that group, which prospects should they be focused on?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After trading for cornerback Sauce Gardner last season, Indianapolis does not have a first-round pick this year &#8212; or next. So GM Chris Ballard&#8217;s first selection won&#8217;t come until Day 2, when he has a second-round pick and a third-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;It does put a premium on making sure those second, third, fourth round picks end up being really good,&#8221; Ballard said of not having a first-round pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As of now, this feels like an offseason where the Colts are going to <a href=\"http:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/colts\/2026\/01\/08\/chris-ballard-highlights-3-areas-colts-must-improve-2026-offseason\/88085161007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prioritize addressing<\/a> the defensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">With help from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/draft\/big-board?season=2026\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Pro Football Focus&#8217;<\/a> 2026 NFL draft big board, here are the top draft prospects from Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Top 2026 NFL draft prospects from IndianaQB Fernando MendozaWR Omar Cooper Jr.CB D&#8217;Angelo PondsWR Elijah SarrattED Mikail KamaraLB Aiden FisherC Pat CooganRB Roman HembyRB Kaelon BlackTE Riley Nowakowski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 11, 2026, 11:01 a.m. ET Pro Day season is nearly here for the Indianapolis Colts and their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[95878,2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,49915,95900,95882,95892,96941,95903,95896,95888,95895,95899,96176,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-745306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indianapolis","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcolts","16":"tag-sstsncolts","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagespn-inc","19":"tag-tagindiana","20":"tag-tagindianapolis-colts","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagnfl-hub","24":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","25":"tag-tagsauce-gardner","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116053299433373000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745306","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=745306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}