{"id":750028,"date":"2026-02-13T20:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/750028\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:24:21","slug":"nfl-draft-analyst-with-good-news-for-indianapolis-colts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/750028\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL draft analyst with good news for Indianapolis Colts"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the best in the NFL draft business, Daniel Jeremiah, has some good news for the Indianapolis Colts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Jeremiah continues to work through his draft evaluations, he recently shared that this is a good year to need edge rusher help — which the Colts<\/a> need a lot of.<\/p>\n

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“If you need an edge rusher, this is a good draft to double up,” Jeremiah posted<\/a>. “The depth of the class is impressive. I’ve got 10 guys worthy of a spot in top 50 players. There’s another layer of traitsy players beyond that group.”<\/p>\n

The need for the Colts at this position is twofold. For starters, adding depth is a must with Samson Ebukam, Tyquan Lewis, and Kwity Paye all set to be free agents.<\/p>\n

But in addition to that, as GM Chris Ballard put it during his season-ending press conference, “more fuel” is needed along the defensive front.<\/p>\n

As a collective unit, the Colts ranked 30th in ESPN’s<\/a> pass rush win rate metric last season.<\/p>\n

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Among all defensive ends, only Latu ranked in the top-50 last season in quarterback pressures, and he was the only Colts’ defensive end in the top-80 in PFF’s<\/a> pass-rush win rate.<\/p>\n

Here are the top 10 defensive ends in this year’s draft from Mel Kiper’s big board<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. Rueben Bain Jr<\/a>., Miami (Fla.)2. Keldric Faulk<\/a>, Auburn3. Zion Young<\/a>, Missouri4. Akheem Mesidor<\/a>, Miami (Fla.)5. Dani Dennis-Sutton<\/a>, Penn State6. Caden Curry<\/a>, Ohio State7. LT Overton<\/a>, Alabama8. Jack Pyburn<\/a>, LSU9. Max Llewellyn<\/a>, Iowa10. Vincent Anthony Jr<\/a>., Duke<\/p>\n

The Colts do not own a first-round pick but have second and third-round selections. From the sounds of it, the opportunity to bolster the defensive end position at this point in the draft should exist.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Colts Wire: 2026 NFL draft: Lots of talent at key position of need for Colts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the best in the NFL draft business, Daniel Jeremiah, has some good news for the Indianapolis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[52319,2005,6756,2856,7,2004,392,2381,4996,7725,216,6,4993,4989],"class_list":{"0":"post-750028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-akheem-mesidor","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-dani-dennis-sutton","11":"tag-daniel-jeremiah","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-indianapolis","14":"tag-indianapolis-colts","15":"tag-indianapoliscolts","16":"tag-kwity-paye","17":"tag-lt-overton","18":"tag-miami","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-samson-ebukam","21":"tag-tyquan-lewis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116065198076865209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750028","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=750028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}