The Colts last week answered two key questions for the makeup of their 2026 roster: Yes, Daniel Jones is back. And yes, Alec Pierce is back.<\/p>\n
Additionally, defensive ends Arden Key and Micheal Clemons were signed, as was defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi, and defensive tackle Colby Wooden was acquired in a trade with the Green Bay Packers. Tight end Drew Ogletree is back, too.<\/p>\n
The Colts’ roster is far from set in terms of bringing in or retaining free agents; however, the pace of these signings will slow from a deluge to a trickle in the coming weeks. So how, after last week, do various NFL Draft experts see the Colts operating in next month’s NFL Draft?<\/p>\n
Here’s our latest Mock Draft Monday update after the first wave of free agency:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colts last week answered two key questions for the makeup of their 2026 roster: Yes, Daniel Jones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,198,697,7,2004,392,2381,109548,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-815514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-indianapolis","13":"tag-indianapolis-colts","14":"tag-indianapoliscolts","15":"tag-mock-draft-mondays","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116239722377392104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815514","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=815514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}