{"id":831475,"date":"2026-03-24T19:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/831475\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:13:18","slug":"colts-among-teams-to-meet-with-top-defensive-tackle-draft-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/831475\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts among teams to meet with top defensive tackle draft prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio State defensive tackle Kayden McDonald is on the Indianapolis Colts’<\/a> radar.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Justin Melo<\/a> of Sports Illustrated, McDonald mentioned the Colts<\/a> as one of the teams that he had a formal interview with at the NFL combine. He did not, however, mention having an official 30 visit with the Colts.<\/p>\n

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McDonald measures in at 6-3, 326 pounds, and is relatively inexperienced compared to many draft prospects, playing 695 career snaps, 448 of which came this past season.<\/p>\n

He recorded 14 quarterback pressures and two sacks, but his greatest impact came as a run defender, where he was one of PFF’s highest-graded prospects, and logged nine tackles for a loss.<\/p>\n

“It starts with winning my assignment,” McDonald told Melo. “I welcome those double teams so I can free up our linebackers. I love making everybody around me better. That\u2019s what shows up on film.”<\/p>\n

Realistically, McDonald may be long gone before the Colts are on the clock. He is the No. 2 ranked defensive tackle on Mel Kiper Jr.’s<\/a> big board, while SI<\/a> has him as a top 20 prospect overall.<\/p>\n

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Defensive tackle isn’t a pressing need<\/a> for the Colts in 2026 after making three offseason additions, along with DeForest Buckner and Grover Stewart returning, but looking ahead to 2027, it becomes a major need. None of the players currently on the roster are under contract beyond this season.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Colts Wire: 2026 NFL draft: Colts met with Ohio State DT Kayden McDonald<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohio State defensive tackle Kayden McDonald is on the Indianapolis Colts’ radar. In an interview with Justin Melo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,2793,12158,8017,7,110158,4987,2004,392,2381,21395,2201,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-831475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-defensive-tackle","10":"tag-deforest-buckner","11":"tag-draft-prospects","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-formal-interview","14":"tag-grover-stewart","15":"tag-indianapolis","16":"tag-indianapolis-colts","17":"tag-indianapoliscolts","18":"tag-justin-melo","19":"tag-kayden-mcdonald","20":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116285748596039326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831475","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=831475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}