{"id":848425,"date":"2026-04-02T02:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/848425\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:17:15","slug":"colts-address-two-positional-holes-in-latest-nfl-com-mock-draft-adding-plug-and-play-defensive-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/848425\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts address two positional holes in latest NFL.com mock draft\u2014adding \u2018plug-and-play\u2019 defensive starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Round 2: No. 47 overall: Jacob Rodriguez, LB, Texas Tech<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Round 3: No. 78 overall: Antonio Williams, WR, Clemson<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Considering the Colts lack a first-rounder, this would be a pretty solid duo to land. You just know GM Chris Ballard would have the hots for Rodriguez\u2019s football instincts and character, as well as his playmaking ability, in Indianapolis. An edge rusher would have been nice, but the offerings weren\u2019t enticing enough there. Grabbing Williams in Round 3 felt like respectable value. He\u2019s a smaller-framed receiver and not a true burner, but Williams is a consistent producer who can make defenders miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Round 2: No. 47 overall: Jacob Rodriguez, LB, Texas Tech Round 3: No. 78 overall: Antonio Williams, WR,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,3562,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-848425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-indianapolis-colts-news","10":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116332714074809041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848425","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=848425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}