{"id":850642,"date":"2026-04-03T03:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/850642\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:59:14","slug":"colts-gm-chris-ballard-hints-at-acquiring-more-picks-come-draft-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/850642\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts GM Chris Ballard hints at acquiring more picks come draft weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At the annual league meetings earlier this week, Indianapolis Colts general manager Chris Ballard hinted at acquiring more draft picks during late April\u2019s draft weekend (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LarraOverton\" rel=\"nofollow\">via the Colts\u2019 Larra Overton<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cRight now, we have seven picks, I would guess we end up with more,\u201d said Ballard at the NFL annual league meetings in Phoenix. \u201cSo we\u2019ll see, you never know on draft day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Currently, the Colts have the following draft picks for the 2026 NFL Draft:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, while it\u2019s possible the Colts could trade a future more primo pick than the current round they\u2019d be acquiring from another NFL team, more than likely this means that Ballard will be looking to opportunistically trade down at selective spots come draft weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We know Chris Ballard \u2018loves \u2018dem picks,\u2019 and without a first round pick this year (and next for that matter), the Colts longtime GM may have to get creative in acquiring more draft capital during the upcoming draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Right now, the Colts have fairly glaring positional holes at defensive end, linebacker, wide receiver, and arguably safety too\u2014although their leadership and coaching staff remain very high on 2nd-year safety Hunter Wohler, who missed all of his rookie season because of a Lisfranc injury suffered during last year\u2019s preseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the annual league meetings earlier this week, Indianapolis Colts general manager Chris Ballard hinted at acquiring more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,3562,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-850642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts-news","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116338777651632647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850642","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=850642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}