{"id":860485,"date":"2026-04-08T07:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/860485\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:40:29","slug":"colts-to-host-louisville-wr-chris-bell-for-a-pre-draft-visit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/860485\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts to host Louisville WR Chris Bell for a pre-draft visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Bell was the Cardinals\u2019 leading receiver this past season, hauling in 72 receptions for 917 yards and six touchdowns. He earned first-team All-ACC honors for his efforts.<\/p>\n

The 6\u20192\u201d, 222 lb passcatcher suffered a season-ending torn ACL in late November during a 38-6 loss to SMU. As a result, Bell has been forced to opt out of the pre-draft process as he works back from injury. However, sources told ESPN back in early December that the tear was \u201cbelieved to be clean,\u201d<\/a> going into his surgery with Dr. Dan Cooper.<\/p>\n

Bell was receiving late first-round hype before he went down for the year with an injury; therefore, he\u2019s a prime \u2018steal\u2019 candidate on Day 2 of the draft. The Colts fall into this category as they currently have no first-round pick at their disposal, yet would be more than willing to play the waiting game for someone of Bell\u2019s caliber with their second-round pick (47th overall).<\/p>\n

Despite the potential best-case scenario at hand, the Colts have far bigger needs (i.e., edge rusher and off-ball linebacker) than another wide receiver. Sure, having a prospect like Bell fall into one\u2019s lap just to go elsewhere would be a tough pill to swallow, but it\u2019s ultimately the Colts\u2019 fault for essentially shoehorning themselves into taking a front-seven defender thanks to their roster construction thus far.<\/p>\n

As reported by Rapoport, Chris Bell had a Top 30 visit with the New York Jets today and will meet with the Colts and do Combine Rechecks in Indianapolis later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Bell was the Cardinals\u2019 leading receiver this past season, hauling in 72 receptions for 917 yards and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860486,"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-860485","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\/116367957918020281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860485","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=860485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}