{"id":869692,"date":"2026-04-19T06:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869692\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:36:18","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-colts-host-te-seydou-traore-on-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869692\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL draft: Colts host TE Seydou Traore on visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 18, 2026, 9:50 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a> are doing their homework on the tight end position ahead of the 2026 NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">According to Essentially Sports&#8217; draft analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentiallysports.com\/nfl-active-news-sources-cardinals-targeting-edge-rusher-at-three-with-david-bailey-and-ty-simpson-in-play-later-in-round-one\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Pauline<\/a>, Mississippi State tight end Seydou Traore had an official pre-draft visit with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/indianapolis-colts\/338\" data-autotag=\"d3fda36a-3eb5-4700-8763-caba831c06ae\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Colts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">During the pre-draft process, each NFL team can have up to 30 draft prospects take an official visit. These visits can be with first-round prospects all the way to UDFAs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Let&#8217;s take a closer look at what Traore could bring to the\u00a0Colts.<\/p>\n<p>Colts\u00a02026 NFL draft prospect to watch: TE Seydou Traore<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Traore has been a big factor in the passing game over the last three seasons, totaling 164 targets during that span. He&#8217;s been reliable as well, catching 72% of those passes, while averaging 11.2 yards per catch with 10 touchdowns &#8212; five of which came this season.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This past season, a career-high 50.1% of Traore&#8217;s snaps came as a blocker. For what it&#8217;s worth, by PFF&#8217;s metrics, he did not grade out well as a run-blocker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballnetwork.com\/nfl-draft-hq\/prospects\/seydou-traore\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Football Network<\/a> is projecting that Traore is taken in the sixth round.<\/p>\n<p>Seydou Traore&#8217;s athletic profileWhat is the Colts&#8217; need at tight end?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Another addition doesn&#8217;t have to be made here, but adding some competition for that fourth tight end spot on the roster wouldn&#8217;t be a bad idea. Also, the draft is about planning ahead, and Alie-Cox, Ogletree, and Mallory are all free agents in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 18, 2026, 9:50 p.m. ET The Indianapolis Colts are doing their homework on the tight end position&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[95878,2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,49915,95900,95882,95903,97846,95896,96097,95888,95906,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-869692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indianapolis","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcolts","16":"tag-sstsncolts","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagindianapolis-colts","19":"tag-tagmississippi-state-university","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagncaa-southeastern-conference","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagoverall-positive","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116429991662019839","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869692","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=869692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}