{"id":874471,"date":"2026-04-25T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874471\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:00:46","slug":"colts-bryce-boettcher-scooped-up-by-indianapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874471\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts&#8217; Bryce Boettcher: Scooped up by Indianapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/IND\/indianapolis-colts\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/415.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/IND\/indianapolis-colts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colts<\/a> selected <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/players\/28921673\/bryce-boettcher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boettcher<\/a> in the fourth round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 135th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Boettcher&#8217;s athleticism doesn&#8217;t jump off the page, and he&#8217;s a little undersized at 6-foot-1, 233 pounds but has the speed to get to ball carriers and proved to have a nose for the football with the Ducks, racking up 132 tackles and one sack as a senior, adding five pass deflections and an interception to his resume. He&#8217;ll join a revamped Colts linebacker room that added all of Akeem Davis-Gaither and John Bullock in the 2026 calendar year via free agency (Davis-Gaither) and waiver claim (Bullock) and CJ Allen as a second-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. Boettcher likely faces an uphill battle to see regular playing time as a rookie and will presumably be asked to contribute on special teams, but he&#8217;ll get a chance to prove his worth in camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colts selected Boettcher in the fourth round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 135th overall. Boettcher&#8217;s athleticism doesn&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2059],"tags":[94152,2005,1999,7,2004,392,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-874471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-bryce-boettcher","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-fantasy-football","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-indianapolis","13":"tag-indianapolis-colts","14":"tag-indianapoliscolts","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116466655993109523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874471","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=874471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}