Colts reportedly eyeing a prime offensive sort out with their upcoming first spherical choose

In keeping with SportsKeeda’s Tony Pauline, the Indianapolis Colts could also be coyly eyeing an offensive sort out with the 14th total choose within the 2025 NFL Draft:

“Talking of the Colts, the assumption from many exterior the scouting group is that the crew will take a good finish or security in Spherical 1, as they tried to maneuver up for Brock Bowers,” Pauline notes.

“But the overwhelming perception throughout the pro-day circuit is that Chris Ballard and crew would favor to pick an offensive sort out with their first choose of the draft.”

To be honest, nobody actually is aware of that the Colts are going to do proper now, and I think about what they’ll do might very properly depend upon who slides and/or is accessible with their first spherical choose after they’re formally on the clock in late April. Their first choose stays fully fluid.

There are a selection of prime offensive sort out prospects comparable to Missouri’s Armand Membou and LSU’s Will Campbell, however each are at the moment anticipated to go inside the draft’s High 10 picks.

That being mentioned, Texas’s Kelvin Banks Jr. or Ohio State’s Josh Simmons may very well be a chance close to halfway by Spherical 1—or maybe by a commerce down with one other NFL crew.

For what it’s value, 29-year-old veteran offensive sort out Braden Smith lately restructured his deal and is getting into the final yr of his Colts’ contract. It’s doable that 2025 might very properly be his final season in Indianapolis, having battled by a variety of lingering accidents.

Whereas the Colts have 2nd-year swing-tackle Matt Goncalves, who held his personal final yr as a rookie, it’s doable they may very well be in search of a long-term fixture at proper sort out—particularly with proper guard nonetheless open, which Goncalves might very properly fill going ahead.

Nonetheless, to me, the Colts have to get extra dynamic with their talent positions and on the skin, along with receiving extra constant and improved beginning quarterback play.

They’ve already addressed cornerback with the CB1 addition of former NFL All-Professional Charvarius Ward, however I have a look at the tight finish place—and if Penn State’s Tyler Warren is there, they usually move on him, I feel that would show to be a critical mistake in time.