Nevis

Come on, did any of you really think the Colts would draft a giant space-eating defensive tackle? Instead, Polian stuck to the plan and selected Drake Nevis, a defensive tackle who has everything you want, except size. And he won’t get any bigger. And that’s just about the scouting report on him. Great kid, motor’s always running, uses his hands well, splits double teams, disrupts offensive plans, moves well both forward and side-to-side and tackles well. The only problem, as you may already have realized, is that he’s not very tall, and not very heavy. Which prompts the question – will he be able to do in the NFL what he did in college? I think the answer is yes and no. He is likely to show flashes, even stretches, of brilliance but will also be overpowered, overwhelmed and engulfed at inopportune times.

The numbers:

Height: 6005, Weight: 294, 10-yard dash: 1.67, 20-yard dash: 2.85, 40-yard dash: 5.06, Bench press: 31, Vertical jump: 30.5, Long jump: 9’4, Shuttle: 4.65, Three-cone: 7.71, Arm length: 31.5, Hand length: 9.375

So what’s left? Without a fifth or seventh pick, the Colts should still be able to pick up a decent safety and an offensive spark. Only five safeties have been selected so far (unfortunately, one of them was Jaiquan Jarrett, who is now Eagles’ property). Some notables who remain include: Tyler Sash, Da’Norris Searcy, Shiloh Keo and DeAndre McDaniel. And there are tons and tons of speedy offensive players left, like Kendall Hunter, Taiwan Jones, Da’Rel Scott, Jacquizz Rodgers, Edmund Gates or Denarius Moore. Searcy and Jones would really put a nice pair of exclamation marks on an already promising draft crop. But this is Bill Polian pulling the strings, and he hasn't drafted anyone out of the blue yet, so the picks could just as likely be Keanemana Silva and Chad Spann.