Some members of the NFL group beforehand puzzled if the Indianapolis Colts would contemplate taking a flier on Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders through the 14th decide of the 2025 draft.
The membership signed former New York Giants starter Daniel Jones to compete with 2023 first-round draft decide Anthony Richardson for the beginning job this summer season.
Whereas talking with reporters on Monday, Colts normal supervisor Chris Ballard indicated he’s open to grabbing a quarterback as early as the primary spherical of the player-selection course of on Thursday evening.
“You don’t ever need to move up a participant you suppose has an opportunity to be actually good,” Ballard defined, as shared by Myles Simmons of Professional Soccer Discuss. “I feel you say that for each place, however particularly at quarterback.”
Ballard added he “completely” might take a quarterback at decide No. 14 “if there’s a participant we deem is worthy of it.”
For an article printed on April 16, NFL insider Albert Breer of Sports activities Illustrated revealed he believes Jones can be Indianapolis’ 2025 Week 1 starter, partly as a result of “there’ll be a pure curiosity about what Jones can do with the group Chris Ballard and (head coach) Shane Steichen have assembled.” That stated, Jones’ harm historical past coupled with how his Giants tenure ended this previous fall suggests he will not be a long-term reply for the Colts.
In the meantime, accidents have restricted Richardson to simply 15 begins over a doable 32 profession contests (minus a two-game benching this previous November following the “drained” controversy). Breer famous that Richardson merely “hasn’t completed almost sufficient with the possibilities he’s been given” for the reason that spring of 2023 to be thought of the favourite to win the upcoming competitors for the QB1 gig.
“The one factor you possibly can see with the quarterback place now, you higher get to know them within the draft course of since you by no means know when it’s going to come back again to you,” Ballard stated on Monday. “That’s the one factor, I all the time sort of giggle when a quarterback turns us down, like, ‘No, we’re not going to go to with you.’ Three years from now, we’ll see how that performs out — since you simply have a look at it. The altering of groups now, the dearth of endurance, guys are… And everyone’s developmental curve and journey is completely different. So that you by no means know when it’s going to come back again round to you.”
The beforehand talked about Sanders is at present anticipated to fall to no less than the New Orleans Saints on the ninth decide of the draft. ESPN’s Jordan Reid believes New Orleans will take Sanders, whereas Adam Schefter of ESPN reported on Monday that “there’s a perception across the league that the Saints are extra serious about utilizing a excessive decide on an offensive or defensive lineman.”
Within the occasion that the Saints move on Sanders, it is seemingly he’d be obtainable for the Colts at decide No. 14 except a group leapfrogs Indianapolis within the draft order for the polarizing prospect.
“We acquired two guys which have had some actually robust flashes they usually’ve had some dangerous moments too,” Ballard stated about Jones and Richardson on Monday, per Josh Alper of Professional Soccer Discuss. “That’s OK. I feel each of them can be higher due to this, and I feel the group can be higher due to it. …If I’m a betting man, in some unspecified time in the future each of them will assist us.”
Maybe the 2025 Colts can even get assist from a 3rd quarterback chosen by the membership on Thursday.
