Before each season starts fans, media and the team set expectations on each player as to how they think they’ll do this season. Sometimes those expectations are way too high, and sometimes way too low, but people set expectations as a barometer for if a player did well that season or not.
While the Indianapolis Colts finished the season losing five of their last seven games, and finished 7-9, missing the playoffs for the fourth time in five years, there were some pleasant surprises from the season.
Here are some of the biggest overachievers from the 2019 Colts’ season:
LB Bobby Okereke
The third-round pick in the 2019 draft, Okereke solidified the SAM linebacker spot halfway through the 2019 season.
Okereke became a full-time starter in Week 8. He would go onto have 58 tackles, one sack, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovered, and he intercepted and returned a two-point conversion attempt for points.
Okereke was just recently named to the PFF 2019 NFL All-Rookie Team where he was graded out at 79.2 coverage grade. That ranked him 10th among off-ball linebackers. He was also PFF’s eighth-highest-graded overall rookie with a 77.3 grade.