The NFL draft is just a few days away, and currently, the Indianapolis Colts have seven draft picks but none in the first round after trading it for Deforest Buckner.
During free agency, the Colts were able to fill a few holes in their roster picking up Buckner, Xavier Rhodes, and Philip Rivers, but they still have needs to fill.
Here are the three biggest need for the Colts heading into the NFL draft next week, in no particular order.
1. A long-term solution at QB
As of now, the Colts don’t have a quarterback under contract past 2020. Rivers signed a one-year deal this offseason and with him being 38, there’s no guarantee he will be back in 2021. Jacoby Brissett is also in the last year of his two-year extension he signed in 2019. With Brissett being 29 and having shown very little improvement throughout his career, it looks as if he isn’t the long-term answer at quarterback for Indianapolis.
Thankfully for the Colts, they have three picks inside the top 80. Indianapolis has a lot of options on how they can get whoever they like at quarterback if they like anyone in that range. If they want, they can trade back into the late-first round, take a quarterback in the second round with one of two of their second-round picks, or take a flier on a guy in the later rounds and fill other needs early.
Some quarterback prospects to watch throughout the draft would be guys like Jordan Love, Jacob Eason, Jalen Hurts, and Jake Fromm. Any of these guys could be there for the Colts at either 34, 44, or 75.
Other late-round prospects would be Anthony Gordon from Washington State, James Morgan from Flordia International or Nate Stanley from Iowa. If the Colts take a quarterback, they will be a project and will have to sit a year behind Rivers and Brissett and refine their game before taking over in 2021.