2. Play-making skill positions
It’s been a need for almost a decade now, a play-making wide receiver opposite T.Y. Hilton. The Colts have failed over and over to find that player, but this draft could be the year they could get one, maybe two, playmakers for the passing offense. According to draft expert for NFL Network, Daniel Jeremiah, he thinks this 2020 class is the deepest wide receiver class he’s ever scouted in the 20 years he has been doing scouting, and it shows.
With the Colts having those two early-second round picks, they’re in a good spot to land a prospect that in any other year would be a first-round prospect. A few wide receivers to look for are Michael Pittman Jr, Tee Higgins, Chase Claypool, Denzel Mims to name a few. There is a lot of variety in this draft too so if Indianapolis wants to get a big WR they have those options, as well as some speed.
The Colts also have a big need at TE. While they have Jack Doyle still on the roster, he is getting up there in age and in the Frank Reich scheme, he loves using tight ends as vertical threats, (ie Eric Ebron in 2018). With Ebron now gone, the Colts have a need there. There are a few intriguing options in the draft like Cole Kmet, Harrison Bryant, Hunter Bryant, and Brycen Hopkins, and outside of Kmet, the Colts might be able to get any of these players in the mid-rounds of the draft.