Colts Practice Squad Signings

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Originally Posted by Chromeburn

You need to chill out, you're going to blow a blood vessel.

4th round - Blake Freeland

Freeland earned a 90.9 Pro Football Focus overall grade (90.7 pass block grade, 87.3 run block grade) in 2022. 90.7 pass block grade was the seventh-highest in the nation among starting offensive linemen. Similar profile to Raimann and our new swing tackle.

https://www.colts.com/news/2023-nfl-...and-tackle-byu

They also drafted a highly athletic OT in the 7th but he is more a development guy, he also got hurt and is out for the season.

Thanks for the concern, but my blood vessels will be fine, lol.

Yes, I know about Freeland. That was one step towards fixing the problem, but Ballard really needed to make 2 and maybe 3 more. We had 8 draft picks after Freeland, and a lot of IOL were taken from pick 110 on. Pretty sure quite of few of them are better than Fries, and I guarantee a lot of them are better than any of our backups. Call me crazy, but seems like it would have been very prudent to have selected at least 1 if not 2 of them.

As for Witt (7th rounder). Like you said, he's a long term project. Even if he had stayed healthy he probably would have been headed to the PS. At best given a redshirt year and been a healthy scratch all year long.