Free Agents Discussion

[sherck]

Originally Posted by ukcolt

If the resigning of Butler is true, then that is a good thing in the short term....but doesn't change much in terms of the future and needing to draft some defensive backs.

I have a feeling that the Colts have now decided that they are happy enough with the OLB's.....not sure i agree with that myself, but i do think that in this draft we can try to focus on ILB and corners.

I have zero idea what Ballard's mindset is on any of our position depth charts are other than we don't have many playmakers on that side of the ball.

However, what it appears to me that he has done is add bodies to bring as many position groups up to "stabilized" as possible. NT, DE, OLB, S have all had bodies added that should allow them to function at stable or average if not good or great.

CB and ILB are the gaping holes in the depth charts so I agree that those spots will still receive attention.

I am not convinced that we will still not be signing a veteran ILB to the roster. I think teams now are just waiting for another one to be signed before jumping on the rest because they think that every day longer drops the price just a little more.

If we can sign a veteran ILB, then we are pretty much set to pick defensive BPA with our top four picks as long as one of the top three ends up being CB.

Add some combo of defense, TE, RB or O-Linemen with our other 2 picks in the 4th round and use our 5th round pick for one of the lower round NTs to backup Woods/Parry at that spot and it will have been a good offseason.

Cheers,