Ballard’s draft record

[Kray007]

Originally Posted by Oldcolt

He has built a team with 'no holes' and no impact players. Just a bunch of average to slightly above average player. Shit the 3 best players on defense we have we didn't even evaluate and draft. Nobody outside of hard core Colt fans think any of these picks are all proish, except maybe a guard and a running back. He did nail it his first year here, been so long I almost forgot.

The thing is that I don’t care if Dave from Denver or Andy from Albuquerque or Eugene from, well, Eugene doesn’t know jack squat about the Colt’s lineup. I don’t expect anyone but Colt fans, die hard or not, to be even passingly familiar with the likes of Bernhard Raimann or Zaire Franklin. Heck, the only reason that the guy from CBS who does play by play on Sunday knows anything is because CBS has a legion of producers who do a deep dive from Monday to Wednesday.

For all of its shortcomings, if you’re looking for a non biased opinion on talent, you can’t do much better than PFF. Their take is that 14 Colts starters receive grades higher than 70. They are:

Daniel Jones 71.7
Jonathan Taylor. 78.6
Bernhard Raimann. 82.0
Quenton Nelson. 84.5
Tanot Bortoloni. 82.6
Jalen Travis. 72.2
Josh Downs. 77.1
Alec pierce. 79.3
Michael Pittman. 70.4
Laiatu Latu 84.1
DeForest Buckner 74.0
Sauce Gardner. 76.9
Charvarius Ward 77.1
Cam Bynum. 70.3

5 players
rated higher than 79.3.

The seahawks have 15.higher than 70, 5 higher than 80.
The Jags have 11 in the 70’s and 3 who crack 80.
For Houston, 7 and 3

Impact players include Daniel Jones, Jonathan Taylor, Alec Pierce, DeForest Buckner, Quenton Nelson, Sauce Gardner and Charvarius Ward. In addition, even though I know it’ll stoke great disagreement, they say Latu is a top 10 edge player.