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Default NFL.com Ranks Colts 2020 Draft Class as Best in League

Pretty amazing considering we didn't even have a 1st round pick:

https://www.nfl.com/news/2020-nfl-ro...-class-1-to-32

Here's the write up on the Colts:

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(No. 34) Michael Pittman Jr., WR, 13 games/8 starts
(41) Jonathan Taylor, RB, 15 games/13 starts
Round 3

(85) Julian Blackmon, S, 15 games/14 starts
Round 4

(122) Jacob Eason, QB
Round 5

(149) Danny Pinter, OG, 13 games/1 start
Round 6

(193) Robert Windsor, DT, 2 games
(211) Isaiah Rodgers, CB, 13 games
(212) Dezmon Patmon, WR, 1 game
(213) Jordan Glasgow, LB, 13 games
Notable Undrafted Free Agent
Rodrigo Blankenship, K, 16 games

Halfway through his rookie campaign, Taylor was a disappointment, running indecisively to the tune of just 3.8 yards per carry over his first nine games. But he seemed to find his NFL footing around Thanksgiving, and over the final seven weeks of the regular season, there wasn't a better NFL running back this side of Derrick Henry. Taylor averaged a healthy 6.2 yards per carry in this span, carrying Indianapolis into the playoffs with a franchise-record 253 rushing yards in a Week 17 win over Jacksonville. Standing 5-foot-10, 226 pounds with 4.39 speed, Taylor's a load to bring down and a constant home run threat. In Year 1, he alleviated two major pre-draft concerns -- ball security and receiving skills -- with only one fumble and one drop in the regular season. (Though he did drop two passes in the wild-card loss to Buffalo. Playoff debut jitters?) In an RB era defined by specialization and committee usage, Taylor looks like the rare bell cow. One potential concern for Colts brass and humanity at large: Taylor might have manipulated some kind of midseason body swap with Blackmon, given how antithetically their respective debut campaigns played out. By midseason, Blackmon had surprisingly thrust himself into the Defensive Rookie of the Year conversation as a ball-hawking playmaker. But in the stretch run, right when Taylor was taking off, Blackmon appeared to hit a rookie wall. Supernatural factors must be considered. And potentially feared. Pittman -- Indy's top selection who missed three games with an unsettling creeper of a leg injury -- was a pretty consistent producer. The big-bodied wideout is quite spry after the catch, and he knows how to use his 6-4, 220-pound frame as a run blocker, to boot. (Just ask noted tough guy Johnathan Abram, who ate a Pittman pancake on this Colts touchdown.) With a well-rounded game, Pittman feels like a Year 2 breakout candidate, depending on what Indy does at the quarterback position. The cherry on top of another fine draft haul for Chris Ballard: special teamers Rodgers, Glasgow and Blankenship all joining Taylor on the PFWA All-Rookie Team.
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Pretty amazing considering we didn't even have a 1st round pick:

https://www.nfl.com/news/2020-nfl-ro...-class-1-to-32

Here's the write up on the Colts:
Great draft by Ballard, I know this is just based on the draft, but throw in Buckner basically being our first round pick, and Ballard nailed it.

Happy as hell that we replaced that hack Griggs with someone who knows what's going on.

And now we get Wentz without giving up a 1st or 2nd round pick this year.
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At the opposite end of the rankings, Tennessee is trying to solidify their F grade / #32 ranking for last year's draft class.

The Titans just traded away their 2020 1st round draft pick for peanuts - they are swapping 7th round draft picks with Miami.

https://twitter.com/AlbertBreer/stat...85045231718405

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The Titans are trading former first-round pick Isaiah Wilson and a 2022 seventh-round pick to the Dolphins for a 2021 seventh-round pick, per sources.
https://twitter.com/AlbertBreer/stat...87899883479042

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Paltry return, right? Well ...

• Wilson was caught partying just before camp; was supposed to be quarantining.

• Wilson was cited for DUI in September.

• Wilson was suspended for breaking team rules in December.

• Pics surfaced of Wilson partying in Miami maskless on NYE.

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At the opposite end of the rankings, Tennessee is trying to solidify their F grade / #32 ranking for last year's draft class.

The Titans just traded away their 2020 1st round draft pick for peanuts - they are swapping 7th round draft picks with Miami.

https://twitter.com/AlbertBreer/stat...85045231718405



https://twitter.com/AlbertBreer/stat...87899883479042
Wow - what a disaster. It bodes well for us that our division rivals are screwing up their drafts (I see the Texans were ranked second worst at #31 too)
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At the opposite end of the rankings, Tennessee is trying to solidify their F grade / #32 ranking for last year's draft class.

The Titans just traded away their 2020 1st round draft pick for peanuts - they are swapping 7th round draft picks with Miami.
Wow - Wilson lasted just 3 days with Miami - the Dolphins have already placed him on waivers. Wilson went to the same high school as Miami Coach Flores. Coach Flores had followed his playing career throughout high school and college and Miami was strongly considering drafting him (obviously not in the first round as Tennessee ultimately did, however)

https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/n...250086699.html

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Wilson is said to have refused team efforts to help him to get his life on track, continuing behavior that caused the Tennessee Titans to give up on him less than a year after drafting him in the first round.

Just in the short time since the Dolphins acquired him for late-round draft compensation, Wilson showed up late for his physical, late for his team orientation and skipped two optional workouts that he had committed to attend, the source said.
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Wow - Wilson lasted just 3 days with Miami - the Dolphins have already placed him on waivers. Wilson went to the same high school as Miami Coach Flores. Coach Flores had followed his playing career throughout high school and college and Miami was strongly considering drafting him (obviously not in the first round as Tennessee ultimately did, however)

https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/n...250086699.html
Sounds like a psychological issue.
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