{"id":644476,"date":"2026-05-02T07:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T07:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644476\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T07:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T07:48:10","slug":"anonymous-nfl-execs-reportedly-weigh-in-on-colts-2026-nfl-draft-class-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644476\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous NFL execs reportedly weigh in on Colts 2026 NFL Draft class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThey would not have gotten a Sauce Gardner picking where they were going to pick, whether that was at 16 or later in the round,\u201d an NFL executive said via Sando. \u201cThat verdict on that trade is going to be determined by their next first-round pick, and what that looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cCJ Allen is probably going to end up being a team captain on defense, and then they took some late-round swings on guys who had talent, but also big question marks,\u201d another NFL executive said. \u201cThat could buffer some of the early picks they didn\u2019t have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThese are tough players,\u201d another one said. \u201cThey have violent play styles. They take the ball away. They love football. To me, this is what you are looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey would not have gotten a Sauce Gardner picking where they were going to pick, whether that was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,311816,593,85],"class_list":["post-644476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-indianapolis-colts-draft","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}