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Colts grab Temple cornerback Rock Ya-Sin with No. 34 pick, completing an unlikely road

Chris Ballard, the GM of the Colts, discusses his team's prospects on Friday in the NFL Draft, after trading their No. 26 pick on Thursday. Robert Scheer, robert.scheer@indystar.com

INDIANAPOLIS — The climb was steep, straight up, with few places to grab a ledge or set a foot to gain some traction.

Rock Ya-Sin didn’t start playing football until his junior year of high school, found himself lost in the sea of talented recruits that come out of the Atlanta area and ended up going to Presbyterian, an FCS school that would phase out its football program after Ya-Sin’s junior season.