Exposing a Colts Draft Leak, Part 1: positions of need

Welcome to the first article in the series that gets us to the 2025 Chris Ballard NFL Draft Leak. An unofficial Indianapolis Colts annual tradition. Compiling the draft leak article is a labor of love but it’s a process I realized I could do a better job documenting. Normally I just compile pages and pages of notes leading up to creating THE List, but this year these articles will be my guide to creating the most well researched and well reasoned draft leak article of all time. If you want a refresher on the Colts observable draft process, which might help you understand how this article and the other articles in this series relate to the draft, you can brush up on that process by rereading the 2024 Draft Leak article, I didn’t hit on any names last year but the overarching process will remain the same. Today we’re going to jump into establishing a baseline for what positions the Colts need to fill for 2025.

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