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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 3252640, member: 153"] No, I'm not using 7th rounders. Look it up. Your facts are just wrong. By the way--a 3rd through 5th round pick on an interior linemen is considered high. These players rarely get picked with premium picks. Look around the NFL, most are mid-rounders with plenty of UDFAs even playing. But you can easily look up what they did to shore up the OL in Indy: 1st Rounder Ryan Kelly 1st Rounder Quenton Nelson 2nd Rounder Jack Mewhort 2nd Rounder Braden Smith 2nd Rounder Hugh Thornton 3rd Rounder LeRaven Clark 4th Rounder Zach Banner 4th Rounder Khaled Holmes 5th Rounder Joe Haeg 6th Rounder Justin Anderson 7th Rounder Austin Blythe 7th Rounder Denzelle Good They also brought in starting FAs like Satele, Cherilus, UConn's Donald Thomas, Herremans, Slauson. The above numbers also leave out the fact that they drafted Castonzo in the 1st round the year prior to Luck and he was the left tackle all along. The Colts have actually expended more draft capital than most teams on their OL. There are plenty of starting late rounders around the league, UDFAs even. Last year the Patriots, for instance, had this: 7th rounder, 5th rounder, 4th rounder, 3rd rounder, UDFA. No one drafted in the first 2 rounds started for the Patriots. The Patriots are not uncommon. Usually interior lineman go 3-7 rounds, tackles are the premium players. [/QUOTE]