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It’s hard to imagine the Colts will be able to repeat the draft

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    October 24, 2019 9:57 AM EEST

    success from last year that saw guard Quenton Nelson and linebacker Darius Leonard wind up as All-Pro selections after their rookie season.For one thing T.Y. Hilton Jersey , they don’t have a first-round pick to follow in Nelson’s footsteps. For another, it’s rare for any rookie to hit the league with that kind of impact although one member of this year’s class could get a shot.Cornerback Rock Ya-Sin was the second pick of the second round and he has a shot to play alongside Pierre Desir and Kenny Moore when the team takes the field in September. Ya-Sin spent the spring familiarizing himself with the Colts defense and getting tutored on how to use his size and strength without drawing flags that will hurt the team. Head coach Frank Reich liked how Ya-Sin did on those fronts over the course of the offseason.“He understands the techniques that we are asking him to play,” Reich said, via Stephen Holder of TheAthletic.com. “You can see him progressing.”Quincy Wilson and Nate Hairston are also on hand at corner Darius Leonard Color Rush Jersey , but the Colts have shown they’re willing to turn a lot over to rookies if they show they’re ready to play. That should bode well for Ya-Sin if training camp goes as well as the offseason program. The Colts will not have quarterback Andrew Luck on the field during this week’s minicamp because of the calf strain that’s kept him out of action for the last few weeks as well.Neither Luck nor anyone else around the team seems overly concerned about the issue. Head coach Frank Reich called Luck’s readiness for camp a “no-brainer” and Luck said that his experience with the shoulder injury that cost him the entire 2017 season taught him that it’s better to be safe than sorry.“Things can be stubborn sometimes,” Luck said, via the . “I certainly don’t feel as young as I once did, but am certainly also being conservative with this. It’s one of the lessons I learned from my shoulder. . . . A lot less anxiety in my life than before. I think [that’s] trusting myself https://www.coltsfanshop.com/Denzelle-Good-Jersey , and trusting the process.”Luck was just getting back to throwing around this time last year and trusting that process paid off with a trip to the playoffs after the 2018 season. This recovery feels far less daunting, which makes it easy to understand why the Colts aren’t sweating their quarterback’s role at these practices.