Indianapolis Colts GM Ryan Grigson says drafting for need is ‘weak’

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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Colts need help on the offensive line. They needed help on the offensive line last year, too. And the year before that.

Free agency is a month old and Indianapolis has yet to sign a player expected to start on the offensive line next season.

The draft is a week away and you know what?

The Colts aren’t going to draft on need. They’re going to take the best player available, especially at pick No. 18. General manager Ryan Grigson said so.

There’s your warning in case the Colts don’t select an offensive lineman in the first round.

Indianapolis’ offensive line gave up 118 quarterback hits last season while franchise quarterback Andrew Luck was sacked 15 times. Zach Bolinger/Icon Sportswire

“I think it’s weak, no matter what your needs are, to look at your board and see Player A here and then you have Player B, C and D down here, and you [say], ‘Well, we have to get a need,'” Grigson said. “That defies the whole process.”

The Colts will likely take an offensive lineman at some point in the draft, but what Grigson is saying is that they won’t reach on a player, especially one who has a second or third round grade, in the first round simply because they have a need at that position.

The Colts shouldn’t be in their current position of needing to fix their offensive line still when Andrew Luck is their …

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