Tyquan Lewis

He played really odd.

He was – Tyquan Lewis, he played for the Colts, had a short window.

He was like a backup lineman out of Ohio State.

I never understood this.

They had a ton of their own free agents were all pending UFAs.

Kenny Moore, Zaire Franklin, Tyquan Lewis, Michael Pittman.

So they had a bunch of cap space that all their own guys were up.

Daniel Hunter was willing to sign with the Colts and Ballard was in the final rounds of negotiations with them.

So we could have actually done it.

And basically, they just didn't pull the trigger.

They could have signed him for the money that they re-signed Pittman and Tyquan Lewis and Julian Blackman to.

They didn't do it.

Like, it, they took so...

Ben Ba- Ben Banagu, uh, Kameko Turay, like, they s- Tyquan Lewis was a second-round pick.

Like, so many swings at this position that they were just never able to figure out.

And so even if there are guys like the Tanner Bortolinis and the Gonsalves and the Bernard Rymans and even Alec Pearson, Josh Downs, and there were so many players, Michael Pittman, where they were high-floor guys that were contributors that they found in the second, third, fourth, fifth round, but there just were never stars, and they never figured out the quarterback, and they were never overly aggressive in trying to solve those problems in free agency, in part because this, it goes back to it.

I'm gonna name 13, you give me the number.

Malik Hooker, Quincy Wilson, Darius Leonard, Tyquan Lewis, Kamoko Turay, Rock Yaasin, Ben Banigoo, Kwity Paye, Dayo Odungbo, Juju Brents, Latu Latu, Jaylon Tuimoloau, C.J. Allen.

13 first or second round picks on the defensive side of the ball.

You would say the hits, uh, out of those 13 were how many?

And if you go back to 2017, it was Malik Hooker and Quincy Wilson.

Then you go to 2018, the unquestioned home run of Darius Leonard, followed by Kamoko Turay and Tyquan Lewis.

And then you go to 2019 of Rock Yaasin and Ben Banigoo.

And when you look at those 13 names, and however you wanna define a hit, you know, to me, like, okay, if you're hitting on a first or second round pick, I probably view it in this light.

You know, for that given year, however long that they're there, they will be there.

And when you look at that list, outside of Leonard, I don't know if you would say that about a single other player.

Y- y- you could stretch it and say, "Well, you know, Tyquan Lewis signed a couple contracts." Was he ever a top 10 or 15 player on your roster? You know, was he ever kinda like a full-time multi-year starter? No.

You know, Quiddy, i- is Quiddy Paye the second-best player on that list? And just to give you the last names of that 13-person list, the first and second round picks on defense in the Chris Ballard era, it is Hooker, Wilson, Leonard, Turay, Lewis, Yaasin, Banigoo, Paye, Adeangbo, Brents, Latu, Tuimoloau, and now C.J.

Well, you got the other two guys.

You didn't wind up getting Trey Hendrickson, but, like, you also let a lot of other guys go, like Samson Ebicom, Tyquan Lewis, Quidi Pei, which, again, great.

You're getting younger and faster, but...

but you have to replace them with people.