John Hammonds Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago Looking at basic stats on Pro Football Reference, Laiatu Latu is shaping up to maybe have the 3rd best rookie year among Colts defensive ends since drafting Dwight Freeney. Now, let's not get too excited. When you look at rookie year stats for our DE's, they're pretty bad. If Ben Banogu can rank FIFTH in rookie year stats, that's pretty bad overall. In fact, our DE's have not fared well early on. ROOKIE YEAR DE BASIC STATS #1 - 2002 Dwight Freeney - 16 games, 8 started, 13 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 9 forced fumbles (and AP DROY) #2 - 2021 Kwity Paye - 15 games, 15 started, 4 sacks, 3 tackles for loss, 1 forced fumble #3 - 2024 Laiatu Latu (so far) - 7 games, 1 started, 2 sacks, 2 tackles for loss, 2 forced fumbles #4 - 2013 Bjorn Werner - 13 games, 1 started, 2.5 sacks, 3 tackles for loss, 0 forced fumbles #5 - 2019 Ben Banogu - 16 games, 0 started, 2.5 sacks, 3 tackles for loss, 1 forced fumble #6 - 2018 Tyquan Lewis - 8 games, 6 started, 2 sacks, 3 tackles for loss, 0 forced fumbles #7 - 2015 Henry Anderson - 9 games, 9 started, 1 sack, 5 tackles for loss, 0 forced fumbles #8 - 2017 Terrell Basham - 15 games, 0 started, 2 sacks, 1 tackle for loss, 1 forced fumble #9 - 2021 Dayo Odeyingbo - 10 games, 0 started, 0.5 sacks, 0 tackles for loss, 1 forced fumble #10 - 2010 Jerry Hughes - 12 games, 0 started, 0 sacks, 1 tackle for loss, 0 forced fumbles It's possible that Latu could actually pass Paye for #2 on the rookie year list. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solid84 Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago I think Latu has had a rough start due to injuries on the Dline. I still think he'll be our best DE within a couple of years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediXMan Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago This isn’t to OP but why do we instantly have to compare young players to past players when they have less than 1 season of games that they played. Let them develop and get experience before jumping to conclusions about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csmopar Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago I’m more surprised to see Bjorn that high … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Blue Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago I hope he can make this list someday👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvan1973 Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 31 minutes ago, Mighty Blue said: I hope he can make this list someday👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackTiger Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago 3 hours ago, John Hammonds said: Now, let's not get too excited. When you look at rookie year stats for our DE's, they're pretty bad Well yeah rookie DEs usually dont get a lot of playing time unless they were drafted high. We should hope the first defensive player of the draft would be third or better in a fairly underwhelming group outside of Freeney and Paye who was solid but never quite jumped off the screen. Some of these guys had good/decent careers but were mostly drafted as depth or flyers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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