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**INDIANAPOLIS** **–** These are the boots on the ground identifiers of the talent and the character.
It’s time for our annual summer series where we look back on the Colts draft picks in 2025, via the scouts.
Here are the Colts scouts on 2nd round pick JT Tuimoloau:
It was a National Title run unlike anything we’ve seen in college football history.
Wins over Tennessee, Oregon, Texas and Notre Dame in a month stretch.
And Ohio State did that while **[getting an All-American performance from their star defensive end](https://1075thefan.com/559101/colts-round-2-pick-45-recap-ohio-state-defensive-end-jt-tuimoloau/)**.
Colts area scout Mike Lacy was certainly taking note of JT Tuimoloau’s championship effort on such a stage.
In those 4 college football playoff games, Tuimoloau produced 6.5 sacks, 10 tackles for loss and 20 quarterback pressures.
Once Lacy gets past the football qualities that makes Tuimoloau a second-round pick, he points to that winter run.
“Tough, durable kid, big dude, plays hard,” Lacy begins. “I think about him playing his best ball down the stretch in their biggest games.
‘I think those guys knew what was at stake, I think they knew what they were capable of doing, going on a championship run and everybody just kind of turned it up a notch.”
Tuimoloau will be a defensive end with the Colts, but there’s belief he can move around a bit.
That’s important with Dayo Odeyingbo, who led the Colts defensive line in snaps, now in Chicago.
“When you get into your sub packages, you can kick him inside, do some 3-tech stuff that maybe Dayo Odeyingbo did here the last few years,” Lacy explains. “(Tuimoloau) can definitely do that.
When you hear the Colts describe Tuimoloau, the common theme isn’t necessarily with his crazy athletic traits.
But more to the motor.
“A big guy who’s a real threat off the edge and can win in multiple ways,” Lacy begins.
“What you see from JT, he knows he’s getting extra attention, he’s used to it. You just kind of see a guy strain a little bit harder, fight a little bit harder, be a little more creative, be a little more savvy to beat that extra attention you’re getting.”