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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 4th round pick Jalen Travis:
Of all the Colts draft picks in 2025, Jalen Travis is probably the closest thing to a project in this year’s class.
Now, don’t view Travis as your normal “project” label of a guy from some obscure school with hardly an on-field resume.
Travis did play most recently at Iowa State, and has 26 starts in his collegiate career.
That’s not a true project, but when you compare him to the decorated resumes, at the top of college football, for many of the other 2025 Colts draftees, you see why he brings that tag.
But make no mistake, this is a gargantuan project, frame wise.
At 6-8 and 339 pounds, Travis is already one of the biggest players to put on a Colts uniform, even if it was just practice.
“His size speaks for itself. He’s a gigantic person,” Colts area scout Tyler Hughes says.
“He’s got range on the edge, he’s able to redirect, his change of direction is good. The overall athlete is pretty good for how big of a man he is.”
Travis, who hails from a family of high-level athletes, began his college career at Princeton.
Intelligence is certainly something the Colts are banking on in furthering the development needed from Travis.
With 18 starts at left tackle and 8 at right tackle in college, Travis brings some tackle flexibility, and the Colts have already used him at both spots in camp.
If Travis can beat out Blake Freeland (4th round pick in 2023), then he will be just one play away from the ever-valuable swing tackle position in 2025.
And the Colts believe Travis was trending in a nice direction upon the end of his lone year at Iowa State.
“He got better every single week,” Hughes says. “
“He’s big enough, he’s long enough, he’s athletic enough. He’ll find a way to figure it out.”