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Central Michigan OT Bernhard Raimann (No. 77 overall)
No player was mocked more frequently by draft analysts to the Colts than Raimann – but every single one of those mocks had him going in the second round, not the third round. In the 6-foot-6, 303 pound Austrian, the Colts believe they landed a player in the third round with the talent to play left tackle and the upside to compete for a starting job on their offensive line, wherever that may be.
“We do think he has that talent (to play left tackle), but what we’ll do is we’ll get the best five on the field,” Ballard said. “If he is one of the best five, he’ll be on the field whether it’s at tackle, guard – whatever the coaches think are the best five, we’ll get them on the field. But we think he has starter talent on the o-line.”
Raimann certainly did not take a well-traveled path to the Colts. He played one year of high school football as a foreign exchange student in the Detroit area, then started his college career as a…