
INDIANAPOLIS — Colts general manager Chris Ballard pushed back against the idea that the only way for them to cement a starting quarterback for the next decade is to trade up with the Bears and draft him No. 1 overall.
“To move up, there’s gotta be a guy worthy of it, OK? . . .” Ballard, a former Bears front-office employee, said Wednesday at the NFL Scouting Combine. “Everybody has just automatically stamped that you gotta move up to one to get it right. I don’t know if I agree with that. I don’t. But that’s going to be the narrative. . . .