How the Colts rookies picked, or didn't pick, their jersey numbers
The top two Colts picks found meaning in the numbers assigned to them, but the later picks largely took what was available.
INDIANAPOLIS -- A rookie doesn't always get to pick his number. Not even when he's the first player the team drafted. CJ Allen , the Georgia middle linebacker the Colts drafted in the second round, wore No.
3 in college, but that number is already taken in Indianapolis by kicker Spencer Shrader . When Allen arrived in Indianapolis for the team's rookie minicamp this weekend, No. 53 was waiting for him.
At first, he didn't think much of it. But then Allen found meaning in the No. 53 he's wearing.
"It was the number that was given to me," Allen said. "It just all started making sense – 53rd pick. It’s a great linebacker number, especially here for sure.