Colts' Deion Burks: Notches one reception in Week 9
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Burks played 17 of the Colts' 64 offensive snaps in Sunday's 27-23 loss to the Cowboys, finishing with a zero-yard reception on his lone target.
A rookie seventh-round pick out of Oklahoma, Burks has seen sparse playing time through the Colts' first nine games. He's logged less than one-third of the snaps in each of those contests and has posted a 6-60-0 receiving line on nine targets go with 21 yards on three carries. Despite his modest output to date, Burks could nonetheless be primed for more opportunities in the Indianapolis passing game over the second half of the season. Tight end Tyler Warren will likely rank as the team's top pass-catching option, but the Colts should have plenty of targets left over after trading away Josh Downs to the Chiefs on Tuesday. Meanwhile, top wideout Alec Pierce (heel) lacks a clear timeline to return from injured reserve.
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Colts' Deion Burks: Picked by Colts
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The Colts selected Burks in the seventh round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 254th overall.
No one would have thought anything of it if the Colts had taken Burks in the fourth round rather than the seventh, so this can only be seen as an ideal end-of-draft selection. Burks' lack of production at Purdue and Oklahoma generally indicates a limitation in his wide receiver skill set, but if the weak parts of his game ever improve, he has the athleticism to become quite useful. Small as he is at 5-foot-10, 180 pounds, Burks' athleticism is loud -- his 4.30-second 40-yard dash, 42.5-inch vertical jump and 131-inch broad jump are all well above the 90th percentile for wide receivers.
