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#5 Margus Hunt
During the offseason, I wrote about positional battles going on at training camps and when I talked about the Colts defensive line I said there were no proven guys on that front outside of Jabaal Sheard, acknowledging that they had some talented young players still finding their game.
However, I could not have foreseen that Margus Hunt all of a sudden emerges as one of the most disruptive forces in all football. With three sacks on the season, he has already surpassed the numbers he had put up through his first five years in the league.
While he lines up as a base D-end in their four-man front, he slides inside in their nickel packages on plenty of occasions and gives guards fits, completely making them whiff or bull-rushing them into the quarterback’s lap. Not only that, he has also been a terror in the run game, as he completely stands up offensive linemen and creates penetration, leading to an NFL-best eight tackles for loss.
With the emergence of some of their young defensive linemen, including rookie Kemoko Turay on the edge, and two dynamic linebackers behind them this front has been way more impressive than I anticipated it to be.
