Round 4, Pick 113: Nicholas Singleton, Running Back, Penn State

Last season, the quarterback was the Colts’ second-leading rusher, with 164 yards on 45 carries. Jonathan Taylor’s 323 carries led the NFL, and he was targeted 55 times in the passing game. If he’s going to last more than another year or two, some of that burden needs to be shared with another back. Do what the New England Patriots do with Tre’Veyon Henderson and Rhamondre Stevenson. Getting a player like Nicholas Singleton in round four is absolutely perfect.
The Penn State senior is built solid (6’0 and 215 pounds) and fast (4.39 forty). He joined the Nittany Lions as the Gatorade National Player of the Year, racking up more than 2,000 yards and 41 touchdowns in his last year of high school football. As a true freshman, he ran for 1,057 yards and 12 touchdowns. That production fell to 753 yards as a sophomore, then back up to 1,100 as a junior. Last season, he managed just 547 yards on 124 carries (4.4 yards per carry). For his entire college career, he shared the backfield with Kaytron Allen. Now he can share it with Taylor.
He runs hard through arm tackles and then turns on the jets in the open, and few defenders are able to catch him. Did not fumble the ball once as a senior, and allegedly squats 650 pounds. He doesn’t juke much, so he takes quite a bit of punishment, but that’s also punishment doled out. He’s the perfect complement to Taylor.
