The first thing that stands out from Justin Walley is its tenacity.
The cornerback has shown it physically when he passed screening activities and participated in the combination of the NFL with a casting on his wrist then broken, performing a 40 -second dashboard of 4.37 seconds. He mentally showed it by simply presenting himself to training and exercises without a second reflection. He was drafted because of this.
“It is very good,” said Director General Chris Ballard after the Colts selected the gold in the third round of the NFL 2025 draft. “He is really good. Let me tell you this, he has a wrist (injury) at the moment. He broke his wrist. At a time when people do not want to train, I mean, we do it. Works 4.37, with a plaster on his wrist.
What does not necessarily appear on a band, but is just as obvious when you meet it is the contagious smile of Walley and pure love for football.
“If you count how many times I have heard” it’s so good to play football again, “you would be surprised,” said Walley with a smile after the first day of training during the minicamp recruit on Friday. “Like man, we are really in the NFL. Our life, we hope in a way, and now it happens. It’s just a blessing.”
Walley, as well as her recruited colleagues, have just arrived at the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center on Thursday, but they already got to know each other, meet their coaches and learn what the franchise represents.
“They love football,” said Walley. “The atmosphere around the whole building is that we are here to win matches, and that’s why I like to be here. I want to win football matches.”
The native of the Mississippi already had an idea of what the colts appeared before going into the building; He grew up a fan of the colts while his cousin, Donte Moncrief, was a wide receiver for the 2014-17 colts. Moncrief, ironically, was also a choice of third round, written by the colts in 2014.
The gilded of eleven years quickly started looking at his cousin and the colts, and his family all bought their just part of colts equipment. When Moncrief left the colts after the 2017 season, however, they had no more. But they still kept it, almost as if they knew what could happen.
Now they can wear whatever they want, because Walley contains a little family inheritance.
“It’s an honor,” said Walley. “I know it is very excited, I am excited … all my family is excited.”
“Everyone started screaming,” he added. “Everyone started to record. It was incredible.”
And Moncrief was not the only Walley link with the colts. As a small cornerback, the golden gold of 10 feet 10 inches grew up in search of someone like him to imitate and model his game afterwards. Who better than Kenny Moore II of 5 feet 9 inches, who went from a free agent not drafted to a professional bowling player who will spend in his eighth year in the NFL in 2025?
Now Walley will no longer have to watch game games to learn from Moore – he can just talk to him.
“I am really excited to choose his brain, to see what he knows,” Walley. “I hope he will not be too tired of me.”
For Walley, knowing that the colts have selected it even with the talent of people like Moore, Jaylon Jones and Charviarus Ward – a Super Bowl champion with the Chiefs of Kansas City and the second All Pro team in 2023 – already in their corner room made him even more excited to join the organization.
“It means a lot,” he said. “You have a lot of guys in the room that has a lot of experience, a lot of good players in the room, and always deciding to take me in the third round is a blessing. Just to have the mind to know that they think that a large part of me will help me a lot.”
