Indianapolis Colts sending super fan from Houston to NFL Draft

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Indianapolis Colts have been biking by way of veteran quarterbacks the previous few seasons because the shock retirement of Andrew Luck in 2019.

However this 12 months, the staff has a top-five choose within the NFL Draft, and an opportunity to pick the brand new face of the franchise in entrance of followers in Kansas Metropolis. That’s what one fan who spoke to KSHB 41 says he’s hoping to see.

“On the finish of the day, whomever we get on the fourth choose, I’m going to again them up 100%,” Joe Camacho mentioned.

You would not comprehend it by taking a look at Camacho’s fan-cave filled with autographed Indianapolis Colts memorabilia, however he really lives in Houston.

He is been to Kansas Metropolis for a soccer recreation and has large plans to attend the 2023 draft.

“I booked my room, my lodge and all, and swiftly I acquired an electronic mail from the Colts occasion committee, inviting me to the draft,” Camacho mentioned.

That e-mail from the Colts detailed the staff’s provide to ship Camacho to the draft, virtually freed from cost.

“They’re taking the tab on the occasion, the lodge, the airfare and per diem, so I could not go it up, it was a dream come true,” Camacho mentioned. “There’s an after-draft get together that I’ll be attending, I simply bought the tickets a few weeks in the past, it is like a tailgating type-deal, it is going to go on a lot of the evening, it is purported to be at Union Station.”

A consultant from the Colts advised KSHB 41 that there is a good probability Camacho will get to see his favourite staff’s new quarterback in particular person.

“The expectation is that the Colts will take a quarterback with the fourth general choose,” JJ Stankevitz, Indianapolis Colts author and public tackle announcer, mentioned. “Perhaps they commerce up with Arizona for the third choose. However that is not a assure.”

And there’ll even be some KC love from that Colts worker to fulfill him when he will get right here.

“I really like Kansas Metropolis,” Stankevitz mentioned. “I went to Mizzou, I really like the town. I am encouraging anybody I do know right here in Indianapolis to get on the market, get your self a Boulevard (beer), get your self a Z-man.”