Ballard wasn’t so sure Walley would still be around if the Colts moved back. “That's why we took him,” Ballard said. “I don't care where everybody thinks they're going to go – I don't. We grade them and we take them. We think he's got a chance to be a really good starting corner in this league.”

Walley’s highlight reel features a momentum-shifting ballhawk who uses incredible instincts to visualize route concepts. He was notorious for jumping short routes and seeing plays develop milliseconds before it happens.

Gophers cornerback Justin Walley is NFL bound. Walley heard his named called in the third round of Friday's NFL draft, getting selected by the Indianapolis Colts with the No. 80 overall pick. He joins a long list of Gophers defensive backs drafted in recent years,