Go Horse
As far as free agency, Bill Polian said the Colts may be pretty much done.
Safety Bob Sanders.
Tight end Dallas Clark.
Guard Ryan Lilja.
All were scheduled to become unrestricted free agents at the end of this month, and the Colts have made moves to assure all three will remain with the franchise – Sanders re-signing late in the season; Clark and Lilja agreeing to new contracts in the last few days.
Those were three important moves, Polian said Thursday.
And he said they likely will mark the end of the Colts' high-profile activity in free agency this off-season.
“I don’t think there’s a whole lot of stuff for us to do at this point in time,” Polian said Thursday during the NFL Scouting Combine, which is ongoing this week and weekend at the RCA Dome in downtown Indianapolis.
“We’ve re-signed Bob. We’ve re-signed Dallas. We’ve re-signed Ryan. So, I think now we’ll step back, take a deep breath and see how things go going forward, but I don’t think we’ll be very active in the free agent market.”
Of retaining the three players, Polian said, “Those were three difficult negotiations, which fortunately worked out for us.”
He also added, “We had a pretty good free-agent haul.”
Jake Scott, a starting guard the last three and a half seasons, likely will not be re-signed before free agency begins next month, Polian said.
Polian said it was clear at the beginning of the off-season that it was unlikely the Colts would be able to re-sign Scott and Lilja.
“Ryan, we felt, was an important objective,” Polian said. “We didn’t feel we could sign both guards. It was a question of which one we could sign, if at all. We’re very grateful we got him signed.”
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