INDIANAPOLIS COLTS News and Notes for 2007/2008

The General · Jun 20, 2007

Ben Utecht ROUNDING OUT HIS GAME , other tight ends for Indy

Ben Utecht ROUNDING OUT HIS GAME , other tight ends for Indy

Utecht Says He has Potential to be Prototype Tight End

INDIANAPOLIS - Ben Utecht figures it's possible.

In the NFL, Utecht said, there is always a need for a prototypical tight end - mainly, he said, because they're difficult to find.

A player who can run.

A player who can catch.

A player who can block.

A player, mostly, who can do all of the above with almost-equal effectiveness.

Utecht, who is entering his fourth NFL season ? all with the Colts ? said such a player is invaluable to an NFL team. He doesn?t consider himself such a player. Not yet.

But he said he might be.

And he said that might happen relatively soon.

?I really think I have the potential to be that,? Utecht said recently during the team?s summer-school sessions, which concluded June 14 at the Colts? Training Facility.

Utecht, who originally signed with the Colts as a free agent shortly after the 2004 NFL Draft, said he proved he possessed at least part of the equation last season.

In his first full season as a starter, Utecht ? considered one of the nation?s top receiving tight ends while at the University of Minnesota ? started 15 games last season, catching 37 passes for 377 yards and no touchdowns.

Solid production ? and production Utecht said he expected from himself.

?I grew up being a receiver,? said Utecht, who caught 83 passes for 1,211 yards and 15 touchdowns at Minnesota. ?I went to college as a receiver. That always has been something I feel very comfortable doing ? catching the ball.?

But he said he wants to be more.

And Utecht (6-feet-6, 251 pounds) said it is blocking where he most wants to improve ? and he said that it is as a blocker that he focused much of his concentration and energy during the summer-school sessions.

?I really want to become a better blocker,? Utecht said. ?I want to become a better point-of-attack guy so that I know they have the confidence in every situation to run the ball to my side, because not only can I get out and catch the ball but I can also be a dominant blocker.?

While he was proficient as a receiver in college, Utecht said he gained experience blocking at Minnesota, too.

?It?s something I had to do a lot at Minnesota because we were a running offense,? Utecht said. ?It?s something I?ve really tried to work on here the last three years. I think the new confidence, the full year of experience ? these will be things that will help me in that phase this year.

?Blocking is a very important part of being a tight end in the NFL, and it?s something I definitely need to solidify myself in.?

Utecht said while that area improved last season, he said it can improve more ? and that it should do so this season.

?As the year went on, I got more confident blocking and had some really good games,? Utecht said. ?Blocking, I had some games where I made mistakes where I can definitely see the area I can improve. So, that?s going to be a huge goal.?

Utecht said he has a confidence entering this season he hasn?t had in three previous NFL seasons. It?s a confidence, he said, that comes from experience.

Utecht, after signing with the Colts in 2004, missed the entire 2004 season with a sports hernia injury. He then sustained a rib injury in Week 2 of the 2005 season, an injury he said cost him momentum.

He played 12 games in 2005, starting twice, but catching just three passes for 59 yards.

Last season, he missed just one of a possible 20 games for the Super Bowl XLI champions, which he said is why entering the 2007 season he feels ?really comfortable in the offense.?

?In mini-camp, it came back very quick and that just gives you more confidence,? Utecht said. ?I?m excited for that, because I?ll be able to go into this year?s training camp with a greater amount of confidence than I did last year. I think that will help me play more to the potential that I?m capable of.

?This will be my first year with a full year of experience ? and what a great year of experience. I really think it?s going to just be a different year for me ? hopefully it will be even more of a breakout year for me. It was such a blessing to be a starter on that team last year, to be put in a lot of positions to make plays. Throughout my entire college career, I never had a chance catch 40 balls.

?To do that here, with one of the greatest quarterbacks (Peyton Manning) to have played, is a privilege.?

Utecht said his mission this season is to package that pass-catching ability with the blocking ability he believes he possesses ? something he said that, if it happens, will make him the all-purpose, multi-threat tight end he believes he can become.

?Not only in this offense, but around the league, so often I hear teams talking about how they desire the prototypical tight end, the guy who can be a huge asset in the passing game, but also someone who can get the job done blocking,? Utecht said. ?It?s hard to find those guys. Usually, the blocking guys are bigger guys ? 260 (pounds) and up ? and the receiving guys are 250 (pounds) and below.

?To find somebody who can open the field up in the passing game and control the line of scrimmage in the run game is a very important thing to have.?

THE TIGHT ENDS

Dallas Clark

Fifth NFL season

6-3, 252

Iowa

Acquired: First round, 2003 (No. 24 overall)

A big-play tight end with rare athletic ability, he continued to develop into a crucial part of the passing offense last season in his fourth NFL season. . . . He played a huge part in the Colts? Super Bowl XLI championship, returning from a late-season knee injury to catch 21 postseason passes for 317 yards. . . . He led the NFL in receiving yardage in the postseason. . . . In four seasons, he has 121 receptions for 1,618 yards and 14 touchdowns. . . . He finished last season with 30 receptions for 367 yards and four touchdowns, his third consecutive season with at least four touchdowns.

Bryan Fletcher

Third NFL season

6-5, 230

UCLA

Acquired: Free agent, 2005

An athletic tight end, Fletcher has emerged the last two seasons as a critical part of the Colts? offense, particularly in the red zone. . . . After spending the 2004 season on Colts? practice squad, he has caught 36 passes for 404 yards and five touchdowns the past two seasons. . . . Fletcher caught four passes in the postseason last season, but one was critical ? a 32-yard reception from Colts quarterback Peyton Manning that helped set up the game-winning touchdown in a 38-34 victory over New England in the AFC Championship Game. . . . He has caught 18 passes for 202 yards in each of his two NFL seasons.

Ben Utecht

Fourth NFL season

6-6, 251

Minnesota

Acquired: Free agent, 2004

Utecht, who originally signed with the Colts as an unrestricted free agent after the 2004 NFL Draft, emerged as a starter last season, starting 15 of 15 games and all four postseason games. . . . After spending the 2004 season on the Physically Unable to Perform/Injured Reserve list, he caught three passes for 59 yards and two touchdowns in 2005 before catching 37 for 377 yards and no touchdowns last season. . . . He caught five passes for 41 yards in four postseason games last year.

Mike Seidman

Fifth NFL season

6-4, 261

UCLA

Acquired: Unrestricted free agent, 2007 (Carolina)

Seidman, originally selected by the Carolina Panthers in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft, signed with the Colts as an unrestricted free agent on May 8, 2007. . . . He has played in 43 games in four NFL seasons, starting 15. . . . He has been hampered by injuries during his career, twice being placed on injured reserve with knee injuries ? 2003 and last season. . . . He has 18 receptions for 158 yards and two touchdowns in four NFL seasons.

Matt Farbotko

Rookie

6-6, 245

Harvard

Acquired: Free agent, 2007

Farbotko, a two-year letterman who started five of 18 career games, signed with the Colts shortly after the draft as a collegiate free agent. . . . He caught 21 passes for 289 yards and two touchdowns at Harvard. . . . He started five of 10 games as a senior, when he caught 20 passes for 270 yards and a touchdown.

Gijon Robinson

Rookie

6-1, 255

Missouri Western State

Acquired: Free agent, 2007

Robinson, a four-year player, played in 47 games at Missouri Western State, signing with the Colts as a collegiate free agent shortly after the 2007 NFL Draft. . . . He caught 83 passes for 1,057 yards and seven touchdowns in college. . . . He played 12 games as a senior, catching 25 passes for 253 yards and a touchdown.

Jonny Harline

Rookie

6-4, 245

Brigham Young

Acquired: Free agent, 2007

Harline, a three-year player at Brigham Young, signed with the Colts as a collegiate free agent shortly after the 2007 NFL Draft. . . . He started 16 of 30 games at Brigham Young, with all 16 starts coming in the last two seasons. . . . He caught 121 passes for 1,788 yards and 17 touchdowns in college. . . . He opened his collegiate career in 2001 at Ricks (Idaho) Junior College, then spent 2002-03 on LDS church mission in New York City. . . . He started seven of 13 games as a senior, catching 58 passes for 935 yards and 12 touchdowns.

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The General · Jun 21, 2007

Antonio Perkins with a nice resume

Antonio Perkins with a nice resume

Colts Claim Defensive Back/Returner Perkins Off Waivers

The Colts on Thursday made a move to add experience to their special teams, signing a player with a significant return background.

Antonio Perkins, a three-year veteran cornerback who spent parts of the past two seasons with the Cleveland Browns, was acquired by the Colts on Thursday after being waived by the Browns on June 14.

Perkins (5-11, 194), a fourth-round selection by the Browns in the 2005 NFL Draft from the University of Oklahoma, played in six games the past two seasons, recording two tackles.

He also returned three kickoffs for a 27.3-yard average as a rookie in 2005.

Perkins, a consensus All-America selection at Oklahoma, had a standout collegiate career, particularly as a returner, setting school, Big 12 and NCAA records.

He set the Oklahoma school record for career punt return yardage and against UCLA in 2003, he set the Division I-A single-game record with three punt returns for touchdowns and 277 punt return yards.

He had three punt returns for touchdowns in the 2003 UCLA game, and he tied the NCAA record for career punt return touchdowns with eight.

In 2001, he was a Freshman All-America selection by the Sporting News, intercepting three passes and defensing four others. In 2002, he was an All-Big 12 second-team selection, recording four interceptions and seven passes defended, and he also set a school single-season record with 643 yards and three touchdowns on 43 punt returns, a 15.0-yard average. He also had 207 yards on 12 kickoff returns that season.

In 2003, he was a consensus All-America selection, finishing with three interceptions and five passes defensed as a reserve cornerback. That season, he set OU records for punt return touchdowns in a game (three), a season (four) and punt return yards in a game (277).

He finished that season with 642 yards on 53 punt returns, a 12.1-yard average.

He sustained a sprained knee early in the 2004 season and sat out four games, finishing with a 9.2-yard average on 17 punt returns.

Perkins started 30 of 47 games at Oklahoma, finishing his career with 125 tackles and 11 interceptions, setting school career records with 113 punt returns for 1,441 yards and eight touchdowns.

He was waived by the Browns in October of 2006, then re-signed to their practice squad on November 1. He signed with the Browns as a free agent on January 10, 2007.

Also on Thursday, the Colts waived offensive guard Matt Tarullo.

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The General · Jun 22, 2007

Offensive guard, Lilja More Confident in Himself than Ever Entering 2007

Offensive guard, Lilja More Confident in Himself than Ever Entering 2007

The call came early this off-season.

And if it wasn't a life-changing event for Colts offensive guard Ryan Lilja, he said it certainly was a perspective-changing one.

The call was from Colts' offensive line coach Howard Mudd.

The message? You're a good player. A really, really good player.

Not that Lilja didn't already think he was good. He had played in the NFL three seasons, and started for a Super Bowl champion, but to hear it from Mudd - one of the league's most-respected line coaches - meant something special.

And it gave him a confidence he said can extend into the future.

?That was huge,? Lilja said recently during the team's summer-school sessions, which concluded last week at the team?s Training Facility in Indianapolis.

?It goes back to the whole confidence thing. He just wanted to let me know how good a player he thought I was. There was no other motive than that. That really sank in a lot.

?After last year, the up-and-down season for me personally, it was really good to hear that. That left a good taste in my mouth going into this off-season.

?I think just him being confident in me has helped me be confident in myself.?

The change in Lilja this off-season is noticeable and significant, Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy said. And an off-season conversation with his position coach isn?t the only reason.

Lilja, who joined the Colts off waivers from Kansas City shortly before the 2004 season, missed much of last season with two knee injuries. He returned in the postseason and started the Colts? final three post-season games.

The Colts outrushed their opponents in each game:

A 15-6 victory over Baltimore in Baltimore . . .

A 38-34 victory at home over New England in the AFC Championship Game . . .

A 29-17 victory over Chicago in Super Bowl XLI . . .

The offensive line was critical in each of those games, and Lilja?s contribution was key to the effort. Now, Dungy said, where once there was a player with talent, and a player important

to the team?s offensive line, there now is a player who believes in his talent.

?I think even when he was playing well for us, when we felt like he was a difference-maker in the lineup, he didn?t necessarily feel that way,? Dungy said. ?Being out of the lineup a few times last year, then coming in and being able to play at that high level - playing against Baltimore, New England and Chicago; three really good defenses - he was able to say, 'I played pretty well.?

?I think that run really has let him understand that he?s a guy who can play in this league.?

Lilja, who played collegiately at Kansas State, originally was signed by the Chiefs as a free agent after the 2004 NFL Draft. He was released by the Chiefs shortly before the 2004 season, after which the Colts signed him off waivers.

Lilja started six of seven games for the Colts that season, then started all 16 games in 2005.

Then came 2006. He entered training camp as the starter, but missed preseason with a knee injury. He missed the first four games of the season, starting five games in late November and December before sustaining an injury to the other knee that kept him out of the regular-season finale and playoff opener against Kansas City.

?That was something I?d never really experienced before,? Lilja said. ?I?d never been hurt, not even in college. It was tough to deal with. I had some problems dealing with that, mentally. It was a tough season. Nobody likes to be on the sidelines. Nobody likes to be hurt.

?When you have more than one issue going on with your body, it can put you in the tank. I had some problems with that, but you know what? I?m healthy. I?ve been through that and I feel like I?m better prepared going in this year than I have been.

?It hurt that I couldn?t play against Kansas City, because I?m from Kansas City. I feel real fortunate that with everything that happened last year I got to finish the season and be part of a great playoff run and a Super Bowl.

?All of those guys played well enough to get us in the playoffs and get us going at the right time. I was lucky to be healthy and come back and get back on the field again.?

Although the injuries cost Lilja time, he said the time wasn?t a total loss.

?When I was out, I really got to study everything in depth,? he said. ?I couldn?t play. I couldn?t practice. But I could watch every rep (repetition) and I could study every rep. I felt like that was a huge boost for me mentally, just being able to watch those practices and being able to study game tape.

?I wasn?t physically exhausted, because I was just doing physical rehab on the knee, so I wasn?t out there practicing like these guys. I could just run and watch tapes and watch practices.

?I do think that helped me gain a complete grasp on the offensive system in general.?

Injuries weren?t the only thing that hurt his confidence in recent seasons, Lilja said. The Colts? offense is one of the more complex systems in the league, with quarterback Peyton Manning routinely making adjustments at the line of scrimmage.

Those adjustments mean changes in the blocking schemes, too, something Lilja said made for a difficult transition from college to the NFL.

?Just knowing who to block and how to block them in this offense - it?s tough,? Lilja said. ?There?s that learning curve. You?ve got to pick things up and you?ve always got to be on your toes. Peyton?s calling plays out there real quick. You?ve got different things going on with defenses. They?re trying to keep us guessing, so it was tough. And of course, the physical confidence was gone last year. The last three games really helped me.

?There?s a learning curve. Some guys pick it up quicker than others. It so happened it took me a few years to really get comfortable with it, but I feel like this is a good time to be clicking on all cylinders.?

Lilja said that?s because the offensive line has a chance to be as deep ? and as effective ? as it has been in several seasons. All five starters from the Super Bowl ? Lilja, center Jeff Saturday, tackles Tarik Glenn and Ryan Diem and guard Jake Scott ? will return, and the Colts recently re-signed as a free agent Rick DeMulling, a starting guard for the Colts from 2002-2004. They also selected offensive tackle Tony Ugoh in the second round of the NFL Draft. He is the highest-drafted Colts offensive lineman since they selected Glenn in the first round in 1997.

?It?s an exciting time,? Lilja said. ?We?ve played good as a unit. We just get better, I think, every year. We?re all looking forward to getting better next year. Having that continuity on the line really helps.?

And for the first time, Lilja said he is confident that he can be a reason the offensive line can continue to be one of the league?s best.

?I feel the confidence is starting to come more than it ever has since I?ve been here,? Lilja said. ?That?s confidence that I know the offense, that I know the defenses we?re facing, that I know what techniques and how to block somebody, how Howard wants them blocked.

?It only took three years to figure all that out,? he added, laughing, ?but it?s definitely comforting to know I can do those things.?

THE GUARDS

Ryan Lilja

Fourth NFL season

6-2, 290

Kansas State

Acquired: Waivers, 2004 (Kansas City)

One of the NFL?s top, young guards, Lilja has become a fixture for the Colts at the left guard spot. . . . He started five of nine games last regular season, then started the team?s final three postseason games ? at Baltimore, home against New England and against Chicago in Super Bowl XLI. . . . He was signed off waivers from the Chiefs just before the 2004 season . . . He started six of seven games late in 2004 at left guard and in 2005, he moved into starting role vacated by Rick DeMulling.

Jake Scott

Fourth NFL season

6-5, 295

Idaho

Acquired: Fifth round, 2004

Scott has been a starter at right guard for the past two and a half seasons. . . . One of the Colts? most durable, reliable players, he started all 16 games last season and has started the team?s last 39 consecutive games. . . . He started all four of the Colts? postseason games last season. . . . He moved into the starting lineup midway through the 2004 season and became a fixture at right offensive guard.

Rick DeMulling

Seventh NFL season

6-4, 310

Idaho

Acquired: Unrestricted Free Agent (Detroit)

DeMulling, after two seasons with the Detroit Lions, re-joined the Colts this off-season, signing as an unrestricted free agent on March 30, 2007. . . . He originally was selected in the seventh round of the 2001 NFL Draft by the Colts. . . . He started 12 of 27 games for the Lions over the past two seasons. . . . He started 41 games for the Colts from 2002 through 2004 before signing with Detroit as a free agent in the 2005 off-season.

Matt Ulrich

Third NFL season

6-2, 309

Northwestern

Acquired: Free agent, 2005

A guard who signed as a free agent with the Colts on April 29, 2005, Ulrich spent two months in 2005 on the practice squad before being signed to active roster. . . . He joined the Colts? active roster on November 11, 2005. . . . He played in five games as a rookie, including two on the offensive line. . . . He started 37 of 47 games at guard and center in college . . . He started 12 games at guard as a senior.

Sam Wilder

First NFL season

6-5, 300

Colorado

Acquired: Free agent, 2007

Wilder, who originally signed with the Dallas Cowboys as a collegiate free agent in 2005, signed with the Colts as a free agent on January 29, 2007. . . . He also has spent time with Tampa Bay, San Francisco, Carolina and Washington.

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The General · Jun 26, 2007

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Gandy Stays Ready as Backup on the Offensive Line

His approach is simple, even if it's not always easy.

Dylan Gandy will wait.

And he will work.

And as was the case last year, if he is called upon, he will be ready.

Gandy, an offensive guard/center entering his third season with the Colts, said his is not the ideal situation. Ideally, he would be starting, but he also said he knows his job, knows his role, and it?s one in which he said he can excel.

?You play through it,? Gandy said during the Colts? recent summer-school session, which ended in mid-June at the team?s Training Facility in Indianapolis.

?It?s one of those deals where nobody likes to watch. Everybody likes to play and it was a lot of fun playing last year. But I?ve just got to wait and sit tight and be ready.

?It?s a long season. I just want to be able to help the team out wherever I can.?

Gandy, a fourth-round selection by the Colts in the 2005 NFL Draft, played his role in exemplary fashion last season, starting 11 games at left guard in place of starter Ryan Lilja, who missed much of the regular season with two knee injuries.

It was, Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy said, an ideal example of the Colts? approach along the offensive line.

Gandy, who played collegiately at Texas Tech, can play center.

Or he can play guard.

He has worked in practice at both.

When Lilja could not play in the preseason last season, Gandy focused on guard. And when Lilja couldn?t play in the regular season, Gandy spent much of the season there.

The pattern continued in the postseason.

In the opening round of the playoffs, with Lilja out, Gandy started in the Colts? 23-8 victory over Kansas City. In the Super Bowl, with right tackle Ryan Diem out with an ankle injury, rookie Charlie Johnson played extensively in his place.

The Colts? philosophy on the line? Next man in, meaning no matter the players? experience, the backup must go in and perform.

Gandy and Johnson, Dungy said, exemplified the approach last season.

?For Dylan Gandy to be able to play against Kansas City, and for Charlie Johnson to go in and it?s never even noticed, that?s impressive,? Dungy said. ?Dylan, like a lot of our guys, can play left guard, right guard and center. That?s like having two and a half players.?

Gandy said he realizes the importance of the role, and said the way he played it last season is what?s expected around the Colts.

?(Offensive line coach) Howard (Mudd) and those guys, they expect a lot from their players,? Gandy said. ?That?s what we?re called on to do and we?re called on to know every position. We?re expected to go in and we?re expected to do a good job.

?That?s how this team works. You have to be ready. My job is to make sure that I?m ready and not go in there and just do OK, but go in there and do a good job. That?s what I try to prepare to do.

?This is a great offensive line. What I try to think is, 'How can I help out this team?? We won a Super Bowl and that was great. That?s what the goal is.

?We got to be a part of that, so that?s just an amazing accomplishment.?

What Gandy said he wants to accomplish this season is to continue to improve, and to continue to show coaches he is worthy of playing time. That, he said, can be difficult in his situation.

?I?m not starting and I?m not a rookie, so I can get lost in the shuffle,? he said. ?What I?m trying to focus on is just honing in on the little things, and honing in on the skills and trying to get everything better.?

And while Gandy said his situation isn?t ideal, he said he continues to believe given the opportunity, his approach is one that will be effective ? for him and for the Colts.

?I feel very confident,? he said. ?The confidence gains the longer I?m here and it continues to grow. I just definitely want to be able continue to help out wherever I can. There definitely has been a lot of learning going on. I definitely would say I?ve improved a lot since I?ve started.

?That?s all I can worry about. All I can worry about is being as good as I possibly can and showing them what I can do. Everything else is out of my hands.?

THE CENTERS

Jeff Saturday

Ninth NFL season

6-2, 295

North Carolina

Acquired: Free agent, 1999

A Pro Bowl selection the past two seasons, Saturday long has been one of the NFL?s top centers and he is a key figure in the Colts? no-huddle offense. . . . He makes the offensive line and blitz pick-up calls in the Colts? complex offensive scheme. . . . He started 16 of 16 games each season from 2000-2003, missed two starts in 2004, then started 16 of 16 games each of the past two seasons. . . . He has been the Colts? starting center every season since 2000 and has anchored one of the NFL?s top offensive lines during that span.

Dylan Gandy

Third NFL season

6-3, 302

Texas Tech

Acquired: Fourth round, 2005

A versatile player, Gandy is a reserve at both the guard and center positions. . . . He started 11 of 16 regular-season games last season at left guard, and also started against Kansas City in the first round of the playoffs. . . . He started the final two games of the regular season in 2005 at guard after Jake Scott moved outside to fill in at tackle.

Albert Bimper

First NFL season

6-0, 300

Colorado State

Acquired: Free agent, 2007

Bimper, a versatile player, spent December and January of last season on the Colts? practice squad and re-signed with the team as a free agent early on February 6, 2007. . . . He started 38 career games at Colorado State, starting six games as a senior and missing six because of an injury.

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The General · Jun 26, 2007

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Super Bowl XLI Performance Shows Johnson Ready When Needed

Charlie Johnson has heard the story more than once.
Not that he minds much.

Johnson, the story goes, was playing in Super Bowl XLI this past February in place of injured right tackle Ryan Diem. As Johnson played in the second and third quarter, the Colts took control of the momentum, with the offensive line's dominant effort a huge reason.

Sometime in the second half, as the South Florida rains poured, Colts quarterback Peyton Manning looked at Johnson.

?How long have you been in here?? Manning asked.

?About a quarter and a half or so.?

A higher compliment offensive linemen rarely hear.

The story exemplifies the Colts' approach to offensive line play. Next man in. Whoever is on the roster must be ready. It's a story of which Johnson said he is proud.

And one that has bolstered his confidence entering his second season.

?It helped quite a bit,? he said recently during the Colts? summer-school sessions, which concluded last week at the team?s Training Facility in Indianapolis, ?knowing I could go in on that kind of stage and take advantage of the opportunity at that time.

?To go in and play and play well, it gave me a little confidence.?

It?s also a story that has repeated itself at various times on the Colts? offensive line in recent seasons. Last season, with guard Ryan Lilja out with knee injuries, second-year veteran Dylan Gandy played effectively in his place. In 2003, it was then-rookie Makoa Freitas playing in place of Pro Bowl left tackle Tarik Glenn. And so on.

Colts offensive line coach Howard Mudd requires rookies to know more than one position, and he requires they perform when called upon.

Johnson?s performance on the Super Bowl stage?

A vivid example of that, Manning said.

?That?s a credit to him and to Howard for getting him ready,? Manning said.

As for Manning not particularly noticing his presence in the lineup, Johnson said he not only didn?t mind, it was exactly the reaction for which he would have hoped.

And he figured his line-mates expected no less.

?You know if you go in, you?re expected to play like a starter,? Johnson said. ?That?s what I tried to do the whole year. I?ve been telling people, 'I try not to be the weak link.? I don?t want to be the guy who everybody knows, 'Well, Ryan Diem?s hurt. They?re having problems on the right side.?

?I don?t want to be that guy, so it?s great he (Manning) says that. I take it as a huge compliment.?

Johnson has been earning such praise for much of the last year.

A sixth-round selection in the 2006 NFL Draft, Johnson began his career at Oklahoma State as a tight end. Immediately upon joining the Colts, Johnson began impressing Mudd and the Colts? coaching staff with his athleticism.

He made the team last training camp, and spent much of last season as the top backup tackle behind Diem and Glenn.

With Diem injured against the Philadelphia Eagles in the regular season, Johnson played extensively as rookie running back Joseph Addai rushed for a season-high 176 yards and four touchdowns in a 43-24 Colts victory in the RCA Dome. He also started the following week.

Because Diem and Glenn were each healthy much of the regular season, Johnson played sparingly thereafter - until Diem sustained an ankle injury against Chicago in the Super Bowl.

Diem?s assignment in the game was Chicago?s best pass rusher, Adewale Ogunleye.

Ogunleye?s statistical line in the Super Bowl?

Two tackles.

No sacks.

No quarterback hurries.

?I really don?t know how I approached it,? Johnson said. ?I just know after Diem went down, I really didn?t have much time to think about the stage or the game or the actual importance. At that time, it was just, 'He went down. I have to go out and play.? I just went out and played a game.

?Everybody said, ?Well, it was like he was in the backyard.? I take it as a compliment, but I really didn?t have time to think about the significance. I just had to go play.?

How much Johnson will play this season remains to be seen. The Colts lost no starters on the offensive line in the off-season, and Diem and Glenn are two of the Colts? most durable, reliable players. Glenn has started 16 games in all but one of his 10 NFL seasons and Diem has missed just six games in five seasons as a starter.

If that means another season spent learning, Johnson said he?s OK with that.

?The same group of guys has been one of the best offensive lines - if not the best offensive line ? in the league for years,? Johnson said. ?To be able to sit back and watch and learn from those guys ? every minute I get to watch, I?m going to learn and take something from what they do.

?If it ever comes up where I get to start for a long period of time, I?m going to take what I learned from those guys and try to carry it over.?

And despite his Super Bowl success, Johnson said entering his second NFL season he still has plenty of areas where he can learn.

?Going into this year, I?m sort of taking the approach like I?m a rookie again,? he said. ?I?m going in trying to learn everything. Now that I have sort of a sense of what?s going on, it?s just trying to fine-tune things and get more of an understanding, just going back and working on my techniques that have helped me be successful so far.?

For Johnson, much of that success came in one of the few games in which he got an opportunity. That the opportunity came on the sport?s biggest stage, he said, was a bit of a coincidence ? and about as big a confidence-builder as he can imagine.

?That?s the main difference,? Johnson said. ?Coming into last year, I didn?t really know if I could. There was a bit of uncertainty, not having played. Going into this year, I know I can go in and hopefully I can continue and build on what I did last year, and keep playing.

?That?s probably the biggest deal with having the game experience, knowing I can play if the situation arises. I?m fine with that.?

THE TACKLES

Tarik Glenn

11th NFL season

6-5, 332

California

Acquired: First round, 1997 (No. 19 overall)

A durable, reliable player, Glenn made his third consecutive Pro Bowl appearance last season. . . . He has started 16 of 16 games in nine of 10 NFL seasons and started all four postseason games for Indianapolis last season. . . . He has been the Colts? starting left tackle since 1998. . . . The only season in which he missed a start was 2003, when he missed six games with a knee injury.

Ryan Diem

Seventh NFL season

6-6, 320

Northern Illinois

Acquired: Fourth round, 2001

The Colts? starting right tackle each of the past three seasons, Diem started 15 games at the position last regular season, then started all four postseason games. . . . He has been a fixture on the line for six seasons, starting at guard in 2001 and 2002 before moving to right tackle in 2003.

Charlie Johnson

Second NFL season

6-4, 305

Oklahoma State

Acquired: Sixth round, 2006

Johnson, a sixth-round selection in the 2006 NFL Draft, started one regular-season game as a rookie and played extensively in one other. . . . He replaced an injured Ryan Diem in the Super Bowl and played effectively against Adewale Ogunleye, helping hold the Chicago Pro Bowl defensive end without a sack. . . . He started 14 of 42 games in college, including nine as a senior. . . . He switched from tight end to offensive tackle for his senior season.

Tony Ugoh

Rookie

6-5, 301

Arkansas

Acquired: Second Round, 2007

Ugoh, an athletic, physical tackle, was selected with the 10th selection of the second round of this past April?s NFL Draft. . . . A two-sport star, he was a four-year letterman in football and in track and field. . . . Ugoh started 35 of 43 career games at left tackle and finished his career with 199 knockdown blocks. . . . He started 14 games as senior and was a third-team All-America selection by the Associated Press. . . . He was a first-team All-Southeastern Conference selection as a senior, when he allowed only one sack.

Dan Federkeil

Second NFL season

6-6, 290

Calgary

Acquired: Free agent, 2006

Federkeil, who originally signed with the Colts as a collegiate free agent after the 2006 NFL Draft, spent much of last season on the practice squad before joining the team as a free agent in December. . . . He played in two regular-season games and in the team?s Wild-Card victory over Kansas City before being inactive for the final three postseason games.

Michael Toudouze

First NFL season

6-6, 303

Texas Christian

Acquired: Fifth round, 2006

A fifth-round selection in the 2006 NFL Draft, Toudouze spent his rookie season on the Colts? practice squad. . . . He was re-signed on February 7, 2007. . . . He started 13 of 44 games in college, including all 12 games as a senior. . . . He was named first-team All-Mountain West offensive tackle as a senior, when he allowed just two sacks.

Joe Lobdell

Rookie

6-6, 288

Northern Iowa

Acquired: Free Agent, 2007

Lobdell signed with the Colts as a free agent shortly after the 2007 NFL Draft. . . . He played his final two collegiate seasons as an offensive tackle after switching from defensive line before his junior season. . . . He earned second-team All-Gateway Conference honors as a senior.

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The General · Jun 28, 2007

Dan Klecko Continues to Adjust to Indianapolis Environment

Dan Klecko Continues to Adjust to Indianapolis Environment

Each day, Dan Klecko can feel the difference.

Each day he is around the Colts, Klecko said he gets more familiar with his environment, more comfortable with his teammates. Each day, he feels more like . . .

Well, he feels more like one of the guys.

?I'm getting there,? Klecko said recently with a laugh.

And while Klecko, a fifth-year defensive tackle, said he?s not quite completely there yet, he said he?s very, very close.

?I?m not totally there yet, but it is better to be around the guys,? he said. ?I feel pretty close to the d(efensive)-line, so it?s nice.?

Because while Klecko, who joined the Colts shortly before last season following his release from the New England Patriots, played a key role in Indianapolis? run to Super Bowl XLI last season, he said he never felt completely at home.

Now, with an off-season, he does.

And Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy said that extra time could be a huge factor for both Klecko and his defensive line-mate, Bo Schobel, next season.

Each joined the Colts days before the 2006 season.

Each spent much of 2006 adjusting to their new environment.

And Dungy said each could play a significantly larger role next season.

?It makes a difference,? Dungy said. ?I think Dan and Bo Schobel will benefit from being here in the off-season program, seeing how (Colts defensive line coach) John (Teerlinck) likes to do things.

?Also being with the other defensive linemen, seeing how you run games, what this guy likes to do and how this guy plays . . .?

All those factors, Dungy said, are ways experience benefits a player, and that experience is why Dungy said Klecko could be a bigger factor in the Colts? defense next season.

?I think he is going to have a chance to make that jump we always talk about from first- and second-year players,? Dungy said. ?This is really like his second year in this system.?

Klecko, originally a fourth-round selection by New England from Temple University in the 2003 NFL Draft, was waived by the Patriots on September 2 of last season. The Colts claimed him the following day, and played as a reserve in 10 games last season on defense and special teams.

But Klecko made his most memorable contributions on offense.

Playing fullback in short-yardage situations, Klecko developed into a goal-line threat as a pass receiver.

Against the Miami Dolphins in the regular-season final, Klecko caught a two-yard touchdown pass in the Colts? 27-22 victory in the RCA Dome that clinched the No. 3 seed in the AFC playoffs.

With the Colts trailing New England, 21-13, in the third quarter of the AFC Championship Game, Klecko caught a 1-yard touchdown pass. A two-point conversion pass from quarterback Peyton Manning to Marvin Harrison tied it on the ensuing play and the Colts rallied for a dramatic, 38-34 victory.

It?s a role Klecko said he enjoyed, and a role he played at New England at times.

How much he will play it next season he said he doesn?t yet know.

?We haven?t come to that point yet,? Klecko said, laughing. ?We?ll wait for camp again. I don?t think they plan on putting that package in until camp. I had a lot of fun doing it. Whatever they want me to do, I?ll do.?

Mostly, Klecko said what he wants to do is expand his role in the Colts? defense. He played sparingly at tackle at times last season, being placed on the inactive list in six games. He played the final two regular-season games and all four postseason games, making one tackle against the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game.

But although Klecko played in a 3-4 scheme in his first four NFL seasons, he may be a better fit for the Colts? one-gap, pressure-oriented 4-3 defensive system, Dungy said.

?I know when he came out of school, we said, 'This is a guy we?d love to have,??? Dungy said. ?It?s going to be great for him.?

Said Klecko, ?I personally feel like I can pretty much play any style. Of course, this one is a lot more fun than sitting there and letting guys beat the heck out of you (as a nose tackle in a 3-4 scheme). It?s a lot more fun to move around and play a little bit faster.?

Being familiar with his surroundings, Klecko said, should help him play faster ? and better ? too. And after a year of adjustment, he said that will be a very good feeling.

?It?s huge,? he said. ?Coming in, you feel like an outsider. I think that?s the biggest thing. Switching teams, you come from a place where you were one of the guys and now you feel like you?re an outsider. It?s good to have a couple of months under my belt to know everyone. That?s nice.

?I think the biggest thing that hurt me was coming into last year, (Colts defensive line) Coach (John) Teerlinck and Coach Dungy didn?t really know me. We didn?t know each other that well.

?Now, I think we?ve seen what each other can do and we just have to go from there and get into camp and get going.?

THE DEFENSIVE TACKLES

Raheem Brock

Sixth NFL season

6-4, 274

Temple

Acquired: Free agent, 2002

The most durable, reliable player on the Colts? defense, Brock has started every game the past four seasons. . . . He started at left defensive end from 2003-2005, moving inside to play tackle last season. . . . He has started 70 of 77 games the past five seasons, including 64 of 64 games the past four seasons. . . . He is the only Colts? defensive lineman to start every game the past four seasons. . . . He has 19 career sacks, and set a career-high with 6.5 sacks in 2004 ? his first season playing inside in passing situations. . . . He tied his career-high in sacks in 2005, again registering 6.5.

Anthony ?Booger? McFarland

Ninth NFL season

6-0,

300

Louisiana State

Acquired: Trade, 2006 (Tampa Bay)

McFarland, the most-tenured NFL player on the Colts? defense, was acquired in a trade in October of 2006, and emerged late in the season and in the playoffs as a key member of an improving defense. . . . He originally was selected in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Colts acquired him for a second-round selection last season. . . . He started 16 games with Tampa Bay and the Colts last season, registering 58 tackles, 48 solo, with 2.5 sacks (11.5 yards), two pressures and one fumble recovery. . . . He started the first five games with Tampa Bay and had 13 tackles, eight solo, before being traded on October 17. . . . He started eleven games with Colts and had 45 tackles, 40 solo, with 2.5 sacks and one fumble recovery. . . . He started four postseason games and had 12 tackles, nine solo, and two sacks.

Darrell Reid

Third NFL season

6-2, 288

Minnesota

Acquired: Free agent, 2005

Reid, an undrafted rookie free agent in 2005, made the team that season after impressing coaches in mini-camp and training camp. . . . He has been a key part of the defensive line rotation the past two seasons, and also has been a key contributor on special teams. . . . He started one of eight games as a rookie, then played in 15 regular-season games and four postseason games last season. . . . He finished last season with 20 tackles, 14 solos, and also had 19 special teams tackles, second on the team.

Dan Klecko

Fifth NFL season

5-11, 275

Temple

Acquired: Waivers, 2006 (New England)

Klecko, originally a fourth-round selection in the 2003 NFL Draft by New England, was acquired off waivers from New England just before last year?s season opener. . . . He played in 10 games for the Colts last season as a defensive tackle, special teams player and fullback on offense in short-yardage situations. . . . He had seven tackles, five solos, and caught one pass for two yards and a touchdown in the regular season. . . . He played in all four postseason games and caught a one-yard, third-quarter touchdown pass in a 38-34 victory over New England in the AFC Championship Game.

Quinn Pitcock

Rookie

6-2, 299

Ohio State

Acquired: Third Round, 2007

One of two third-round draft selections by the Colts in the 2007 NFL Draft, Pitcock started 34 of 49 games in college. . . . He finished his collegiate career with 133 tackles, 65 solos, with 27.5 tackles for losses and 14.0 sacks. . . . He also had a fumble recovery, a blocked punt, a pass defensed and an interception. . . . He started 10 of 12 games as a senior and was defensive co-captain. . . . As a senior, he had 39 tackles, 20 solos, and set career-highs with 12 tackles for losses and eight sacks.

Tom Johnson

First NFL season

6-2, 286

Southern Mississippi

Acquired: Free agent, 2007

Johnson, who originally joined the Colts as a free agent shortly after the 2006 NFL Draft, re-signed with the team in January and was immediately allocated to NFL Europe. . . . Was allocated to the Cologne Centurions. . . . He spent last year?s training camp with the Colts and was released on September 2. . . . A two-year letterman at Southern Mississippi, he started 12 of 19 games and registered 57 tackles, 26 solos, with three sacks and a fumble recovery.

Edward Johnson

Rookie

6-2, 296

Penn State

Acquired: Free agent, 2007

A three-year player at Penn State, Johnson signed with the Colts as a free agent on May 5, 2007. . . . He started 18 of 34 career games at Penn State, including 12 as a senior, when he had 33 tackles, 18 solos, with 8.5 tackles for losses, five sacks, one forced fumble and five passes defensed.

Ramel Meekins

Rookie

5-11, 284

Rutgers

Acquired: Free agent, 2007

A four-year letterman and former walk-on at Rutgers, Meekins signed with the Colts as a free agent shortly after the 2007 NFL Draft. . . . He appeared in 39 career games, registering 142 career tackles, 65 solos, with 28.5 tackles for losses, 17 sacks, three passes defensed, five forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries. . . . He was second-team All-Big East selection and team defensive Most Valuable Player as a senior, when he had 68 tackles, 28 solo, 13.0 tackles for losses, eight sacks, five forced fumbles and a fumble recovery.

Quintin Echols

Rookie

6-1, 313

Kansas State

Acquired: Free agent, 2007

Echols, who started 19 of 49 career games at Kansas State, signed with the Colts as a free agent shortly after the 2007 NFL Draft. . . . He had 113 tackles, 52 solo, with 13 tackles for losses, three forced fumbles and 5.5 sacks in college. . . . As a senior, he started six of 12 games, registering 31 tackles, eleven solo, with a sack, two forced fumbles and four tackles for losses.

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Defensive End Josh Thomas Happy Backing Up Freeney and Mathis

Defensive End Josh Thomas Happy Backing Up Freeney and Mathis

Josh Thomas said it doesn't occur to him to complain.

Not about playing time.

Not about his role.

Not about what some might see as a difficult circumstance.

Thomas, a fourth-year defensive end for the Colts, has improved steadily in his three NFL seasons, and has been a valuable member of the team's defensive line rotation.

Yet, he plays behind Robert Mathis . . .

And Dwight Freeney . . .

So, while Thomas - who played collegiately at Syracuse University - has developed into a solid pass rusher and an equally valuable run defender, he has started just two of 37 NFL games. And last season, when the Colts won the Super Bowl, he played as a reserve in 14 regular season games and four in the postseason.

And you know what?, Thomas said.

That's OK.

“That’s my role,” Thomas said during the Colts’ recent summer-school session, which concluded last week at the Colts’ Training Facility.

“If I can be productive with 25-to-30 plays a game in this defensive situation, I’m doing my job. That’s the way I look at it. I think that’s how I was last year.”

Thomas, who signed with the Colts as a collegiate free agent shortly after the 2004 NFL Draft, has been productive with his time since making the team in his rookie training camp. In 2004, he played 11 games with one sack before sustaining a season-ending knee injury.

In 2005, after rehabilitating throughout the off-season, he started two of 12 games and finished the season with three sacks.

Last season, fully healthy for the first time since his rookie season, he played in 14 of the Colts’ 16 regular-season games and all four playoff games. He had a sack in the regular season and another in the Colts’ 15-6 Divisional Playoff victory in Baltimore.

Thomas – who also lined up at tackle in some situations – finished last season with a career-high 35 tackles, and played extensively in running situations. He also tied for fourth on the team with nine quarterback pressures.

The Colts, since Tony Dungy took over as head coach in 2002, typically have used eight-to-nine defensive linemen in a heavy rotation.

In such a system, Dungy said, a player such as Thomas is critical.

“Guys who can play four plays here, five plays there, are important,” Dungy said. “Some guys have to get in the flow of the game and have to be out there all the time. For our reserve guys like Josh and (defensive tackle) Darrell Reid to be able to go in and be at full-tilt the first play they go in, that’s really important.”

The ability to be ready on short notice is something Thomas said he developed quickly upon joining the Colts.

“I don’t know if it’s anything I really worked on except for all of a sudden, when I got to the league, I had to be on point whenever they asked me to be,” Thomas said. “I didn’t have the luxury like I did in college where I could play and weather the hot periods and the cold periods. I think it happened during camp when I realized what I had to do. I knew in order to make the team I had to be 100 percent every play, so when the season started, I was used to performing that way.

“I’m still up and down at times, but if I have a bad play, I can’t let it fester. You have to be on point when you’re asked to be. Otherwise, you’re not going to be around much longer.”

Already, Thomas has been around longer than many may have expected when he left Syracuse. He was not selected in the 2004 draft, but he impressed Colts coaches and personnel officials immediately. Now, entering his fourth season, he is among the veterans on an improving defense.

“It’s real hard to believe,” Thomas said. “I see some of the rookies now and it doesn’t seem like too long ago that I came in and was kind of lost and had to get caught up on everything. But it goes by quickly.

“Your rookie year, it’s just kind of getting reps here and there. Every year, it kind of slips by you. Now, I kind of know my role. I’m a solid role player. I contribute. Each year, I get better and that’s really my role.

“To be the third defensive end behind two Pro Bowl-caliber defensive ends – I’m all right with that.”

Freeney, a Pro Bowl selection from 2003-2005, had 5.5 regular season sacks last season and two more in the playoffs while Mathis – who had 22 sacks in 2004-2005 – finished last season with a team-high 9.5 sacks.

Thomas said he has learned from the duo, and said he has seen improvements in his own game during the same span.

“I feel like I’ve gotten quicker at recognizing things, and quicker at doing certain moves you see veterans do to get out of certain situations,” Thomas said. “When I watch film, I definitely can see that a lot more this year than I did my rookie year. That’s just a natural progression from anyone, and hopefully, that’s how it will keep going.”

And if he has to keep it going behind two quality players, Thomas said that’s something with which he can live – and a situation in which he said he can continue to prosper.

“We have two unbelievable defensive ends,” Thomas said. “I know they’re kind of locked down and I appreciate the fact that I can learn from them. My game has gotten so much better backing those two up that I never look at them and say, 'Man, I wish I was the starter.’

“We’re all in this together. We’re all kind of doing it and that’s kind of how our defensive line plays.”

THE DEFENSIVE ENDS

Dwight Freeney

Sixth NFL season

6-1, 268

Syracuse

Acquired: First round, 2002 (11th overall)

Freeney, a three-time Pro Bowl selection and a 2004-2005 Associated Press All-Pro selection, has been one of the NFL’s top pass-rushers for the last five seasons. . . . He has 56.5 sacks in five NFL seasons, including 5.5 last season. . . . He had 11 sacks in 2005, his fourth time in as many NFL seasons with double-digit sacks . . . He led the NFL in 2004 with a franchise-record 16 sacks . . . He had 40 sacks in his first three seasons, the third-highest total over such a span in NFL history . . . He had 51 sacks in his first four seasons, also the third-highest total in NFL history over such a span.

Robert Mathis

Fifth NFL season

6-2, 245

Alabama A&M

Acquired: Fifth round, 2003

A strikingly speedy, athletic player, Mathis has emerged as one of the NFL’s top pass-rushers during the last three seasons. . . . He had 10.5 sacks in 2004 and led the Colts with a career-high 11.5 sacks in 2005 and 9.5 last season. . . . He has forced 21 fumbles in three seasons, including six in 2004, eight in 2005 and four last season. . . . After playing mostly in pass-rushing situations on defense in 2004 and 2005, he moved into a starting role this past season.

Josh Thomas

Fourth NFL season

6-5, 271

Syracuse

Acquired: Free agent, 2004

An athletic player, Thomas has developed into a solid pass rusher and run defender in three NFL seasons. . . . He made the team as an undrafted rookie in 2004. . . . He had a sack and 18 tackles as a rookie before a season-ending knee injury in November . . . He returned in 2005 to register three sacks. . . . He had a sack in the regular season and a sack in the postseason last season.

Bo Schobel

Fourth NFL season

6-5, 264

Texas Christian

Acquired: Free agent, 2006

Schobel, who signed with the Colts as a free agent before the 2006 regular season, played in 14 games last season, registering a half a sack and 21 tackles. . . . Originally a fourth-round selection by Tennessee in the 2004 NFL Draft, he was waived by Tennessee on September 3, 2006 and signed by the Colts the following day.

Ryan LaCasse

Second NFL season

6-2, 257

Syracuse

Acquired: Trade, 2006 (Baltimore)

LaCasse, originally a seventh-round selection in the 2006 NFL Draft by Baltimore, played in 12 games for the Colts last season as a reserve defensive end and special teams player. . . . The Colts acquired LaCasse in a trade on September 2, 2006, from Baltimore. . . . He had one defensive tackle and 13 special teams tackles.

Keyunta Dawson

Rookie

6-3, 254

Texas Tech

Acquired: Draft, 2007 (Seventh Round)

Dawson, the Colts’ seventh-round selection in this past April’s NFL Draft, started two seasons at Texas Tech, starting 23 of 49 career games. . . . He had 164 career tackles, including 97 solos and 25.5 tackles for losses with 19.5 career sacks. . . . He started 12 games as a senior, registering 7.5 tackles for losses and six sacks with two forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries.

Jeff Charleston

First NFL season

6-4, 265

Idaho State

Acquired: Free Agent, 2007

Charleston, who signed with the Colts as a free agent in January, originally signed as a free agent with Houston shortly after the 2006 NFL Draft. . . . He was waived by the Texans on September 1 of last season. . . . He played one season at Idaho State after transferring from Division II Western Oregon. . . . As a senior, he registered 12 sacks, the 6th-best seasonal total in school history, and was named Defensive and Newcomer Player-of-the-Year in the Big Sky Conference.

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Tyjuan Hagler Adjusting to New Position Entering Training Camp

Tyjuan Hagler Adjusting to New Position Entering Training Camp

In a sense, this off-season was entirely new for Tyjuan Hagler.

At the same time, it was very, very familiar.

Hagler, a second-year linebacker for the Colts, has spent the off-season learning a new position, switching from weak-side linebacker to the strong side. It's a major transition, one that requires learning, focus and patience.

So, Hagler said . . .

What else is new?

The move from weak to strong meant a new position for Hagler, but it meant something else ? that for the third time in as many NFL seasons, he will be at a new position.

In 2005, his rookie season, he played middle backer . . .

Last season, it was weakside . . .

Now, it?s strong, which Hagler said is another difficult switch, but a position where he also said he believes can excel.

?I really thought of it like they were giving me the best way to get on the field,? Hagler said during the Colts? summer-school sessions, which concluded in mid-June at the team?s Training Facility.

?So, I took it as a good thing.?

As far as Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy sees it, that?s how the move should be taken.

Dungy said not only does the move put Hagler in a position that suits his skills, it gives him knowledge of yet another linebacker position.

That knowledge, Dungy said, makes Hagler a valuable member of the linebacking corps.

?That will help him in the long run,? Dungy said. ?He?s physically as gifted as any linebacker we have. We have to settle on the right spot for him, but learning the whole thing and how everything fits, when he does end up playing, it will help.

?He?s another guy we?ve got to get going. He?s a very talented player.?

Hagler, a fifth-round selection by the Colts in the 2005 NFL Draft from the University of Cincinnati, missed his rookie season with a sports hernia injury. He returned last season, becoming a valuable member of the Colts? special teams.

When he practiced in 2005 as a rookie, he practiced at middle linebacker, and last season, he worked mostly on the weakside.

When he played last season, it was mostly on special teams, and he finished with 11 special teams tackles, including seven solos. He had five special teams tackles in the postseason, including four solos.

?I feel like I got much better there (on special teams),? Hagler said. ?I?m looking for more time and a bigger role on defense, actually. I?m really looking forward to that. I?m not starting, but I?m looking forward to them subbing me in or getting in the nickel package.

?My focus right now is the new position. They moved me over to sam (strongside). I?m just trying to get in and learn the position and perform it to the best of my ability.?

The move, Hagler said, wasn?t comfortable at first. ?It seems like you take on more blockers than you do at will (weakside),? he said. ?Last year at will, I was more of the free guy. That?s really the playmaker of the defense.

?I?m definitely going to miss that position, but I?m still learning each and every position, so if they have to move me I can fill in wherever they need me. I?m still going to keep my options open by learning each and every position, so if they put me at mike (middle) or back at will, I?ll know exactly what I?m doing once I?m there.?

Three positions in three seasons, Hagler said, has been difficult at times, but he said he agrees with Dungy that knowing many positions is better than knowing one.

?As of now, I have played them all,? he said, smiling. ?At times, it?s a little overwhelming, because it seems like every year I?m playing a new position.

?It was overwhelming, but it?s good I can know each and every position, I can be more marketable. They can put me anywhere they feel I need to be.?

Hagler said he?s looking forward to next season for more reasons than a new position. Dungy often says a player makes his biggest jump from the first to second season.

Because he missed his rookie season with an injury, Hagler said he considered last season his rookie season.

?I do feel like I?m going into my second year and ready to make the jump,? Hagler said. ?I?m more relaxed out there now and I know what I?m doing. All the plays that happen in front of me, it?s slowing down for me instead of going 100 mph.

?I feel much better and much more comfortable out there.?

Hagler said he started to see the difference on the field late last season, and he said he saw it to a greater degree in the Colts? mini-camp and summer-school sessions. Although learning a new position, Hagler said the game came easier, and plays came more often.

?It definitely slows down,? Hagler said. ?It seems like when I was out there for the first time last year, everything was going so fast and the coaches were telling me what to do. I was like, 'Man.? I was trying and I was learning, but it takes a little time to get used to.

?Once you get used to it, you can catch on to it. I?ve pretty much got the grasp of it, so I?m ready to perform and to maximize my potential.?

And if maximizing the potential means switching again to another position, if that?s what has to happen, Hagler said he?s fine with it ? enough so, he said, to try to make his latest position a permanent one.

?It?s hard to say, but you know what? If that?s what I?ve got to play, I?m going to make it my permanent home,? Hagler said. ?I can definitely see the difference.

?It?s going to definitely be a better year for me.?

THE LINEBACKERS

Rob Morris

Eighth NFL season

6-2, 243

Brigham Young

Acquired: First round, 2000 (No. 28 Overall)

Morris, the Colts? first-round selection in the 2000 NFL Draft, will enter training camp as the starter at strong-side linebacker. . . . A starter at middle linebacker from 2001-2004, Morris backed up Gary Brackett at middle linebacker in 2005 and throughout much of 2006 before taking over as the starting strong-side backer with three games remaining in the regular season. . . . He started at strong-side linebacker throughout the playoffs and was a big reason for Indianapolis? post-season defensive resurgence. . . . He had 48 defensive tackles, with 30 solos, and 21 special teams stops, 14 solos. . . . In the postseason, he had 21 tackles and 16 solos.

Freddy Keiaho

Second NFL season

5-11, 226

San Diego State

Acquired: Third Round, 2006

Keiaho, the Colts? third-round selection in the 2006 NFL Draft, will enter training camp as the starter at weak-side linebacker. . . . He appeared in 14 games as a reserve last season, with nine tackles, four solos, and two forced fumbles. . . . He also had 14 special teams tackles, with 13 solos.

Gary Brackett

Fifth NFL season

5-11, 235

Rutgers

Acquired: Free Agent, 2003

Brackett, who joined the Colts as a collegiate free agent in 2003, will enter his third season as the team?s starting middle linebacker next season. . . . He served as the Colts? defensive captain last season. . . . He finished last season with 123 tackles, 72 solos, with two forced fumbles and one pass defensed. . . . His tackle total ranked second on the team. . . . Brackett also started four games in the postseason, finishing with 23 tackles, 17 solos, a pass defensed and a fumble recovery.

Rocky Boiman

Sixth NFL season

6-4, 236

Notre Dame

Acquired: Free Agent, 2006

Boiman, originally a 2002 fourth-round draft selection of the Tennessee Titans, signed with the Colts as a free agent on September 3, 2006. . . . He signed with Dallas as an unrestricted free agent in the 2006 off-season, then joined the Colts after being waived by the Cowboys. . . . He played in 16 games last season, starting once, with 17 tackles ? five solos ? an interception and a forced fumble. . . . He also had 17 special teams tackles, with 13 solos. . . . He played in all four postseason games as a special teams player with four tackles.

Keith O?Neil

Fifth NFL season

6-0, 240

Northern Arizona

Acquired: Waivers, 2005 (Dallas)

O?Neil, who was obtained by the Colts just before the 2005 season, has emerged as one of the team?s top special teams players the last two seasons. . . . He spent two seasons with the Cowboys, serving as one of their top special teams players, too. . . . He played in 10 games last season, finishing with four defensive tackles, three solo, and 14 special teams stops, 10 solo. . . . He played in all four postseason games with five special teams tackles.

Tyjuan Hagler

Second NFL season

6-0, 236

Cincinnati

Acquired: Fifth Round, 2005

After spending the 2005 season on the Physically Unable to Perform list with a sports hernia injury, he played in nine games as a special teams player in 2006. . . . He had eleven special teams tackles, including seven solos. . . . He also played in all four postseason games, with five special teams tackles and a fumble recovery in Super Bowl XLI.

Clint Session

Rookie

6-0, 235

Pittsburgh

Acquired: Fourth Round, 2007

Session, selected by the Colts in the fourth round of this past April?s NFL Draft, played four seasons at Pitt, starting two seasons. . . . He started in 25 of 44 games, finishing his collegiate career with 259 tackles ? 161 solos ? 29 tackles for losses, 2.5 sacks, seven forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, seven passes defensed and three interceptions. . . . He served as the team captain as a senior, recording 101 tackles ? 67 solos ? 12 for losses, with one sack, five forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, a pass defensed and an interception.

KaMichael Hall

Rookie

6-0, 219

Georgia Tech

Acquired: Free Agent, 2007

A three-year starter, Hall started 33 of 51 career games at Georgia Tech at outside linebacker. . . . He finished his collegiate career with 212 tackles, 122 solos, and also had 31 tackles for losses, with 12.5 sacks, four forced fumbles, eight passes defensed and two interceptions. . . . He started 14 games last season, when he was honorable mention All-Atlantic Coast Conference. . . . He had 91 tackles, 58 solos, with nine tackles for losses, four sacks, one forced fumble, two fumble recoveries and four passes defensed.

Brandon Archer

Rookie

6-0, 239

Kansas State

Acquired: Free Agent, 2007

A four-year letterman at Kansas State, Archer started 34 of 50 games in college, with 268 career tackles. . . . He also tied the school record with three interception returns for touchdowns. . . . As a senior, he had 106 tackles, 50 solos, with 2.5 sacks, four passes defensed and two fumble recoveries. . . . He was a first-team All-Big 12 by the Associated Press, Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News.

Ramon Guzman

Rookie

6-2, 232

Buffalo

Acquired: Free Agent, 2007

Guzman, who signed as a collegiate free agent shortly after the April 2007 NFL Draft, started 21 of 40 career games. . . . He made 163 tackles, 96 solos, with 18 tackles for losses, one interception, one forced fumble and five and a half sacks. . . . As a senior, he started eight of nine games and made 67 tackles, 38 solos, with eight tackles for losses and one sack.

Victor Worsley

Rookie

6-1, 234

North Carolina

Acquired: Free Agent, 2007

A three-year letter-winner at North Carolina, Worsely started 12 career games at linebacker. . . . He finished his college career with 86 tackles, 50 solos, and had six tackles for losses with 2.5 sacks. . . . He started eleven of 12 games as a senior, with 58 tackles, 35 solo, and also had 4.5 tackles for losses and 1.5 sacks.

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The General · Jul 3, 2007

Kelvin Hayden Looking Forward to 2007 Training Camp

Kelvin Hayden Looking Forward to 2007 Training Camp

HIS TIME IS NOW

He has waited for this for two seasons.

He has worked, he has prepared, and even when he got a glorious moment on the NFL's biggest stage, this is the chance for which Kelvin Hayden was preparing.

A chance to play consistently.

A chance to show what he really can do.

A chance to start.

Hayden, the Colts' second-round selection in the 2005 NFL Draft, has been one of the team's top reserves the past two seasons. In training camp last season, he played as well as any player on the Colts’ defense, Head Coach Tony Dungy said.

But never did he get a chance to play consistently.

For Hayden, that chance is now.

“If it comes down to it, I’m ready to go,” Hayden said recently.

Hayden, after playing as a reserve cornerback and special teams player, is expected to enter training camp as a starter opposite fellow third-year veteran Marlin Jackson.

During the off-season, Nick Harper and Jason David - the Colts’ starting cornerbacks the past three seasons - signed as free agents with the Tennessee Titans and New Orleans Saints, respectively.

They were key losses, players who have been solid contributors to three consecutive AFC South-winning teams.

But Dungy said it’s his belief that when experienced, well-known players leave, the players remaining typically play well when called upon. And Dungy said this off-season Hayden can be such a player.

“Kelvin was probably our most-improved defensive player (during the 2006 season),” Dungy said. “He played in training camp and the preseason exceptionally well. He didn’t get to play a lot for a long stretch, then at the end of the year when he was in the nickel, he did a tremendous job.”

Hayden, who played collegiately at the University of Illinois, hardly is an unknown to Colts fans – or to NFL fans nationwide.

His time as an unknown ended in February.

That was when the second-year veteran intercepted a pass from Chicago Bears quarterback Rex Grossman and returned it 56 yards for the game-clinching touchdown in the Colts’ 29-17 victory in Super Bowl XLI.

Hayden said he saw the play often. At first.

“The first couple of days, a lot,” he said, smiling. “But after that, I tried not to look at it. I tried just to forget about it. I want my career not to be based on that.

“I want it to be part of it, but at the same time people to say, 'Hey, this guy made plenty of plays.’ I just try to forget about it and move on.”

Hayden said that’s the approach he has tried to take throughout the off-season. He, like many Colts players, basked in the Super Bowl glory, for a couple of days.

“But not too much,” he said.

Hayden has been present throughout the Colts’ off-season conditioning program, and during mini-camp and summer-school he worked with the idea of being prepared for an opportunity.

“I have two years under my belt,” Hayden said. “I had a great guy (Harper) in front of me to show me the ropes, the dos and the don’ts. I prepared myself, and if it comes down to it, I’m ready to go.

“When I first got here, being a rookie, it was so crazy. It was overwhelming. Now, I feel like it’s time for me to be a starter. I think that’s everybody’s goal. Everybody’s goal is to not be a reserve and be a special teamer. Everyone wants to go out and be a part of the first team unit and be one of those guys who play week in and week out.

“I want to go out there and do the best I can and at the same time, help the team win.”

Hayden played 16 games as a reserve in 2005, making 19 tackles and defensing one pass, and last season – with the Colts’ secondary battling injuries throughout the season – he started one of 15 games. He made 31 tackles last season, defended two passes and returned one fumble for a touchdown – a 26-yarder in the second half of a 43-24 victory over Philadelphia in the RCA Dome in late November.

“It was tough,” Hayden said. “You get to questioning yourself, saying, 'What do I have to do to break the lineup? Do I have to go out and be Superman?’ But I realized I had two great guys in front of me. You realize your time will come. You have to be patient and don’t whine or nag about it, but at the same time, just learn from their mistakes and continue to prepare yourself as if you’re going to play.

“It’s the NFL. You’re an ankle sprain away from playing. My junior college coach used to say it all the time: 'You’re an ankle sprain away from playing,’ so I always try to think of it like that.

“It was tough, but at the same time, I had to take it as a learning experience. I’m ready.”

The coach’s advice proved valuable last postseason, when Harper sustained an ankle injury that kept him out of parts of the AFC Championship Game and the Super Bowl. Suddenly, the opportunity for which Hayden had waited was at hand and he took advantage in the most memorable way possible.

And now, because of that, Hayden said he’s ready for the chance that sometimes felt as if it might not ever come.

“It helps a lot,” Hayden said of the playoff experience. “It makes the regular season almost easy. There’s not as much pressure as there is in the playoffs. In the playoffs, a play here or a play there can send you home. In the regular season those plays can also send you home, but it’s not as intense.

“It gives you confidence that you can go out and make plays in the heat of the moment. It brings you a confidence and it brings you a swagger, and at the same time, you expect more out of yourself. Right now, I’m expecting way more out of myself. I saw the best is yet to come, hopefully.

“I’m just ready to see what happens. If I’m a starter, that’s great, because it’s everybody’s dream. I just want to go out and see what I’ve got and make plays week in and week out.”

THE CORNERBACKS

Marlin Jackson

Third NFL season

6-0, 196

Michigan

Acquired: First round, 2005 (No. 29 overall)

A talented, physical player, Jackson was the first player selected by the Colts in the 2005 NFL Draft. . . . He has been a crucial member of the Colts’ secondary the past two seasons, playing as a nickelback as a rookie and spending time at corner and safety last season. . . . He started eight of 14 games last season, six at free safety and two at strong safety. . . . He finished the season with 76 tackles, 49 solos, and had one interception in the regular season. . . . His fourth-quarter interception of a pass from New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady stopped the game’s final drive and clinched the Colts’ 38-34 victory in the AFC Championship Game.

Kelvin Hayden

Third NFL season

6-0, 195

Illinois

Acquired: Second round, 2005

Hayden, the Colts’ second selection in the 2005 NFL Draft, has played as a nickel back and special teams player in his first two seasons. . . . He likely will enter training camp as a starter at cornerback. . . . He played one of 15 games last regular season with 31 tackles, 22 solos, and a 26-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown in a 43-24 victory over Philadelphia. . . . He played in all four postseason games, and his 56-yard interception return for a touchdown helped the Colts clinch a 29-17 victory over Chicago in Super Bowl XLI.

Tim Jennings

Second NFL season

5-8, 185

Georgia

Acquired: Second Round, 2006

A talented, aggressive player, Jennings played in 11 games as a reserve cornerback and special teams player as a rookie last season. . . . He made two tackles, both solos, and was inactive for the last two regular-season games and throughout the postseason.

T.J. Rushing

Second NFL season

5-9, 186

Stanford

Acquired: Seventh round, 2006

A talented, speedy player, Rushing is expected to enter training camp with a chance to win the returner’s job on special teams. . . . He played in six games last season, mostly on special teams. . . . He returned two kickoffs for a 37.5-yard average last season and also returned two punts for a seven-yard average.

Daymeion Hughes

Rookie

5-10, 190

California

Acquired: Third round, 2007

An athletic player with playmaking ability, Hughes was one of two cornerbacks selected by the Colts in this past spring’s NFL Draft. . . . A three-year starter, he opened 41 of 51 games at California, finishing with 190 career tackles – 129 solo – with two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, 2.5 tackles for losses, 30 passes defensed, a blocked kick and 15 interceptions. . . . He returned the interceptions for 344 yards and four touchdowns. . . .He started 13 games as a senior with 72 tackles, 37 solo, eleven passes defensed and eight interceptions for 113 yards and two touchdowns.

Michael Coe

Rookie

6-0, 190

Alabama State

Acquired: Fifth round, 2007

Coe, who began his college career at the University of Arkansas, was one of two corners selected by the Colts in this past spring’s NFL Draft. . . . A three-year starter, he opened 25 of 43 games at Arkansas and Alabama State. . . . He started two seasons at Arkansas before transferring to Alabama State as a senior. . . . His father, Charles, was the head coach at Alabama State. . . . He finished his career with 100 tackles, 76 solo, five stops for losses, 1.5 sacks, one forced fumble, a fumble recovery, a blocked kick, 26 passes defensed and seven interceptions. . . . He started eleven games at Alabama State as a senior, starting the first four games at free safety before moving to left cornerback. . . . As a senior, he had 42 tackles, 31 solo, with four tackles for losses, 1.5 sacks, a fumble recovery, 14 passes defensed and two interceptions.

Tanard Davis

First NFL season

5-9, 184

Miami

Acquired: Free agent, 2007

Davis, who originally signed with the Colts as a collegiate free agent shortly after the 2006 NFL Draft, spent time on the Colts’ practice squad last season. . . He re-signed with the Colts as a free agent on February 6, 2007.

Antonio Smith

Rookie

5-9, 192

Ohio State

Acquired: Free agent, 2007

Smith signed with the Colts just after the 2007 NFL Draft. . . . A three-year letter-winner, he originally walked at Ohio State, then earned a scholarship as a senior. . . . He started 13 of 40 career games, finishing with 71 tackles, 40 solo. . . . He had 10 tackles for losses, two sacks, one forced fumble, a fumble recovery and two interceptions, one of which he returned for a touchdown.

Antonio Perkins

Third NFL season

5-11, 194

Oklahoma

Acquired: Waivers, Cleveland (2007)

Perkins was acquired off waivers from the Browns in mid-June. . . . A fourth-round selection by the Browns in the 2005 NFL Draft, he has appeared in six career games and recorded two tackles. . . . He also returned three kickoffs for an average of 27.3 yards as a rookie in 2005.

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The General · Jul 9, 2007

PROVING A POINT

PROVING A POINT

Super Bowl Play Showed Real Speed, Matt Giordano Says

He heard about the play often this off-season.
It's not one for which Matt Giordano said he wants to be remembered, necessarily, but one aspect about it makes him proud.

Giordano? The Colts' third-year reserve safety?

The guy?s got some speed.

And if people around the NFL didn?t know it before, they did after the first play of Super Bowl XLI. On that play, Chicago Bears returner Devin Hester scored on a kickoff return, but what the casual fan may not remember about one of the season?s most memorable plays is this:

As Hester crossed the goal-line, Giordano tackled him.

From behind.

?Everyone said I ran him down, and all of my friends are saying I should have caught him at the five,? Giordano said during the team?s recent summer-school session, which concluded in mid-June at the Colts? Training Facility in Indianapolis.

?I really didn?t make much of it during the game or anything. That was my job, so I was just trying to do my job.?

Giordano, a fourth-round selection by the Colts in the 2005 NFL Draft, said while he would remember the play more fondly had it not been a Chicago touchdown, it did help show what he long has believed:

That he has good speed. Big-time speed, even.

Giordano, a two-year starter at the University of California-Berkeley, was timed at 4.52 and 4.58 seconds in the 40-yard dash at his on-campus Pro Day in 2005. But he sustained a torn pectoral muscle that day, something he said hampered his speed.

?I?m not very proud of the time that they have for me as my 40,? said Giordano, who added of his Pro Day injury, ?I still ran, and I think that?s why my time was so slow. I believe I?m faster than my 40 time says. I think I can hang with most of the guys in the NFL.?

In two seasons, Giordano has more than hung around in the NFL.

As a rookie in 2005, he played extensively on special teams, playing in 15 games and recording eight special teams tackles.

Last season, he was one of the Colts? top special teams players, recording nine tackles in that area while playing more extensively on defense.

He finished the season with 25 defensive tackles. He also had an interception and a pass defended, and in December, he played a key role in one of the Colts? most important victories of the season.

Having lost two consecutive games, and three of their last four, the Colts played host to Cincinnati in a nationally-televised game on Monday Night Football. Safety Bob Sanders, a Pro Bowl selection in 2005, was out with an injury, and rookie Antoine Bethea and second-year veteran Marlin Jackson were out, too.

Giordano made his first NFL start at safety, and he and veteran Dexter Reid played well enough for the Colts to hold Cincinnati - one of the NFL?s top-ranked offenses last year ? to 278 total yards, 145 passing.

?It gave me a lot of confidence,? Giordano said. ?That was just an answer to my prayers, to go out there and just to play. It really built a lot of confidence going into the postseason, and heading into this season ? now I know I can play with the first string.

?I?m looking forward to contributing more on defense this year.?

Toward that end, Giordano said he?s ?evaluating my weaknesses from last season and I?m trying to turn those into my strengths. And I?m trying to take my strengths and make those even stronger. There are a lot of things I could have done better after last season, after evaluating last season. Hopefully, I can improve on those and be a better football player for this team this year.

?I feel like I got a little better. Hopefully, I?ll make another step like that this year. That?s what my goal is, to keep improving every year. You can never be content at this job. The day you?re content is the day somebody?s going to be breathing down your neck to take your job.

?I?ll continue to improve and I hope to make another big step my second season coming into my third.?

Late in the Super Bowl, Giordano made another memorable play ? this one with a positive outcome for the Colts.

With just under five and a half minutes remaining, Jackson was injured making a tackle for a 1-yard loss. On the ensuing play, a 4th-and-9 situation from the Chicago 47, Giordano substituted for Jackson.

Grossman threw over the middle to tight end Desmond Clark.

Giordano hit Clark hard, knocking the ball away and giving the Colts possession at the Bears 47.

?It?s a thing that (Colts Head) Coach (Tony) Dungy really expects and demands from all of us,? Giordano said. ?If someone goes down, the next person is supposed to step up. They?re supposed to do the same job as that other person, or they?re supposed to do even a better job.?

That?s the sort of depth that Dungy said is necessary in the defensive backfield, an area that ? despite the off-season losses of safety Mike Doss and cornerbacks Jason David and Nick Harper ? Giordano said should be better and deeper next season.

?I?m real excited,? he said. ?I think we have a great DB (defensive-backfield) core. We?re all experienced and new guys who are coming in are going to contribute a lot. We?re going to have to make big strides this year and be one of the best secondaries in the league.?

THE SAFETIES

Bob Sanders

Fourth NFL season

5-8, 206

Iowa

Acquired: Second Round, 2004

Sanders, the Colts? first selection in the 2004 NFL Draft, has developed into one of the NFL?s top players at his position. . . . He was a key figure in the Colts? run to Super Bowl XLI, returning to play all four postseason games after missing all but four regular season games. . . . He finished the regular season with 30 tackles, 20 solo, with one forced fumble, one interception and one pass defensed. . . . He started all four postseason games, finishing with 22 tackles, 17 solo, and one forced fumble, two interceptions and four passes defensed. . . . He made the Pro Bowl in 2005.

Antoine Bethea

Second NFL season

5-11, 203

Howard

Acquired: Sixth Round, 2006

Bethea, one of the NFL?s top defensive rookies last season, alternated between safety positions, starting 14 games at strong and free safety. . . . He finished the season with 105 tackles, 64 solo, two passes defensed and one interception. . . . His tackle total ranked third on the team. . . . He started four playoff games and had 18 tackles, 17 solo, with four passes defensed and two interceptions.

Matt Giordano

Third NFL season

5-11, 200

California

Acquired: Fourth Round, 2005

Giordano, a special teams player during most of his first two seasons, started one game at free safety last season. . . . He finished the season with 25 tackles, 19 solos, one pass defensed and one interception on defense. . . . He also had nine special teams tackles, eight solos. . . . He also appeared in all four Colts postseason games, with one pass defensed and eight special teams tackles, including five solos.

Brannon Condren

Rookie

6-1, 205

Troy

Acquired: Fourth Round, 2007

A two-year starter, Condren opened 25 of 47 games in college. . . . He finished his career with 175 career tackles, 138 solo, one forced fumble, a fumble recovery, 10 tackles for losses, 11 passes defensed and two interceptions. . . . He started 13 games at strong safety as a senior, registering 98 tackles, 86 solo, four passes defensed and two interceptions.

Scott Ware

First NFL season

6-2, 215

Southern California

Acquired: Free Agent, 2007

Ware, who originally signed as a free agent with Philadelphia shortly after the 2006 NFL Draft, signed as free agent with the Colts on January 2, 2007. . . . He spent time on the Colts? practice squad last season. . . . He also was a two-year letterman at Southern California, starting 16 of 20 games.

Melvin Bullitt

Rookie

6-1, 201

Texas A&M

Acquired: Free Agent, 2007

A two-year starter, he started 25 of 44 career games at Texas A&M, signing with the Colts as a collegiate free agent just after the 2007 NFL Draft. . . . He finished his collegiate career with 183 tackles, 80 solos, with 10.5 tackles for losses, three forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, 18 passes defensed and four interceptions. . . . As a senior, he started 13 games and had 84 tackles, 26 solo, one interception, one fumble recovery and eight passes defensed.

Norman LeJeune

Third NFL season

6-0, 210

Louisiana State

Acquired: Waivers, 2007 (Miami)

LeJeune, who was claimed by the Colts off waivers from Miami on February 15, 2007, played in two games with the Dolphins last season. . . . A seventh-round draft selection by Philadelphia in 2003, he has spent time with Philadelphia, Tennessee and Miami.

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class=schedulectr>6-6 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>320 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>7 </TD><TD class=standard>Northern Illinois </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D4-01 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>25 </TD><TD class=standard>Dorsey, DeDe </TD><TD class=schedulectr>RB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-11 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>196 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>2 </TD><TD class=standard>Lindenwood </TD><TD class=schedulectr>W-06 (CIN) </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>69 </TD><TD class=standard>Echols, Quintin </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DT </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-1 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>313 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Kansas State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>46 </TD><TD class=standard>Farbotko, Matt </TD><TD class=schedulectr>TE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-6 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>245 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Harvard </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>76 </TD><TD class=standard>Federkeil, Daniel </TD><TD class=schedulectr>OT </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-6 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>290 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>2 </TD><TD class=standard>Calgary </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-06 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>81 </TD><TD class=standard>Fletcher, Bryan </TD><TD class=schedulectr>TE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-5 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>230 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>3 </TD><TD class=standard>UCLA </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-05 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>93 </TD><TD class=standard>Freeney, Dwight </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-1 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>268 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6 </TD><TD 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</TD><TD class=schedulectr>185 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>2 </TD><TD class=standard>Georgia </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D2-06 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>68 </TD><TD class=standard>Johnson, Tom </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DT </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-2 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>286 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>1 </TD><TD class=standard>Southern Mississippi </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>74 </TD><TD class=standard>Johnson, Charlie </TD><TD class=schedulectr>OT </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-4 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>305 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>2 </TD><TD class=standard>Oklahoma State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D6a-06 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>62 </TD><TD class=standard>Johnson, Edward </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DT </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-2 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>296 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Penn State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>54 </TD><TD class=standard>Keiaho, Freddy </TD><TD class=schedulectr>LB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-11 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>226 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>2 </TD><TD class=standard>San Diego State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D3-06 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>36 </TD><TD class=standard>Keith, Kenton </TD><TD class=schedulectr>RB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-11 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>210 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>1 </TD><TD class=standard>New Mexico State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>90 </TD><TD class=standard>Klecko, Dan </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DT </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-11 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>275 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5 </TD><TD 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class=schedulectr>W-07 (MIA) </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>65 </TD><TD class=standard>Lilja, Ryan </TD><TD class=schedulectr>OG </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-2 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>290 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>4 </TD><TD class=standard>Kansas State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>W-04 (KC) </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>68 </TD><TD class=standard>Lobdell, Joe </TD><TD class=schedulectr>OT </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-6 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>288 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Northern Iowa </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>18 </TD><TD class=standard>Manning, Peyton </TD><TD class=schedulectr>QB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-5 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>230 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>10 </TD><TD class=standard>Tennessee </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D1-98 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>98 </TD><TD class=standard>Mathis, Robert </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-2 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>245 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5 </TD><TD class=standard>Alabama A&M </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D5a-03 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>92 </TD><TD class=standard>McFarland, Anthony </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DT </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-0 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>300 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>9 </TD><TD class=standard>LSU </TD><TD class=schedulectr>TR-06 (TB) </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>02 </TD><TD class=standard>McGann, Mike </TD><TD class=schedulectr>QB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-6 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>220 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>1 </TD><TD class=standard>Temple </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>03 </TD><TD class=standard>McMahan, Kevin </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-2 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>193 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>1 </TD><TD class=standard>Maine </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>66 </TD><TD class=standard>Meekins, Ramel </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DT </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-11 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>284 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Rutgers </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>85 </TD><TD class=standard>Moorehead, Aaron </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-3 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>200 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5 </TD><TD class=standard>Illinois </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-03 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>38 </TD><TD 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</TD><TD class=schedulectr>288 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>3 </TD><TD class=standard>Minnesota </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-05 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>47 </TD><TD class=standard>Robinson, Gijon </TD><TD class=schedulectr>TE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-1 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>255 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Missouri Western State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>34 </TD><TD class=standard>Rushing, T.J. </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-9 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>186 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>2 </TD><TD class=standard>Stanford </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-06 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>21 </TD><TD class=standard>Sanders, Bob </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-8 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>206 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>4 </TD><TD class=standard>Iowa </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D2b-04 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>63 </TD><TD class=standard>Saturday, Jeff </TD><TD class=schedulectr>C </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-2 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>295 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>9 </TD><TD class=standard>North Carolina </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-99 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>96 </TD><TD class=standard>Schobel, Bo </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-5 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>264 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>4 </TD><TD class=standard>TCU </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-06 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>73 </TD><TD class=standard>Scott, Jake </TD><TD class=schedulectr>OG </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-5 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>295 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>4 </TD><TD class=standard>Idaho </TD><TD 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class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>13 </TD><TD class=standard>Shelton, Trent </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-0 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>202 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Baylor </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>97 </TD><TD class=standard>Simon, Corey </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DT </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-2 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>300 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>8 </TD><TD class=standard>Florida State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>UFA-05 (PHI) </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>17 </TD><TD class=standard>Smith, Hunter </TD><TD class=schedulectr>P </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-2 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>209 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>9 </TD><TD class=standard>Notre Dame </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D7a-99 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR 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class=standard>Standeford, John </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-4 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>206 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>2 </TD><TD class=standard>Purdue </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-06 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>91 </TD><TD class=standard>Thomas, Josh </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-5 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>271 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>4 </TD><TD class=standard>Syracuse </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-04 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>15 </TD><TD class=standard>Thorpe, Craphonso </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-0 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>187 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>1 </TD><TD class=standard>Florida State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>W-07 (DET) </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>75 </TD><TD class=standard>Toudouze, Michael </TD><TD class=schedulectr>OT </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-6 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>303 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>1 </TD><TD class=standard>TCU </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>67 </TD><TD class=standard>Ugoh, Tony </TD><TD class=schedulectr>OT </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-5 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>301 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Arkansas </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D2a-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>69 </TD><TD class=standard>Ulrich, Matt </TD><TD class=schedulectr>OG </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-2 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>309 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>3 </TD><TD class=standard>Northwestern </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-06 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>86 </TD><TD class=standard>Utecht, Ben </TD><TD class=schedulectr>TE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-6 </TD><TD 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class=schedulectr>7 </TD><TD class=standard>Miami (Florida) </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D1b-01 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>66 </TD><TD class=standard>Wilder, Sam </TD><TD class=schedulectr>OG </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-5 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>300 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>1 </TD><TD class=standard>Colorado </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>45 </TD><TD class=standard>Worsley, Victor </TD><TD class=schedulectr>LB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-1 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>234 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>North Carolina </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=middle bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=9>UPDATED 06-25-2007</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=9>ACTIVE ROSTER</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top bgColor=#cccccc><TD class=schedsubhd noWrap>NO. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd>NAME </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>POS. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>HT. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>WT. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>EXP. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>COLLEGE </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>ACQ. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>62 </TD><TD class=standard>Bimper, Albert </TD><TD class=schedulectr>C </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-0 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>300 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>1 </TD><TD class=standard>Colorado State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>63 </TD><TD class=standard>Saturday, Jeff </TD><TD class=schedulectr>C </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-2 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>295 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>9 </TD><TD class=standard>North Carolina </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-99 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>31 </TD><TD class=standard>Davis, Tanard </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-9 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>184 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>1 </TD><TD class=standard>Miami </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>41 </TD><TD class=standard>Bethea, Antoine </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-11 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>203 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>2 </TD><TD class=standard>Howard </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D6b-06 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>34 </TD><TD class=standard>Rushing, T.J. </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-9 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>186 </TD><TD 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</TD><TD class=schedulectr>D2b-04 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>26 </TD><TD class=standard>Hayden, Kelvin </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-0 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>195 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>3 </TD><TD class=standard>Illinois </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D2-05 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>43 </TD><TD class=standard>Giordano, Matt </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-11 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>200 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>3 </TD><TD class=standard>California </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D4b-05 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>20 </TD><TD class=standard>Hughes, Daymeion </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-10 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>190 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>California </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D3a-07 </TD><TD 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vAlign=top><TD class=standard>37 </TD><TD class=standard>Smith, Antonio </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-9 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>192 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Ohio State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>xx </TD><TD class=standard>Perkins, Antonio </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-11 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>194 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>3 </TD><TD class=standard>Oklahoma </TD><TD class=schedulectr>W-07 (CLE) </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>35 </TD><TD class=standard>Ware, Scott </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-1 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>210 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>1 </TD><TD class=standard>Southern California </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>40 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The General · Jul 12, 2007

Second-Year Veteran Rushing Pursuing Punt, Kick Returning Jobs

Second-Year Veteran Rushing Pursuing Punt, Kick Returning Jobs

T.J. Rushing sees his situation the only way he figures he can.

Rushing, a second-year punt and kickoff returner for the Colts, will enter training camp trying to earn the lead position in those roles, which were held last season by veteran wide receiver Terrence Wilkins.

Wilkins has not been re-signed.

Rushing is the only player on the roster who has returned kicks and punts for the team.

So, Rushing's assessment of the returner roles?

His for the taking.

?I think it's wide open,? Rushing said during the Colts? recent summer-school sessions, which ended in mid-June at the team?s Training Facility in Indianapolis.

Not that Rushing believes anything is guaranteed.

?They haven?t brought Terrence back, so I?m the only one on the roster who did it last year,? Rushing said, ?but there are always athletes who can do it.?

Which is exactly how Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy said Rushing should approach the coming months.

Yes, the Colts drafted Rushing in the seventh round of the 2006 NFL Draft with the idea he could be a quality returner.

And yes, he showed flashes last regular season and preseason.

But Dungy, too, said nothing is certain. At least not yet.

?He?s going to have an opportunity,? Dungy said. ?The times he returned for us last year, he did a great job. He made good decisions. He handled every ball well and every time he got a chance to do something, returning and as a gunner, he did well.?

Rushing, who played collegiately at Stanford University, returned a kickoff 63 yards in the preseason opener last season against the Rams - the first time he touched a ball in an NFL game. But he sustained an injury later in preseason and was on the Colts? practice squad the first three weeks of the season.

He joined the active roster on October 1 and played six games on special teams, returning two kickoffs in an October 8 victory over Tennessee for 67 yards ? a 33.5-yard average ? and two punts for an average of 7.5 yards.

?During the preseason, I thought I did well,? Rushing said. ?Unfortunately, I got hurt, so I wasn?t able to return until the last preseason game and I never got a real opportunity. In the Tennessee game, I thought I did well and that let me know I could play in the league.

?I?m just paying attention to what coaches are saying and if I have faith in my blockers, everything will be all right.?

Dungy said where Rushing impressed just as much was in practice, which Dungy said for rookies and young players is nearly as important.

?Whenever he?s had to do a job for us in a game, he?s done it very well,? Dungy said. ?He has been a holdup guy on the punt return team. He has been a returner. Every time he has played on a limited basis, he has been really good.

?You see a guy do well in practice, even though he hasn?t had a lot of chances in the game, it makes you feel like he?s going to be fine down the road.?

Rushing said he wants to be more than fine, and he wants to be more than a return specialist. Whereas some returners play sparingly on other units, Rushing said he believes he can be an NFL-caliber cover corner. His experience in practice against Colts quarterback Peyton Manning and Colts wide receivers Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne only has bolstered that confidence, Rushing said.

?I think I?m a cornerback who has the ability to be a returner, not a returner who has the ability to be a corner,? Rushing said. ?I definitely think cornerback is my natural position.

?Everyday I?m practicing, I?m going against the greatest wideout-quarterback tandem in the NFL. That definitely got me better and got me ready to take on anybody else in the league.?

But Rushing said he is equally confident in his ability as a returner. At Stanford, he started 11 games as a senior cornerback, and was named second-team All-Pac 10 as a returner. He returned three kickoffs for touchdowns, including two as a senior.

That successful background made last season difficult, he said.

What made it easier, he said, was

the idea that he was learning ? and an understanding that he would have a chance in the future.

?You study and you see things,? Rushing said. ?Being a good returner is a lot more mental than people think. When you?re back there catching punts, it?s a lot of decision-making ?what to do and what not to do.

?It?s hard to let a rookie loose when he?s back there making big-time decisions. You muff a punt inside the 10 ? that?s a touchdown or at least a field goal. All those little things, the mental part of the game, it can add up. I think the physical part is there. It was there last year. It?s still going to be there, but the mental part is there now.?

What also made it easier was the presence of Wilkins, a veteran player Rushing said helped him significantly.

?Last year was the first year of my life that I haven?t played a major role on game day,? Rushing said. ?So, it was real difficult, but it was a good learning process. It taught me a little bit about patience and Terrence taught me a lot of things. I?m glad he was around for that.

?Terrence was actually a good teammate, a good leader. He wasn?t one of those veterans who said, 'I don?t want this rookie to have a chance.? He definitely put his arms around me and taught me a lot of things.

?That speaks volumes to what kind of man, what kind of player, Terrence was.?

The result, Rushing said, is he is now a player with ?tons of confidence,? and one looking forward in training camp to competing for a position he feels is his for the taking.

?I?m a very confident guy,? he said. ?I think my best aspect is my speed, power, agility, good missability. I think it?s going to take more than one guy to take me down ? all of the intangibles a good returner can have.

?Anyway I can help the team, that?s what I want to do. If that means returning kickoffs, returning punts, playing corner. I?ll do anything to be on the field every Sunay to help us win.?

THE SPECIAL TEAMS

Adam Vinatieri

Kicker

12th NFL season

6-0, 202

South Dakota State

Acquired: Unrestricted Free Agent, 2006

Vinatieri, who spent the first 10 seasons of his career with the New England Patriots, joined the Colts as an unrestricted free agent last off-season. . . . He became one of the NFL?s top free-agent acquisitions last season, and won his fourth Super Bowl ring. . . . He appeared in 13 games in his first season with the Colts, making 25 of 28 field goals and 38-38 extra points for 113 points. . . . That was his 11th consecutive 100-point season. . . . He also appeared in four postseason games and made 14 of 15 field goals and seven of seven extra points. . . . He set an NFL single post-season record with 49 points.

Hunter Smith

Punter

Ninth NFL season

6-2, 209

Notre Dame

Acquired: Seventh Round, 1999

Smith, the Colts? longest-tenured special teams player, has played in 16 games in each of the last eight seasons. . . . He punted 47 times last season for a 44.4-yard average with a net average of 34.6 yards. . . . He had 14 punts inside the 20 and five touchbacks last season.

Justin Snow

Long snapper

Eighth NFL season

6-3, 240

Baylor

Acquired: Free Agent, 2000

Snow has appeared in 16 games as deep snapper for the last seven seasons, appearing in 112 consecutive games.

Reggie Hodges

Punter

Third NFL season

6-0, 226

Ball State

Acquired: Free Agent, 2007

Hodges, originally a sixth-round selection in the 2005 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Rams, signed as a free agent with the Colts on February 20, 2007. . . . He appeared in eight games with St. Louis and Philadelphia in 2005. . . . After being waived by Philadelphia in training camp last season, he joined the Colts later in camp.

Shane Andrus

Kicker

First NFL season

5-10, 190

Murray State

Acquired: Free Agent, 2007

Andrus, who signed with the Colts as a free agent in February of 2006, re-signed in mid-February and was allocated to NFL Europa. . . . He spent this spring with the Hamburg Sea Devils in NFL Europa.

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Raheem Brock Looks to Keep Improving on the Inside of the Defensive Line.

Raheem Brock knew what was coming.
This time last off-season, the Colts' veteran defensive lineman said he knew the coming season wouldn?t be easy. He was switching positions, moving inside.

?Definitely, I knew it was going to be tough,? Brock said, smiling.

But here?s what?s important to remember about Brock?s season last season, according to Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy.

That Brock played through those times, improved, and despite a difficult situation, was a big reason for the improvement of the Colts? defense, and for their run to a 29-17 victory over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI.

What?s equally important, Dungy said, is this:

As much as Brock improved inside late last season, this season, he could improve even more.

?It?s what we always talk about, with second-year players making that big jump,? Dungy said recently at the Colts? summer-school session, which concluded in mid-June at the team?s Training Facility in Indianapolis.

?This is really the second year for him at the position. I think he feels so much more comfortable, that I think he?s going to take a jump as well.?

Brock (6-feet-4, 274 pounds), who will enter his sixth NFL season next season, spent his first four seasons at end and has been one of the Colts? most reliable, durable players. During 2004 and 2005, he made an impact as a pass-rusher, moving inside to tackle in passing situations.

He had 6.5 sacks each of those seasons, but with the Colts moving Robert Mathis (6-2, 245) into the starting lineup at end, last season was his first on the inside full-time.

Playing tackle in passing situations was one challenge, Brock said.

Doing it full time was quite another.

?I was undersized for my position,? Brock said. ?Our whole defensive line is undersized, but me and Robert are really undersized. They try to run at us the whole game and a lot of people try to wear us down.?

The Colts finished last season ranked last in the NFL in rushing defense, and in early December, they allowed 375 yards rushing in a 44-17 loss to Jacksonville. But in the postseason, the Colts improved drastically against the run, outrushing every opponent and holding three of four opponents under 100 yard rushing.

?We started playing it really well at the end of the season,? Brock said. ?I just

want to keep doing that, bring it to the next season and keep going from there.?

The return of safety Bob Sanders and the insertion of Rob Morris into the starting lineup at strong-side linebacker were widely cited as reasons for the postseason defensive improvement, but Dungy said Brock?s play inside was critical, too.

?It?s not easy to move positions at all, from safety to corner, from outside to inside linebacker, from end to tackle,? Dungy said. ?He did it well. By the end of the year, in the playoffs, he was playing so well . . . That?s what it?s all about.?

And after what at times was a long, difficult season, Brock said the postseason success was particularly satisfying.

?It was great,? Brock said, laughing. ?Everybody wanted to run down our throats because of the numbers. We had a lot of injuries and stuff like that. Everybody just said, 'You can run on the Colts.? Everything happens for a reason, I guess.

?It helped us get better as a run defense and when we got to that point where we really needed to step it up, we stepped it up. I just want to be more consistent.?

Brock, the only player on the Colts? defense to start 16 games each of the last five seasons, finished last season with 74 tackles, 59 solos. He also three forced fumbles and had three fumble recoveries.

He said the focus this past off-season was improving, particularly against the run.

?I want to work on my technique,? Brock said. ?That?s my main focus, run fits. I know how to play the pass and I know how to rush the passer. I have to learn these run fits and where I?m supposed to be and why, and understand the defense a little more. That?s basically what I?m working on, my fundamentals and my techniques in the run.

?It?s coming along really good. We expect people to keep running on us, so I?m just trying to get better at that.

?I got better at the end of the year last year, so I?ve got to keep getting better.?

And although Brock said there?s much work to be done, he said, ?I feel pretty comfortable now.

?I?m still in the learning phase and there?s still a lot to learn,? Brock said. ?I?ve never played tackle ever. Ever in life, so it?s pretty hard, but I?m doing pretty well right now. I?ve just got to get that run defense down. The run fits, and coming off the ball is different.

?I?m confident in it. I think if I just keep working at it, I?ll keep getting better.?

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Dwight FREENEY AGREES TO TERMS

Dwight FREENEY AGREES TO TERMS

Three-Time Pro Bowl Defensive End Agrees to Deal

Throughout the off-season, Colts officials said they wanted Dwight Freeney to remain in Indianapolis.
Freeney had said he wanted to be there, too.

The sides made that happen Friday, with the team and the three-time Pro Bowl defensive end agreeing in principle to a new, long-term contract, the Club announced shortly after 4 p.m. Friday afternoon.

Freeney, the Colts? first-round selection in the 2002 NFL Draft, became an unrestricted free agent following last season. Shortly thereafter, the Colts designated him their franchise player, which prevented Freeney from negotiating with other teams.

Under league rules, Freeney could either negotiate a long-term deal with the Colts or play one season for the $9.43 million franchise tag for defensive ends.

The deadline for the sides to reach a long-term agreement is 4 p.m. Monday. The official league deadline is July 15, but because the 15th fell on a Sunday, the deadline is extended a day.

Since the end of last season, Colts officials and Freeney each had said publicly they wanted to negotiate a long-term deal.

?He?s an integral part of the team and we want to see that it gets done if at all possible,? Colts President Bill Polian said in February.

While many ?franchised? players around the NFL threaten holdouts or skip off-season mini-camps, Freeney attended the team?s mini-camp in May.

?I?m part of this team,? Freeney said at the time, adding, ?I?m not going anywhere. . . . I know my situation. I?m going to be here. I know I?m going to be here. I love the city of Indianapolis and playing for (Colts Head (Coach) Tony) Dungy and (Colts Owner and Chief Executive Officer) Jim (Irsay) and Bill, so I?m out here and committed to the team.?

Freeney, the NFL?s sacks leader in 2004 with a franchise-record 16, has 56.5 sacks in five NFL seasons, with last season being the first in which he did not record double-digit sacks. He had 13 as a rookie in 2002, 11 in 2003, 16 in 2004 and 11 in 2005.

He made the Pro Bowl from 2003-2005 and was a first-team Associated Press All-Pro selection in 2004 and 2005.

He had 5.5 sacks last season, but recovered two more ? and a forced fumble and a recovered fumble in the postseason.

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READY TO GO

Dungy, Colts Looking Forward to Start of Camp

He signed, shook hands and spoke to fans.
This was how Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy spent the last three days, the final three days of a tour promoting his recently-released memoir, Quiet Strength.

He was in Fort Wayne, Ind., Sunday night, and in Indianapolis Monday.

On Tuesday, the 10-day tour will conclude in Tampa.

But on Monday night, as Dungy wound down from a three-stop day, he said something else is beginning to take the prominent place in his mind:

The 2007 season.

Dungy said he will remain in Tampa for several days before returning to Indianapolis to begin final preparations for training camp, which will begin at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology on Sunday, July 29.

How ready are the Colts for 2007?

Dungy said very much so, and on Monday, he told a story from the beginning of his book tour, when he and several Colts players ? including quarterback Peyton Manning, safety Bob Sanders, linebacker Gary Brackett, defensive end Dwight Freeney, center Jeff Saturday and offensive tackle Tarik Glenn ? appeared at the ESPY Awards at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, where the Colts received the award for Best Team.

?When we were at the ESPYs, we went up and it was the last award,? Dungy said. ?We all went backstage and did the interviews. Everybody talked about having so much fun, but wanting to do it again.?

Since the Colts won their first Super Bowl in 36 years, beating the Chicago Bears, 29-17, in Super Bowl XLI in early February, Dungy has been peppered by questions about the team's chances to repeat.

He has said his message to players during training camp won?t be about repeating, but about approaching the season as they have in recent seasons, when they have won four consecutive AFC South titles.

In those seasons, the Colts have approached each season individually, which Dungy said will be key this season.

Throughout the off-season, Dungy has spoken of the need to balance rest from a grueling, four-game postseason with focus and preparation for the 2007 season.

Dungy said he left the ESPYs confident the balance had been struck.

?You could see it in those guys? eyes,? he said Monday. ?They were ready to go.?

Since the ESPYS, one of the players attending ? Freeney ? made major news with the resolution of his contract situation, a resolution with which Dungy said he is pleased.

Freeney agreed to terms on a long-term contract Friday, a signing that became official on Monday.

?I?m happy for him,? Dungy said. ?I?m happy that we don?t have to hear, 'Is it going to happen or isn?t it?? (Colts Owner and Chief Executive Officer) Jim (Irsay) was always very confident that it would.

?I think it will relax Dwight and let him do what he always has done for us.?

Freeney, the Colts? first-round selection in the 2002 NFL Draft, has 56.5 sacks in his first five NFL seasons. He made the Pro Bowl each season from 2003-2005, and was a first-team Associated Press All-Pro selection in 2004 and 2005.

He led the NFL in sacks in 2004 with a franchise-record 16.

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The goal for John Standeford is clear.

Even if it's not particularly easy.

Standeford, a second-year wide receiver from Purdue University, said he feels better than he ever has entering a Colts training camp. He said he is more confident, and is sure he is a better player than he has been the past three seasons.

Now, Standeford said, one thing remains:

He has to show to everyone else.

?It's the same as always,? Standeford said during the team's recent summer-school session, which concluded in mid-June at the team's Training Facility in Indianapolis.

?I just come here to get better, and try to improve on the little things -- try to catch the ball and do everything right so I can gain every advantage I have.?

That has been Standeford's approach since he signed with the Colts' practice squad in September of 2004.

It's an approach that has kept him part of the Colts? practice squad and active roster for three seasons.

And an approach that helped earn him a Super Bowl ring last season.

It?s also an approach Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy said he expects Standeford to continue in training camp, which begins for the Colts on July 29 at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind.

Standeford, despite productive preseasons, did not make the Colts? final roster in 2004 or 2005, spending those seasons on the practice squad.

Last season, he made the active roster, then spent 12 more weeks on the practice squad before being re-signed to the active roster December 14. He spent the last three weeks of the regular season and all four playoff games on the active roster, but did not play.

This season, with wide receiver Brandon Stokley - the team?s third receiver the past four seasons - having signed with the Denver Broncos, there will be opportunities in training camp at receiver, Dungy said.

?John is going to get some opportunity, with our receiving core a little bit different than in the past,? Dungy said. ?With Brandon Stokley not there, that obviously gives John an opportunity. He was on the active roster down the stretch and I know that?s what he?s looking for.

?He has a great feel for our offense. We know he can catch the ball. For him, it?s just a matter of making those plays and taking advantage of this opportunity that he has.?

Catching the ball never has been a problem for Standeford. He has performed well during the preseason, and last year, he caught nine passes for 159 yards and one touchdown in four preseason games.

In college, he finished his career as the Big 10?s all-time leader in receptions and receiving yards, catching 266 passes for 3,788 yards and 27 touchdowns.

The goal now, Standeford said, is to translate preseason success into regular-season playing time.

?It?s definitely not always fun, not getting to play on Sundays,? Standeford said. ?I just go out there very week and prepare like I?m going to play. That?s the mentality I?ve had to take, to get better and get ready when your team calls on you.?

Three years of practice against NFL defensive backs, and three years working with one of the NFL?s top receiving corps, has produced a better receiver - and a more confident one, Standeford said.

?I feel a lot better,? Standeford said. ?Obviously, I know the plays and I can go out there and feel comfortable. Being here three years, you feel comfortable with the guys and with the coach. I know what he wants. I just try to do it how he?s taught me.

?I do (feel the difference). (Wide receivers coach) Clyde (Christenson) emphasizes so many breaks, and staying low in our cuts. I try to carry it over throughout everything the rest of practice. I just try to be precise and run every route well, because you never know when you?re going to get the ball in this offense.

?I?ve gotten a lot better running routes, and getting in and out of breaks - just watching (Pro Bowl wide receivers) Marvin (Harrison) and Reggie (Wayne) and learning from guys like that.?

Standeford said this is the time when the learning must produce results. Under NFL rules, because he is entering his fourth season with the Colts, he will not be eligible for the practice squad.

?I go into it every year with that as the goal,? Standeford said. ?I just try to go out and improve and do everything I can to make the squad, then leave it up to the coaches to try to make it hard for them to release you.?

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WHATEVER IT TAKES

WHATEVER IT TAKES

Boiman Likes Role on Colts? Defense, Special Teams

Rocky Boiman had a choice early this past off-season: to sign into a new situation or return to his old team.
The old team won the Super Bowl last season. The new situation, therefore, would mean joining a team the veteran linebacker/special teams player figured had less of a chance to reach such heights.

The choice, Boiman said, wasn?t particularly difficult.

?The big reason I came back here is I want to win again,? Boiman said during the Colts? recent summer-school sessions, which ended last month at the team?s practice facility in Indianapolis.

?I think we have the kind of team that can do it. I just want to be able to be a contributor to that.?

Boiman, who is entering his sixth NFL season, contributed in a big way last season ? that after not knowing at times the previous off-season just were he would play.

After leaving the Tennessee Titans as an unrestricted free agent to sign with the Dallas Cowboys, Boiman signed with the Colts as a free agent shortly before the 2006 season. He played as a reserve linebacker, and became a key veteran leader on special teams.

It was, Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy said, the sort of contribution the Colts expected from the former Notre Dame standout.

Dungy said it was something else, too:

The sort of contribution a contending team needs from veteran players in relatively unnoticed roles.

Peyton Manning. Marvin Harrison. Dwight Freeney.

Such players may have big contracts and Pro Bowl resumes, but Dungy said players such as Boiman and middle-linebacker-turned-outside-backer Rob Morris are equally critical to a Super Bowl run.

?Those guys, eventually, at some point in the year, make a contribution that causes you to win,? Dungy said. ?That?s where we?ve been really fortunate. Yeah, we?ve had the core group and the big-name players, but we?ve had guys like that who have made positive contributions. They understand they?re a big part of us winning.

?Everybody would like to go play more. They?d like to start and they?d like to make more money, but when you have guys who understand that winning is important and fun and they?re a big part of winning, that?s what keeps you going.?

Boiman, originally a fourth-round selection in the 2002 NFL Draft by the Titans, spent four seasons with Tennessee, starting 11 of 54 games and registering 113 tackles and 1.5 sacks. He played extensively as a special teams player in 2002 and 2003, and became a starting outside backer entering the 2004 season when Peter Sirmon sustained a season-ending knee injury in training camp.

Boiman started six games that season, but was limited because of calf and knee injuries, and he again played a reserve/special teams role in 2005.

He signed with the Dallas Cowboys as an unrestricted free agent the following off-season, and after he was waived shortly before the regular season, he signed with the Colts as a free agent.

He started one game last season, the Colts? 43-24 victory over Philadelphia the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and finished the season with 17 defensive tackles and a key, end-zone interception in an October 1 victory over the New York Jets.

Throughout his first season with the Colts, Boiman said he became impressed by the culture around the team, and specifically, the commitment to winning.

?The coaching staff and the whole organization is a big part of it,? Boiman said. ?Tony Dungy, he treats you like a man and it?s also personal. The first time I came in, he talked to me and said, ?Hey, we brought you in here because you can help us win.? Having a coach like that makes you want to go out and lay it on the line for him.

?Saturday nights before games, I would think to myself, ?I don?t want to let myself down and I don?t want to let my teammates down.? Guys around here want to win and they do things the right way.?

Boiman said that is what prompted him to re-sign with the Colts when his one-year contract expired after last season.

?I had four or five teams I could have gone to, but looking at the kind of team you have coming back personnel-wise, I thought this was the best situation,? Boiman said. ?I had such a good time here last year and I look forward to doing it again and getting another one.?

And Boiman said while he is fine with performing a specific ? and often, a reserve role ? his aspirations don?t end at special teams and starting when needed.

?My goal is to kind of be able to do whatever?s asked of me, whether it?s a special teams role or an expanded role,? Boiman said. ?Obviously, I?d like to be on the field more. That?s what my mindset has been this off-season. Everyday I come in to work, that?s what I?m working towards, to get on the field more on defense.?

Boiman said through his five NFL seasons, he has learned what Dungy said is true ? that a competitive, championship team must have not only superstars, but also veteran players able to play specific roles.

?When you?re out there, you?re competing, fighting, scratching and clawing, and you want to be able to rely on the guy next to you,? Boiman said. ?You don?t want to be out there and be like, ?Man, how are we going to get this job done with this guy? The older guys, like myself, have to do a good job of saying, ?You?ve got to get in your playbook or work harder.? You?ve got to have the respect of guys who have been doing it a while. . . .

?People say, ?What year are you?? I?m going into my sixth year. I am one of the older guys on the team. I try to lead by example and try to do the things that have kept me in the league longtime.

?I work hard, know my assignment and if guys can pick up that, I think it makes us a better team.?

Boiman said an example of the importance of the approach came near the end of last season, when Colts coaches moved Morris into the starting lineup in place of Gilbert Gardner with three games remaining in the regular season.

The Colts improved drastically in the postseason with Morris in the lineup, and a defense that finished last in the NFL in regular-season run defense held three of four playoff opponents under 100 yards rushing.

?You never know when your time is going to come,? Boiman said. ?My second year in the league, I had the same situation: a guy in front of you goes down, you step in and all of a sudden, you?re the starter. It?s not like there?s a grace period for backups. I think that?s important for guys to realize. That?s what makes a good team, for guys to realize the same 22 guys starting the first game are most likely not going to be the same 22 who start the last game.

?It?s important that you get ready. You?re only as strong as your weakest link.?

And being an important link on a contending team . . .

Well, while Boiman wouldn?t mind being more, he said he knows he is that at the Colts. And for Boiman, for now, that?s enough.

?I?m the kind of guy where whatever job you give me, I?m going to do it and you?re going to get the best out of me ? whatever it might be,? Boiman said. ?You can always wish the situation was better, but it?s such a great situation. It?s a privilege to play on a good team. I?ve been on teams that have gone 4-12 and that?s miserable.

?I?d rather be a role player and key player on special teams on a team that wins than a starter on a team that?s getting blown out every week. I like to win.

?I feel like a winner. That?s what I?d like to do and I embrace it.?

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Quarterback Betts Tries to Carve Out Niche with Colts

Josh Betts? situation isn?t easy.
Then again, he said, he?s a young quarterback trying to make it in the NFL. He really doesn?t expect it to be easy.

Betts, a first-year veteran, spent last season on the Colts? practice squad. When training camp begins on July 29, he will be trying to make the active roster on a team that in recent seasons typically has kept two quarterbacks.

Peyton Manning, a two-time NFL Most Valuable Player, is the Colts? starter.

Jim Sorgi, a fourth-year veteran, is currently the backup.

Not an easy situation, Betts said.

But Betts also said he tries not to see it that way.

?It?s all mental,? Betts said during the Colts? recent summer-school program, which concluded in mid-June at the team?s Indianapolis training facility.

?Really, what I can do is take it to a point where they like me enough they don?t want to lose me, where if something happened to Peyton or Sorg they?d be comfortable with me to where they can?t take the chance of cutting me and letting me get picked up.?

That would mean the Colts deciding to keep a third quarterback, something Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy said this off-season is a possibility, but also something the team has not done on a regular basis during this decade.

?It?s tough, because they?re one of 10 teams that didn?t carry a third last year, and they haven?t, really, in the last three or four years,? Betts said. ?They talk about it every year, the chances of possibly carrying a third. There?s a risk-reward to it.

?Really, I try to play well enough when I get my chances. That?s really all I can do.?

Getting chances hasn?t been easy for Betts. Or for any reserve quarterback on the Colts, for that matter.

Manning, one of the NFL?s most durable, reliable quarterbacks, never has missed a start in nine NFL seasons, and has missed just one play in his career because of injury. He also typically takes a majority of the repetitions in practice, and those he doesn?t typically are taken by Sorgi.

Last season, with veteran Shaun King also on the training camp roster, Betts said he didn?t take a repetition during training camp.

?The first snap I took in the Bengals game (the Colts? preseason finale) was the first snap I had taken in seven-in-seven or team (drills) in a month,? Betts said, laughing. ?It made you a little nervous, more so because you don?t know how you were going to react ? how I was going to be out there.

?Everything you learned really was mental in the last month and half. It was tough, but it all came back and it wasn?t too bad out there. It made you a little nervous before you got in there, waiting to see how you?re going to react to it.?

Betts didn?t throw a pass in the preseason, which he said made this year?s off-season particularly important.

?Knowing how limited your chances are, any time you can get out there and play is nice,? Betts said. ?I always enjoy coming out with the rookies. Now, having a year in the offense under my belt, it?s nice to get out there and be more comfortable and really start to play ball again.?

Betts, who signed with the Colts as a rookie free agent shortly after the 2006 NFL Draft, played collegiately at Miami (Ohio) University, completing 541 of 929 passes for 7,029 yards and 54 touchdowns with 30 interceptions in two seasons as a starter.

He spent three seasons as backup to Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, ?but I?ve never been in a situation where you don?t get any reps,? he said.

Betts spent the off-season getting as many repetitions as possible. Once camp begins, he said, no matter where he on the depth chart, practice time likely will be limited.

?It (the regular season) is very similar to training camp,? Betts said. ?Even Sorg didn?t get reps. He only takes a few snaps a week. Sorg and I did lot of work on our own, preparation and stuff ? helping him (Manning) out, but also working.

?You have to approach it that way. Two or three days before the Super Bowl, Sorg banged up his ankle. You have to be ready. If something happens, I go in if Peyton goes down in the first quarter. You always have to be ready, because it can happen very quickly.?

While Betts said not playing ? even behind an established quarterback such as Manning ? is difficult, he said the season was hardly a waste. He is young, and still learning, and he said there are few better places to learn than in the Colts? offense.

?There?s so much I learned throughout the season,? Betts said. ?You learn week by week. More so than anything, it was just getting comfortable with the offense and getting it to where it?s just second-nature now and you?re not just trying to think of the word, then the play, then what the guys are doing. You?re familiar enough with it where it comes natural and you?re more comfortable in the pocket.

?That helps so much and what I learned in preparation week by week is going to help me when I do get the chances to get in there and when defenses are giving me different looks and different blocking assignments.?

And that, Betts said, should help in a situation that he said isn?t supposed to be easy, and really never is.

?Until you get out there, it?s all mental, but even the physical part, when you?re more comfortable, you can stop thinking so much,? Betts said. ?You can just get back, be comfortable throwing the ball and trust yourself more.?

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The General · Jul 23, 2007

BACK TO WORK

BACK TO WORK

Colts Coaches Begin Preparing for Opening of Camp

Rumors and news reports of the day aside, Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy had a specific agenda Monday.
He was back to work, back where he wanted to be.

Dungy, after a whirlwind off-season as the head coach of the defending Super Bowl champions, returned to work on Monday, as did the rest of the Colts? coaching staff and football staff. The Colts are scheduled to report to training camp at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind., Sunday.

The Colts? first training camp practice is scheduled for Monday morning.

?I am ready to get into our element, practicing again and being around our guys,? Dungy said Monday. ?Getting back and doing what we do will be a lot of fun.?

Dungy, entering his sixth season as the Colts? head coach, said he has spoken with offensive tackle Tarik Glenn regarding the recent published reports that the three-time Pro Bowl selection is considering retirement.

?He told me he is considering it, and he wanted to think it through and talk it through,? Dungy said. ?We talked about some of the issues, and we?ll see what happens.?

Dungy said the coming week will be spent preparing for camp, with an emphasis on a three-day, voluntary rookie camp Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

?This week is really just making sure we?re in tune with everything, making sure we?re packed up and ready to go, and making sure the final camp preparation is in place,? Dungy said. ?Then, we?ve got the three days with the rookies.

?It?s important because we want to give them a foundation so they can hit the ground running at camp.?

The Colts? rookies attended a rookie mini-camp the week after the April NFL Draft, then also participated in a mandatory mini-camp later in May before participating in the team?s summer-school sessions and off-season workout programs.

This week?s three-day session is a final opportunity for rookies to get acclimated with the Colts? system before the veterans arrive this weekend.

?We?ll try to cover again some things that we?ve already talked about,? Dungy said. ?We?ll get them acclimated to hearing out terminology again and get them going. We really want to make it an easy transition for them.

?It?s easier for them when the veterans aren?t around to really ask those basic questions, in-depth questions. A lot of times they won?t ask those questions because they don?t want to slow the whole proceeding down, but when it?s just them they?ll get to the bottom of things they weren?t quite sure of.??

Dungy has said throughout the off-season that the emphasis won?t be on repeating as Super Bowl champions, but on approaching the 2007 season as the Colts approach any other season.

?I think it?s going to be more on the coaches than anything else,? Dungy said. ?I think we?re going to get the energy and the effort. Our players are going to be ready. I think we just have to make sure we?re on the details and not take anything for granted, not say, ?We know this,? or, ?We?ve been through this,? or, ?Surely, they understand this.?

?We need to stay on the basic things we always do. I think our energy level is going to be good. We just have to stick to the task and not skip any steps and I think we?ll be OK.?

The off-season that ended this past weekend was unlike any other in his playing career, his time as an assistant or in his previous 11 seasons as an NFL head coach. It was shorter, because of the Colts? Super Bowl appearance, but Dungy and the rest of the organization had more appearances and demands on their time.

?This has been unique,? Dungy said. ?It really has. Probably the best time for me was a couple of times mingling with the fans in some settings ? with (running back) Joseph Addai at the Wal-Mart, all the people out for the DVD premiere, the book signing . . .

?Seeing how excited people are about the championship and the team. I really feel like that was what (Colts Owner and Chief Executive Officer) Jim (Irsay) talked about when we talked five years ago (before Dungy?s hiring) ? winning, but more than just winning: getting that connection with the fans.?

Dungy spent 10 days in July promoting his recently-released memoir, Quiet Strength, after which he spent much of last week in Tampa, Fla., with his family.

During that time, Dungy said he took his son, Jordan, fishing, and to the zoo.

?Then, it was like, ?OK, that?s it ? now we?ve got everything done,??? Dungy said. ? ?Now, it?s time to get back.???

In early July, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, many Colts players gathered to receive the ESPY for Best Team. There, Dungy said, he got a feeling from the players he liked ? a readiness to return, a willingness to work, a desire to defend.

?Those guys were very fired up about getting back,? Dungy said. ?Those guys said, ?It?s great and it?s exciting, but how can we put this back together and do it again?? I got the sense they were all looking forward to starting up.?

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Offense, Line Can Succeed After Glenn, Polian Says

The Colts will miss Tarik Glenn.

Of that, Colts President Bill Polian said Tuesday there is no question.

But while the Colts? offensive line will look different without the three-time Pro Bowl left tackle, Polian also said something else is equally true:

The Colts are prepared for a future without Glenn.

And that includes an immediate future.

?I?m always disappointed when a player leaves, but it happens,? Polian said. ?Injuries happen. Retirements happen. Players leave because of free agency. It?s the nature of the game.

?While I?m disappointed a good player?s leaving, you move on. That?s what you get paid to do.?

Glenn, the Colts? starting left tackle since 1998, announced his retirement from football on Tuesday, ending several days of media reports and speculation around the issue.

What does a future without Glenn mean? For the short term, it leaves the Colts with no player on the roster who has started a game at left tackle in the NFL.

?Obviously, it?s hard to replace a player of Tarik?s ability, and all the other contributions he made,? said Polian, who said before the Colts report to training camp on Sunday Glenn will be placed on the reserve/retired list, a move that gives the team a roster exemption and a move that is not ?irrevocable.?

?He hardly was ever injured, but you prepare for that as a football team ? as a staff and an organization,? Polian added. ?We have players who are going to have to step in. That?s what happens in the NFL. The unknown comes up and you have to deal with it and we will.?

Signing a left tackle as a free agent is likely not an option, Polian said.

?The Left Tackle Store is closed, unfortunately,? Polian said, laughing. ?Besides which, there are no Tarik Glenns available in the Left Tackle Store. They come along once every 10 years.?

The Colts report to training camp at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind., Sunday. Currently, there are six tackles on the roster:

? Ryan Diem, a seven-year veteran and the starter at right tackle the past four seasons.

? Charlie Johnson, a second-year veteran and the backup to both tackle positions last season.

? Michael Toudouze, a first-year veteran who spent last season the Colts? practice squad.

? Dan Federkeil, a second-year veteran who spent the last half of last season on the Colts? active roster.

? Tony Ugoh, a rookie second-round draft selection from Arkansas.

? Joe Lobdell, a rookie free-agent from Northern Iowa.

Jake Scott, the Colts? starting right guard the past two and a half seasons, started two games at right tackle in 2005.

?We have a lot of good players on the offensive line,? Polian said. ?One of the things that we pride ourselves on is that virtually any player on the offensive line can play any position.?

The Colts selected Ugoh this past off-season with the idea that he has the ability to be a starting NFL left tackle, but the original idea was to develop Ugoh slowly with Glenn remaining the starter.

?If you remember, we said at the time, ?We have Tarik Glenn ? we?ve had him for 10 years,??? Polian said. ?Here was an opportunity to get a player (Ugoh) who had similar skills and similar temperament ? similar physical qualities.

?That was one you couldn?t pass up, because the Tarik Glenns of the world are rare.?

Glenn said after conversations with Dungy, Colts offensive line coach Howard Mudd and Polian, he said feels sure the transition will be a successful one.

?They?re more than confident, and I?m more than confident, because I know the way our system works guys take care of one another,? Glenn said. ?It?s going to force some people to grow up. It?s going to force some people to transition out of being dependent upon and actually be the person people depend on. I think the transition is fitting for the time.

?I really believe in Charlie. I?ve always thought he was a really good player, a talented player. He?s smart. He?s athletic. He?s competitive. He?ll be able to do the job.

Glenn worked extensively with Ugoh during the Colts? summer-school sessions and during the off-season conditioning program.

?Tony, obviously they thought really high of him when they drafted him, so I?m sure there?s enough talent in the (offensive line meeting) room to make it happen,? Glenn said. ?I just think it?s going to take a lot of leadership and patience in the offense for that to develop.

Glenn, one of the Colts? most durable, reliable players in recent seasons, started every regular- and post-season game at the position last season, and during his career, he missed just six games.

That was in 2003, when he missed six games with a knee injury.

Since then, he started 48 of 48 regular-season games, and in the nine-season career of seven-time Pro Bowl quarterback Peyton Manning, those six games in 2003 are the only games in which he has played without Glenn protecting his ?blind? side.

?That?s something I think is going to be real hard for everybody,? Glenn said. ?For the past 10 years, I?ve been consistent and I?ve been there. After talking to some of my teammates about that, it?s like, ?Who knows what it?s like to play without Marvin Harrison, Peyton Manning or Tarik Glenn or Jeff Saturday?? Those guys don?t miss games. They play all the time. They don?t get hurt. So, there is an unknown.?

?The cohesiveness is what I?m sure guys are concerned about ? just things running as smooth as it has in the past. But we have so many smart guys on the line. They really understand how things materialize and they have the football IQ necessary to play the position. I?m really confident in it.?

Under Mudd, the line long has had a reputation as one of the NFL?s best units, and also one of the most versatile. Since Mudd joined the Colts in 1998, the Colts often have started inexperienced low-drafted players along the line with little or no dropoff in offensive production.

Through the past 10 years, one of the constants has been Glenn, but even with his absence, Polian said the pieces are in place for a solid line.

?Howard will juggle the pieces and use his magic stirring spoon and come up with the right combination, as he always does,? Polian said. ?Howard will sit down at training camp. He?ll mix and match and work different combinations and a couple of days before we play New Orleans (in the season opener), I?m sure he?ll let us know which combination he thinks is best.

?Right now, it?s a question of working through all the various permutations and we?ll come out with the best five.?

Glenn, for his part, said he believes no matter who takes his place, he is ?excited to see how it?s all going to work out.?

?I want it to be successful,? Glenn said. ?I want it to be better than it was when I was in there. I love those guys and I hope the best for them.?

?They?re more than confident, and I?m more than confident, because I know the way our system works guys take care of one another,? Glenn said. ?It?s going to force some people to grow up. It?s going to force some people to transition out of being dependent upon and actually be the person people depend on. I think the transition is fitting for the time.

?I really believe in Charlie. I?ve always thought he was a really good player, a talented player. He?s smart. He?s athletic. He?s competitive. He?ll be able to do the job.

Glenn worked extensively with Ugoh during the Colts? summer-school sessions and during the off-season conditioning program.

?Tony, obviously they thought really high of him when they drafted him, so I?m sure there?s enough talent in the (offensive line meeting) room to make it happen,? Glenn said. ?I just think it?s going to take a lot of leadership and patience in the offense for that to develop.

Glenn, one of the Colts? most durable, reliable players in recent seasons, started every regular- and post-season game at the position last season, and during his career, he missed just six games.

That was in 2003, when he missed six games with a knee injury.

Since then, he started 48 of 48 regular-season games, and in the nine-season career of seven-time Pro Bowl quarterback Peyton Manning, those six games in 2003 are the only games in which he has played without Glenn protecting his ?blind? side.

?That?s something I think is going to be real hard for everybody,? Glenn said. ?For the past 10 years, I?ve been consistent and I?ve been there. After talking to some of my teammates about that, it?s like, ?Who knows what it?s like to play without Marvin Harrison, Peyton Manning or Tarik Glenn or Jeff Saturday?? Those guys don?t miss games. They play all the time. They don?t get hurt. So, there is an unknown.?

?The cohesiveness is what I?m sure guys are concerned about ? just things running as smooth as it has in the past. But we have so many smart guys on the line. They really understand how things materialize and they have the football IQ necessary to play the position. I?m really confident in it.?

Under Mudd, the line long has had a reputation as one of the NFL?s best units, and also one of the most versatile. Since Mudd joined the Colts in 1998, the Colts often have started inexperienced low-drafted players along the line with little or no dropoff in offensive production.

Through the past 10 years, one of the constants has been Glenn, but even with his absence, Polian said the pieces are in place for a solid line.

?Howard will juggle the pieces and use his magic stirring spoon and come up with the right combination, as he always does,? Polian said. ?Howard will sit down at training camp. He?ll mix and match and work different combinations and a couple of days before we play New Orleans (in the season opener), I?m sure he?ll let us know which combination he thinks is best.

?Right now, it?s a question of working through all the various permutations and we?ll come out with the best five.?

Glenn, for his part, said he believes no matter who takes his place, he is ?excited to see how it?s all going to work out.?

?I want it to be successful,? Glenn said. ?I want it to be better than it was when I was in there. I love those guys and I hope the best for them.?

The General · Jul 27, 2007

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Howard Mudd Says Replacing Glenn, Though Difficult, is Part of the Job

There will be a replacement.

Of that much Howard Mudd said Wednesday he is confident, and the Colts’ offensive line coach said he is nearly as confident that the replacement for retired left tackle Tarik Glenn should perform ably enough.

Ably enough to maintain the group’s high standard.

Ably enough for the offensive line to continue to be one of the NFL’s best.

Ably enough for the Colts’ offense to do the same.

As to who, exactly, that replacement will be?

Of that much, Mudd said he doesn’t yet know.

“That’s what our job is,” Mudd said Wednesday, the day after Glenn – the Colts’ starting left tackle the past nine seasons – announced his retirement.

“I’m counting on finding someone that takes that fifth spot regardless of how that shakes down, then I’m counting on having the rest of the players who already know how to play our style to train whoever that next guy is, to play in a similar manner.

“That’s really a big part of what we do here up front.”

The Colts’ offensive line, since Mudd’s 1998 arrival, has been a group that has prided itself on effectively playing despite the age and experience of its players, and on effectively playing through a variety of injuries.

But with Glenn’s retirement, the group will for the first time enter a season without the No. 19 overall selection in the NFL Draft, a player who has protected quarterback Peyton Manning’s blind side for all but six games in the two-time Most Valuable Player’s career, a player who made the Pro Bowl the last three seasons.

Mudd was asked Wednesday if the prospect was exhilarating or frightening. Mudd laughed.

“I’d have to answer yes,” he said. “Certainly, professionally it’s a stimulating thing to be required to put something together. It’s frightening, in that there are pieces that are missing. It’s up to us to replace those. Is it going to be replaced in exactly the same way? No. There’s no way. We’re all individuals. Will it be as efficient? I hope so. That’s the intent.

“But it may be a combination of the group playing just as well as opposed to just singling out Tarik Glenn and saying, ‘OK, is that guy playing as well as Tarik did?’’’

That has been the Colts’ offensive line concept since Mudd’s arrival, Colts President Bill Polian said Wednesday – not of viewing the line as five individuals, but of putting the five best available linemen on the field.

“We’re going to determine who the best five are,” Polian said. “That’s a process that will take the whole preseason. Howard will sort that through. We’ve always worked on that basis. We’ve always said, ‘Who are the best five?’ Tarik missed very little time.”

Glenn started 154 of 160 regular-season games in his 10-year career, missing six starts with a knee injury in 2003. During that time, the Colts moved then-rookie Makoa Freitas to left tackle. The Colts went 3-3 with Glenn injured and 11-1 the rest of the season.

“We’ve always had the best five playing, no matter what the circumstance,” Polian said. “That’s what we’re going to try to determine this time around.”

Mudd on Wednesday said there were several possibilities to replace Glenn: Jake Scott, who has started the past two and a half seasons at right guard; Charlie Johnson, who started one game at right tackle as a rookie last season; rookie second-round draft selection Tony Ugoh; and second-year veteran Dan Federkeil, who spent the last half of last season on the active roster. None of those players has started an NFL game at left tackle.

“I don’t know how that’s all going to shuffle down,” Mudd said. “I can’t really predict how its going to be. This is what we’re supposed to do. There are a lot of resources we have. It’s not just about Howard Mudd doing it. It’s about Howard Mudd and (center) Jeff Saturday and Jake Scott and (guard) Ryan Lilja and (right tackle) Ryan Diem and (offensive assistant) Pete Metzelaars and Tony Dungy and Bill Polian. There are a lot of parts to this. There are a lot of elements in there. Now, we’re charged with the obvious responsibility and that’s fine.

“I feel good that it’s worked reasonably efficiently before and we’ll get this thing done.”

Said Dungy, “Part of what makes those guys good is the fact that we always operated that way. Whatever happens, we’ve got guys who can adjust. Whether it’s on a one-game basis – Jake Scott having to go out there and play, Makoa Frietas, Charlie Johnson – everybody’s ready to go.

“We’ll look at it and figure out who are out best five, six or seven are. Whether it’s moving Charlie Johnson over there, moving Jake Scott out, someone else playing guard, whether it’s Tony developing, we’ll see.

“I’m pretty confident we’ll still have seven or eight guys who can really get the job done. We went in thinking this was going to be the deepest line we’ve had. It’s still going to be deep. It’s just going to be missing one Pro Bowl player.”

Mudd said one of the most important tasks in the coming days may be psychological.

“Probably one of the most important things is for people to realize Tarik is not here and not coming back,” he said. “That’s a real big step for all of us to take – 18 (Manning) and 63 (Saturday) and all of us to take: to recognize that and move on.

“I think that’s going to be a real big part of this transition.”

And Dungy said as much as the team will miss Glenn, and as much as players and coaches wanted him to stay, the departure may not be a total negative.

“It’s good in a way to know that it’s not the same team that’s coming back,” Dungy said. “We’re missing some of the defensive guys. We’re missing (running back) Dominic (Rhodes). Now, we’re missing Tarik. It’s not just, ‘Hey, we come and show up with the same group we’ve had.

“New guys have to come in and be ready, but our history is they always are.”

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The General · Jul 27, 2007

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A few of the issues supposedly facing the Colts these days shouldn?t be issues at all, as far as Bill Polian sees it.

The issue of repeating?

Of resting on the laurels of last season?

Of considering last season a peak?

All are historically considered key issues the season after a team wins a Super Bowl, but Polian ? entering his 10th season as the Colts? President ? said he doesn?t see it that way.

Far from it.

?I don?t sense it with this group,? Polian said this week as the Colts ? the defending Super Bowl champions ? prepared to report to the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind., for training camp, which is scheduled to begin with two practices Monday.

The Colts, who beat the Chicago Bears, 29-17, in Super Bowl XLI in February, also won a fourth consecutive AFC South title last season. They have made the playoffs the past five seasons, the longest such ongoing streak in the NFL, and they have played in the postseason seven of the past eight seasons.

Not only did they win the Super Bowl last season, the three seasons before that they lost in the playoffs to the eventual Super Bowl champion, losing to New England in the AFC Championship Game following the 2003 season, to New England again in an AFC Divisional Playoff Game following the 2004 season and to Pittsburgh in an AFC Divisional Playoff Game following the 2005 season.

Those playoff losses, while frustrating, could help this season, Polian said.

?There is a plus and minus to being as close as we were for as long as we were,? Polian said. ?You?re close, and you know you?re good enough to get there. When you finally get there, it isn?t as though you exhale and say, ?Well, it?s over.?

?You say, ?OK, we?ve reached this objective. We know we?re good enough to get here. We did. We were fortunate enough to win and now we know we?re still good enough to compete at this level.?

?If you are competitors, and our guys are, you begin that quest all over again.?

Polian recently outlined and discussed five key areas facing the Colts entering training camp. They are:

? No. 1. Kickoff coverage. ?That has to improve,? he said. ?It was awful last year, as we all know. That needs to get a whole lot better. That?s an area where we just must improve. We can?t continue to give people that kind of field position and expect to win consistently with the kind of opposition we face in the AFC.

? No. 2. Running offense. ?We need to maintain the explosion in our running game ? which last year was better than it has been in the last four or five years ? while at the same time increasing the explosion in our passing game,? Polian said. ?I hope for the time where we?ll be good enough again in the passing game ? with the kind of explosion we have in our running game ? to maybe challenge the touchdown record (of 49 in a single season set by Colts quarterback Peyton Manning in 2004). I think that?s doable as long as (wide receivers) Marvin (Harrison) and Reggie (Wayne) are here and healthy. It certainly is a target to shoot at. We can be better there.?

? No. 3. Penalties. ?We certainly can be better, as (Colts Head Coach) Tony (Dungy) pointed out, in penalties,? Polian said. ?We weren?t as good as we?ve been in years past in penalty avoidance. We?ve got to be better there.?

? No. 4. Run defense. ?The run defense is obvious,? Polian said. ?That needs to be as good as it was in the playoffs and the Super Bowl on a consistent basis. Now, part of that is health. We understand that. Part of it is also being in the right place at the right time and executing. We need to be better, obviously in the regular season than we were in the regular season last year.?

? No. 5. Sacks. ?Certainly, I think our sacks performance can get back up to where it?s among the league leaders,? Polian said. ?It was not last year. That?s a function largely of the fact that people had success running against us. If they don?t, then our sack production will go up and we?ll be a more dynamic team and give the offense more opportunities.?

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First-Round Choice Gonzalez Signs Contract With Colts

Anthony Gonzalez achieved one of his off-season objectives this week.
By doing so, now he can concentrate on the in-season goals.

Gonzalez, a wide receiver from Ohio State University and the Colts' first-round selection in the April 2007 NFL Draft, has signed a contract with the team, the club announced Friday. Gonzalez now can report to training camp when the team reports this weekend.

?I feel great,? Gonzalez, the No. 32 overall selection in the draft, said. ?I really do. The goal from the start was to get into camp on time, and be there when they reported, so to get it out of the way and know I won?t miss any practices is a huge relief to me.?

The Colts, who won the Super Bowl following last season, are scheduled to report to the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind., on Sunday.

The Colts? first training camp practice is scheduled for Monday morning.

?Camp is camp,? Gonzalez said. ?If you?ve been through one, you?ve been through them all. It?s not going to be the most fun part of my life, but it?s very important, so it?s something I?m taking seriously and hope to get a lot out of.?

Gonzalez caught 87 passes for 1,286 yards and 13 touchdowns in three seasons at Ohio State.

Also, the Colts on Friday announced the signings of wide receiver Roy Hall and defensive end Keyunta Dawson.

Hall, who also played at Ohio State, was a fifth-round selection in April's draft. He caught 52 passes for 580 yards and three touchdowns in four seasons.

Dawson, who played at Texas Tech, was a seventh-round selection. He had 19.5 sacks and four forced fumbles in four seasons.

Also, the Colts have claimed offensive tackle Gabe Hall off waivers from the New York Giants and signed defensive back Cedrick Holt as a free agent. They waived wide receivers Kevin McMahan and Taylor Sele.

The Colts also have been awarded rights to defensive end Ben Ishola as part of the NFL International Development Practice Squad program.

Ishola was named the NFL Europa Defensive Player of the Year.

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Camp Message Will be About Focusing on 2007, Dungy Says

For Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy, it?s more than a long, annual drive down I-70.

It?s the start of another NFL season.

Dungy, like most of the Colts? organization, will spend part of Sunday morning or afternoon driving from Indianapolis to the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind. The Colts are scheduled to report to Terre Haute Sunday afternoon, and they open 2007 Training Camp on Monday morning.

Defending Super Bowl champions or not, Dungy said Sunday?s drive is the same each year.

Part of it is about looking back.

Part of it is about savoring the last few moments before camp.

And part is about looking forward.

?It?s fun,? Dungy said this week as he prepared for his sixth training camp with the Colts, his 12th as an NFL head coach and his 30th overall.

?You think about other training camps. You do think back to your first one, and you think back to other special years. More than anything, as I?m driving, I think how lucky and fortunate I am to be doing a job I really enjoy, and starting another year.?

Dungy?s first NFL training camp was in 1977, when he made the Pittsburgh Steelers roster as an undrafted rookie from the University of Minnesota. As far as special seasons, few matched last season, when the Colts won the Super Bowl for the first time in 36 years.

This season, his sixth with the Colts, will mean he has been a head coach in Indianapolis as long as he was a head coach in Tampa Bay, where he coached the Buccaneers from 1996-2001.

No matter the position, Dungy said the thoughts on the first day of camp for a head coach are the same.

?You think about what are the challenges ahead, and you think about the message you want to get across to the team,? Dungy said.

This year, Dungy said, that message is as simple as it is important:

That last season is over, and that when this season begins, it won?t be about repeating, but about focusing on the current season.

Dungy said he already has discussed that with the team, but it will be reiterated Sunday, and throughout camp.

?It will be, ?Here?s what the 2007 team has to do to be good, and here are our challenges,? ? Dungy said. ?We?ll discuss areas we need to improve. My speech will also be how I don?t think we played really close to what we were capable of. We do have a lot of room for improvement and we can make that improvement.

?Everybody is going to say how tough it is to repeat, but really, every year is tough. Winning in the National Football League is tough no matter where you are and no matter what team you are, no matter what year it is.

?The challenge shouldn?t be any different. We?ve got to approach it the same way.?

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Second-Round Selection Works in Starting Lineup at Left Tackle

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Tony Ugoh knew what was coming.
Tony Dungy made sure of it Sunday afternoon, when he told Ugoh - the Colts' second-round selection in last April's NFL Draft ? what the team?s early plans were regarding the offensive left tackle position recently vacated by Tarik Glenn.

Glenn, a three-time Pro Bowl selection, retired last week, making the starting left tackle one of the primary issues entering 2007 Training Camp.

Would it be Ugoh?

Or Jake Scott?

Or Charlie Johnson?

Or Dan Federkeil?

Dungy, in his sixth season as the Colts? head coach, and Colts President Bill Polian each said the answer hasn?t necessarily been finalized, but on Monday?s first day of camp, it was Ugoh who lined up at left tackle with the starters.

?The first day went really well,? Ugoh said Monday moments after the Colts? first practice of 2007 Training Camp at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

?Basically, the major thing was just knowing my assignments, and knowing what to do, so I could play fast.?

Asked if he was the guy at the spot, Ugoh nodded and said, ?Yeah.?

Asked if he was surprised, he said he wasn?t, because Dungy had briefed him on the situation after the team?s first meeting Sunday afternoon.

?So, I knew what to expect going in,? Ugoh said.

Dungy said it?s premature to pencil in Ugoh as the starter when the Colts open the regular season against New Orleans September 6 in the RCA Dome.

?That?s what training camp is all about,? Dungy said. ?We can say it?s Peyton (Manning?s) job to lose (at quarterback), or it?s Marvin (Harrison?s) job to lose (at wide receiver). We?ll have 22 guys at the end of camp who will start, and we?ll have 53 guys on the team.

?We?ve got a lot of guys who can play over there, a lot of guys who can play corner, a lot of guys who can play linebacker. We don?t really know.?

The Colts drafted Ugoh this past April with the idea he eventually would be the starter at left tackle, trading their 2008 first-round selection to the San Francisco 49ers for the rights to obtain him with the 10th selection of the second round.

The plan at the time was that Glenn, the starter at left tackle the past nine seasons ? every season of Manning?s career ? would remain in the position for at least another year.

On the Tuesday before camp, Glenn finalized his unexpected retirement, and last week, Colts offensive line coach Howard Mudd, Dungy and Polian all said several scenarios would be considered at the position.

One was Ugoh. Another was moving Charlie Johnson, the backup left and right tackle last season, to left tackle. Another was moving Jake Scott, the starting right guard, to left tackle. Another still was trying second-year veteran Dan Federkeil at the position.

On Monday, Ugoh worked throughout the morning practice alongside the Colts? other starting linemen: left guard Ryan Lilja, two-time Pro Bowl center Jeff Saturday, Scott and right tackle Ryan Diem.

?We drafted him to play that position and we think he?ll be OK,? Polian said of Ugoh. ?Charlie will get some work there. Dan Federkeil will get some work there. We?ll arrive at the end of the preseason and we?ll have the best five out there. I?m certain of that, so that?s where we?ll go.?

Said Colts center Jeff Saturday, ?If one of us were to miss a game, we always talk about that the guys behind us are good enough to step up and play as well as all the guys who are starting.

?That?s what we believe. That?s our philosophy and we?ve got to stick to it.?

Manning, who has played only six career games without Glenn at left tackle, reiterated Monday something he said Sunday ? that he has faith in Mudd, a 34-year NFL veteran.

?I know he?ll put the best guy out there,? Manning said. ?This is where it?s nice to have a veteran offensive line around whoever the new guy might be ? whether it?s Jeff Saturday or Ryan Diem or Dallas Clark at tight end ? guys who can help the new guy along.?

Because the left tackle is often facing the opponents? best pass rusher, many teams use tight ends or running backs to help the left tackle in some passing situations. Glenn rarely required such help, and Manning said the hope is that whoever plays left tackle this season won?t, either.

?You certainly hope it doesn?t hinder what you?re used to doing offensively,? Manning said. ?Dallas Clark is a tight end. Dallas is here to block on running plays, but in the passing game, we need him out on patterns. That is the goal, where hopefully it doesn?t slow us down by any means, where we can call the regular plays and release five guys into the pattern, whether it?s Dallas or (tight end Ben) Utecht ? whoever that may be.

?Today was the first day. I know Howard is committed to putting the five best guys out there. He?s done that year in, year out since he?s been here with the Colts and you trust he?ll do it again this year.?

Manning, who said he wouldn?t evaluate Ugoh until he saw film of practice, said he doesn?t anticipate spending much time worrying about the situation ? on the field or off.

?There?s too much going on out there, reading defenses, trying to figure out what they?re doing, the open guys to throw it to,? Manning said. ?Since I?ve been there, in nine years, Howard Mudd has been the offensive line coach and Tom Moore as the offensive coordinator has preached protection. I feel good about the way the protection is going to be.?

Manning, Ugoh said, has helped him extensively in the off-season, inviting him to his house on a few occasions.

?We?ve already started that bonding phase,? Ugoh said.

The preparation process, Ugoh said, has gone well, with difficulties in expected areas. He said he feels he is learning, and improving, but that he still has much on which to improve.

?I?m pretty pleased,? Ugoh said. ?My main concentration is getting the timing down today for the most part. I did pretty well with that. Basically, my mindset coming into it was to get ready as soon as possible. My main concentration now is learning the system and getting the system down so I can play to the best of my abilities. The guys really helped me out with things I didn?t know. Coming into it, I?ve been learning the no-huddle calls and stuff, so that really helped me try to put the numbers with the calls.

?It?s a lot more complex than what I did in college, having the audibles and the no-huddles.?

Said Dungy, ?I think we?re doing to be fine. Obviously, we?re going to miss Tarik. He played at a Pro Bowl for the last five years here, but someone else will meet the challenge.?

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Colts Begin 2007 Training Camp With Two-a-Day Practice at Rose-Hulman

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. ? Gary Brackett expected no different.
This was Monday morning, the first day of Colts 2007 Training Camp at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Brackett was sore. He was tired. And he was hot.

Pretty much what he expected, the Colts? starting middle linebacker said ? and pretty much his experience at every training camp he can remember.

?You?re never really ready for the first day of pads, the heat,? Brackett said Monday, shortly after a morning practice at Rose-Hulman. ?No matter what temperature it is all summer, the first day of camp it will be hot and the last day of camp it will rain.

?They (two-a-day camp practices) are still the same. Your body?s still sore. You?re still in the cold tub, but this is football. It?s a necessary evil.?

Reaction from players was mixed following the first practice.

Brackett called it ?rusty.?

?Of course, it was rusty,? be said. ?First practice in pads. The energy was there, but the attention to details wasn?t. It?s just a matter of cleaning up some of these things and getting ready for the season.?

Others said it was fine ? for a first practice.

?I think it was real crisp,? cornerback Marlin Jackson said. ?We went out there and ran around well and we did a lot of drills before camp coming in here. We had good breaks on the ball.?

Said Colts center Jeff Saturday, ?It was good. It was fun. Guys were out there hitting. It?s the first time we?ve had 9-on-7 or inside drills ? heavy banging around. I thought we did a good job. I thought guys were coming off, popping each other.

?It always feels good to get the first one under your belt.?

The Colts lost several high-profile players to free agency and retirement in the off-season ? offensive tackle Tarik Glenn (retired), cornerbacks Nick Harper (Tennessee) and Jason David (New Orleans), running back Dominic Rhodes (Oakland) and linebacker Cato June (Tampa Bay).

They also released defensive tackle Montae Reagor (Philadelphia) and wide receiver Brandon Stokley (Denver) for salary cap reasons.

The early days of camp, Colts quarterback Peyton Manning said, are about acclimating new players to old, and getting new players familiar with the system.

?Whether it?s receivers or offensive linemen or running backs, we?ve had some openings due to some of the players we?ve lost,? Manning said. ?That?s where my challenge is, to get to where I feel 100 percent confident in each of those players, to where I feel totally comfortable making throws, making audibles and decisions with some of these players. That?s why this time is great ? to get on the same page and get that comfort level.?

On Sunday, Dungy and Colts President Bill Polian each spoke extensively in the first meeting of the season.

Their message:

The Colts? players and coaches do not consider themselves defending Super Bowl champions.

Yes, the team won the Super Bowl last season for the first time in 36 years, but last year is over, Polian and Dungy said.

The focus now, each said, is on winning this season.

?The gist of my talk is that we?re the ?06 champions,? Polian said Monday. ?There?s no ?07 champion. We start all over. Everybody?s 0-0.?

Players said the message was received. Clearly.

?It?s like Bill Polian said, ?There really is no such thing as a defending champion,? Colts quarterback Peyton Manning said. ?There really is no champion in 2007. That?s yet to be determined. We?re like all other 31 teams, trying to bust our butts here in training camp, get ready to play and hopefully have a good year.

?We?re playing the Saints in the season opener (on September 6), so we?ll find out really what kind of team we have. It really is a new team and it?s about forming our identity for this year?s team.?

Said Saturday, ?It?s like every year in the past. You put last season behind you. We did it when we lost in the playoffs and had tough ones, so when we win, it has to be the same thing. I think that has to be the mentality we have.?

Throughout the off-season, the Colts had a flurry of Super Bowl-related off-field activities. They were honored by President Bush at the White House. Manning appeared on NBC?s Saturday Night Live. In June, the organization received Super Bowl rings.

But Manning said the time for thinking of last season ended several months ago.

?It really got put behind us in April, at the beginning of the off-season (conditioning) program,? Manning said. ?That was really the beginning of the 2007 season. We?ve had good off-season attendance. Guys have gotten bigger, stronger and faster this off-season. That?s encouraging.

?Now?s the time to put it to work and kind of form this 2007 team. You have guys fighting for roster spots and good competition out there.?

Manning joked that he thought it was a good sign that no players or coaches wore their Super Bowl ring to the first meeting of camp Sunday.

?Guys kind of got the idea that coach said, ?They can never take it away from us, but it truly has to be put behind you,??? Manning said. ?This is a new team. We?ve got to form a new identity and we?ve got to try to establish something special for this team.?

?I always tell the rookies, ?No letter jackets, or bowl gear or (NFL Scouting) Combine gear. That could be the same thing.

?If you catch somebody wearing it (the ring), that could be a potential fine.?

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Underrated Clark Critical to Colts? Offensive Success

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. ? Dallas Clark knows his situation. He understands it, too.

And as a result, the Colts? tight end enters each season with realistic expectations.

He doesn?t think about 80-catch seasons.

Or about being a go-to guy.

Clark, a fifth-year veteran from the University of Iowa, said naturally he would like to be those things. But in the Colts? potent offense, with Pro-Bowl caliber players at nearly every skill position, he said he doubts he ever will be.

And that?s OK. Because Clark knows his role.

And he can handle it.

?I?m more of a realist,? Clark said recently during Colts 2007 Training Camp, which continued Tuesday at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

But if Clark is a realist, and if he?s not destined to be an 80-catch tight end in the vein of Pro Bowl selections Tony Gonzalez or Antonio Gates, teammates and coaches said this week something else is equally true.

Clark is important to the Colts? offense.

Maybe as important as any player in an offense loaded with very important players.

?I certainly hope he knows show important he is to the offense and what he means to this team,? Colts quarterback Peyton Manning said.

Anyone who doesn?t know, Manning said, need look no further than the Colts? run through the playoffs last season.

Clark, the Colts? first-round selection in the 2003 NFL Draft, missed four games late in the regular season with a knee injury, an injury that was at first thought to be season-ending.

The Colts went 1-3 in those games, averaging just under 20 points a game in the three losses ? to Jacksonville, Houston and Tennessee.

Clark returned for the regular-season finale against Miami, and in the playoffs, had the most-productive four-game stretch of his four-season career, catching 21 passes for 317 and leading all NFL receivers in postseason receptions.

?If he doesn?t get himself healthy, take it upon himself not to have surgery on his potentially season-ending knee injury, rehab, get back for the game against Miami, where he kind of got the rust off -- I don?t think we win the championship,? Manning said. ?There?s no doubt in my mind that?s the case.

?It?s a true credit to him, sacrificing his body and getting ready to come back and help us in the postseason. He was huge.?

The idea was proposed to Clark this week that what happened in the playoffs could perhaps be considered a breakout performance, a sign of things to come.

A sign of an upcoming 80-catch, headline-grabbing season, perhaps?

Clark, one of the friendliest, more popular players in a generally approachable Colts locker-room, laughed at the idea.

?I understand that?s not going to happen,? Clark said.

The reason, he, Manning and Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy said this week, is the presence of two Pro Bowl wide receivers, Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne.

?Gates and Gonzales, you?d argue are the best receivers on their respective teams,? Manning said of the Pro Bowl tight ends who play for the San Diego Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs, respectively. ?Dallas has got tough competition here for that title with Marvin and Reggie, but he does not complain about it.

?Dallas has an extremely unselfish attitude. He?s a competitive guy. There?s no question he wants the ball. He wants the ball like Marvin and Reggie do, because he feels he can help us win. There?s no question, though, that I?m aware of how important he is to the offense.

?(Offensive coordinator) Tom (Moore) is aware. Tom?s constantly looking for ways to get him involved.?

Said Dungy, ?If he was in an offense where they really featured him and made every effort to get the ball to the tight end, he could certainly do that and make a ton of big plays, but he?s been very productive for us and a guy we count on to make those big plays.?

Clark said while he certainly wouldn?t mind twice the opportunities, and twice the plays, the advantages of playing with players such as Harrison and Wayne more than make up for opportunities lost.

?When we have Marv and Reg ? they?re special to be around, to practice with every day and watch them play,? he said. ?They are great players. You learn so much from them. I?m not going to go in tooting my own horn when I know it?s not possible.

?We?d need to play 30 games if I wanted to catch 80 balls. It?s just not going to happen. I?d love for it to happen, but the name of this game is to define your role and become the best at it. That?s all you do. Whatever the team wants from you, go out and try your best and work your hardest at it.?

Clark, in four NFL seasons, has 121 receptions for 1,618 yards and 14 touchdowns, with a career-high of 37 receptions for 488 yards and four touchdowns in 2005.

But while Clark may not have the annual number of catches as more high-profile tight ends around the NFL, his presence in the offense ? as evidenced in this past January?s postseason ? is invaluable. Colts President Bill Polian said this off-season Clark?s return was critical to the playoff run, and said the reason for his importance is the matchups he creates.

Clark, one of the NFL?s fastest, most-athletic tight ends, creates unique match-up problems for a defense. He often is too fast for most safeties or linebackers to cover, and if a team opts to cover him with a third cornerback, the Colts have an advantage in the running game.

?He?s dependable,? Manning said. ?He makes great catches. He?s a nuisance to a defense in the fact of, ?Who do you put on him?? Do you put a defensive back on him and sacrifice your run defense? Do you put a safety or linebacker on him and sacrifice your pass coverage? Whatever it may be, it?s nice having a guy who causes problems for the defense.

?We would not be the same offense without him.?

Dungy said Clark?s versatility became evident last season, when he not only played tight end, but also replaced then-injured Brandon Stokley as the Colts? slot receiver throughout the regular season and playoffs.

?Dallas has been a big-play guy for us,? Dungy said. ?The times we didn?t have Brandon Stokley, he has been a third receiver in he slot. He has been a point-of-attack tight end. He?s been a guy who?s had big games in the playoffs ? seven-catch games, nine-catch games. When people really try to take away our outside receivers, he has been huge. We know what he?s capable of.

?I don?t foresee an 80-catch season, but I do foresee some of those games where they?re really determined to take away our outside guys where he can have a 10- 11-, 12-catch day.?

Clark said this week his approach will be the same as it always has been, and if notoriety ? or even significantly more catches ? isn?t in his future, he can handle it.

Because he knows his situation. And he understands it, too.

?I feel like can do that every day if we had to,? Clark said of his playoff run. ?It?s a situation we?re in and the luxury we have. There are four or five teams that depend and rely on their tight end every week. We?re not that team. We have weapons all across the board. When you?re the fourth option performing and making some plays, that just means other things aren?t open. Teams are taking that away or things aren?t working.

?That?s the role I?ve had ever since I moved to this position seven years ago. There?s not a big premium for tight ends. We?re role players and we just go out there and work hard. We don?t do it for the catches. We don?t do it for all the glamour and the glitz. We?re just a notch higher than offensive linemen. Offensive linemen, they just grind, grind, grind. Tight ends, we just want a little bone here and there. A catch here and a catch there, that?s all we expect and need.

?It would be great to be able to get more balls, but I love my role anyway I can get it.?

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Colts Defensive End Freeney Excited About 2007 Season

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. ? To Dwight Freeney, the concept of pressure is relative.

How can he feel more in the future when he feels so much already?

And why worry about the pressure of others, he figures?

He already puts enough on himself.

Which is why Freeney, the Colts? three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, said he doesn?t plan to approach the season differently just because he recently became the NFL?s highest-paid defensive player.

Pressure, Freeney says? Because of a contract? What pressure?

?I already put so much pressure on myself as it is,? Freeney said Tuesday after a morning practice at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

?I?ve always had pressure on me. I came into the league (in 2002) picked eleventh (in that year?s NFL Draft). No one thought I should have been picked eleventh. I had the big sack year (as a rookie), and they said, ?All right he has to keep that up.?

?I always put the pressure on myself.?

Freeney, in his first extensive interview since reporting for camp Sunday, spoke to the Indianapolis media Tuesday about several topics, most notably last season, the first in his professional career in which he did not record double-digit sacks.

Freeney, who played collegiately at Syracuse University, was criticized at times during a season in which he registered a career-low 5.5 sacks.

That criticism, he said Tuesday, didn?t particularly bother him.

But he said it was unjust.

?You hear a lot about the critics,? Freeney said. ?It?s sad, because they?re misinforming the public. People say, ?He had a real down year ? he had five-and-a-half sacks,? but if you break it down, I probably got there 40 percent of the time rather than 20 percent of the time the year before. It is what it is, but people don?t see it that way. They only take it by that number.?

That number is Freeney?s sacks total, always a Freeney-friendly number until last season. He set a franchise record with 13 sacks as a rookie, a total that was the second-highest in NFL history for a rookie.

The following season, 2003, he made the Pro Bowl for the first time with an 11-sack season and he led the NFL with 16 sacks in 2004, the first of two consecutive Associated Press All-Pro seasons.

He also made a third consecutive Pro Bowl in 2005, when he recorded a fourth consecutive double-digit sack season, with 11 sacks.

This past season, he not only recorded 5.5 sacks, he also registered 33 quarterback pressures.

Those totals, coupled with the fact that teams threw fewer times against Indianapolis than against any other NFL team, is why Freeney said Tuesday the public perception regarding his 2006 season couldn?t be more wrong.

?I had a better year,? Freeney said. ?If you ask any of the coaches, they?ll tell you. Compare the sacks and pressures of last year and sacks and pressures of the year before. I had a better year. Obviously, I would love to lead the league, but things happen. It?s all good.?

Freeney?s 38.5 sacks/pressures last season ? his first non-Pro Bowl season since his 2002 rookie season were indeed higher than the previous season, and the third-highest total of his career. He combined for 35 in 2005 (11 sacks, 24 pressures), 63 in 2004 (16 sacks, 47 pressures), 34 in 2003 (11 sacks, 23 pressures) and 49 as a rookie (13 sacks, 36 pressures).

Freeney said those numbers are the ones by which he measures himself, and he also looks more at percentages, comparing pass-rushing with batting in the major leagues. A hitter, Freeney said, is measure by average rather than number of hits.

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Addai Ready for Second NFL Season, New Role

It hit Joseph Addai early in camp.
And when the moment came, when the Colts' 1,000-yard running back fully realized he was no longer an NFL rookie, he said this week it surprised him a bit.

The moment came a few days ago, at the beginning of 2007 Colts Training Camp at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Addai was approached by eight-time Pro Bowl wide receiver and 12-year veteran Marvin Harrison.

?What?s up, vet?? Harrison asked Addai.

Addai said he was slow to react.

?I had to look at him a second,? Addai said, laughing, ?but I feel like I?m comfortable in the situation.?

Addai, the Colts? first-round selection in the 2006 NFL Draft, hasn?t played as if he has been uncomfortable during his brief NFL career.

He played extensively last season as a backup to Dominic Rhodes, leading all rookies in rushing with 1,081 yards and seven touchdowns on 226 carries. He then started all four postseason games, rushing for 294 yards and two touchdowns on 76 carries.

Addai scored the game-winning touchdown on a 3-yard run in the Colts? AFC Championship Game victory over New England, and two weeks later, he rushed for 77 yards and had 66 yards receiving in the Colts? Super Bowl victory over Chicago.

?There would be times you?d look at him like, 'Oh, yeah, he?s a rookie,??? Colts tight end Dallas Clark said. ?The way he played you would think he was a three- or four-year starter. It was amazing how well he picked everything up, went about his job, making plays.?

Entering this season, although Addai had huge impact as a rookie, he said there were specific, important areas he wanted to improve.

Primarily, Addai said he wanted to have a better grasp of the roles of other skill players in the Colts? offense. Where Harrison would be on a certain route. Why wide receiver Reggie Wayne ran a pattern as he did.

That was one of the areas Addai said he focused upon during the Colts? off-season conditioning program.

?Now, I know more,? said Addai, the No. 30 overall selection in the 2006 NFL Draft out of Louisiana State University. ?Coming in at the beginning (of camp), you have to start over, but I think it?s a bonus now.

?I know more of the offense. Last year was more trying to remember what I have to do. Now, I?m learning what (Colts quarterback) Peyton (Manning) is thinking and Marvin and Reggie, what they do ? what (tight end) Dallas (Clark) is thinking.

?I?m trying to understand from all angles.?

That Addai would take such an approach is no surprise to many around the Colts. Manning talked repeatedly last season of Addai?s desire and ability to learn the team?s complex offense, and running backs coach Gene Huey said Addai?s maturity and reliability was obvious well before he joined the Colts in April 16 months ago.

?He?s been a consistent player,? Huey said. ?You saw that on tape in college and when he got here, there was no surprise with his abilities or what he brought to the table. He?s a guy who?s not going to sit back on his laurels. He?ll try to get better and set personal goals and try to work on things and do things correctly to improve on things.

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Goal-Oriented Reggie Wayne Wants to Play as Long as Possible

He’s in Year Seven now of his NFL career.

And in many ways, he’s a long way from the player who originally was drafted No. 29 overall in the 2001 NFL Draft by the Colts.

Reggie Wayne is an elder statesman now.

He has been to the Pro Bowl.

He has won a Super Bowl.

He has developed into one of the NFL’s top receivers, and is no longer “the other” Colts wide receiver.

And this past off-season, when those close to him began asking a question usually only heard by veteran players, Wayne had a quick answer.

“My friends and family, in the offseason, they ask me, ‘How long are you going to play?’’’ Wayne said this week during Colts 2007 Training Camp at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

“I saw, ‘I’m going to try to Jerry Rice this thing – play as long as I possibly can.’ It’s definitely something where if I can continue to stay healthy, I still love it.

“Just keep going for it.”

Wayne, who played collegiately at the University of Miami, has demonstrated that love for the game throughout his NFL career, Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy said.

Wayne has played five of his six NFL seasons under Dungy, developing in that time from a player who caught just 29 passes for no touchdowns as a rookie to a player who has had more than 1,000 receiving yards in each of the last three seasons.

The development, Dungy said, was hardly a fluke.

Each off-season, Dungy said Wayne has improved not necessarily in any specific area, but overall, becoming a consistent receiver with few weaknesses.

“That University of Miami group, they take a lot of pride in preparing,” Dungy said this week. “Everybody looks at the South Beach image, but those guys go down there and they work. It’s important to them. They want to be known as the best. That’s why they went to the University of Miami. It continues on.”

Wayne, who has started 16 games each of the last four seasons and who hasn’t missed a game since early in his rookie season, has talked during each preseason of his desire to improve statistically. Thus far, he has done just that.

In 2002, his second season, he caught 49 passes for 716 yards and four touchdowns, and the following season, he caught 68 passes for 838 yards and seven touchdowns. In 2004, with quarterback Peyton Manning throwing for an NFL-record 49 touchdowns, Wayne caught 77 passes for 1,210 yards and a career-high 12 touchdowns, following that with 83 receptions for 1,055 yards and five touchdowns in 2005.

Last season, he became the 11th player in NFL history to increase his receptions total in each of his first six seasons, catching 86 passes for a career-high 1,310 yards and nine touchdowns.

He added two more touchdowns in the postseason, including a 53-yarder in the first quarter of Super Bowl XLI.

“He has been really driven to be an elite receiver,” Dungy said. “That’s always been his goal and he hasn’t let anything stand in the way. Whatever he has had to do, whether it’s (wide receivers coach) Clyde (Christensen) working with him, conditioning with guys down there (at Miami), staying extra with Peyton learning things – whatever it’s taken, he has done that.

“He really has become a complete receiver.”

Wayne, for his part, said he is more concerned about winning than individual goals, and he said this week when he looks at the Colts’ offense entering the 2006 season, he sees no reason it shouldn’t improve.

Marvin Harrison. Wayne. Manning.

All made the Pro Bowl last season, and with longtime slot receiver Brandon Stokley now in Denver, the Colts drafted Anthony Gonzalez in the first round to play the slot.

Dallas Clark, the Colts’ fifth-year tight end, led the NFL in postseason receptions last season, and second-year running back Joseph Addai led all NFL rookies in rushing.

“The sky’s the limit for this offense,” Wayne said. “I don’t see a stop sign anywhere in there. We just have to stay healthy, knock on wood, do what we’ve been doing and we’ll be all right.”

For several years, partly because of the presence of eight-time Pro Bowl selection Marvin Harrison on the right side, Wayne – who typically lines up on the left side of the Colts’ offense – was overlooked for Pro Bowl recognition. Manning said during 2004 and 2005 he believed Wayne should have been a Pro Bowl selection, and last season, Wayne was named to the game for the first time.

When Wayne discussed the 2007 season at camp this week, he was asked what motivates him after six seasons. The Pro Bowl wasn’t what he mentioned.

“Winning,” he said. “I think everybody out there loves to win. Everybody out there is a competitor, even the coaches. No one wants to lose. Since Coach Dungy has been here, we’ve been winning, winning, winning.

“Losing is not an option. We’ve been 12-4, 14-2 – we’re just trying figure out how we can get back to that, if not better.”

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Roy Hall May Make Name for Himself on Special Teams Early

He's a unique player.

Roy Hall?s rare combination of size, speed and strength for a wide receiver ensures that much.

So unique is the Colts? rookie wide receiver that early this week, when Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy spoke of Hall, he spoke not so much of what Hall has done, but of what he may accomplish in the future.

Hall (6-feet-3, 240 pounds) may be a wide receiver.

Or he may play more in the slot.

He eventually may be closer to a tight end.

One thing Dungy said he is relatively certain about when it comes to Hall is that with Hall?s size, speed and strength he almost certainly will have a key role on special teams throughout his rookie season.

That may not be Hall?s ultimate goal.

But he said Thursday it?s certainly fine for now.

?I?ve got to use my big body for something,? Hall said with a smile Thursday afternoon following a special-teams practice during 2007 Colts Training Camp at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

?I?ve been playing special teams since my freshman year of college, so I?m used to it. I?m adjusting to the physicalness and the big hits. I like it a lot.?

Hall thus far in training camp has worked on all four of what special teams coach Russ Purnell refers to as the ?Big Four? special teams units ? punt return, punt coverage, kickoff return and kickoff coverage. The last area is one Dungy has said is of particularly focus this off-season, and Hall also is working as the ?gunner? on punt coverage.

?We?re really finding out what Roy can do,? Dungy said. ?I have a feeling he?s going to be an excellent special teams player.?

Asked what he saw in Hall, Purnell smiled.

?I see a perfect specimen,? Purnell said. ?He?s big. He?s strong. He?s fast. He seems to be smart. He?s got some instincts for playing the game. He?s going to be a stalwart for us on special teams. We?re expecting big things out of him. . . .

?We all dream about getting a couple of those guys.?

Purnell said Hall is particularly suited to the role of gunner ? the player who lines up on the outside on punt coverage. The two gunners are the only members of the punt coverage team who can run downfield before the punt.

?A guy that strong, he should have an advantage over some of those defensive backs, and he?s going to run just as fast as most of them,? Purnell said.

Hall played special teams throughout his career at Ohio State University, and said while he hopes to eventually be a full-time receiver ? which often means not playing special teams ? he said as a rookie trying to make the NFL, he knows the importance of versatility.

Versatility, in this case, meaning ?playing special teams.?

While Hall never played the ?gunner? role at Ohio State, he said he played practically every other role.

?I actually was an end-wing man,? he said. ?I?ve been on kickoffs, kickoff returns ? every aspect of that. At one point in time in my career, I was setting up the wedge (on kickoff returns). I?ve done it all. Anything they throw at me, I think I can handle.?

Hall, said while playing offense provides opportunities for big plays, special teams do, too.

?The fun part to me is blocking a punt or making a big block to spring a touchdown,? Hall said. ?They?re all huge plays. You don?t learn how much special teams can affect the game until something devastating happens on the special teams.?

Hall, who started seven games in college, said the transition to the NFL offensively ? while difficult ? is going ?pretty decently.?

?There?s always going to be a learning curve,? Hall said. ?The hardest part is trying to memorize all the plays, the signals and the calls. There?s a difference between seeing it on paper and going out and doing it. It never ends up being like it?s drawn up.

?I think I?m doing pretty well in that category. I?m making big plays out there when I can and just trying to catch everything.?

While Hall played no tight end in college, and while he considers himself a wide receiver, Dungy said he had similarities to former Colts tight end Marcus Pollard, a college basketball player who developed into a tight end/slot receiver with the Colts from 1995-2004.

?He might be a Marcus Pollard-type guy,? Dungy said. ?We?ve worked him basically on (Colts wide receiver) Reggie (Wayne)?s side, but we?re still finding out what he can do.?

Said Hall, ?I?ve got to do the wideout thing first, but I think the biggest thing about moving inside is just learning the technique blocking. Dallas is about 240 or 245 and he hangs in there with those guys who are close to 300 pounds and does a great job day in and day out.

?Right now, I?m comfortable at wideout, but if they decide to make that move . . .?

But that, Hall said, is a conversation for another time. For now, his focus is making the roster, making a name for himself and mostly, making an impact on special teams.

?Hopefully, I won?t be doing it for my whole career, but for now that?s what my role is partially,? Hall said. ?I?m trying to do it to the best of my ability.?

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</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=subHead vAlign=top colSpan=3>Report: Booger McFarland done for season </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=vaLabel colSpan=3>Anthony McFarland - DL - IND - Aug. 5 - 7:30 p.m. ET</B> </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=3>NFL Network's Adam Schefter reports Colts DT Anthony McFarland will miss the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
The Colts should again be an excellent matchup for opposing running backs. Booger isn't the dominant force he once was, but was a starter and key force against the run. The Colts need rookie Quinn Pitcock, who's currently nursing an injured knee, to step up and be effective immediately.
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Third-Year Cornerback Jackson Happy With Chance at Starting Role

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. ? Either way, Marlin Jackson said he?s happy.
And either way, no matter the position, the Colts? cornerback said this week he can be productive.

Put him at safety . . .

Put him at corner . . .

Jackson, the Colts? first-round selection in the 2005 NFL Draft, said he can play either spot. He said for the most part, he has proved as much during his first two NFL seasons, and he said he?s happy to do either.

It?s just he?s a little happier now.

Because now, he?s a corner. Just a corner ? and a starting corner, at that.

?I feel I can play both positions,? Jackson said this week during 2007 Colts Training Camp, which continued Friday with a pair of practices at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, adding, ?I love where I?m at. I love cornerback.?

A chance to not only love the position, but play it full-time, is something Jackson has wanted since the Colts selected him out of the University of Michigan, but something he hasn?t had in his first two NFL seasons.

Nickel. Corner. Safety. Special teams.

Jackson has been a key contributor for the Colts. This past January he made one of the most memorable plays in franchise history. But he hasn?t had a position of his own.

That changed this off-season.

With starting cornerbacks Nick Harper and Jason David signing as free agents with Tennessee and New Orleans, respectively, both starting cornerback positions came open during the off-season.

One is currently filled by Kelvin Hayden, a second-round selection in the 2005 NFL Draft.

The other is filled by the player drafted one round ahead of Hayden that April: Jackson, a player who has shown potential in two seasons and a player Colts President Bill Polian said should only improve with an increased opportunity and a defined role.

?I?m certain he?ll be better,? Polian said this week. ?The more you play the position, the better you?ll be. I?m certain that he?ll continue to be better. He?ll be fine.?

Jackson?s main focus this past off-season wasn?t so much where he would be playing, but getting in proper condition to play effectively.

It was something he didn?t get a chance to do last off-season.

Jackson, after playing extensively for the Colts in the slot ? nickel corner ? as a rookie, spent the 2006 off-season rehabilitating from hip and shoulder surgery.

?I couldn?t lift, I couldn?t run and I couldn?t cut,? Jackson said. ?I couldn?t do a thing.?

He met his goal of being ready for camp. It was just that Jackson didn?t quite feel ready ? or at all like himself.

?I didn?t feel comfortable coming into camp last year,? Jackson said. ?I?d just started backpedaling about a week before camp. I started running and lifting a week before camp.?

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DEDE Dorsey Taking Advantage of Training Camp Opportunity

DeDe Dorsey's said he’s happy so far.
His goal entering training camp was to show his abilities, and to prove to coaches, teammates and personnel officials he can be the Colts’ backup running back.

Thus far, he has shown speed.

He has shown quickness.

He has shown good hands out of the backfield.

Dorsey (5-feet-11, 196 pounds) has pretty much shown what the Colts expected, and shown about everything he can show in practice, which was one of the main ideas entering Colts 2007 Training Camp.

“I feel like I’ve shown what I can do,” Dorsey said recently during training camp, which continued Monday with a pair practices at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

His objective now is equally clear:

Keep showing what he has shown, and do it during the preseason games, which for the Colts begin with their nationally-televised preseason opener against the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday night at Texas Stadium in Dallas.

The development of Dorsey, and whether he can share carries throughout the season with second-year veteran starter Joseph Addai, is one of the main storylines of Colts training camp.

It’s a storyline that will begin to full develop Thursday.

“DeDe’s an explosive guy,” Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy said. “He was with us and played mostly on the 'look’ squad last year. He can make people miss in the open field. I think he has some toughness.

“He’s got some excitement to him, the same type of energy that Dom had, so I’m looking forward to seeing him in the games.”

“Dom” is Dominic Rhodes, who shared carries with Addai last season as the regular-season starter and postseason backup. He and Addai, the Colts’ first-round selection in the 2006 NFL Draft, combined for more than 1,700 yards and 12 rushing touchdowns last season, and during the postseason, they provided a 1-2 combination that allowed the Colts to out-rush all four of their postseason season opponents and to drain clock in crucial situations.

Rhodes, a seven-year NFL veteran, signed with the Oakland Raiders as an unrestricted free agent, an expected move that left Addai as the only Colts running back with an NFL carry.

The two-back system worked effectively for the Colts throughout last season, and Dungy and during the off-season he expects it can do so again.

Which Dungy said means – experienced or not – the Colts’ reserve running backs will play a key role this season.

And it may not just be Dorsey.

Kenton Keith, who played in the Canadian Football League for four seasons, also may play a key role, Dungy said, as could rookie Clifton Dawson, an undrafted free agent from Harvard.

“We would like to use a couple of backs, maybe even three backs.” Dungy said.

“We’d like to keep those ready. I think our backs were fresh at the end of the year and that definitely helped us in the playoffs.

“Joseph is a guy we obviously have to get the ball to more. He can do some things, but being fresh at the end of the year was good for us. We want to keep that going.”

And while Dorsey is unknown to many observers, he’s far from unknown to the Colts.

Dorsey, who played defensive back and running back at Lindenwood (Mo.) College, signed with the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent shortly after the 2006 NFL Draft. He was waived shortly before the season, and the Colts signed him as a free agent on September 3 of 2006.

He played 13 regular-season games for the Colts last season in mostly a special teams role, and did the same in four post-season games.

And it was during practice that he made an impression on teammates and coaches.

Colts President Bill Polian said earlier this off-season that teammates asked him throughout last season where the team found Dorsey, complimenting his play during practice. And during camp recently, Colts running backs coach Gene Huey said, “He certainly has abilities – quickness, good speed and sudden strength.

“Nothing is guaranteed to anybody at this point, but he has a lot of confidence in his ability, which is exactly what you want to see,” Huey said. “Coming into this camp, he certainly has the attitude of, ‘I want to show you what I can do, and I want to do it in a consistent manner.’

“That’s what we’re looking for.”

Said Addai, “DeDe, he’s a fast learner. He picked up the offense fast last year even though he wasn’t playing. He asked a lot of questions, like as I did when I came here. Whenever he gets the chance, you’ll see him change it.”

Dorsey, an NAIA All-American defensive back at Lindenwood before earning the same honors at running back as a senior, said, “It seems like they’re pretty comfortable with me being in there and that was the goal for me coming into training camp – getting the team comfortable that I know what to do and that I can get it done.”

As for Dorsey’s own confidence in that ability, he said he never had any doubts – and the fact that the Colts are playing him extensively in camp practices, he said he takes as a positive sign.

“They don’t put you in there unless they expect you to be able to handle the job,” Dorsey said. “The fact that they’re putting me in there shows me they trust me to be there, that they think I can get it done, that the offense can run smoothly without the little kinks.”

And Dorsey figures if he can keep doing that in camp and preseason, he’ll have done all he possibly could have done.

“What will make (camp) successful for me is if Week 1, they throw me in and know I can get it done,” Dorsey said.

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With McFarland Injured, Dungy said Others Must Perform.

The news wasn’t what anyone around the Colts wanted.

Anthony “Booger” McFarland, a nine-year veteran defensive tackle whose emergence as a leader and run defender helped the Colts to a Super Bowl title last season, has sustained a serious knee injury and will miss significant time, Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy said Monday.

McFarland sustained an injury to the patella tendon, Dungy said.

“We don’t know the full extent of it – it’s serious,” Dungy said following a 2007 Training Camp morning practice at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

But the Colts have been in this situation before, Dungy said.

They have lost key players. They have had serious injuries. They have faced serious adversity.

They faced it last season, Dungy noted, when defensive Corey Simon was lost for the end season – and still, last season ended in the Super Bowl.

“That’s what I reminded the team of today, that we’ve lost guys and other guys have stepped up,” Dungy said.

“We have a lot of young guys who are going to step up,” Colts defensive tackle Raheem Brock said. “We’ll just move forward.”

Dungy compared the Colts’ approach to the situation to that which they took when tight end Dallas Clark was injured in November of last season.

Clark sustained a knee injury against Philadelphia in late November, an injury first believed to be season-ending. The Colts opted not to put Clark on injured reserve – a move that ends a player’s season – and Clark returned to be a key postseason contributor.

“I’m a little hesitant because last year we had Dallas Clark ready to go on IR,” Dungy said. “He ended up not having an operation and playing.

“But it’s something where he (McFarland) is not going to be back in the next three or four weeks. It’s a long-term injury. We have some other guys who have to pick up the slack.”

Dungy said surgery is being considered, and that it’s “something I think is going to happen, but we’re still waiting to see.”

Brock, a starting defensive end from 2002-2005, started at tackle last season and is working there again this season. Third-year veteran Darrell Reid and fifth-year veteran Dan Klecko are the other players on the Colts’ roster with NFL tackle experience.

“Somebody will step to the front,” Dungy said.

“We have Darrell Reid and Klecko and other guys to play,” Brock said. “Guys are looking good. So we’re not too worried. I have to help them out as much as I can and help get them up to speed. They’re doing fine so far.”

Rookie Keyunta Dawson, a seventh-round selection who has played end and tackle during camp, likely will move inside full-time, Dungy said Monday. Dawson had two sacks and a fumble recovery in the Colts’ Blue-and-White scrimmage on Saturday. Rookie defensive tackle Quinn Pitcock, a third-round selection, practiced for the first time on Monday.

“I wanted to play as much as I could, so I was going to step up no matter what,” Pitcock said.

McFarland, acquired by the Colts in a midseason trade with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last season, started the final 11 regular-season games and all four postseason games. He had 45 tackles for the Colts in the regular season and 2.5 sacks, and had 12 tackles and two sacks in the postseason.

Dungy said not only McFarland’s play, but his leadership, was critical to the Colts’ postseason run.

“He worked hard and became a leader for us last year,” Dungy said. “To have that kind of a setback is disappointing to the individual, but as far as our team goes, it really is something that we have to move past. That’s what we have to do, but it’s tough for him and tough on the team as a group.”

The Colts last season played through several critical defensive injuries. They were without safety Bob Sanders for 12 games, and Simon – a former Pro Bowl selection acquired as a free agent the season before – missed the entire season and has since been terminated by the team.

Brock said the key to last season was playing through the difficult times. The Colts finished last in the NFL in regular-season run defense, but held three of four postseason opponents under 100 yards rushing en route to their first Super Bowl title in 36 years.

“If it was like that last year, we would have fallen apart, but guys stepped up last year and we have to do the same thing,” Brock said. “That’s what we have to do.

“When somebody gets hurt, another guy has to step up and take his place.”

Said Reid, “Guys are going to have to step up, and no matter who it is, they’re going to have to get the job done. That’s how the system works. That’s the approach everybody takes around here, regardless of the position. It might take two or three guys to take the place of one guy, especially a guy like Booger, but the guys behind him have to step up.”

Dungy pointed out that the last time McFarland had a serious knee injury was in 2002, when he was playing for Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers that season replaced McFarland with Chuck Darby, and won the Super Bowl.

“Chuck’s a real good player and wasn’t a household word at that time,” Dungy said. “He became one as the season went on. We’ve got some guys who it will mean a little more playing for.”

Dungy said he didn’t yet know if pursing a defensive tackle not currently with the organization is an option.

“You never know,” Dungy said. “I thought we’d solve last year (Simon’s absence) from within. I pointed out to the team before camp even started, that our guys came from a lot of places – waiver wire, anything, trade. People come from everywhere. It’s hard to predict that this person is going to be key, or that person’s going to be key.

“We won’t leave any stone unturned, but for the most part, the guys who are here are guys we’re counting on.”

Also on Monday, defensive end Robert Mathis missed practice with what Dungy called a “jammed knee.”

“I think Robert’s going to be fine,” Dungy said. “If this was the regular season, he probably would have practiced today.”

Also, reserve running back Kenton Keith missed practice, but Dungy said he is probable for Thursday’s preseason opener against Dallas.

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Rookie Dawson Makes Move from End to Tackle

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Keyunta Dawson may play his collegiate position, defensive end, when the Colts open the preseason Thursday.

To hear Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy tell it, he needn't get used to it, because the Colts have been experimenting with Dawson ? a rookie from Texas Tech University ? on the interior of the defensive line during 2007 Training Camp.

And a week and a half in, they have liked what they?ve seen.

?So far, it has been a pretty good experiment,? Dungy said Tuesday between two practices at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

How good is pretty good?

Good enough that Dawson, a seventh-round selection in the 2007 NFL Draft, had two sacks and a fumble recovery this past Saturday during the team?s annual Blue-and-White Scrimmage.

How good?

Dawson (6-feet-3, 254 pounds), because of several injuries to the Colts? defensive ends, likely will play end when the Colts play the Dallas Cowboys in Dallas in the 2007 preseason opener, but Dungy said after that the Colts want to work him extensively inside.

Which Dawson said is fine with him.

?It?s a lot faster, but it?s a good position,? Dawson said. ?I like playing it.?

The Colts? defensive tackle position has become a major story of Colts Training Camp in recent days. Anthony ?Booger? McFarland, a starter in the final 11 regular-season and all four postseason games last season, sustained a patella tendon injury late last week.

Dungy said on Monday McFarland?s injury is serious and long-term.

He also said Dawson, who had been working inside anyway, likely will move to the position long-term. Dawson, Dungy said Tuesday, is one of several players ? including rookies Quinn Pitcock and Ed Johnson ? who could play a significant role replacing McFarland.

But Dungy said with or without McFarland?s injury, Dawson?s future may be at tackle. Defensive line coach John Teerlinck has had success throughout his career with relatively undersized tackles, and size is secondary to speed in the Colts? one-gap style of defensive line play, a system in which penetration is paramount.

?He (Dawson) is a guy who for a lot of people wasn?t on their radar screens as a defensive lineman, period, because of his height,? Dungy said. ?For us, that?s not a big factor. John Teerlinck has had some guys who have played in there at that size pretty well. (Teerlinck) wants to see what he (Dawson) can do in there.

?We really think that tackle is going to be his spot. He looks natural moving around and playing in there.

?We?d like to get him in there a little more than playing at end.?

Dawson, a two-year starter at Texas Tech, had 25.5 tackles for losses and 19.5 sacks in college. He said this past off-season he was happy to be drafted by the Colts, because he admired the play of Robert Mathis and Dwight Freeney, two ends considered undersized in many NFL circles.

His experience at tackle, he said, is limited to some work at the position in nickel packages at Texas Tech, yet he said of the move, ?I was fine with it.?

?Coming in, they told me I?d play some tackle, to see how I fit,? Dawson said. ?I wasn?t shocked. I was just trying to go in, make sure I knew all the plays and all the calls and do my best. Some of the footwork and things are the same, but it?s a big difference, being so tight and close inside. It?s a lot more contact. I hate what happened to Boog, but Coach Dungy always says, 'Somebody has to step up. The train doesn?t stop.?

?I have to take advantage of the opportunity and help the team out where I can.?

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Keiaho Ready for Starter's Role at Weakside Linebacker

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - He has played everywhere possible in the Colts’ linebacker scheme.
Freddy Keiaho began his career at strong-side linebacker.

Then, he played a key role in a key game at middle linebacker.

Now, he’s the starting weak-side linebacker, replacing a former Pro Bowl selection and one of the team’s most popular players.

Talk about a busy first year.

“I’ve settled in, finally,” Keiaho said with a smile this week at Colts 2007 Training Camp, which continued Wednesday with a morning practice at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

“I’m just ready to play.”

And ready to start.

Keiaho, the Colts’ third-round selection in the 2006 NFL Draft, spent his rookie season playing mostly special teams and a reserve linebacker role. Then, in the off-season, his role changed drastically.

Cato June, a 2005 Pro Bowl selection and the team’s starting outside linebacker since 2004, signed as an unrestricted free agent with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Keiaho, after playing all three linebacker positions last season, moved into the starting lineup in June’s place.

Keiaho (5-feet-11, 226 pounds) will make his first NFL start of any kind when the Colts open the preseason against the Dallas Cowboys at Texas Stadium in Dallas at 8 p.m.

A big change. And a big responsibility.

But a role for which Keiaho is ready, Colts linebackers coach Mike Murphy said this week.

“Freddy’s going to bring a physicalness,” Murphy said. “So far, he’s doing well. I think Freddy will do very well. He’s bright. He works hard at it. He’s a physical guy.

“It’s always tough when you step into a good player’s position. He’ll do fine.”

The outside linebacker spot, Keiaho said, will look different for obvious reasons. June, a former safety, played near 200 pounds. Keiaho plays about 25 pounds heavier.

A factor in Keiaho’s favor, Murphy said, is the players around him. Middle linebacker Gary Brackett, a fifth-year veteran, is entering his third season as a starter, and strong-side backer Rob Morris is the most tenured player on the Colts’ defense.

“The guys around him are real stable guys,” Murphy said.

Keiaho, who played collegiately at San Diego State University, played in 14 of 16 regular-season games in 2006, making nine tackles, five solos, and also forcing two fumbles. He registered a season-high seven tackles while playing in place of Brackett in a November victory at New England, a game that eventually helped the Colts secure home-field advantage for the AFC Championship Game.

Keiaho also had 14 special teams tackles in the regular season, and he played all four postseason games, registering a key goal-line stop on Pro Bowl running back Larry Johnson during the Colts’ victory over Kansas City in an AFC Wild Card Playoff game.

A challenge for Keaiho as the season approaches, Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy said recently, is adjusting to the pace of the game – and relaxing enough to play effectively. Keiaho, Dungy said, is a high-motor player. In Keiaho’s case, Dungy said sometimes the motor must slow for the player to be at maximum effectivness.

“Freddy (Keiaho) is doing fine,” Dungy said last week. “It’s still very, very early. Freddy’s going to be a good player for us. So far, he’s adjusting well and relaxing. That’s one thing he’s going to have to do.

“He’s a guy who plays with high energy. And plays fast. The biggest thing for him is just to slow down, be patient and let the game come to him.”

Said Murphy, “It’s a matter of getting comfortable, and the way you do that is by playing.”

Keiaho, asked this week how he believed he had played through training camp, and if he was pleased, grimaced and forced a smile.

“I’m really critical of myself, so there’s always a lot to work on,” he said. “I always find a lot to work on.”

But of the preseason opener, and a chance to be an NFL starter after a year searching for a permanent position, he said, “I’m excited.”

And he said he’ll feel the same way Thursday night.

“I’ve worked really hard in camp,” Keiaho said. “I’ve put some good days in and I’m excited to put it all together. I just have to put it on film. That’s what it’s going to take. I’ve got to go out and do my job, tackle well, and just run to the football and fly.

“I just want to put everything I’ve learned in training camp thus far to use and hope that translates.”

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The General · Aug 9, 2007

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OFFENSE
Starters
WR R. Wayne
LT T. Ugoh
LG R. Lilja
C J. Saturday
RG J. Scott
RT R. Diem
TE D. Clark
WR M. Harrison
QB P. Manning
RB J. Addai
FB L. Lawton

DEFENSIVE
Starters
LE R. Mathis
LT R. Brock
RT A. McFarland (IR) so ?????
RE D. Freeney
SLB R. Morris
MLB G. Brackett
WLB F. Keiaho
LCB K. Hayden
RCB M. Jackson
SS B. Sanders
FS A. Bethea

The General · Aug 9, 2007

Re: INDIANAPOLIS COLTS News and Notes for 2007/2008

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=9>ACTIVE ROSTER</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top bgColor=#cccccc><TD class=schedsubhd noWrap>NO. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd>NAME </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>POS. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>HT. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>WT. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>EXP. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>COLLEGE </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>ACQ. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>63 </TD><TD class=standard>Saturday, Jeff </TD><TD class=schedulectr>C </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-2 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>295 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>9 </TD><TD class=standard>North Carolina </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-99 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>31 </TD><TD class=standard>Davis, Tanard </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-9 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>184 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>1 </TD><TD class=standard>Miami </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>41 </TD><TD class=standard>Bethea, Antoine </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-11 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>203 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>2 </TD><TD class=standard>Howard </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D6b-06 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>34 </TD><TD class=standard>Rushing, T.J. </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-9 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>186 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>2 </TD><TD class=standard>Stanford </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-06 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>27 </TD><TD class=standard>Jennings, Tim </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-8 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>185 </TD><TD 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</TD><TD class=schedulectr>D2-05 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>43 </TD><TD class=standard>Giordano, Matt </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-11 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>200 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>3 </TD><TD class=standard>California </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D4b-05 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>32 </TD><TD class=standard>Coe, Michael </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-0 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>190 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Alabama State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D5b-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>42 </TD><TD class=standard>Condren, Brannon </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-1 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>205 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Troy </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D4b-07 </TD><TD 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class=schedulectr>5-11 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>196 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>2 </TD><TD class=standard>Lindenwood </TD><TD class=schedulectr>W-06 (CIN) </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>29 </TD><TD class=standard>Addai, Joseph </TD><TD class=schedulectr>RB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-11 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>214 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>2 </TD><TD class=standard>LSU </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D1-06 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>30 </TD><TD class=standard>Dawson, Clifton </TD><TD class=schedulectr>RB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-10 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>212 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Harvard </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>45 </TD><TD class=standard>Lawton, Luke </TD><TD class=schedulectr>RB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-0 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>240 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>1 </TD><TD class=standard>McNeese State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>48 </TD><TD class=standard>Snow, Justin </TD><TD class=schedulectr>TE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-3 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>240 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>8 </TD><TD class=standard>Baylor </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-00 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>44 </TD><TD class=standard>Clark, Dallas </TD><TD class=schedulectr>TE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-3 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>252 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5 </TD><TD class=standard>Iowa </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D1-03 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>86 </TD><TD class=standard>Utecht, Ben </TD><TD class=schedulectr>TE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-6 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>251 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>4 </TD><TD class=standard>Minnesota </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-04 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>81 </TD><TD class=standard>Fletcher, Bryan </TD><TD class=schedulectr>TE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-5 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>230 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>3 </TD><TD class=standard>UCLA </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-05 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>49 </TD><TD class=standard>Harline, Jonny </TD><TD class=schedulectr>TE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-4 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>245 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Brigham Young </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>47 </TD><TD class=standard>Robinson, Gijon </TD><TD class=schedulectr>TE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-1 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>255 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Missouri Western State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>13 </TD><TD class=standard>Shelton, Trent </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-0 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>202 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Baylor </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>11 </TD><TD class=standard>Gonzalez, Anthony </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-0 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>193 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Ohio State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D1-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>83 </TD><TD class=standard>Hall, Roy </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-3 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>240 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Ohio State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D5a-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>14 </TD><TD class=standard>Brown, Aaron </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-3 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>210 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>New Hampshire </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>05 </TD><TD class=standard>Hare, Brian </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-2 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>192 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>1 </TD><TD class=standard>Purdue </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>- </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>84 </TD><TD class=standard>Standeford, John </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-4 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>206 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>2 </TD><TD class=standard>Purdue </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-06 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>85 </TD><TD class=standard>Moorehead, Aaron </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-3 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>200 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5 </TD><TD class=standard>Illinois </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-03 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>87 </TD><TD class=standard>Wayne, Reggie </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-0 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>198 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>7 </TD><TD class=standard>Miami (Florida) </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D1b-01 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>88 </TD><TD class=standard>Harrison, Marvin </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-0 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>185 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>12 </TD><TD class=standard>Syracuse </TD><TD class=schedulectr>D1-96 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>15 </TD><TD class=standard>Thorpe, Craphonso </TD><TD class=schedulectr>WR </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-0 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>187 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>1 </TD><TD class=standard>Florida State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>W-07 (DET) </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=middle bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=9>UPDATED 08-07-2007</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle colSpan=9>

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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=9>INJURED RESERVE</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top bgColor=#cccccc><TD class=schedsubhd noWrap>NO. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd>NAME </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>POS. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>HT. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>WT. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>EXP. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>COLLEGE </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>ACQ. </TD><TD class=schedsubhd align=middle>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=standard>37 </TD><TD class=standard>Smith, Antonio </TD><TD class=schedulectr>DB </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5-9 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>192 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>R </TD><TD class=standard>Ohio State </TD><TD class=schedulectr>FA-07 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>PHOTOS </TD></TR><TR class=grayback vAlign=top><TD class=standard>42 </TD><TD class=standard>Seidman, Mike </TD><TD class=schedulectr>TE </TD><TD class=schedulectr>6-4 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>261 </TD><TD class=schedulectr>5 </TD><TD class=standard>UCLA </TD><TD class=schedulectr>UFA-07 (CAR) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS News and Notes for 2007/2008

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