Excerpts are from interviews conducted with local media members and the Colts Official Podcast.
Matt Terpening: The biggest thing with him is he's a little bit undersize but he's a total mismatch tight end. His college tape, they play him out in space, they play him in the slot, and his main...
T.Y. Hilton will make history if he has 640 or more receiving yards in 2021.
If Hilton hits that mark, the Colts will become the first franchise to have three players total 10,000+ receiving yards in NFL history. The others, of course, are Marvin Harrison (14,580 yards) and Reggie Wayne...
Excerpts are from interviews conducted with local media members and the Colts Official Podcast.
Matt Terpening: Dayo's a longer, he's like a looser athlete where he can bend. They did a lot of things with him down at Vanderbilt, he played nose tackle, three technique, left end. So he can bend...
Excerpts are from interviews conducted with local media members and the Colts Official Podcast.
Do you see Kwity Paye playing from the start, and when did you feel like he was a fit for the Colts coming out of Michigan? And how did the scouting process play out for him?
Chad Henry: Really...
Only 71 tight ends in NFL history — and there's a lot of history there — have ever caught 30 or more passes as a rookie.
Fifty catches? Only eight rookies have done that: Evan Engram (2017), Jermaine Gresham (2010), John Carlson (2008), Jeremy Shockey (2002), Cam Cleeland (1998), Keith...
The Pro Football Writers of America (PFWA) today announced former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Philip Rivers as the 2021 Good Guy Award winner. The award is given annually to an NFL player for his qualities and professional style in helping pro football writers do their job.
Rivers becomes...
Randy Weddle, Hanover, Penn.: Do you see Eason remaining the backup?
JJ Stankevitz: He's going to have to compete with Sam Ehlinger and Jalen Morton to earn that job, but the early returns on Eason during OTAs were positive. Offensive coordinator Marcus Brady said he was "very pleased" with...
Watching Indianapolis native Conor Daly lead the Indy 500 for 40 laps last weekend got me thinking — what does the Colts' leaderboard look like for players born in Indiana?
Searching for the answer led me down this path: Jack Doyle has been one of the most prolific Indiana natives to play for...
The last few weeks offered the Colts a glimpse into what kind of person and player Kwity Paye can be. And, after hearing from a few folks recently, it's clear the early returns on the No. 21 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft have been encouraging.
"Kwity (Paye) is everything we're looking...
The Colts on Wednesday announced times and dates for their 2021 preseason schedule (all times ET):
Sunday, Aug. 15 vs. Carolina Panthers, 1 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 21 @ Minnesota Vikings, 8 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 27 @ Detroit Lions, 7 p.m.
All three games will be televised on FOX 59.
The three...
Colts second-year quarterback Jacob Eason felt like he made progress during OTAs last month.
And Marcus Brady, the Colts' offensive coordinator and Eason's quarterbacks coach in 2020, felt the same thing.
"I was very pleased with what I saw over the last few weeks with Jacob, where he's...
Michael Pittman Jr. arrived in Indianapolis last year as a rookie wide receiver paired with a quarterback going on his 17th year in the NFL. Philip Rivers had attempted 7,500 passes in his NFL career. Pittman was trying to get his first catch.
But while Pittman said he was initially hesitant...
Hines is ahead of two Hall-of-Famers here — and Marshall Faulk is one of the best, if not the best, all-around running backs in NFL history. It's undoubtedly impressive. But what Hines has done in his first three years is even more impressive when you broaden the scope to NFL history.
As a...
INDIANAPOLIS -- A light comes on at some point for every rookie making the transition from college to the NFL: Hey, all I have to do now is focus on football.
For Colts' first round pick Kwity Paye, that light came on quickly. His job is just to play football — not to play football and go to...
A lot is different for Carson Wentz and Frank Reich this time around — teammates, coaches, easy access to cheesesteaks/world-class racing, etc. — but, this month, both found the relationship between quarterback and coach picked up where it left off four years ago.
"The transition back was...
While Carson Wentz quickly got to work with some of his new teammates after being traded from the Philadelphia Eagles to the Colts earlier this year, the last two weeks have been an opportunity for the quarterback to really get to know his team. And vice versa.
And it's clear Wentz made a...