Top Takeaways: Frank Reich On OTAs, Day 1

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» Devin Funchess is already showing what he can do: The Colts didn’t sign too many outside free agents this offseason, but a clear priority for the team was bringing Funchess on board. Funchess, who spent the first four seasons of his career with the Carolina Panthers, signed a reported one-year deal with Indy back in March, and at 6 foot 4 and 225 pounds, he brings size and explosiveness to the wide receiver position that Luck and the Colts hope to utilize time and time again in 2019. On Tuesday, in his first official team practice in Indy, Funchess was catching everything thrown his way, including a nifty back-shoulder throw from Brissett on a play in which he was draped in coverage by cornerback Pierre Desir. “He just threw it up to him and he came down with it,” Reich said. “That’s one of the things that you are hoping to get. On another play he runs a deep in-cut. I don’t know who the corner was that was on him, he had inside technique and had pretty good coverage on him. Devin does a good job at the top of the route and comes underneath and makes the contested catch. That’s the kind of plays – the down the field plays, not just the back-shoulder. The in-cuts – Andrew (Luck) loves throwing in-cuts and we really think Devin is a good in-cut runner. So we will just kind of develop his whole tree – his whole passing route tree so that everything complements each other.”