november 5-11 2012 afc south standings

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Week 10 | Indianapolis Colts (5-3) vs. Jacksonville Jaguars (1-7)
8:20 p.m. (ET) | Thursday, November 8, 2012 | EverBank Field
COLTS LOOK TO EVEN SERIES AGAINST JAGUARS
BROADCAST INFORMATION
The Indianapolis Colts (5-3) will
go for their fourth consecutive victory when they take on the Jacksonville
Jaguars
(1-7)
at
EverBank Field on NFL Network’s
Thursday Night Football. Kickoff is
set for 8:20 p.m.
TV coverage: NFL Network
Play-by-Play: Brad Nessler
Color Analyst: Mike Mayock
Sideline: Alex Flanagan
Radio coverage: WFNI & WLHK
Play-by-Play: Bob Lamey
Color Analyst: Will Wolford
Sideline: Kevin Lee
Last week, the Colts overcame
the Miami Dolphins, 23-20. QBAndrew Luck had a career day,
as he completed 30-of-48 passes Indianapolis Colts wide refor 433 yards and two touchdowns ceiver Reggie Wayne
for a 105.6 quarterback rating. His 433 yards set a new
NFL record for passing yards by a rookie quarterback in
a single game. He also earned his fourth career 300-yard
passing game, tying him with Peyton Manning for the
most by a rookie in NFL history. Wide receivers Donnie
Avery and T.Y. Hilton each finished the day with over
100 yards receiving, marking each player’s second 100yard receiving game of the season. WR-Reggie Wayne
scored his 76th career touchdown and passed Edgerrin
James for third on the franchise’s all-time touchdowns
list.
Radio coverage: Dial Global Radio Sports
Play-by-Play: Ian Eagle
Color Analyst: Trent Green
Sideline: Tony Boselli
MEDIA AVAILABILITY - NOVEMBER 5-11
Monday, November 5
11:15 a.m. – Noon: Player Availability
2:00 p.m.: Coach Arians available
Tuesday, November 6
11:45 a.m.: Jaguars Quarterback Blaine Gabbert
Conference Call
Noon: Coach Arians available
12:10 p.m.: Jaguars Head Coach Mike Mularkey
Conference Call
12:15-1 p.m.: Player Availability
1:40 p.m.: Practice (Limited Availability)
Last week, the Jaguars lost their fifth straight game by
falling to the Detroit Lions, 31-14. The Jaguars were unable to stop the Lions running game as Mikel LeShoure
found the end zone a career-high three times and finished the day with 70 yards rushing. QB-Blaine Gabbert
completed 27-of-38 passes for 220 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions for an 81.0 rating. WR-Laurent Robinson led the Jaguars in receiving with six
catches for 41 yards.
2012 AFC SOUTH STANDINGS
Team
Houston
Indianapolis
Tennessee
Jacksonville
W
7
5
3
1
L
1
3
6
7
T
0
0
0
0
PCT.
.875
.625
.333
.125
PTS.
237
159
182
117
Wednesday, November 7
No Availability – Travel Day
Thursday, November 8
8:20 p.m.: Colts at Jaguars (NFL Network)
Friday, November 9
No Availability
OPP.
137
191
308
219
Saturday, November 10
No Availability
Week 10 AFC South Schedule - All times Eastern
Sunday, November 11
No Availability
Sunday, November 11
Tennessee at Miami, 1 p.m.
Houston at Chicago, 8:20 p.m.
Avis Roper - Senior Director of Communications
[email protected]
Matt Conti - Football Communications Manager
[email protected]
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Brett Maikowski - Communications Assistant
[email protected]
Pam Humphrey - Public Relations Coordinator
[email protected]
TABLE OF CONTENTS/IMPORTANT DATES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
IMPORTANT NFL DATES
2012
Game Preview/Media Availability........................................1
Important Dates/Schedule ..................................................2
Head Coach Comparison....................................................3
Opponent Information ......................................................4-5
Probable Starters/Key Reserves.........................................6
Colts Notes ......................................................................7-9
Reggie Wayne Notes ...................................................10-11
Dwight Freeney Notes ......................................................12
Robert Mathis Notes .........................................................13
Andrew Luck Notes......................................................14-15
Adam Vinatieri Notes ...................................................16-17
Redding, Bethea, Powers Notes.......................................18
Schedule Notes.................................................................19
Colts Community Notes ....................................................20
Roster Information/Statistics........................................21-30
Last Week’s Game Book .............................................31-47
Stat Pack .....................................................................49-64
Updated Player Bios ....................................................66-93
Additional Bios ...........................................................95-109
Game Summaries.....................................................111-118
2012 Feature Clips
Thursday, Sunday-Monday, November 8, 11-12
Regular Season Week 10.
Tuesday, November 13
Signing period ends at 4:00 p.m., New York time, for Franchise Players who are eligible to receive Offer Sheets.
Deadline for Clubs to sign prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time,
their unsigned Franchise Players, including Franchise Players who were eligible to receive Offer Sheets until this date,
their Unrestricted Free Agents to whom tender was made on
June 1 and their Restricted Free Agents including those to
whom tender was made on August 25. If such players remain
unsigned after this date, they are prohibited from playing in
the NFL in 2012.
Monday, December 31
Clubs may begin signing free agent players for the 2013 season.
2013
2012 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS SCHEDULE
Preseason (2-2)
Date
Opponent
8/12
ST. LOUIS
8/19
at Pittsburgh
8/25
at Washington
8/30
CINCINNATI
Regular Season (5-3)
Date
Opponent
9/9
at Chicago
9/16
MINNESOTA
9/23
JACKSONVILLE
9/30
BYE
10/7
GREEN BAY
10/14
at New York Jets
10/21
CLEVELAND
10/28
at Tennessee
11/4
MIAMI
11/8
at Jacksonville
11/18
at New England
11/25
BUFFALO
12/2
at Detroit
12/9
TENNESSEE
12/16
at Houston
12/23
at Kansas City
12/30
HOUSTON
* Denotes Flexible Scheduling
Saturday-Sunday, January 5-6
Wild Card Playoff Games.
Time
1:30 p.m.
8 p.m.
4 p.m.
7 p.m.
Result
W, 38-3
L, 26-24
L, 30-17
W, 20-16
Saturday-Sunday, January 12-13
Divisional Playoff Games.
Time
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
Result/Network
L, 41-21
W, 23-20
L, 22-17
Sunday, January 27
AFC-NFC Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, Hawaii.
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
8:20 p.m.
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
W, 30-27
L, 35-9
W, 17-13
W, 19-13 OT
W, 23-20
NFL Network
CBS*
CBS*
CBS*
CBS*
CBS*
CBS*
CBS*
Sunday, January 20
AFC and NFC Championship Games.
Sunday, February 3
Super Bowl XLVII, Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2012 HONORS
ANTOINE BETHEA
• Ed Block Courage Award
ANDREW LUCK
• PEPSI MAX NFL Rookie of the Week - Week 3
REGGIE WAYNE
• AFC Offensive Player of the Week - Week 5
COLTS MEDIA SITE
The Indianapolis Colts media website can be found by going
to http://media.colts.com. You will be required to register
and create a username online before having access to the
site.
On the site, you will find all Colts information distributed to
the media, including press releases, transcripts, daily notebooks, game releases, team statistics, player bios and media
schedules/availabilities.
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HEAD COACH COMPARISON
DOLPHINS HEAD COACH MIKE MULARKEY
COLTS OFF. COORD./INTERIM HEAD COACH BRUCE ARIANS
Coaching Years in NFL: 19th Year
Jaguars Head Coach: 1st Year
Regular Season: 15-25 (.375)
Postseason: 0-0 (.000)
Coaching Years in NFL: 20th Year
Colts Interim Head Coach: 1st Year
Regular Season: 4-1 (.800)
Postseason: 0-0 (.000)
Bruce Arians was named the Colts offensive
coordinator on January 31, 2012. He assumed the role of Colts offensive coordinator/interim head coach on October 1, 2012.
Mike Mularkey was named head coach of the
Jaguars on January 11, 2012. Mularkey has 18
years of NFL coaching experience including two
seasons as a head coach and eight as an offensive coordinator. In five of the eight seasons he was a coordinator,
Mularkey’s team went to the playoffs.
Arians comes to Indianapolis from the Pittsburgh Steelers,
where he spent eight seasons, five as the offensive coordinator (2007-2011) and three as the wide receivers coach
(2004-2006). As the offensive coordinator, the Steelers
recorded a 55-25 record, which was tied for the second-best
mark in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers. Pittsburgh
also won three AFC North Division titles, two AFC Championships and were the victors of Super Bowl XLIII. Arians
was also part of the Steelers’ Super Bowl XL Championship
as the team’s wide receivers coach.
Prior to Jacksonville, his previous coaching stops were at Tampa
Bay, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Miami and Atlanta. Mularkey is the fourth
head coach in Jaguars history, including Mel Tucker who served
as interim head coach for the final five games of the 2011 season.
A veteran of 27 years in the NFL, Mularkey played nine seasons
as a tight end for the Minnesota Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. native attended the University of Florida,
where he played tight end before being drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in 1983.
Under Arians’ direction, the Steelers offense ranked 12th in
the NFL in 2011 in total offense, averaging 372.3 yards per
game. The Pittsburgh passing attack was 10th in the league
(253.4 ypg) and Steelers quarterbacks combined for the
sixth-best completion percentage (63.3) and the 10th-highest passer rating (89.7).
Mularkey, 50, spent the past four seasons (2008-11) as offensive
coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons, a team that advanced to the
postseason in three of those four seasons. The Falcons produced
a 43-21 mark in Mularkey’s tenure, the fifth-best record in the NFL.
The Falcons produced the top two single-season totals in team
history for yards per game during Mularkey’s tenure (2008, 2011).
During his tenure with the Steelers, Arians was instrumental
in the development of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger,
helping him become the second-youngest quarterback to
win two Super Bowls (26 years, 336 days). From 20072011, Roethlisberger averaged 247.4 net passing yards per
game, which ranked eighth in the NFL and fifth in the AFC.
In 2007, Roethlisberger got elected to his first Pro Bowl as
he broke Terry Bradshaw’s team record for touchdown
passes in a season with 32. Roethlisberger also finished
with a team record quarterback rating of 104.1 that season.
Prior to joining the Falcons, Mularkey spent two seasons with the
Miami Dolphins, as offensive coordinator in 2006 and tight ends
coach in 2007. Mularkey served as head coach of the Buffalo Bills
from 2004-05, leading the club to a 14-18 overall record. In his first
season he directed the Bills to their first winning season in five
years with a 9-7 record as the club tallied wins in nine of its final
12 games.
From 1996-2003, Mularkey spent eight seasons on the Pittsburgh
Steelers coaching staff under head coach Bill Cowher, including
the last three years as offensive coordinator. Mularkey spent his
first five seasons in Pittsburgh as the club’s tight ends coach where
he helped mold Mark Bruener into one of the best run-blocking
tight ends in the league.
Prior to joining the Steelers, Arians spent three seasons
(2001-2003) as offensive coordinator for the Cleveland
Browns. In 2002 under his guidance, the Browns scored
their most points since the 1987 season and also improved
in virtually every major offensive category from the three
years prior to his arrival.
Mularkey entered the NFL coaching ranks in 1994 with the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers as quality control coach before he was promoted
to tight ends coach the following season. Mularkey began his
coaching career in 1993 at Concordia College where he oversaw
the offensive line.
In his first stint with the Colts, Arians spent three seasons
(1998-2000) as the team’s quarterback coach. While working with Arians in 2000, quarterback Peyton Manning totaled
4,413 yards and 33 touchdowns to break his own club season record. His 33 touchdown passes established a Colts
franchise record previously held by Johnny
Coaching Background
1975-76 Virginia Tech
Grad. Asst. Unitas.
1977
1978-80
1981-82
1983-88
1989-92
1993-95
1996
1997
1998-00
2001-03
2004-06
2007-11
2012
Virginia Tech
RBs
Mississippi State RBs/WRs
Alabama
RBs
Temple
Head Coach
Chiefs
RBs
Mississippi State Off. Coord.
Saints
TEs
Alabama
Off. Coord.
Colts
QBs
Browns
Off. Coord.
Steelers
WRs
Steelers
Off. Coord.
Colts
Off. Coord./
Interim Head Coach
Drafted in the ninth round by the San Francisco 49ers in 1983, Mularkey played nine seasons in the NFL. He was released by the
49ers at the end of his first
training camp and was
Coaching Background
signed by Minnesota. He
1993
Concordia College
spent the next six seasons
Offensive Line
with the Vikings before being
1994
Bucs
Quality
Control
signed as a Plan B free
Bucs
Tight Ends
agent in 1989 by the Steel- 1995
Steelers
Tight Ends
ers, where he played for 1996-00
Steelers
Off. Coord.
three seasons. Mularkey 2001-03
Bills
Head Coach
concluded his career with 2004-05
Dolphins
Off. Coord.
102 receptions for 1,222 2006
2007
Dolphins
Tight Ends
yards and nine touchdowns
2008-11
Falcons
Off. Coord.
in 114 games played.
Arians began his coaching career in 1975 as a
graduate assistant at Virginia Tech. A 1974 Hokie
graduate, Arians played
quarterback and was
voted the team’s MVP as
a senior.
2012
3
Jaguars
Head Coach
THIS WEEK’S OPPONENT: JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS
COLTS-JAGUARS NOTABLE CONNECTIONS
COLTS-JAGUARS ALL-TIME RECORDS
Regular Season: Colts lead, 15-8
Home: Colts lead, 8-4
Away: Colts lead, 7-4
Playoffs: None
Colts Longest Series Streaks: Won 5, Lost 3
Indiana/Florida Connections
•Colts WR-LaVon Brazill is from Lantana, FL.
•Colts DT-Ricardo Mathews is from Jacksonville, FL.
•Colts CB-Darius Butler is from Tamarac, FL.
•Colts safeties coach Roy Anderson is from Tallahassee, FL. He also
worked as a graduate assistant at Florida A&M University.
•Colts assistant offensive line coach Joe Gilbert coached at the University
of Central Florida from 2004-2006.
•Colts tight ends coach Alfredo Roberts is from Ft. Lauderdale, FL and
coached at Florida Atlantic University from 1999-2002.
•Jaguars G/C-Uche Nwaneri attended Purdue University.
•Jaguars TE-Maurice Stovall attended the University of Notre Dame.
•Jaguars offensive line coach Andy Heck attended the University of Notre
Dame.
•Jaguars assistant head coach/quarterbacks coach Greg Olson coached at
Purdue from 1997-2000.
•Jaguars defensive line coach Joe Cullen coached at Indiana University
from 2002-2004.
•Jaguars tight ends coach Bobby Johnson was a coach at Indiana University from 2005-2009.
•Jaguars wide receivers coach Jerry Sullivan coached for Indiana University in 1983.
Points Scored-Allowed: Colts, 553 - Jaguars, 482
Home: Colts, 258 - Jaguars, 207
Away: Colts, 295 - Jaguars, 275
Sweeps: Colts (4): 2002, 05, 07, 09 Jaguars (1): 2011
Splits (5): 2003, 04, 06, 08, 10
COLTS RECORD vs. JAGUARS BY STADIUM:
Hoosier/RCA: 6-1
Jacksonville Municipal/Alltel/Everbank: 7-4
Lucas Oil: 2-3
DATE
12/10/95
9/25/00
9/8/02
12/29/02
9/21/03
11/9/03
10/3/04
10/24/04
9/18/05
12/11/05
9/24/06
12/10/06
Former Colts
•Jaguars LB-Clint Session played for the Colts from 2007-2010.
•Jaguars running back’s coach Sylvester Croon coached for the Colts in
1991.
•Jaguars assistant offensive line coach Ron Prince coached for the Colts
from 2010-2011.
Former Jaguars
•Colts CB-Josh Gordy was signed to the Jaguars in 2010. He was released
before the start of the regular season.
•Colts tight ends coach Alfredo Roberts was the tight ends coach for the
Jaguars from 2003-2006.
NFL Connections
•Jaguars LS-Jeremy Cain and Colts NT-Antonio Johnson played together
for the Tennessee Titans in 2007.
•Jaguars QB-Chad Henne, RB-Jalen Parmele and Colts C-Samson Satele
played for the Miami Dolphins in 2008. Colts CB-Vontae Davis played with
Henne for the Dolphins from 2009-2011.
•Jaguars S-Dawan Landry and RB-Jalen Parmele played for the Baltimore
Ravens with Colts S-Tom Zbikowski from 2008-2010 and DE-Cory Redding in 2010.
•Colts WR-Donnie Avery played with Jaguars WR-Laurent Robinson for
the St. Louis Rams from 2009-2010. Jaguars DE-George Selvie also played
for the Rams in 2010.
•Colts QB-Drew Stanton and Jaguars DB-Chris Harris played for the Detroit Lions in 2011.
•Colts DE-Cory Redding and Jaguars T-Steve Vallos played for the Seattle
Seahawks in 2009.
•Colts CB-Darius Butler and Jaguars WR-Taylor Price played for the New
England Patriots in 2010.
COLTS-JAGUARS ALL-TIME RESULTS
RESULTS
41-31 W
43-14 W
28-25 W
20-13 W
23-13 W
23-28 L
24-17 W
24-27 L
10-3 W
26-18 W
21-14 W
17-44 L
DATE
10/22/07
12/2/07
9/21/08
12/18/08
9/13/09
12/17/09
10/3/10
12/19/10
11/13/11
1/1/12
9/23/12
RESULTS
29-7 W
28-25 W
21-23 L
31-24 W
14-12 W
35-31 W
28-31 L
34-24 W
3-17 L
13-19 L
17-22 L
Home games in bold
Playoff games underlined
*Overtime
NOTABLE PERFORMANCES AGAINST JAGUARS
QB-Andrew Luck completed 22-of-46 passes for 313 yards and
two touchdowns on 9/23/12.
WR-T.Y. Hilton caught four passes for 113 yards, including a 40yard touchdown on 9/23/12.
WR-Reggie Wayne caught 10 pases for 141 yards and two
touchdowns on 9/21/03. He also had 15 receptions for 196 yards
on 10/3/10.
OLB-Robert Mathis notched four solo tackles, one sack and one
forced fumble on 12/2/07. In last year’s season finale, he made
two solo tackles, one sack, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery on 1/1/12.
College Connections
•Colts TE-Dwayne Allen and DE-Andre Branch were teammates at Clemson University.
•Colts OLB-Justin Hickman and Jaguars RB-Maurice Jones-Drew attended UCLA together.
OLB-Dwight Freeney recorded four solo tackles, two sacks for a
loss of 13 yards and two forced fumbles on 10/22/07.
Coaching Connections
•Colts head coach Chuck Pagano coached for the Cleveland Browns with
strength and conditioning coordinator Tom Myslinski from 2003-2004. Colts
offensive coordinator Bruce Arians was also a coach for the Browns in
2003. Colts special teams coordinator Marwan Maalouf was a coach for
the Browns in 2004.
•Jaguars defensive coordinator Mel Tucker coached for the Cleveland
Browns with Colts special teams coach Marwan Maalouf from 2005-2006,
and tight ends coach Alfredo Roberts from 2007-2008.
•Jaguars offensive coordinator Bob Bratkowski and Colts secondary coach
Mike Gillhamer coached together at Weber State in 1984.
•Jaguars assistant head coach/quarterbacks coach Greg Olson and Colts
defensive line coach Gary Emmanuel coached at Purdue from 1997-2000
and 2002.
•Colts tight ends coach Alfredo Roberts and Jaguars assistant head
coach/quarterbacks coach Greg Olson coached together for the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers from 2009-2011.
•Colts linebackers coach Jeff FitzGerald and Jaguars wide receivers coach
Jerry Sullivan coached for the Arizona Cardinals from 2001-2003.
K-Adam Vinatieri converted five-of-six field goals, including the
game-winning 40-yard field goal in overtime as a member of the
Patriots on 9/22/96.
RB-Mewelde Moore rushed for 99 yards on 17 carries and had
17 yards receiving as a member of the Steelers on 10/5/08.
S-Antoine Bethea had five tackles (four solo) and one interception on 12/19/10. In his first game against the Jaguars on 9/24/06,
he finished with 12 tackles (eight solo).
WR-Austin Collie caught eight passes for 87 yards and two
touchdowns on 12/19/10. He also reeled in nine receptions for 96
yards and a touchdown in last year’s season finale on 1/1/12.
CB-Jerraud Powers compiled five tackles (three solo) and one
inteception for 13 return yards on 11/13/11.
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COLTS-JAGUARS SERIES INFO/LAST MATCHUP
2012 REGULAR SEASON TEAM LEADERS
Leading Passers:
Andrew Luck
Blaine Gabbert
Comp. Att.
190 336
142 245
Yards TD
2,404 10
1,429 9
LAST COLTS-JAGUARS MATCHUP
Week 3
INT Rating
8
79.0
5
78.4
September 23, 2012
Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Ind.
17-22
The Colts fell victim to a last-minute comeback at the hands
of the Jackonsville Jaguars, falling 22-17 in a Week 3 meeting
at Lucas Oil Stadium. Indianapolis jumped out to a 14-3 halftime lead when Andrew Luck connected with T.Y. Hilton for
a 40-yard touchdown in the first quarter and running back
Mewelde Moore for a four-yard score in the second stanza.
Hilton led both teams in receiving with four receptions for 113
yards. The Jaguars scored 13 unanswered points in the second half on a Maurice Jones-Drew 59-yard rush and two
Josh Scobee field goals to reclaim a 16-14 lead. With 56 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, the Colts drove 48 yards
in five plays to set up an Adam Vinatieri 37-yard field goal.
The kick split the uprights and gave Indianapolis a 17-16 advantage. On their ensuing possession, Jacksonville needed
one play to find the end zone when Cecil Shorts took a
Blaine Gabbert pass 80 yards to the end zone. The score
sealed the Jaguars’ third consecutive victory over the Colts.
Leading Rushers:
Att. Yards Avg. Long TD
Donald Brown
74
319
4.3
19
1
Maurice Jones-Drew 86
414
4.8
59t
1
Leading Receivers: Rec. Yards Avg. Long TD
Reggie Wayne
61
835 13.7 30t
3
Cecil Shorts
23
456 19.8 80t
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2012 STATISTICAL COMPARISON
2012 Regular Season Statistics
Colts (rank)
Jaguars (rank)
19.9 (23)
Points Per Game
14.6 (32)
390.9 (4)
Total Offense Per Game
254.4 (32)
105.9 (T19)
Net Rushing Yards Per Game
84.0 (28)
285.0 (6)
Net Passing Yards Per Game
170.4 (32)
31:14 (11)
Possession Average
27:08 (28)
23.9 (22)
Opponent Points Per Game
27.4 (23)
352.3 (19)
Opponent Total Offense Per Game
392.2 (18)
130.8 (27) Opponent Net Rushing Yards Per Game 137.4 (25)
221.5 (7) Opponent Net Passing Yards Per Game 255.5 (T11)
-10 (30)
Turnover Differential
0 (T19)
1
JAGUARS 3
COLTS
7
REG. SEASON/POSTSEASON STATS VS. JAGUARS
2
0
7
SCORING SUMMARY
3
4 OT F
10 9
22
0
3
17
SCORING DRIVES
Scoring Play
Scobee 44 yd. field goal
Hilton 40 yd. pass from Luck
(Vinatieri kick)
Moore 4 yd. pass from Luck
(Vinatieri kick)
Jones-Drew 59 yd. run
(Scobee kick)
Vinatieri 37 yd. field goal
Shorts 80 yd. pass from Gabbert
(run failed)
PASSING
Andrew Luck
Drew Stanton
G/GS
1/1
1/0
A-C-I
46-22-1
6-8-0
Yds
313
94
TD
2
1
Rating
75.7
153.1
RUSHING
Donald Brown
Andrew Luck
Delone Carter
Vick Ballard
G/GS
5/3
1/1
2/0
1/0
Att-Yards
65-301
4-50
11-20
5-12
Avg.
4.6
12.5
1.8
2.4
Long
49
19
7
5
TD
1
0
0
0
RECEIVING
Reggie Wayne
T.Y. Hilton
Donald Brown
Donnie Avery
Dwayne Allen
Delone Carter
G/GS
21/20
1/0
5/3
3/2
1/1
2/0
Rec-Yards
125-1,760
4-113
10-86
3-45
5-35
1-5
Avg.
14.1
28.3
8.6
15.0
7.0
5.0
Long
65t
40t
39
17t
17
5
TD
6
1
0
1
0
0
DEFENSE
Antoine Bethea
Robert Mathis
Dwight Freeney
Pat Angerer
Cory Redding
Antonio Johnson
Jerrell Freeman
Fili Moala
Jerraud Powers
Kavell Conner
Ricardo Mathews
Drake Nevis
Moise Fokou
Joe Lefeged
Jerry Hughes
Vontae Davis
Martin Tevaseu
Justin Hickman
Tom Zbikowski
Sergio Brown
*Forced Fumbles
G/GS
13/13
19/12
18/16
4/3
5/4
8/6
1/1
6/5
4/4
4/4
4/0
2/0
2/0
2/0
4/1
2/1
1/0
1/0
1/1
1/0
Tackles
S-A-Tot
51-30-81
38-12-50
30-0-30
14-11-25
11-3-14
11-7-18
8-8-16
12-3-15
9-4-13
6-9-15
5-4-9
2-2-4
5-1-6
1-1-2
4-2-6
3-1-4
3-0-3
1-2-3
3-5-8
1-0-1
Sk-Yds
0-0
9.5-60.5
10-59
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
1-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
PD
6
3
4
1
0
0
0
0
4
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
INT
2
6*
3*
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
FGM-A
21-26
0-0
Long
48
0
XPM-A
35-36
0-0
KO
45
28
TB
5
6
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING: Ind. - Brown 18-62; Luck 4-50; Ballard 5-12; Moore 2-0. JAX
- Jones-Drew 28-177-1; Gabbert 2-11; Jones 1-1; Shorts 1-(-4).
PUNTING
Pat McAfee
No.
28
Yds
1,224
Avg.
43.7
Lg
66
In20
10
KICK RETURNS
Cassius Vaughn
T.Y. Hilton
No.
4
1
Yds
113
26
Avg.
28.3
26.0
Lg
40
26
TD
0
0
PASSING: Ind. - Luck 22-46-313, 2 TD, 1 INT, 75.7 rating. JAX - Gabbert
10-21-155, 1TD, 88.4 rating.
PUNT RETURNS
T.Y. Hilton
No.
4
Yds
29
Avg.
7.3
Lg
14
TD
0
KICKING
Adam Vinatieri
Pat McAfee
Team
Jaguars
Colts
Qtr Time
1 7:13
1 3:42
Colts
2
0:37
Jaguars
3
12:05
Jaguars
Jaguars
Colts
Jaguars
3
4
4
4
2:55
11:02
0:56
0:45
TEAM STATISTICS
Jaguars
Total Net Yards
333
Net Yards Rushing
185
Net Yards Passing
148
Total First Downs
15
Third Down Efficiency
4-13-31%
Punts (Number and Average)
6-53.5
Net Punting Average
45.3
Penalties
6-67
Fumbles (Number and Lost)
2-0
Touchdowns
2
Field Goals (Made and Attempted)
3-3
Red Zone Efficiency
0-2-0%
Time of Possession
27:36
Red Zone Efficiency
1-1-100%
Time of Possession
14:53
JAX
3
3
IND
0
7
3
14
10
14
13
16
16
22
14
14
17
17
Colts
437
124
313
23
10-19-53%
6-46.7
42.0
11-106
0-0
2
1-2
1-3-33%
32:24
2-2-100%
45:07
RECEIVING: Ind. - Wayne 8-88; Allen 5-35; Hilton 4-113-1; Avery 2-28;
Brown 1-39; Collie 1-6; Moore 1-4-1. JAX - Elliott 2-24; Jones-Drew 2-16;
Jones 2-12; Shorts 1-80-1; Thomas 1-8; Lewis 1-8; Blackmon 1-7.
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PROBABLE STARTERS/KEY RESERVES
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
DE Cory Redding - Recorded two sacks vs. Green Bay in Week 5.
In 138 career games (108 starts), has totaled 426 tackles (289 solo),
27.5 sacks, one interception, 10 fumble recoveries, four forced fumbles and 15 passes defensed.
WR Reggie Wayne - Finished with a career-high 212 receiving
yards in Week 5 vs. Green Bay. Ranks third in the NFL with 54 receptions this season and leads the league with 757 receiving yards.
LT Anthony Castonzo - Started all eight games this season and
helped block for the Colts to gain a season-high 516 yards in Week
9 vs. Miami.
NT Antonio Johnson - The sixth-year veteran has compiled 151
tackles (96 solo), 1.5 sacks, one fumble recovery and two passes
defensed in 60 career games (40 starts).
LG Joe Reitz - Made his first start of the season in Week 9 vs. Miami
and helped block for Andrew Luck to throw for an NFL rookie record
433 passing yards.
DT Fili Moala - In four seasons with the Colts, has recorded 77
tackles (47 solo), 2.0 sacks and one pass defensed. Posted 12 tackles (four solo) and one quarterback hit in 2012.
C Samson Satele - Has started all seven games he’s played in this
season. Helped block for the Colts to gain a season-high 516 yards
in Week 9 vs. Miami.
SLB Robert Mathis - A four-time Pro Bowl selection who ranks second all-time in franchise history with 89.5 sacks. Has recorded a
sack in eight straight games played dating back to last season.
RG Mike McGlynn - Has started all eight games this season and
has seen action at guard and center. Helped block for Andrew Luck
to throw for an NFL rookie record 433 passing yards.
MIKE Kavell Conner - Recorded his first career sack in Week 2
against Minnesota. Ranks third on the team with 54 tackles (28
solo).
WILL Jerrell Freeman - Leads the team with 101 tackles (55 solo).
Forced two turnovers in his first two career games (sack-fumble in
Week 2 and interception returned for touchdown in Week 1).
RT Winston Justice - Has started all seven games he’s played in
this season. Helped block for the Colts to gain a season-high 516
yards in Week 9 vs. Miami.
RUSH Dwight Freeney - A seven-time Pro Bowl selection and the
all-time franchise leader in sacks with 104.5. Became the 26th
player to top 100.0 career sacks in 2011. Is the only Colts player
with seven double-digit sack seasons.
TE Coby Fleener - Indianapolis’ second round pick in the 2012 NFL
Draft. Fifth on the team with 21 receptions for 222 yards. Finished
with 82 receiving yards in Week 1 at Chicago, which is the most by
a Colts rookie tight end in his debut.
LCB Vontae Davis - Acquired by the Colts in a trade with Miami on
8/26/12. In 49 games (41 starts), has totaled 161 tackles (136 solo),
33 passes defensed and nine interceptions.
WR Donnie Avery - Recorded second 100-yard game of the season in Week 9 vs. Miami (five receptions, 108 yards). Ranks second
on the team with 34 receptions for 454 yards and one touchdown.
SS Tom Zbikowski - Has competed in 60 career games and has
recorded 81 tackles, one sack, two interceptions, nine passes defensed and 58 special teams stops.
QB Andrew Luck - Has completed 190-of-336 passes for 2,404
yards, 10 touchdowns and eight interceptions for a passer rating of
79.0. Threw for an NFL rookie single game record 433 passing
yards in Week 9 vs. Miami.
FS Antoine Bethea - Ranks second on the team in tackles with 63
(44 solo). Tied for first with six passes defensed. A two-time Pro
Bowl selection who has led the Colts in interceptions over the last
six seasons with 12.
F Dwayne Allen - Ranks fourth on the team with 23 receptions for
249 yards and two touchdowns. Caught six passes for 75 yards in
Week 9 vs. Miami.
RCB Jerraud Powers - Intercepted an Aaron Rodgers’ pass in
Week 5. Has started all 42 contests he has participated in and has
posted 221 tackles, six interceptions, one forced fumble, one fumble
recovery and 30 passes defensed.
RB Donald Brown - Ran for 80 yards on 14 carries in Week 7 vs.
Tennessee. In 2012, has posted 319 rushing yards and a touchdown on 74 carries.
NOTABLE OFFENSIVE RESERVES
NOTABLE DEFENSIVE RESERVES
RB Vick Ballard - Scored the game-winning touchdown in overtime
in Week 8 at Tennessee. Finished the game with 55 rushing yards
and 16 receving yards. Rushed for a career-high 84 yards on 20
carries (4.2 avg.) in Week 7 vs. Cleveland. Has rushed for 266
yards in eight games in 2012. Selected by the Colts in the fifth
round (170th overall) of the 2012 NFL Draft. Totaled 379 rushes for
2,157 yards (5.6 avg.) and 29 touchdowns at Mississippi State.
OLB Jerry Hughes - Recorded his third sack of the season and
fourth of his career at Tennessee in Week 8. Has played in 31 career games (five starts), totaling 34 tackles (22 solo) and four sacks.
ILB Moise Fokou - Recorded his first sack of the season when he
took down Aaron Rodgers in Week 5. Has played in 50 career
games, making 22 starts and tallying 116 tackles (79 solo), two
sacks, four passes defensed and two forced fumbles.
WR T.Y. Hilton - Ranks third on the team in receiving with 24 receptions for 355 yards and two touchdowns. Recorded his second
100-yard game of the season in Week 9 vs. Miami (six receptions,
102 yards).
SPECIAL TEAMS
K Adam Vinatieri - Has converted 403-of-489 career field goals (82.4%), which currently ranks 11th all-time in NFL history. Has totaled
1,813 career points (including one two-point conversion), which ranks ninth in league annals and first among active players in the AFC.
Has made 24 game-winning field goals in the final minute of the fourth quarter or overtime.
P Pat McAfee - In 2012, is posting a 48.1 gross punting average and 40.1 net punting average. Set a franchise record with a 46.6 gross
punting average in 2011. Posted the second-best total for net punting average in franchise history with a 39.2 mark last season.
LS - Matt Overton - Signed as a free agent by the Colts on April 2, 2012. Spent three years in the United Football League (2009-11) with
the Florida Tuskers and most recently the Omaha Nighthawks. Earned recognition as the league’s best long snapper in 2010.
6
COLTS NOTES
WHAT TO LOOK FOR THIS WEEK
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN 2012
WITH A WIN, THE COLTS WOULD
• Improve to 6-3 and win four consecutive games for the first time
since the last four games of the 2010 season.
• Improve to 2-2 on the road this year.
• Improve their overall record against Jacksonville to 16-8.
• Break a three-game losing streak to the Jaguars.
ILB-PAT ANGERER
• Needs 19 tackles to reach 250 for his career.
CB-VONTAE DAVIS
• Needs one interception to reach 10 for his career.
S-ANTOINE BETHEA
• Needs 46 tackles to reach 800 for his career and 30 solo tackles
to reach 500 for his career.
WR-DONNIE AVERY
• Needs 13 receptions to reach 150 for his career.
• Needs 238 receiving yards to reach 2,000 for his career.
TE-COBY FLEENER
• Needs four catches to reach 25 for the year.
RB-DONALD BROWN
• Needs 258 rushing yards to reach 2,000 for his career and 85
rushing attempts to reach 500 for his career.
ILB-JERRELL FREEMAN
• Can lead the team in tackles for the eighth time in nine games.
CB-VONTAE DAVIS
WR-T.Y. HILTON
• Needs 47 receiving yards to reach 300 for the season.
ILB-MOISE FOKOU
• Needs 17 solo tackles to reach 100 for his career.
NT-ANTONIO JOHNSON
• Needs one tackle to reach 150 for his career.
OLB-ROBERT MATHIS
• Needs half a sack to reach 90.0 for his career.
QB-ANDREW LUCK
• Needs a 300-yard passing game to become the first rookie in NFL
history to record five 300-yard passing games (Peyton Manning,
1998).
• Needs 96 passing yards to reach 2,500 for the season.
P-PAT McAFEE
• Needs 28 punts to pass Chris Gardocki (277) for fourth most in
Colts history.
• Needs 1,151 punting yards to pass Chris Gardocki (12,403) for
fourth most in Colts history.
• Needs eight punts inside the 20 to pass Chris Gardocki (80) for
third most in Colts history.
OLB-ROBERT MATHIS
• Can surpass his personal record with a sack in his ninth consecutive game played.
WR-REGGIE WAYNE
• Needs nine receptions to reach 70 for the season.
• Needs 178 receiving yards to pass Art Monk for 15th place in NFL
history.
• Needs one touchdown reception to tie Larry Fitzgerald and Joey
Galloway (77) for 24th in NFL history.
K-ADAM VINATIERI
• Needs 24 points to pass Lenny Moore (678) for fourth on the Colts
all-time scoring list.
• Needs 20 points after a touchdown to pass Dean Biasucci (255)
for third in Colts history.
• Needs to convert his next 15 PATs to pass Mike Vanderjagt (125)
for second most consecutive PATs made in Colts history.
K-ADAM VINATIERI
• Needs one 50-yard field goal to pass Raul Allegre and Cary Blanchard (7) for third place in Colts history.
WR-REGGIE WAYNE
• Needs eight games played to pass David Lee (188) for eighth in
Colts history.
• Needs two games with 10-plus receptions to pass Marvin Harrison
(16) for the most in Colts history.
• Needs to lead the team in receptions this year to tie Marvin Harrison (6) for the most consecutive seasons leading the team.
• Needs a 1,000-yard receiving season to tie Marvin Harrison (8)
for the most in Colts history.
7
AVERY’S CAREER YEAR
COLTS NOTES
HILTON FASTEST TO 100...TWICE
T.Y. Hilton notched his second career 100-yard receiving
game in Week 9 vs. Miami when he caught six passes for
102 yards. With the performance, Hilton became the first
Colts rookie to notch two 100-yard receiving games
since Anthony Gonzalez did in 2007. The Colts rookie
record for most 100-yard receiving games in a season is
three, set by Andre Rison in 1989. Here’s a look at the most
100-yard receiving games by a rookie in Colts history:
Donnie Avery has totaled 34 receptions for 454 yards and a
touchdown through eight games this season. In Week 9 vs.
Miami, he recorded his second 100-yard receiving performance of the season when he caught five passes for 108
yards. Now in his fourth season, Avery only had one 100yard receiving game prior to this year. He is also on pace to
break his personal record for receptions (53) and receiving
yards (674) in a season, which he set as a rookie in 2008 as
a member of the St. Louis Rams.
Year
2008
2009
2012
2011
Team
Rams
Rams
Colts
Titans
Rec.-Yds
53-674
47-589
34-454
3-45
Year
1989
2012
2007
1996
1986
1967
Rec. TD 100-yd Games
3
1
5
0
1
2
1
0
LEADING THE PACK
10-CATCH GAMES
NFL Rank
1
1
T1
2
2
Round Overall Pick
First
5
First
13
First
20
First
30
Second
33
Second
43
Second
45
Second
54
Second
63
Third
68
Third
69
Third
83
Third
92
Reggie Wayne has tallied a total of 15 10-catch games
throughout his 12-year NFL career, which ranks tied for
fourth-most in NFL history. With one more 10-catch game,
Wayne will tie Patriots WR-Wes Welker and former Colts
WR-Marvin Harrison for second on the list with 16. Jerry Rice
leads the list with 17 career 10-catch games.
Rank Player
1
Jerry Rice
2t
Wes Welker
2t
Marvin Harrison
4t
Reggie Wayne
4t
Andre Johnson
Years
1985-06 (22)
2004-12 (9)
1996-08 (13)
2001-12 (12)
2003-12 (10)
CURRENT STREAKS
100-yd rec. games
3
2
2
2
2
2
Earlier in the season, Hilton caught four passes for 113 yards
in Week 3 against Jacksonville. Hilton remains this year’s
first and only rookie wide receiver in the NFL with a 100yard receiving game. Considering Hilton was selected with
the 92nd overall pick (third round) in this year’s NFL Draft,
12 receivers were selected before him. Below is the full list
of receivers drafted before Hilton in this year’s NFL Draft:
Reggie Wayne is leading the league in receiving yards, receiving first downs and is tied for first in third down receptions. He ranks second in the league in receptions and third
down receiving yards.
Category
Number
Receiving Yards
835
Receiving First Downs
44
Third Down Receptions
19
Receptions
61
Third Down Receiving Yards 286
Player
Andre Rison
T.Y. Hiton
Anthony Gonzalez
Marvin Harrison
Bill Brooks
Ray Perkins
Receptions
17
16
16
15
15
Player
Justin Blackmon
Michael Floyd
Kendall Wright
A.J. Jenkins
Brian Quick
Stephen Hill
Alshon Jeffery
Ryan Broyles
Rueben Randle
DeVier Posey
T.J. Graham
Mohamed Sanu
T.Y. Hilton
ROOKIE CONNECTION
Team
Jaguars
Cardinals
Titans
49ers
Rams
Jets
Bears
Lions
Giants
Texans
Bills
Bengals
Colts
Andrew Luck completed a 16-yard pass to Vick Ballard in
overtime to score the game-winning touchdown in Week 8
at Tennessee. Since the NFL instituted regular-season
overtime in 1974, only two other rookies have thrown a
game-winning touchdown pass in overtime: Drew Bledsoe to Michael Timpson for the New England Patriots in 1994
and Ryan Fitzpatrick to Kevin Curtis for the St. Louis Rams
in 2005.
The Luck to Ballard touchdown pass marked the first
time that a rookie completed a game-winning touchdown
pass to another rookie in overtime.
104
Consecutive regular season games in which wide receiver
Reggie Wayne has caught at least one pass.
5
Consecutive seasons wide receiver Reggie Wayne has led
the team in receiving (2007-11).
138
Consecutive regular season games in which kicker Adam
Vinatieri has scored at least one point.
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SPECIAL ON SPECIAL TEAMS
COLTS NOTES
Safety Joe Lefeged leads the Colts and ranks tied for fifth
in the AFC this year with nine special teams tackles (all solo).
In Week 2 vs. Minnesota, Lefeged led the team with a career-high five special teams tackles. Along with his tackles,
Lefeged has had a major contribution in helping P-Pat
McAfee pin 10 balls inside the 20 this year. Here’s a look at
how Lefeged stacks up among the rest of the AFC in special
teams tackles:
Player
Team
Solo
Johnson Bademosi
CLE
7
Curtis Brown
PIT
8
Buster Skrine
CLE
6
Darrell Stuckey
SD
8
*Joe Lefeged
IND
9
Bryan Braman
HOU
8
Dan Skuta
CIN
8
*According to Colts coaches review
BOOMING KICKS
Assist
4
2
4
2
0
1
1
Total
11
10
10
10
9
9
9
Freeman is the first Colts undrafted player ever to return
an interception for a touchdown in his debut.
Freeman also became the first undrafted NFL player to
return an interception for a touchdown in his debut since
LB-Peter Noga and DB-Paul Tripoli both did so in 1987.
FLEENER’S DEBUT
Through the first six games this season,
Pat McAfee is posting a 48.1 gross
punting average and 40.1 net punting
mark. He is currently averaging 1.5
gross yards more than last year’s franchise and personal record of 46.6 gross
yards per punt. He is also 0.8 net yards
ahead of the team season record of
39.3 set by Rohn Stark in 1992. Last
season, McAfee finished second in franchise history with a 39.2 net punting average.
In Week 1 against the Bears, TE-Coby Fleener caught six
passes for 82 yards, which is the most yards by a Colts
rookie tight end in his debut.
Here’s a look at how other Colts rookie tight ends have performed in the first game of their rookie season:
Player
Coby Fleener
Reese McCall
John Mackey
Tom Santi
Dallas Clark
Tim Sherwin
Jacob Tamme
Ken Dilger
SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST
Reggie Wayne posted his second 200-yard receiving performance of his career when he put up a career-high 212
yards against the Green Bay Packers in Week 5. That total
is the second highest in the NFL this season, trailing only
Brian Hartline of the Dolphins who recorded 253 yards in an
overtime game against the Cardinals in Week 4.
With the 212 yards, Wayne became the seventh player
since 1990 to notch a 200-yard performance in his 10th
season or later.
Player
James Lofton
Irving Fryar
Jerry Rice
Shannon Sharpe
Rod Smith
Terrell Owens
Terrell Owens
Reggie Wayne
Reggie Wayne
Date
10/21/91
09/04/94
12/18/95
10/20/02
10/31/04
11/23/08
10/03/10
12/05/10
10/07/12
Team
BUF
MIA
SF
DEN
DEN
DAL
CIN
IND
IND
Yds
220
211
289
214
208
213
222
200
212
GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION
ILB-Jerrell Freeman joined the Colts as a reserve linebacker
after being signed to a reserve/future
contract back in January. After Pat Angerer went down with an injury in the first
play of the first preseason game this
year, Freeman stepped in and filled the
void left by Angerer. Through eight regular season games, Freeman leads the
team in tackles with 101 (55 solo) and
has forced two turnovers, an interception
returned for a touchdown in Week 1 at Chicago and a sackfumble in Week 2 vs. Minnesota.
Date
9/9/12
9/4/78
9/15/63
9/14/08
9/7/03
9/6/81
9/7/08
9/3/95
Receptions
6
3
2
5
1
1
1
1
SHARING THE WEALTH
Rec. Yards
82
53
46
29
18
8
6
4
The Colts had a 100-yard receiver in the first four games this
season. Reggie Wayne posted over 100 yards in Week 1 at
Chicago and Week 5 vs. Green Bay. Donnie Avery notched
over 100 receiving yards in Week 2 vs. Minnesota and T.Y.
Hilton did so in Week 3 vs. Jacksonville.
Season
14
11
11
13
10
13
15
10
12
It marked the first time in franchise history that the Colts
have started a season with at least one 100-yard receiver
in each of the first four games of a season. The Colts are
also the only team in the NFL to accomplish the feat this
season.
In addition, through the first four games, the Colts scored 10
touchdowns by eight different players. Quarterback Andrew
Luck, running backs Donald Brown and Mewelde Moore,
wide receivers Reggie Wayne, Donnie Avery and T.Y. Hilton,
tight end Dwayne Allen and inside linebacker Jerrell Freeman
each found the end zone.
The eight different players with a touchdown marked the
most the Colts have had in the first four games of a season since the 2006 campaign when eight different players (Dallas Clark, Dominic Rhodes, Brandon Stokley,
Joseph Addai, Bryan Fletcher, Ran Carthon, Terrence
Wilkins and Peyton Manning) scored a touchdown.
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REGGIE WAYNE NOTES
LINE OF SCRIMMAGE
#87
WIDE RECEIVER REGGIE WAYNE
6-0 - 198 Pounds - Miami
12th NFL Season
In Week 5 against Green Bay, Reggie Wayne recorded 212
receiving yards and passed Edgerrin James for second in
franchise history in yards from scrimmage. Wayne now has
12,543 yards from scrimmage and only trails team leader,
Marvin Harrison, who accumulated 14,608 yards in his 13
seasons with the teams. Wayne is 2,065 yards from matching
Harrison atop the list.
• Named to five Pro Bowls (2006-10).
• Associated Press NFL All-Pro First-Team in 2010.
• Has totaled seven 1,000-yard seasons (2004-10).
• Ranks second in team history in receptions (923),
receiving yards (12,543) and receiving touchdowns (76).
• Ranks second in franchise history in all-time yards from
scrimmage (12,543).
Indianapolis’ All-Time Scrimmage Yards Leaders
REELING ‘EM IN
Now in his 12th season with the Colts, Reggie Wayne has put up
career-high numbers over the first half of the season. His 61 receptions for 835 receiving yards mark the most he’s ever had through
the first eight games of a season. Below is how Wayne has fared
through the first eight, nine and 10 games of a season:
Through:
Year
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
8 games
Rec.-Yards
61-835
35-487
60-724
59-753
43-586
49-730
44-732
46-461
37-603
34-474
22-300
18-234
9 games
Rec.-Yards
10 games
Rec.-Yards
39-517
63-758
69-879
49-700
59-870
48-774
54-533
41-636
40-520
28-421
19-245
42-530
71-865
76-968
56-90
63-945
55-885
59-650
47-742
49-661
30-430
24-323
Rec. Yards Rush. Yards Scrim. Yards
14,580
28
14,608
Harrison
12,543
0
12,543
Wayne
2,839
9,226
12,065
James
AFC OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Reggie Wayne was named the AFC Offensive Player of the
Week for Week 5, which marked the first time he’s earned the
award in his career.
Wayne totaled 13 receptions for a career-high 212 yards and scored
the game-winning touchdown in the Colts’ 30-27 victory over the
Green Bay Packers. Down 27-22 with 4:30 remaining in the game,
on the Colts final drive, Wayne caught five passes for 64 yards and
scored the go-ahead touchdown with 35 seconds left.
The 212-yard, one touchdown performance...
• Moved Wayne (12,214) past former Colts running back Edgerrin
James (12,065) for second place on the franchise’s all-time scrimmage yards list.
• Was the second-most for a single game in franchise history behind
Raymond Berry’s 224 yards on Nov. 10, 1957 at Washington.
• Moved Wayne up three spots on the NFL’s all-time receiving
yardage list surpassing Charlie Joiner (12,146) for 17th place.
• Tied Wayne (75) with Larry Fitzgerald and James Lofton for 27th
place on the league’s all-time receiving touchdowns list.
• Was his 40th 100-yard and second 200-yard receiving game of
his career.
• Made Wayne only the seventh NFL player since 1990 to record a
200-yard performance in his 10th season or later.
• Improved his streak of catching at least one pass to 100 consecutive games.
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CATCHING FROM EVERYONE
With Reggie Wayne’s first touchdown reception from Andrew
Luck in the Colts’ Week 2 victory against Minnesota, he tied
the franchise record for touchdowns coming from seven different players (six quarterbacks, one running back). Wayne
has caught touchdowns from Andrew Luck, Dan Orlovsky,
Curtis Painter, Kerry Collins, Peyton Manning, Jim Sorgi and
Joseph Addai. Wayne’s mark is tied with wide receivers Marvin Harrison and Glenn Doughty.
REGGIE’S RESULTS
Reggie Wayne has been one of the most productive wide receivers in franchise history. Since his rookie campaign in
2001, the Colts have reaped the benefits of Wayne’s high
level of play and the results have shown in the win/loss column. Below are Indianapolis’ record totals when Wayne
reaches a certain milestone in single games.
When Wayne Records 100-Plus Receiving Yards
On 40 occasions, the Colts are 28-12
When Wayne Records Eight-Plus Receptions
When Wayne Scores At Least One Touchdown
When Wayne Totals At Least a 15.0 Yards Per Catch Average (Min. Five Rec.)
REGGIE WAYNE NOTES
REGGIE MOVING UP THE CHARTS
Listed below are how Reggie Wayne ranks in receptions, receiving
yards and receiving touchdowns all-time and since he joined the
league in 2001.
ALL-TIME RECEIVING LEADERS
Rank
11
12
13
14
15
Player
Derrick Mason
Art Monk
Reggie Wayne
Torry Holt
Keenan McCardell
Rank
14
15
16
17
18
Rank
T24
T24
T26
T26
T26
Years
1997-2011 (15)
1980-95 (16)
2001-12 (12)
1999-09 (11)
1992-07 (16)
Receptions
943
940
923
920
883
Player
Irving Fryar
Art Monk
Reggie Wayne
Jimmy Smith
Charlie Joiner
Years
1984-00 (17)
1980-95 (16)
2001-12 (12)
1992-05 (12)
1969-86 (18)
Receiving Yards
12,785
12,721
12,543
12,287
12,146
Player
Larry Fitzgerald
Joey Galloway
Reggie Wayne
Fred Biletnikoff
Harold Jackson
Years
2004-12 (9)
1995-10 (16)
2001-12 (12)
1965-78 (14)
1968-83 (16)
Receiving TD
77
77
76
76
76
Year
2009
2012
2007
2011
2010
2008
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
Player
Tony Gonzalez
Reggie Wayne
Hines Ward
Derrick Mason
Torry Holt
Years
2001-12 (12)
2001-12 (12)
2001-11 (11)
2001-11 (11)
2001-09 (9)
Receptions
938
923
876
833
786
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
Player
Reggie Wayne
Terrell Owens
Chad Johnson
Torry Holt
Randy Moss
Years
2001-12 (12)
2001-10 (10)
2001-11 (11)
2001-09 (9)
2001-12 (12)
Receiving Yards
12,543
11,176
11,059
10,959
10,930
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
Player
Randy Moss
Terrell Owens
Marvin Harrison
Antonio Gates
Larry Fitzgerald
Reggie Wayne
Years
2001-12 (12)
2001-10 (10)
2001-08 (8)
2003-12 (10)
2004-12 (9)
2001-12 (12)
Receiving TD
112
110
81
79
77
76
Receiving Yards
212 vs. Green Bay (10/7/12)
200 vs. Dallas (12/5/10)
196 at Jacksonville (10/3/10)
Long Reception
71t at Denver (1/2/05)
66t at Cincinnati (11/20/05)
65t, two times,
Last at Jacksonville (12/17/09)
Receiving Touchdowns
3 at Denver (10/29/06)
2, seven times,
Last vs. New England
(11/15/09)
Receptions
10
9
7
7
7
10
4
4
1
3
2
0
LONG DIVISION
Rec. Yards
162
135
115
106
99
86
67
50
42
39
35
0
Colts Top Three Reception Leaders vs. AFC South Opponents
Vs. Texans
Player
Catches
Wayne
117
Harrison
80
Clark
71
WAYNE’S CAREER BEST GAMES
Receptions
15 at Jacksonville (10/3/10)
14 vs. Dallas (12/5/10)
13 vs. Green Bay (10/7/12)
Opponent
vs. Jacksonville
at Chicago
vs. New Orleans
at Houston
at Houston
vs. Chicago
at N.Y. Giants
at Baltimore
at New England
at Cleveland
at Jacksonville
vs. Buffalo
After finishing with eight receptions against Jacksonville in Week 3,
Reggie Wayne has accumulated 125 career catches against the
Jaguars, which is the most receptions by one Colts receiver against
any NFL team in club history. When looking at the rest of the AFC
South Division, Wayne also leads the franchise with 117 catches
against Houston and 97 receptions against Tennessee. He remains
three catches shy of topping 100 against the Titans, which will make
him one of eight NFL receivers to total 100-plus career catches
against three-or-more teams. Those who have reached the plateau
include: Tim Brown (four), Chris Carter (four), Andre Reed (four),
Art Monk (three), Jerry Rice (three), Rod Smith (three) and Hines
Ward (three).
RECEIVING LEADERS SINCE 2001
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
STARTING OFF STRONG
Reggie Wayne caught nine passes for 135 yards in Week 1
at Chicago, which marks his fourth career 100-yard receiving
game in a season-opener. His total of 135 yards is the second-most he’s ever recorded in a season opener, behind the
162 yards he posted against Jacksonville in 2009.
Listed below are Wayne’s career performances on Kickoff
Weekend:
Vs. Jaguars
Catches
Player
Wayne
125
Clark
54
Harrison
54
100-CLUB
Vs. Titans
Player
Catches
Wayne
97
Harrison
84
Clark
51
Wide receiver Reggie Wayne needs 39 receptions to become the
fourth player in NFL history with four 100-catch seasons in a career.
Wayne can join former teammate Marvin Harrison as well as Jerry
Rice and Wes Welker as the only players with four 100-reception
seasons
Reggie Wayne’s Top Reception Seasons
Year
Receptions
Yards
TD
2010
111
1,355
6
2007
104
1,510
10
2009
100
1,264
10
Receiving Avg. (Min. five receptions)
26.4 (five rec.) at Jacksonville (12/17/09)
24.4 (five rec.) vs. Carolina (11/27/11)
24.0 (seven rec.) at Carolina (10/28/07)
11
DWIGHT FREENEY NOTES
100-CLUB
#93
Outside Linebacker Dwight Freeney
6-1 - 268 Pounds - Syracuse
11th NFL Season
In 2011, outside linebacker Dwight Freeney became the 26th
player in NFL history to reach 100.0 sacks for his career and
has 104.5 for his career. The 11-year veteran is the franchise’s all-time sack leader, ranks fourth in the NFL among
active players and is currently 25th in league history.
• Named to seven Pro Bowls (2003-05, 2008-11).
• Became the 26th player in NFL history to top 100.0 career
sacks in 2011.
• Was the first member of the Colts to lead the league in
Below is a breakdown of Freeney’s quarterback takedowns:
sacks with 16.0 in 2004.
• Compiled a franchise record with nine consecutive games
with at least one sack dating from 2008-09.
• Has totaled quarterback takedowns in 78-of-155 career
games and 69-of-135 starts.
SACKING THE TOP
• Owns 25 career multiple-sack games.
Colts outside linebacker Dwight Freeney, the team’s all-time
leader in sacks, has 104.5 quarterback takedowns for his career. He remains the only player in franchise history with
seven double-digit sack seasons (2002-05, 08-10). Freeney
topped 100.0 career sacks with two he recorded against Baltimore in Week 14 last season and improved his multiplesack game total to 25. In 2004, he posted 16 sacks to
become the first Colts player to lead the NFL in the category.
Freeney earned a Pro Bowl berth for his performance in ‘04
and has nabbed the honor on six other occasions (‘03, ‘05,
‘08, ‘09, ‘10, ‘11).
• Has produced sacks against 52 different quarterbacks
• Has sacks against 27-of-31 NFL teams.
NFL Career Sack Leaders (Active Players)
119.0 John Abraham
112.0 Jared Allen
107.0 DeMarcus Ware
105.5 Julius Peppers
104.5 Dwight Freeney
Dwight Freeney’s Sacks By Opponent
15.5 Houston
13.0 Tennessee
10.0 Jacksonville
7.0
Cleveland
6.5
Cincinnati
5.5
Pittsburgh
5.0
Miami
4.0
Baltimore, Dallas
3.0
Minnesota, New England, N.Y. Jets,
Carolina
2.5
Arizona, Denver
2.0
Buffalo, Carolina, N.Y. Giants, San Diego,
San Francisco
1.5
Kansas City
1.0
Green Bay, Oakland, Philadelphia,
St. Louis, Seattle
0.5
Tampa Bay
0.0
Atlanta, Detroit, New Orleans, Washington
Indianapolis Colts All-Time Sack Leaders
Rank
Player
Sacks
1.
Dwight Freeney
104.5
2.
Robert Mathis
89.5
3.
Duane Bickett
50.0
FREENEY PRODUCES WINS
The Indianapolis Colts have witnessed much success when
Dwight Freeney is at his best on the defensive line. The team
holds an impressive 58-20 record when Freeney tallies at
least one sack and a 27-8 mark when he forces a fumble.
The records date back to his rookie season in 2002.
Freeney’s 104.5 sacks rank fourth in the NFL since 2002
while his 44 forced fumbles rank first. Teammate Robert
Mathis ranks second on the league’s list with 38 forced fumbles in his career.
Most Sacks in NFL from 2002-2012
Rank
Player
Sacks
1.
Jared Allen
112.0
2.
DeMarcus Ware
107.0
3.
Julius Peppers
105.5
4.
Dwight Freeney
104.5
FREENEY’S CAREER BEST GAMES
Sacks
3.0, three times
Last vs. Cincinnati (12/18/06)
Forced Fumbles
3, two times
Last vs. Cincinnati (12/18/06)
Fumble Recoveries
1, three times
Last vs. Atlanta (12/14/03)
Passes Defensed
2 vs. Jacksonville (9/18/05)
Most Forced Fumbles in NFL from 2002-2012
Rank
Player
FF
1.
Dwight Freeney
44
2.
Robert Mathis
38
3.
Jason Taylor
37
Julius Peppers
37
5.
John Abraham
33
12
ROBERT MATHIS NOTES
USE THE FORCE
Robert Mathis has totaled 89.5 career sacks in his 10-year
career with the Colts, which ranks second in club history behind Dwight Freeney’s 104.5. In 2005, he registered a sack
in 11-of-13 games and set an NFL record with sacks in eight
consecutive contests to start a season. Mathis has 20 multiple-sack games in his career and two three-plus sack games.
He had a streak of three consecutive multiple-sack games
in 2008 at San Diego (11/23), at Cleveland (11/30) and vs.
Cincinnati (12/7). Dating back to his rookie season in 2003,
Robert Mathis leads the Colts defense in forced fumbles with
38, topping his counterpart on the opposite end of the defensive line, Dwight Freeney who has 34. Dating back to ‘03,
Mathis has competed in four more games than Freeney. In
2011, both players combined for five forced fumbles as Indianapolis ranked tied for 10th in the NFL and tied for sixth in
the AFC with 14.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Dating back to the start of their careers, Robert Mathis and
Dwight Freeney have totaled 11 seasons with 10-plus sacks
combined. In four of those years (2004, ‘05, ‘08 and ‘10) both
recorded 10-plus sacks each.
Indianapolis Colts 10-Plus Sack Seasons (since 1982)
Player
Sack Total
Year
Dwight Freeney, DE
16.0
2004
Dwight Freeney, DE
13.5
2009
Dwight Freeney, DE
13.0
2002
Chad Bratzke, DE
12.0
1999
Robert Mathis, DE
11.5
2008
Robert Mathis, DE
11.5
2005
Johnie Cooks, LB
11.5
1984
Dwight Freeney, DE
11.0
2003
Dwight Freeney, DE
11.0
2005
Vernon Maxwell, LB
11.0
1983
Robert Mathis, DE
11.0
2010
Robert Mathis, DE
10.5
2004
Tony Bennett, LB
10.5
1995
Dan Footman, DE
10.5
1997
Dwight Freeney, DE
10.5
2008
Jon Hand, DE
10.0
1989
Dwight Freeney, DE
10.0
2010
Forced Fumbles
3 vs. Houston (11/14/04)
2, two times
Last vs. Seattle (10/4/09)
Fumble Recoveries
1, 14 times
Last at Jacksonville (1/1/12)
Passes Defensed
2 at New England (11/5/06)
#98
• Named to four Pro Bowls (2008-11).
• Ranks second in franchise history with 89.5 sacks behind
teammate Dwight Freeney (103.5).
• Has recorded four career 10.0-plus sack seasons, includ-
ing a team-leading 11.0 in 2010.
• Has compiled 20 multiple-sack games and two career
three-plus sack contests.
IN THE CLUTCH
Outside linebackers Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis always pose a threat considering the 181.0 combined sacks
between the two (starting in 2003, Mathis’ rookie year). The
combined sack total ranks first among a pair of teammates
in the NFL dating back to ‘03.
Both Freeney and Mathis have a knack for stepping up in
clutch situations, as the two have each recorded their highest
amount of sacks on third downs. In 2011, nine of the 18.0
sacks between the two players came on third down. Below
is a career sack listing by down for both players.
Dwight Freeney Career Sacks By Down
1st - 31.5
2nd - 30.0
3rd - 42.0
4th - 1.0
Total - 104.5
Robert Mathis Career Sacks By Down
1st - 28.5
2nd - 18.5
3rd - 41.5
4th - 1.0
Total - 89.5
MATHIS’ CAREER BEST GAMES
Sacks
3.0, two times
Last vs. Baltimore (10/12/08)
Outside Linebacker Robert Mathis
6-2 - 245 Pounds - Alabama A&M
10th NFL Season
13
ANDREW LUCK NOTES
RUSHING FOR TOUCHDOWNS
#12
Quarterback Andrew Luck
6-4 - 234 Pounds - Stanford
1st NFL Season
In Week 7 vs. Cleveland, Andrew Luck rushed for two touchdowns, which tied the franchise record for the most in a single game by a quarterback. Ricky Turner was the last Colts
quarterback to rush for two touchdowns in 1988.
• Has completed 190-of-336 passes for 2,404 yards, 10
touchdowns and eight interceptions for a rating of 79.0.
• Named PEPSI MAX NFL Rookie of the Week for Weeks
3, 5 and 8.
• Broke the NFL single game rookie record for most passing yards when he threw for 433 yards in Week 9 vs. Miami.
Player
Andrew Luck
Ricky Turner
Bert Jones
LUCK BREAKS ROOKIE RECORD
In Week 9 vs. Miami, Andrew Luck broke the NFL single
game rookie record by passing for 433 yards, while completing 30-of-48 passes and throwing two touchdowns. He
broke the previous record set by Cam Newton last year by
one yard (432). Below is a list of the top five single game performances by a rookie quarterback:
Player
Team
Andrew Luck
Colts
Cam Newton
Panthers
Ryan Tannehill
Dolphins
Cam Newton
Panthers
Matthew Stafford
Lions
Date
11/4/12
9/18/11
9/30/12
9/11/11
11/22/09
Passing Yards
433
432
431
422
422
Luck’s performance also ranked tied for third for the most
passing yards in a single game in Colts history. He only trails
Peyton Manning’s games of 472 yards and 440 yards.
Player
Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning
Andrew Luck
Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning
Date
10/31/04
9/25/00
11/4/12
9/12/10
12/5/04
Opponent Passing Yards
Chiefs
472
Jaguars
440
Dolphins
433
Texans
433
Titans
425
RECORD-SETTING PACE
Andrew Luck has thrown for the most passing yards by
a rookie in NFL history through the first eight games of
a season. In addition, three-of-the-four quarterbacks selected in the first round of this year’s NFL Draft are in the top
five for most passing yards through their respective team’s
first eight games.
Year
2012
2011
2012
1998
2012
Player
Att-Comp
Andrew Luck
190-336
Cam Newton
174-287
Brandon Weeden 165-299
Peyton Manning 161-292
Robert Griffin III 149-223
Yards
2,404
2,393
1,912
1,873
1,778
300-YARD GAMES
TD
10
11
9
11
8
INT
8
9
10
16
3
Team
Colts
Colts
Panthers
Year
2012
1998
2011
Opponent
Cleveland
Miami
N.Y. Jets
Rushing TD
2
2
2
Year
1974
2006
2001
2012
1988
1975
1994
2007
1955
1958
Games
11
16
16
6
15
14
9
16
12
10
Rushing TD
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
With the two touchdowns against the Browns, Luck now has
three rushing touchdowns for the season. With one more,
Luck will tie Bert Jones (1974) and Peyton Manning (2001
and 2006) for the most rushing touchdowns in a season by
a Colts quarterback.
Player
Bert Jones
Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning
Andrew Luck
Chris Chandler
Bert Jones
Don Majkowski
Peyton Manning
George Shaw
Johnny Unitas
ON THE MOVE
Andrew Luck has continually kept drives alive this season
not only with his arm, but also his legs. Luck leads all AFC
quarterbacks this season with 143 rushing yards. Of his 26
rushing attempts, Luck has converted 14 first downs and a
touchdown. Here’s how Luck compares to the top AFC quarterbacks in rushing yards this year:
Player
Team
Andrew Luck Colts
Matt Cassell Chiefs
Ryan Fitzpatrick Bills
Tim Tebow
Jets
Jake Locker Titans
Attempts
27
18
22
23
8
Yards First Downs
148
14
96
8
95
2
78
6
67
3
EARLY SUCCESS
Through the first nine weeks of the season, Andrew Luck led
the Colts to a 5-3 (.625) record. The .625 winning percentage marks the best winning percentage by a rookie quarterback who was a No. 1 overall pick through Week 9 in
NFL history.
Through the first six games this season, Andrew Luck threw
for 1,674 yards. Luck became the first rookie in NFL history to pass for over 1,500 yards and record at least
three wins in his team’s first six games.
Andrew Luck has thrown for 300 yards on four different occassions this year, tying him with Peyton Manning for the
most 300-yard passing games by a rookie. With one more
300-yard passing game, Luck will surpass Peyton Manning
for sole possession of first place.
Player
Andrew Luck
Peyton Manning
Cam Newton
Date
10/21/12
12/4/88
10/20/74
300-Yd Games
4
4
3
14
In addition, he threw for over 300 yards in three of the first
four games. Luck and Panthers QB-Cam Newton (2011)
are the only players in NFL history to pass for at least
300 yards in three of their first four career games.
ANDREW LUCK NOTES
PEPSI MAX ROOKIE OF THE WEEK TIMES 3
Andrew Luck was named the PEPSI MAX NFL Rookie of
the Week for games played on October 25-29. It marked
the third time he’s earned the award this season.
Luck completed 26-of-38 passes for 297 yards and one
touchdown in the air as the Colts beat the Tennessee Titans
19-13 in overtime. He was selected from among five finalists
through fan votes on NFL.com/rookies. The other finalists
were running back Vick Ballard of the Indianapolis Colts, running back Doug Martin of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, running back Trent Richardson of the Cleveland Browns and
safety Harrison Smith of the Minnesota Vikings.
the Week for games played on October 4-8. It marked the
second time he’s earned the award this season.
Luck threw for 362 yards on 31-of-55 attempts and two
touchdowns as the Colts beat the Green Bay Packers 30-27
in Week 5. The other finalists were punter Johnny Hekker of
the St. Louis Rams, linebacker Luke Kuechly of the Carolina
Panthers, wide receiver Rueben Randle of the New York Giants and quarterback Ryan Tannehill of the Miami Dolphins.
the Week for games played on September 20-24. He completed 22-of-46 passes for 313 yards and two touchdowns
in the Colts Week 3 contest against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The other finalists were wide receiver T.Y. Hilton of the Indianapolis Colts, running back Alfred Morris of the Washington
Redskins, kicker Blair Walsh of the Minnesota Vikings and
quarterback Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks.
DOWN BUT NOT OUT
Down 21-3 at halftime of the Week 5 vs. Green Bay contest,
Andrew Luck led his team to a 30-27 victory over the Packers. In doing so, Luck became the first rookie quarterback
to overcome an 18-plus point deficit to win a game since
Matthew Stafford of the Detroit Lions did on November
22, 2009.
During the NFL’s expansion era since 1960, only two other
rookie quarterbacks have overcome such a deficit: John
Elway (Broncos vs. Colts, 1983) and Vince Young (Titans
vs. Giants, 2006).
DRIVING IN SEPTEMBER
With 31 seconds remaining in the game against Minnesota
in Week 2, Andrew Luck led the Colts on a four-play, 45-yard
drive in 19 seconds. Adam Vinatieri then kicked the 53-yard
game-winning field goal leaving eight seconds remaining in
regulation.
Luck became the first NFL rookie quarterback to lead a
game-winning drive in the final minute of the fourth
quarter in the month of September since Archie Manning
did on September 19, 1971.
15
OFF TO A FAST START
In nearly 60 years of action for the
Colts, only six rookie quarterbacks
have earned the opportunity to lead
the team onto the field in Week 1.
Andrew Luck threw for 309 yards
in Week 1 at Chicago, which is
the highest total by a Colts
rookie quarterback in his franchise debut. In addition, entering
the season, only two rookie quarterbacks in NFL history had passed for
at least 300 yards on Kickoff Weekend: Peyton Manning (302 yards, 1998) and Cam Newton
(422 yards, 2011). That total was matched when Luck and
Washington’s Robert Griffin III (320 yards) accomplished the
feat.
Year Result
2012 L
1998 L
1990 L
1955 W
1982 L
1973 L
Player
Att-Comp
Andrew Luck 23-45
Peyton Manning 21-37
Jeff George
13-24
George Shaw
7-12
Mike Pagel
7-15
Bert Jones
6-22
Yards TDs INTs
309
1
3
302
1
3
160
1
0
97
1
0
71
0
1
56
1
1
ADAM VINATIERI NOTES
STILL GOT IT
#4
Adam Vinatieri converted three-of-three field goals against
Minnesota in Week 2, including the game-winning 53-yarder
with eight seconds remaining in the game. The 53-yard field
goal was Vinatieri’s longest game-winning field goal of
the 24 he’s made in the last minute of the fourth quarter
or in overtime. The 17-year veteran is now 10 field goals
shy of becoming the eighth player in NFL history with 400
made field goals.
AT THE BUZZER...
Now in his 17th NFL season, Adam Vinatieri holds an 82.6
career field goal percentage having converted 400-of-484
kicks. His total currently ranks 11th all-time in the NFL in the
category.
Kicker Adam Vinatieri
6-0- 206 Pounds - South Dakota State
17th NFL Season
• Two-time Pro Bowl selection in 2002 and 2004.
• Only kicker in NFL history to record successful field goals
in four Super Bowls (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX and XLI) and
is the only kicker in league history to have played in five.
• Has converted 403-of-489 career field goals for an 82.4
percentage, which ranks 11th all-time.
• Has totaled 1,813 career points (including one two-point
conversion), which ranks ninth in league history and first
among active players in the AFC
AMONG THE BEST
Below is a look at the 24 victories in which Adam Vinatieri
has kicked game-winning field goals in the final minute of the
fourth quarter or overtime.
Opponent
vs. Jacksonville
vs. NY Jets
at New Orleans
vs. San Francisco
at NY Jets
vs. Indianapolis
vs. Cincinnati
at Buffalo
vs. San Diego
at Buffalo
vs. Oakland
vs. St. Louis
vs. Kansas City
vs. Miami
at Houston
vs. Carolina
at Pittsburgh
vs. Atlanta
at Denver
vs. Kansas City
at Minnesota
at San Diego
vs. Tennessee
vs. Minnesota
Date
Yards
9/22/96
40
9/14/97
34
10/4/98
27
12/20/98
35
9/12/99
23
9/19/99
26
11/19/00
22
12/17/00
24
10/14/01
44
12/16/01
23
1/19/02
23
2/ 3/02
48
9/22/02
35
12/29/02
35
11/23/03
28
2/1/04
41
9/25/05
43
10/ 9/05
29
10/29/06
37
11/18/07
24
9/14/08
47
11/23/08
51
1/ 2/11
43
9/16/12
53
Time
12:24
06:57
00:03
00:03
00:03
00:35
00:03
00:19
10:55
09:15
06:31
00:00
10:20
12:57
00:40
00:04
00:01
00:17
00:02
00:03
00:03
00:00
00:00
00:08
Score
28-25 OT
27-24 OT
30-27
24-21
30-28
31-28
16-13
13-10 OT
29-26 OT
12- 9 OT
16-13 OT
20-17+
41-38 OT
27-24 OT
23-20 OT
32-29#
23-20
31-28
34-31
13-10
18-15
23-20
23-20
23-20
Vinatieri has totaled 1,813 career points (including one twopoint conversion in 1998), which ranks ninth in the NFL. In
2011, he surpassed Nick Lowery (1,711) for the ninth spot.
With four field goals made against Houston in the second to
last week of the 2011 campaign, Vinatieri also moved past
Lowery (383) for the eighth spot on the league’s all-time field
goals made list.
INTO THE HUNDREDS
Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri has recorded a streak of 138 consecutive regular season games in which he has scored at
least one point. The streak dates back to September 14,
2003 in a contest at Philadelphia where he totaled one field
goal and added four extra points. Since the streak, Vinatieri
has been part of one Super Bowl championship, earned one
Pro Bowl nomination and has totaled nine game-winning field
goals.
*All FGs 1996-2005 came while with New England
+Super Bowl XXXVI
#Super Bowl XXXVIII
ACTIVE IN THE AFC
Now in his 17th NFL season, Adam Vinatieri has accumulated 1,802 points as a member of New England and Indianapolis. With his current total, he leads the entire AFC in
scoring among active players.
Player
Adam Vinatieri, Ind.
Sebastian Janikowski, Oak.
Phil Dawson, Cle.
Seasons
17 (1996-2012)
13 (2000-2012)
14 (1999-2012)
NFL’S Most Accurate Kickers in the Regular Season
(Minimum 100 FGM)
Pct.
Name
FGM
FGA
87.0
Nate Kaeding
180
207
86.5
Mike Vanderjagt
230
266
86.0
Robbie Gould
203
236
86.0
Shayne Graham
227
264
86.0
Rob Bironas
202
235
84.5
Stephen Gostkowski
158
187
84.3
Matt Bryant
220
261
84.0
Phil Dawson
293
349
83.7
Matt Stover
471
563
83.2
Ryan Longwell
361
434
82.4
Adam Vinatieri
403
489
VINATIERI’S CAREER BEST GAMES
Field Goals Made
5, Two Times
Last vs. Buffalo (11/14/04)
Field Goal Attempts
6 vs. Jacksonville (9/22/96)
5, Five Times
Last vs. Houston (12/22/11)
Extra Points Made
6, Five Times
Last at Baltimore (12/9/07)
Extra Points Attempted
6, Five Times
Last at Baltimore (12/9/07)
Longest Field Goal
57 at Chicago (11/10/02)
55 at St. Louis (12/13/98)
54 vs. Cleveland (12/9/01)
Points
1,813
1,342
1,216
16
ADAM VINATIERI NOTES
Opponents
VINATIERI VS. NFL
Home (With Patriots)
FG-FGA
18-28
20-23
0-0
16-17
Home (With Colts)
FG-FGA
1-1
5-7
3-4
1-1
Home (Total)
FG-FGA
19-29
25-30
3-4
17-18
Road
FG-FGA
11-19
14-16
3-5
21-23
Total
FG-FGA
30-48
39-46
6-9
38-41
5-5
3-3
5-8
3-3
1-1
5-5
5-5
2-2
6-6
8-8
9-12
5-5
4-4
2-3
4-6
9-10
10-10
11-12
14-19
14-15
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Tennessee
0-0
14-15
7-8
3-5
15-16
0-0
4-6
9-9
15-16
14-15
10-12
12-14
9-13
11-11
10-12
11-14
24-29
25-26
21-26
23-28
Denver
Kansas City
Oakland
San Diego
2-3
9-10
1-1
6-8
1-1
7-6
0-0
0-0
3-4
16-19
1-1
6-8
15-18
3-5
5-6
4-7
16-20
19-24
6-7
10-15
Dallas
New York Giants
Philadelphia
Washington
4-4
4-5
0-0
3-4
0-0
1-1
1-1
3-3
4-4
5-6
1-1
6-7
2-2
5-5
5-6
3-6
6-6
10-11
6-7
9-13
Chicago
Detroit
Green Bay
Minnesota
1-1
0-0
2-2
1-2
2-2
1-1
0-0
3-3
3-3
1-1
2-2
4-5
5-6
5-5
0-1
3-4
8-9
6-6
2-3
7-9
Atlanta
Carolina
New Orleans
Tampa Bay
1-1
0-0
1-2
1-2
0-0
1-1
2-2
2-2
1-1
1-1
3-4
3-4
3-3
3-3
3-3
1-2
4-4
4-4
6-7
4-6
Arizona
St. Louis
San Francisco
Seattle
1-2
1-1
1-2
3-3
0-0
0-0
0-0
2-2
1-2
1-1
1-2
3-3
4-5
8-8
0-0
0-0
5-7
9-9
1-2
3-3
136-168
81.0
81-90
90.0
216-257
84.0
186-231
80.5
403-489
82.4
Buffalo
Miami
New England
New York Jets
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Totals
Percentage
Opponents
Home (w/ Patriots)
Home (w/ Colts)
Away
Totals
0-19
3-3
2-2
4-4
9-9
20-29
53-54
23-23
71-75
147-152
30-39
39-47
30-32
56-73
125-152
17
40-49
36-56
21-24
50-66
107-146
50+
5-8
5-9
5-13
15-30
Totals
136-168
78-85
186-231
403-489
Pct.
81.0
91.8
80.5
82.4
REDDING, BETHEA & POWERS NOTES
Defensive End
Cory Redding
6-4- 315 Pounds - Texas
10th NFL Season
Safety
Antoine Bethea
5-11 - 196 Pounds - Howard
7th NFL Season
#90 #41
A LEADER ON THE LINE
Cory Redding is in his 10th NFL
season and first as a member of
the Colts. In 138 career games
(108 starts), he has totaled 429
tackles (289 solo), 27.5 sacks, one
interception, 10 fumble recoveries,
four forced fumbles and 15 passes
defensed. He compiled a string of
66 consecutive starts from 2004-08
with the Detroit Lions as well as
being named a team captain for the Lions in 2006-07.
He is currently one of the top 15 most tenured defensive
ends in the league with 138 games played. Arizona’s Vonnie
Holliday tops the list with 207 games played in 15 seasons
(1998-2012). Dating back to his second year in the NFL
(2004), Redding has only missed six games (one game per
season from 2009-11 and three games in 2008).
In 2012, Redding has totaled 22 tackles (10 solo), two sacks
and three passes defensed. In Week 5 against Green Bay,
Redding recorded his third career multi-sack game.
Cornerback
Jerraud Powers
5-10- 187 Pounds - Auburn
4th NFL Season
#25
POWERS IN THE SECONDARY
Since being selected by the Colts in the third round of the
2009 NFL Draft, Jerraud Powers has stepped in and made
an immediate impact. Over the past four seasons, Powers
has started in all 42 games he’s played in and totaled 220
tackles (165 solo), 31 passes defensed and six interceptions
for 31 return yards and a touchdown. During that span, Powers leads the team in passes defensed and interceptions.
In Week 5 against Green Bay, Powers intercepted his first
pass of the season on the first drive of the second half. The
turnover led to a touchdown and the beginning of the Colts
27-point second half.
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MR. DEPENDABLE
As a sixth-round draft pick in 2006 by the Colts, Antoine
Bethea was quickly inserted into the lineup and has started
all 99 games he has participated in dating back to his rookie
campaign. The Savannah, Georgia native has totaled 754
tackles, 12 interceptions, 40 passes defensed, five forced
fumbles, three fumble recoveries and half of a sack. Bethea
has also earned two Pro Bowl nominations (2007, ‘09) in his
tenure with the team.
Along with topping 100-plus tackles for the last four years,
Bethea has also paced the Colts in interceptions over the
last six seasons since he took over the starting role. Below
is a look at Bethea’s leading numbers over the course of his
career:
Bethea’s Tackle Totals
2011 - 139 (80 solo)
2010 - 106 (77 solo)
2009 - 120 (75 solo)
2008 - 126 (83 solo)
Colts Interception Leaders (2006-12)
1. Antoine Bethea 12
2. Kelvin Hayden
9
3. Melvin Bullitt
7
4. Jerraud Powers 6
In 2011, Bethea accumulated
139 tackles (80 solo), which
ranked second on the team
and ninth in the NFL while
adding seven passes defensed, two forced fumbles
and one fumble recovery.
With 10 tackles against Jacksonville in the season finale,
Bethea set a new career-high
in stops with 139. He also set
a new career-high in passes
defensed (seven) after totaling his last in Week 14 vs.
Baltimore. In each of the last four seasons, he has topped
the 100-tackle plateau.
Date
Opponent
9/16
MINNESOTA
9/23
JACKSONVILLE
10/7
GREEN BAY
10/14
9/9
at Chicago
SCHEDULE NOTES
All-Time Series Home/Road Record Note/Result
22-19
R: 11-10
15-7-1
H:10-0
15-8
H: 8-4
21-20-1
H: 13-8-1
at N.Y. Jets
40-27
A: 21-13
10/21
CLEVELAND
13-14
H: 6-9
10/28
at Tennessee
22-13
A: 9-7
11/4
MIAMI
25-44
H:14-21
11/8
at Jacksonville
15-7
A: 7-4
11/18
at New England
28-44
A: 12-24
11/25
BUFFALO
30-35-1
H:17-14-1
12/2
at Detroit
20-18-2
A: 9-9-1
12/9
TENNESSEE
21-13
H: 13-6
12/16
at Houston
17-3
A: 7-3
12/23
at Kansas City
10-8
A: 5-4
12/30
HOUSTON
17-3
H: 10-0
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L, 41-21: QB-Andrew Luck threw for 309 yards, the
most ever by a Colts rookie in his debut. ILB-Jerrell
Freeman returned an INT for a TD. WR-Reggie
Wayne had nine catches for 135 yards.
W, 23-20: The Colts won their fourth straight game
against the Vikings and improved to 10-0 at home alltime against Minnesota, as Adam Vinatieri hit a
game-winning field goal with eight seconds remaining.
L, 22-17: The Colts lost their third straight game to
Jacksonville dating back to last season. After an
Adam Vinatieri 37-yard field goal, the Colts led 17-16
with 56 seconds remaining, but Blaine Gabbert completed an 80-yard touchdown pass to Cecil Shorts on
the next play to win the game for the Jaguars.
W, 30-27: WR-Reggie Wayne had 13 receptions for
a career-high 212 yards and a touchdown. QB-Andrew Luck became first rookie QB to overcome 18plus-point deficit since Matthew Stafford in 2009.
L, 35-9: The Colts lost to the Jets in their first trip to
MetLife Stadium. It marked their third straight regular
season loss to the Jets. RB-Shonn Greene led the
Jets with 161 rushing yards and three touchdowns.
W, 17-13: QB-Andrew Luck became the third quarterback in Colts history to rush for two touchdowns in
a single game. The Colts generated a season-high
148 rushing yards.
W, 19-13: The Colts won their first road game since
2010. RB-Vick Ballard scored the game-winning
touchdown in overtime.
W, 23-20: QB-Andrew Luck broke the NFL single
game rookie record by throwing for 433 yards. WRT.Y. Hilton and WR-Donnie Avery each notched
their second 100-yard receiving game of the season.
The Colts have not won in Jacksonville since 2009, a
35-31 win. The Colts had a two-game winning streak
going into the finale last season, but were unable to
overcome the 19-6 fourth-quarter deficit.
At 72 regular season meetings, the Colts have
played the Patriots more than they’ve played any
other team. This will mark the 10th straight season
the two teams have gone up against each other.
Since the 2000 season, the Colts have gone 6-1
against the Bills. Buffalo will make its first-ever trip to
Lucas Oil Stadium.
The Colts will look to add to their three-game winning
streak over the Lions. With a victory, the Colts would
tie their longest winning streak over Detroit.
The Colts picked up their first win of the 2011 season
at home against the Titans. The Colts have won their
last four home games against Tennessee.
The Colts have lost two consecutive games in Houston after going 7-1 the previous eight seasons.
The Colts have won 10 of the last 12 games against
the Chiefs. Last season, the Colts were unable to
hold a 24-7 lead, as they fell, 28-24.
The Colts will look to remain perfect on their 10-0
home record against the Texans. Last season, the
Colts scored a touchdown with 0:19 remaining in regulation for their second win of the season.
COLTS COMMUNITY NOTES
COLTS COMMUNITY TUESDAY
UPCOMING COLTS IN THE COMMUNITY EVENTS
RICHARD L. ROUDEBUSH VA MEDICAL CENTER VISIT
For the third consecutive year, the Indianapolis Colts will work
with local students to decorate 200 Colts footballs and place
them in care packages for delivery to veterans at the Richard L.
Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis, Ind. This year,
the Colts are partnering with Harrison College to engage students from Metropolitan High School, as well as Harrison College students and employees, in the project.
On Monday, November 5, Colts players and Community
Spokesperson Josh Bleill will visit Metropolitan High School from
10-11 a.m. to help the students and Harrison College employees
decorate 200 footballs with messages of thanks. The footballs
will then be placed in care packages and delivered to veterans
by students and players from 1 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. that afternoon at the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center.
WHAT:
Veterans Care Package AssemblyCare Package Delivery
TIME:
10 – 11 a.m.1 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE:
Metropolitan High School
1635 West Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46222
Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center
1481 West 10th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
HORSESHOE HELPINGS: FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS
PRESENTED BY US FOODS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012 AT LUCAS OIL STADIUM
COLTS SIGNATURE THANKSGIVING FOOD DISTRIBUTION EVENT FOR 2,000 PRE-SELECTED NEEDY FAMILIES
BLEED BLUE BLOOD DRIVE AND HEALTH FAIR
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2012 AT LUCAS OIL STADIUM
WHO:
Colts players, Community Spokesperson and Iraq War Veteran
Josh Bleill, 40 students and Harrison College employees
Colts players, 4 high school students, 2 Harrison College students
SALUTE TO SERVICE FUNDRAISING
The NFL has made a commitment to donate $300 for each point
scored during the 32 dedicated Salute to Service games (one
per NFL club). The donation will be split equally between the Pat
Tillman Foundation, USO and Wounded Warrior Project.
In addition, game-used camouflage items will be collected from
each NFL following Salute to Service games and auctioned on
NFL Auction (nfl.com/auction) with 100% of net proceeds donated to the league’s core military non-profit partners mentioned
above.
ABOUT SALUTE TO SERVICE
The National Football League will continue its long history of
honoring veterans and active duty members of the military with
its new annual “Salute to Service” campaign that will occur each
November. The “Salute to Service” campaign is designed to
unify and elevate the extensive military appreciation work of the
NFL and its clubs. Throughout November, teams will designate
home games as special military appreciation games. During
these games, teams will display “Salute to Service” banners on
their sidelines, in addition to hosting ceremonies to honor the
service and sacrifice of our nation’s troops.
The “Salute to Service” campaign aligns with the NFL’s long history of supporting America’s armed services, including a partnership of more than 45 years with the USO that includes
overseas visits to troops and trips to military hospitals nationwide.
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8 A.M. – 4 P.M. | HEALTH FAIR: 9 A.M. – 3 P.M.
INDIANA’S LARGEST SINGLE-DAY BLOOD DRIVE.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – A FUND DAY FOR
THE ENTIRE FAMILY!
WWW.COLTS.COM/BLEEDBLUE
COLTS UNOFFICIAL DEPTH CHART
Underlined = Rookie in 2012
13 T.Y. Hilton
WR
87 Reggie Wayne
LT
74 Anthony Castonzo
60 Bradley Sowell
LG
72 Jeff Linkenbach
76 Joe Reitz
C
64 Samson Satele
62 A.Q. Shipley
RG
75 Mike McGlynn
78 Tony Hills
RT
69 Winston Justice
TE
80 Coby Fleener
85 Weslye Saunders
WR
11 Donnie Avery
15 LaVon Brazill
QB
12 Andrew Luck
5 Drew Stanton
F
83 Dwayne Allen
RB
31 Donald Brown
DE
90 Cory Redding
NT
99 Antonio Johnson
68 Martin Tevaseu
DT
95 Fili Moala
94 Drake Nevis
SLB
98 Robert Mathis
92 Jerry Hughes
Mike
53 Kavell Conner
54 Mario Harvey
Will
50 Jerrell Freeman
58 Moise Fokou
Rush
93 Dwight Freeney
55 Justin Hickman
LCB
23 Vontae Davis
32 Cassius Vaughn
SS
28 Tom Zbikowski
38 Sergio Brown
FS
41 Antoine Bethea
35 Joe Lefeged
RCB
25 Jerraud Powers
27 Josh Gordy
33 Vick Ballard
91 Ricardo Mathews
10 Nathan Palmer
34 Delone Carter
29 Robert Hughes
67 Lawrence Guy
66 Clifton Geathers
51 Pat Angerer
20 Darius Butler
30 Marshay Green
P
1 Pat McAfee
PK
4 Adam Vinatieri
H
1 Pat McAfee
1 Pat McAfee
LS
45 Matt Overton
KR
13 T.Y. Hilton
15 LaVon Brazill
35 Joe Lefeged
PR
13 T.Y. Hilton
15 LaVon Brazill
28 Tom Zbikowski
Colts Pronunciations
DB - Antoine Bethea (buh-THAY)
RB - Delone Carter (deh-LON)
ILB - Moise Fokou (Moses) (FOE-koo)
DB - Joe Lefeged (lah-FEJ)
DT - Fili Moala (FEE-lee) (Muh-wa-luh)
DT - Drake Nevis (NEVV-iss)
DB - Jerraud Powers (juh-ROD)
OT - Joe Reitz (Rights)
C - Samson Satele (saw-tell-EE)
T - Bradley Sowell (SAUW-ul)
NT - Martin Tevaseu (tay-vay-SAY-eww)
K - Adam Vinatieri (vin-uh-TARE-ee)
S - Tom Zbikowski (Zi-buh-kow-ski)
21
No Name
Pos
12 Andrew Luck
QB
5
Drew Stanton
QB
COLTS PLAYERS BY POSITION
HT
6-4
6-3
WT Exp College
234 R Stanford
243 6 Michigan State
No Name
Pos
33 Vick Ballard
RB
31 Donald Brown
RB
34 Delone Carter
RB
29 Robert Hughes
FB
HT
5-10
5-10
5-9
5-11
WT Exp College
217 R Mississippi State
210 4 Connecticut
238 2 Syracuse
235 1 Notre Dame
No Name
Pos
11 Donnie Avery
WR
15 LaVon Brazill
WR
13 T.Y. Hilton
WR
10 Nathan Palmer
WR
87 Reggie Wayne
WR
HT
5-11
5-11
5-9
5-11
6-0
WT
200
191
183
195
198
No Name
83 Dwayne Allen
80 Coby Fleener
85 Weslye Saunders
HT
6-3
6-6
6-5
WT Exp College
255 R Clemson
252 R Stanford
270 2 South Carolina
Pos
TE
TE
TE
No Name
Pos
79 Justin Anderson*
G
74 Anthony Castonzo
T
78 Tony Hills
T
69 Winston Justice
T
72 Jeff Linkenbach
T
75 Mike McGlynn
G
76 Joe Reitz
G
64 Samson Satele
C
62 A.Q. Shipley
C
60 Bradley Sowell
T
HT
6-5
6-7
6-5
6-6
6-6
6-4
6-7
6-3
6-1
6-7
Exp College
5 Houston
R Ohio
R Florida International
R Northern Illinois
12 Miami
WT Exp College
342 R Georgia
315 2 Boston College
304 5 Texas
317 7 USC
323 3 Cincinnati
327 5 Pittsburgh
322 2 W. Michigan
299 6 Hawaii
309 1 Penn State
320 R Mississippi
11/5/2012
No Name
Pos
61 Josh Chapman^
NT
66 Clifton Geathers
DE
67 Lawrence Guy
DE
99 Antonio Johnson
NT
91 Ricardo Mathews
DT
95 Fili Moala
DE
94 Drake Nevis
DT
90 Cory Redding
DE
68 Martin Tevaseu
NT
HT
6-0
6-7
6-4
6-3
6-3
6-4
6-1
6-4
6-2
WT
316
325
300
310
310
310
310
315
325
No Name
51 Pat Angerer
53 Kavell Conner
58 Moise Fokou
50 Jerrell Freeman
93 Dwight Freeney
54 Mario Harvey
55 Justin Hickman
92 Jerry Hughes
98 Robert Mathis
HT
6-0
6-0
6-1
6-0
6-1
6-0
6-2
6-2
6-2
WT Exp College
236 3 Iowa
243 3 Clemson
236 4 Maryland
234 1 Mary Hardin-Baylor
268 11 Syracuse
264 1 Marshall
258 1 UCLA
254 3 TCU
245 10 Alabama A&M
No Name
Pos
41 Antoine Bethea
S
38 Sergio Brown
S
20 Darius Butler
CB
23 Vontae Davis
CB
27 Josh Gordy
CB
30 Marshay Green
CB
35 Joe Lefeged
S
25 Jerraud Powers
CB
32 Cassius Vaughn
CB
28 Tom Zbikowski
S
HT
5-11
6-2
5-10
5-11
5-11
5-10
6-0
5-10
5-11
5-11
WT
196
210
185
205
195
175
205
187
195
200
No Name
1
Pat McAfee
45 Matt Overton
4
Adam Vinatieri
HT
6-1
6-1
6-0
WT Exp College
220 4 West Virginia
254 1 Western Michigan
206 17 S. Dakota State
Pos
ILB
ILB
ILB
ILB
OLB
ILB
OLB
OLB
OLB
Pos
P
LS
K
Exp College
R Alabama
2 South Carolina
2 Arizona State
6 Mississippi State
3 Cincinnati
4 USC
2 LSU
10 Texas
2 UNLV
Exp College
7 Howard
3 Notre Dame
4 Connecticut
4 Illinois
2 Central Michigan
2 Mississippi
2 Rutgers
4 Auburn
3 Mississippi
5 Notre Dame
*Physically Unable to Perform; ^ Non-Football Injury
COACHING STAFF
HEAD COACH: Chuck Pagano
Bruce Arians (Offensive Coordinator), Greg Manusky (Defensive Coordinator), Marwan Maalouf (Special Teams Coordinator),
Roy Anderson (Safeties Coach), (James Bettcher (Special Assistant to Head Coach), Brant Boyer (Assistant Special Teams Coach),
Clyde Christensen (Quarterbacks Coach), Gary Emanuel (Defensive Line Coach), Jeff FitzGerald (Linebackers Coach),
Joe Gilbert (Assistant Offensive Line Coach), Mike Gillhamer (Secondary Coach), Frank Giufre (Offensive Quality Control Coach),
Harold Goodwin (Offensive Line Coach), Richard Howell (Assistant Strength & Conditioning), Roger Marandino (Strength & Conditioning),
Alfredo Roberts (Tight Ends Coach), David Walker (Running Backs Coach), Brad White (Defensive Quality Control Coach),
22
Date
Opponent
81
97
40
83
79
51
78
11
33
41
15
31
57
38
59
20
34
74
61
17
53
23
97
52
66
80
58
50
93
66
27
36
30
67
8
54
55
65
78
13
92
29
71
67
99
29
46
69
21
35
42
72
12
56
91
98
1
75
96
86
95
14
26
94
73
45
10
60
25
90
76
85
64
85
62
57
60
5
68
32
4
87
67
84
28
Adams, Kris
Addison, Mario
Alexander, Alvester
Allen, Dwyane
Anderson, Justin
Angerer, Pat
Anunoby, Chigbo
Avery, Donnie
Ballard, Vick
Bethea, Antoine
Brazill, LaVon
Brown, Donald
Brown, Jerry
Brown, Sergio
Bryant, D.J.
Butler, Darius
Carter, Delone
Castonzo, Anthony
Chapman, Josh
Collie, Austin
Conner, Kavell
Davis, Vontae
Dixon, Antonio
Edds, A.J.
Essex, Trai
Fleener, Coby
Fokou, Moise
Freeman, Jerrell
Freeney, Dwight
Geathers, Clifton
Gordy, Josh
Green, Isaiah
Green, Marshay
Guy, Lawrence
Harnish, Chandler
Harvey, Mario
Hickman, Justin
Hicks, Hayworth
Hills, Tony
Hilton, T.Y.
Hughes, Jerry
Hughes, Robert
Ijalana, Ben
Jean-Baptiste, Nicolas
Johnson, Antonio
Johnson, D.J.
Jones, Dominique
Justice, Winston
King, Justin
Lefeged, Joe
Lindsey, Korey
Linkenbach, Jeff
Luck, Andrew
Lutrus, Scott
Mathews, Ricardo
Mathis, Robert
McAfee, Pat
McGlynn, Mike
McKinney, Brandon
Miller, Kyle
Moala, Fili
Moore, Kashif
Moore, Mewelde
Nevis, Drake
Olsen, Seth
Overton, Matt
Palmer, Nathan
Person, Mike
Powers, Jerraud
Redding, Cory
Reitz, Joe
Sambrano, Jabin
Satele, Samson
Saunders, Weslye
Shipley, A.Q.
Simmons, Monte
Sowell, Bradley
Stanton, Drew
Tevaseu, Martin
Vaughn, Cassius
Vinatieri, Adam
Wayne, Reggie
Weems, Darrion
Whalen, Griff
Zbikowski, Tom
9/9
@Chi
COLTS PARTICIPATION CHART
9/16
Min
9/23
Jax
10/7
GB
10/14
@NYJ
10/21
Cle
10/28
@Ten
11/4
Mia
11/8
@Jaz
11/18
@NE
11/25
Buf
12/2
@Det
12/9
Ten
12/16
@Hou
12/23
@KC
P
P
P
X
PS
PS
PS
PS
P
P
P
PS
X
X
X
X
PS
PS
PS
PS
X
X
X
PS
TE
F
F
TE
TE
TE
FB
F
PUP
PUP
PUP
PUP
PUP
PUP
PUP
PUP
IA
IA
IA
IA
IA
P
P
P
PS
PS
X
X
X
X
X
X
WR
WR
WR
WR
WR
WR
WR
WR
P
P
P
P
RB
RB
RB
RB
FS
FS
FS
FS
FS
FS
FS
FS
P
DNP
P
P
P
P
P
P
RB
RB
RB
RB
IA
IA
P
P
PS
PS
PS
PS
P
X
X
X
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
X
X
X
X
PS
X
X
X
X
X
X
P
P
IA
IA
P
IA
IA
IA
P
P
P
P
P
LT
LT
LT
LT
LT
LT
LT
LT
NFI
NFI
NFI
NFI
NFI
NFI
NFI
NFI
IA
IA
P
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
MIKE MIKE MIKE MIKE MIKE MIKE MIKE MIKE
LCB
LCB
LCB
IA
DNP
LCB
LCB
IA
X
X
X
X
P
P
IA
X
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
X
P
P
X
X
X
X
X
TE
TE
TE
TE
TE
P
TE
IA
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
WILL WILL WILL WILL WILL WILL WILL WILL
RUSH
IA
IA
RUSH RUSH RUSH RUSH RUSH
X
X
X
PS
P
P
P
IA
P
P
IA
P
P
P
P
P
X
X
X
X
PS
PS
PS
PS
X
X
X
PS
PS
PS
PS
IA
X
X
X
X
X
P
IA
IA
IA
IA
IA
IA
IA
PS
PS
PS
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
PS
PS
PS
PS
PS
PS
PS
PS
X
X
PS
P
P
TE
IA
IA
IA
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
RUSH RUSH
P
SLB
SLB
SLB
P
X
X
X
X
PS
PS
PS
P
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
X
X
PS
X
X
X
X
X
NT
NT
NT
NT
NT
NT
NT
NT
PS
PS
PS
X
X
X
X
X
F
P
P
P
PS
X
X
X
RT
IA
RT
RT
RT
RT
RT
RT
P
P
P
IA
X
X
X
X
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
IR
IR
IR
X
X
X
X
X
P
RT
P
LG
LG
LG
LG
P
QB
QB
QB
QB
QB
QB
QB
QB
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
P
P
P
P
P
DE
P
P
SLB
SLB
SLB
SLB
IA
IA
IA
SLB
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
RG
RG
RG
RG
RG
RG
RG
RG
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
PS
PS
PS
PS
PS
PS
PS
PS
DT
DT
DT
DT
IA
IA
IA
DT
PS
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
P
P
P
IA
P
P
P
X
P
P
P
P
DT
DT
DT
P
LG
LG
LG
IA
IR
IR
IR
IR
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
X
X
X
P
P
P
IA
IA
IA
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
RCB
RCB
RCB
RCB
RCB
RCB
RCB
RCB
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
IA
DE
DE
IA
IA
IA
IA
IA
IA
P
LG
IR
IR
X
X
X
X
X
X
C
C
C
DNP
C
C
C
C
X
X
X
X
X
P
P
TE
P
PS
PS
C
P
P
P
P
X
X
X
X
X
X
PS
PS
X
P
IA
P
P
P
P
P
DNP
DNP
DNP
DNP
DNP
DNP
DNP
DNP
P
P
P
P
IA
IA
P
P
P
P
P
LCB
LCB
P
P
LCB
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
WR
WR
WR
WR
WR
WR
WR
PS
PS
X
X
X
X
X
X
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
IR
SS
SS
SS
SS
SS
SS
SS
SS
KEY: POSITION - start, P - played, IA - inactive, IR - injured reserve, DNP - did not play, PS - practice squad, X - not with team, PUP - physically unable to perform, NFI - non-football injury
SUS- suspended player
23
12/30
Hou
TOTALS
GP/GS/DNP/IA
3/0/0/0
3/0/0/0
0/0/0/0
8/8/0/0
0/0/0/0
3/0/0/5
0/0/0/0
8/8/0/0
8/4/0/0
8/8/0/0
7/0/1/0
6/4/0/2
1/0/0/0
8/0/0/0
0/0/0/0
3/0/0/2
5/0/0/3
8/8/0/0
0/0/0/0
1/0/0/2
8/8/0/0
5/5/1/2
2/0/0/1
0/0/0/0
2/0/0/0
7/6/0/1
8/0/0/0
8/8/0/0
6/6/0/2
3/0/0/1
8/0/0/0
0/0/0/0
0/0/0/1
1/0/0/2
0/0/0/5
8/0/0/0
8/0/0/0
0/0/0/0
3/1/0/2
7/0/0/1
8/5/0/0
1/0/0/0
0/0/0/0
0/0/0/0
8/8/0/0
0/0/0/0
4/1/0/0
7/7/0/1
3/0/0/0
8/0/0/0
0/0/0/0
8/5/0/0
8/8/0/0
0/0/0/0
8/1/0/0
5/5/0/3
8/0/0/0
8/8/0/0
0/0/0/0
0/0/0/0
5/5/0/3
0/0/0/0
6/0/0/1
8/3/0/0
3/3/0/1
8/0/0/0
3/0/0/2
0/0/0/0
8/8/0/0
7/7/0/1
2/1/0/6
0/0/0/0
7/7/1/0
3/1/0/0
6/1/0/0
0/0/0/0
6/0/0/1
0/0/8/0
8/0/0/0
8/3/0/0
8/0/0/0
8/7/0/0
0/0/0/0
0/0/0/0
8/8/0/0
YEAR
2001
DRAFTEES
HOW THE COLTS WERE BUILT
FREE AGENTS
TRADES/WAIVERS
Reggie Wayne (1)
2002
Dwight Freeney (1)
2003
Robert Mathis (5)
2006
Antoine Bethea (6)
2008
Adam Vinatieri (UFA-NE)
Antonio Johnson
2009
Donald Brown (1)
Fili Moala (2)
Jerraud Powers (3)
Austin Collie (4)*
Pat McAfee (7)
2010
Jerry Hughes (1)
Pat Angerer (2)
Ricardo Mathews (7)
Kavell Conner (7)
Jeff Linkenbach
Joe Reitz
2011
Anthony Castonzo (1)
Ben Ijalana (2)*
Drake Nevis (3)
Delone Carter (4)
A.J. Edds*
Joe Lefeged
Scott Lutrus*
2012
Andrew Luck (1)
Coby Fleener (2)
Dwayne Allen (3)
T.Y. Hilton (3)
Josh Chapman (5)*
Vick Ballard (5)
LaVon Brazill (6)
Justin Anderson (7)*
Chandler Harnish (7)^
Kris Adams^
Alvester Alexander^
Donnie Avery (UFA-TEN)
Darius Butler
Jerrell Freeman
Clifton Geathers
Isaiah Green^
Marshay Green
Lawrence Guy
Mario Harvey
Justin Hickman
Hayworth Hicks^
Tony Hills
Robert Hughes
Mike McGlynn (UFA-CIN)
Brandon McKinney (UFA-BAL)*
Kyle Miller^
Matt Overton
Nathan Palmer
Cory Redding (UFA-BAL)
Samson Satele (UFA-OAK)
Weslye Saunders
A.Q. Shipley
Monte Simmons^
Bradley Sowell
Griff Whalen*
Teddy Williams^
Tom Zbikowski
Seth Olsen (W-MIN)*
Sergio Brown (W-NE)
Vontae Davis (T-MIA)
Moise Fokou (T-PHI)
Josh Gordy (T-STL)
Winston Justice (T-PHI)
Drew Stanton (T-NYJ)
Martin Tevaseu (W-NYJ)
Cassius Vaughn (T-DEN)
^practice squad, *injured reserve, reserve physically unable to perform & reserve non-football injury
24
NO
83
51
11
33
41
15
31
38
20
34
74
53
23
80
58
50
93
66
27
30
67
54
55
78
13
92
29
99
69
35
72
12
91
98
1
75
95
94
45
10
25
90
76
64
85
62
60
5
68
32
4
87
28
NAME
Allen, Dwayne
Angerer, Pat
Avery, Donnie
Ballard, Vick
Bethea, Antoine
Brazill, LaVon
Brown, Donald
Brown, Sergio
Butler, Darius
Carter, Delone
Castonzo, Anthony
Conner, Kavell
Davis, Vontae
Fleener, Coby
Fokou, Moise
Freeman, Jerrell
Freeney, Dwight
Geathers, Clifton
Gordy, Josh
Green, Marshay
Guy, Lawrence
Harvey, Mario
Hickman, Justin
Hills, Tony
Hilton, T.Y.
Hughes, Jerry
Hughes, Robert
Johnson, Antonio
Justice, Winston
Lefeged, Joe
Linkenbach, Jeff
Luck, Andrew
Mathews, Ricardo
Mathis, Robert
McAfee, Pat
McGlynn, Mike
Moala, Fili
Nevis, Drake
Overton, Matt
Palmer, Nathan
Powers, Jerraud
Redding, Cory
Reitz, Joe
Satele, Samson
Saunders, Weslye
Shipley, A.Q.
Sowell, Bradley
Stanton, Drew
Tevaseu, Martin
Vaughn, Cassius
Vinatieri, Adam
Wayne, Reggie
Zbikowski, Tom
POS
TE
ILB
WR
RB
S
WR
RB
S
CB
RB
T
ILB
CB
TE
ILB
ILB
OLB
DE
CB
CB
DE
ILB
OLB
T
WR
OLB
FB
NT
T
S
T
QB
DT
OLB
P
G/C
DE
DT
LS
WR
CB
DE
G
C
TE
C
T
QB
NT
CB
K
WR
S
COLTS ALPHABETICAL ROSTER
HT
6-3
6-0
5-11
5-10
5-11
5-11
5-10
6-2
5-10
5-9
6-7
6-0
5-11
6-6
6-1
6-0
6-1
6-7
5-11
5-10
6-4
6-0
6-2
6-5
5-9
6-2
5-11
6-3
6-6
6-0
6-6
6-4
6-3
6-2
6-1
6-4
6-4
6-1
6-1
5-11
5-10
6-4
6-7
6-3
6-5
6-1
6-7
6-3
6-2
5-11
6-0
6-0
5-11
WT
255
236
200
217
196
191
210
210
185
238
315
243
205
252
236
234
268
325
195
175
300
264
258
304
183
254
235
310
317
205
323
234
310
245
220
327
310
310
254
195
187
315
322
299
270
309
320
243
325
195
206
198
200
DOB
2/24/1990
1/31/1987
6/12/1984
7/16/1990
7/27/1984
3/15/1989
4/11/1987
5/22/1988
3/18/1986
6/22/1987
8/9/1988
2/23/1987
5/27/1988
9/20/1988
8/28/1985
5/1/1986
2/19/1980
12/11/1987
2/9/1987
1/14/1986
3/17/1990
8/10/1987
7/20/1985
11/4/1984
11/14/1989
8/13/1988
6/21/1989
12/8/1984
9/14/1984
6/2/1988
6/9/1987
9/12/1989
7/30/1987
2/26/1981
5/2/1987
3/8/1985
6/23/1985
5/8/1989
7/6/1985
4/14/1989
7/19/1987
11/15/1980
8/24/1985
11/29/1984
1/16/1989
5/22/1986
6/6/1989
5/7/1984
10/7/1987
11/3/1987
12/28/1972
11/17/1978
5/22/1985
AGE EXP
22 R
3
25
5
28
22 R
7
28
23 R
4
25
3
24
4
26
2
25
2
24
3
25
4
24
24 R
4
27
1
26
32 11
2
24
2
25
2
26
2
22
1
25
1
27
5
27
22 R
3
24
1
23
6
27
7
28
2
24
3
25
23 R
3
25
31 10
4
25
5
27
4
27
2
23
1
27
23 R
4
25
31 10
2
27
6
27
2
23
1
26
23 R
6
28
2
25
3
25
39 17
33 12
5
27
COLLEGE
Clemson
Iowa
Houston
Mississippi State
Howard
Ohio
Connecticut
Notre Dame
Connecticut
Syracuse
Boston College
Clemson
Illinois
Stanford
Maryland
Mary Hardin-Baylor
Syracuse
South Carolina
Central Michigan
Mississippi
Arizona State
Marshall
UCLA
Texas
Florida International
TCU
Notre Dame
Mississippi State
USC
Rutgers
Cincinnati
Stanford
Cincinnati
Alabama A&M
West Virginia
Pittsburgh
USC
LSU
Western Washington
Northern Illinois
Auburn
Texas
W. Michigan
Hawaii
South Carolina
Penn State
Mississippi
Michigan State
UNLV
Mississippi
S. Dakota State
Miami (FL)
Notre Dame
HOMETOWN
Fayettville, NC
Bettendorf, IA
Houston, TX
Pascagoula, MS
Newport News, VA
Lantana, FL
Atlantic Highlands, NJ
Maywood, IL
Tamarac, FL
Copley, OH
Hawthorn Woods, IL
Richmond, VA
Washington, DC
Lemont, IL
Cameroon, Africa
Waco, TX
Hartford, CT
Georgetown, SC
Warthen, GA
Bastrop, LA
Las Vegas, NV
Forsyth, GA
Glendale, AZ
Dallas, TX
Miami, FL
Sugar Land, TX
Chicago, IL
Leland, MS
Long Beach, CA
Germantown, MD
Sandusky, OH
Houston, TX
Jacksonville, FL
Atlanta, GA
Plum, PA
Austintown, OH
Buena Park, CA
Harvey, LA
Tracy, CA
Elkhart, IN
Decatur, AL
Houston, TX
Fishers, IN
Kailua, HI
Durham, NC
Beaver County, PA
Hernando, MS
Okemos, MI
Booneville, CA
Memphis, TN
Rapid City, SD
New Orleans, LA
Park Ridge, IL
HOW ACQ.
D3-12
D2-10
UFA-12 (TEN)
D5-12
D6-06
D6-12
D1-09
W-12 (NE)
FA-12
D4-11
D1-11
D7-10
T-12 (MIA)
D2-12
T-12 (PHI)
FA-12
D1-02
FA-12
T-12 (STL)
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
D3-12
D1-10
FA-12
FA-08
T-12 (PHI)
FA-11
FA-10
D1-12
D7-10
D5-03
D7-09
UFA-12 (CIN)
D2-09
D3-11
FA-12
FA-12
D3-09
UFA-12 (BAL)
FA-10
UFA-12 (OAK)
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
T-12 (NYJ)
W-12 (NYJ)
T-12 (DEN)
UFA-06 (NE)
D1-01
UFA-12 (BAL)
GP/GS/DNP/IA
8/8/0/0
3/0/0/5
8/8/0/0
8/4/0/0
8/8/0/0
7/0/1/0
6/4/0/2
8/0/0/0
3/0/0/2
5/0/0/3
8/8/0/0
8/8/0/0
5/5/1/2
7/6/0/1
8/0/0/0
8/8/0/0
6/6/0/2
3/0/0/1
7/0/0/1
0/0/0/1
1/0/0/2
8/0/0/0
8/0/0/0
3/1/0/2
7/0/0/1
8/5/0/0
1/0/0/0
8/8/0/0
7/7/0/1
8/0/0/0
8/5/0/0
8/8/0/0
8/0/0/0
5/5/0/3
8/0/0/0
8/8/0/0
5/5/0/3
8/3/0/0
8/0/0/0
3/0/0/2
8/8/0/0
7/7/0/1
2/1/0/6
7/7/1/0
3/1/0/0
6/1/0/0
6/0/0/1
0/0/8/0
6/0/0/2
8/3/0/0
8/0/0/0
8/7/0/0
8/8/0/0
PRACTICE SQUAD
81 Adams, Kris
40 Alexander, Alvester
36 Green, Isaiah
8
Harnish, Chandler
65 Hicks, Hayworth
86 Miller, Kyle
57 Simmons, Monte
21 Williams, Teddy
WR
RB
CB
QB
G
TE
LB
CB
6-3
5-11
5-10
6-2
6-3
6-5
6-3
6-1
194
204
180
220
336
260
226
201
9/4/1987
10/17/1990
8/10/1989
7/28/1988
10/3/1988
4/18/1988
1/29/1989
7/3/1988
25
22
23
24
23
24
23
24
1
R
R
R
R
1
1
1
UTEP
Wyoming
Fresno State
Northern Illinois
Iowa State
Mount Union
Kent State
Texas-San Antonio
Fort Worth, TX
Houston, TX
Los Angeles, CA
Bluffton, IN
Palmdale, CA
Elida, OH
Swissvale, PA
Tyler, TX
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
3/0/0/0
RESERVE/INJURED
17 Collie, Austin
52 Edds, A.J.
71 Ijalana, Ben
56 Lutrus, Scott
96 McKinney, Brandon
73 Olsen, Seth
84 Whalen, Griff
WR
ILB
G
ILB
NT
G
WR
6-0
6-4
6-4
6-3
6-2
6-5
5-11
204
256
337
247
345
305
185
11/11/1985
9/18/1987
8/6/1989
4/23/1988
8/24/1983
12/17/1985
3/1/1990
27
24
23
24
29
26
22
4
3
2
1
7
3
R
Brigham Young
Iowa
Villanova
Connecticut
Michigan State
Iowa
Stanford
El Dorado Hills, CA
Greenwood, IN
Hainesport, NJ
Brookfield, CT
Dayton, OH
Omaha, NE
Sylvania, OH
D4-09
FA-11
D2-11
FA-11
UFA-12 (BAL)
W-11 (MIN)
FA-12
1/0/0/2
RESERVE/PHYSICALLY UNABLE TO PERFORM
79 Anderson, Justin
G
6-5 342
4/15/1988
24
R
Georgia
Ocilla, GA
D7-12
RESERVE/NON-FOOTBALL INJURY
61 Chapman, Josh
NT
6/10/1990
22
R
Alabama
Hoover, AL
D5-12
6-0
316
0/0/0/5
3/3/0/1
COACHING STAFF
Bruce Arians (Offensive Coordinator), Greg Manusky (Defensive Coordinator), Marwan Maalouf (Special Teams Coordinator), Roy Anderson (Safeties Coach),
James Bettcher (Special Assistant to Head Coach), Brant Boyer (Assistant Special Teams Coach), Clyde Christensen (Quarterbacks Coach),
Gary Emanuel (Defensive Line Coach), Jeff FitzGerald (Linebackers Coach), Joe Gilbert (Assistant Offensive Line Coach); Mike Gillhamer (Secondary Coach),
Frank Giufre (Offensive Quality Control Coach), Harold Goodwin (Offensive Line Coach), Richard Howell (Assistant Strength & Conditioning), Roger Marandino (Strength & Conditioning),
Alfredo Roberts (Tight Ends Coach), David Walker (Running Backs Coach), Brad White (Defensive Quality Control Coach), Charlie Williams (Wide Receivers Coach).
25
NO
1
4
5
10
11
12
13
15
20
23
25
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
38
41
45
50
51
53
54
55
58
60
62
64
66
67
68
69
72
74
75
76
78
80
83
85
87
90
91
92
93
94
95
98
99
NAME
Pat McAfee
Adam Vinatieri
Drew Stanton
Nathan Palmer
Donnie Avery
Andrew Luck
T.Y. Hilton
LaVon Brazill
Darius Butler
Vontae Davis
Jerraud Powers
Josh Gordy
Tom Zbikowski
Robert Hughes
Marshay Green
Donald Brown
Cassius Vaughn
Vick Ballard
Delone Carter
Joe Lefeged
Sergio Brown
Antoine Bethea
Matt Overton
Jerrell Freeman
Pat Angerer
Kavell Conner
Mario Harvey
Justin Hickman
Moise Fokou
Bradley Sowell
A.Q. Shipley
Samson Satele
Clifton Geathers
Lawrence Guy
Martin Tevaseu
Winston Justice
Jeff Linkenbach
Anthony Castonzo
Mike McGlynn
Joe Reitz
Tony Hills
Coby Fleener
Dwayne Allen
Weslye Saunders
Reggie Wayne
Cory Redding
Ricardo Mathews
Jerry Hughes
Dwight Freeney
Drake Nevis
Fili Moala
Robert Mathis
Antonio Johnson
COLTS NUMERICAL ROSTER
POS
P
K
QB
WR
WR
QB
WR
WR
CB
CB
CB
CB
S
FB
CB
RB
CB
RB
RB
S
S
S
LS
ILB
ILB
ILB
ILB
OLB
ILB
T
C
C
DE
DE
NT
T
T
T
G/C
G
T
TE
TE
TE
WR
DE
DT
OLB
OLB
DT
DE
OLB
NT
HT
6-1
6-0
6-3
5-11
5-11
6-4
5-9
5-11
5-10
5-11
5-10
5-11
5-11
5-11
5-10
5-10
5-11
5-10
5-9
6-0
6-2
5-11
6-1
6-0
6-0
6-0
6-0
6-2
6-1
6-7
6-1
6-3
6-7
6-4
6-2
6-6
6-6
6-7
6-4
6-7
6-5
6-6
6-3
6-5
6-0
6-4
6-3
6-2
6-1
6-1
6-4
6-2
6-3
WT
220
206
243
195
200
234
183
191
185
205
187
195
200
235
175
210
195
217
238
205
210
196
254
234
236
243
264
258
236
320
309
299
325
300
325
317
323
315
327
322
304
252
255
270
198
315
310
254
268
310
310
245
310
DOB
5/2/1987
12/28/1972
5/7/1984
4/14/1989
6/12/1984
9/12/1989
11/14/1989
3/15/1989
3/18/1986
5/27/1988
7/19/1987
2/9/1987
5/22/1985
6/21/1989
1/14/1986
4/11/1987
11/3/1987
7/16/1990
6/22/1987
6/2/1988
5/22/1988
7/27/1984
7/6/1985
5/1/1986
1/31/1987
2/23/1987
8/10/1987
7/20/1985
8/28/1985
6/6/1989
5/22/1986
11/29/1984
12/11/1987
3/17/1990
10/7/1987
9/14/1984
6/9/1987
8/9/1988
3/8/1985
8/24/1985
11/4/1984
9/20/1988
2/24/1990
1/16/1989
11/17/1978
11/15/1980
7/30/1987
8/13/1988
2/19/1980
5/8/1989
6/23/1985
2/26/1981
12/8/1984
PRACTICE SQUAD
8
Chandler Harnish
21
Teddy Williams
36
Isaiah Green
40
Alvester Alexander
57
Monte Simmons
65
Hayworth Hicks
81
Kris Adams
86
Kyle Miller
QB
CB
CB
RB
LB
G
WR
TE
6-2
6-1
5-10
5-11
6-3
6-3
6-3
6-5
220
201
180
204
226
336
194
260
7/28/1988
7/3/1988
8/10/1989
10/17/1990
1/29/1989
10/3/1988
9/4/1987
4/18/1988
RESERVE/INJURED
17
Austin Collie
52
A.J. Edds
56
Scott Lutrus
71
Ben Ijalana
73
Seth Olsen
84
Griff Whalen
96
Brandon McKinney
WR
ILB
ILB
G
G
WR
NT
6-0
6-4
6-3
6-4
6-5
5-11
6-2
204
256
247
337
305
185
345
11/11/1985
9/18/1987
4/23/1988
8/6/1989
12/17/1985
3/1/1990
8/24/1983
RESERVE/PHYSICALLY UNABLE TO PERFORM
79
Justin Anderson
G
6-5 342
RESERVE/NON-FOOTBALL INJURY
61
Josh Chapman
NT
6-0
316
AGE EXP COLLEGE
25
4 West Virginia
39 17 South Dakota State
6 Michigan State
28
23 R Northern Illinois
5 Houston
28
23 R Stanford
22 R Florida International
23 R Ohio
4 Connecticut
26
4 Illinois
24
25
4 Auburn
2 Central Michigan
25
5 Notre Dame
27
1 Notre Dame
23
2 Mississippi
26
25
4 Connecticut
25
3 Mississippi
22 R Mississippi State
25
2 Syracuse
24
2 Rutgers
3 Notre Dame
24
28
7 Howard
1 Western Washington
27
1 Mary Hardin-Baylor
26
25
3 Iowa
25
3 Clemson
1 Marshall
25
1 UCLA
27
27
4 Maryland
23 R Mississippi
1 Penn State
26
6 Hawaii
27
2 South Carolina
24
2 Arizona State
22
2 UNLV
25
7 USC
28
25
3 Cincinnati
24
2 Boston College
5 Pittsburgh
27
27
2 Western Michigan
5 Texas
27
24 R Stanford
22 R Clemson
2 South Carolina
23
33 12 Miami (FL)
31 10 Texas
25
3 Cincinnati
24
3 TCU
32 11 Syracuse
23
2 LSU
27
4 USC
31 10 Alabama A&M
27
6 Mississippi State
HOMETOWN
Plum, PA
Rapid City, SD
Okemos, MI
Elkhart, IN
Houston, TX
Houston, TX
Miami, FL
Lantana, FL
Tamarac, FL
Washington, DC
Decatur, AL
Warthen, GA
Park Ridge, IL
Chicago, IL
Bastrop, LA
Atlantic Highlands, NJ
Memphis, TN
Pascagoula, MS
Copley, OH
Germantown, MD
Maywood, IL
Newport News, VA
Tracy, CA
Waco, TX
Bettendorf, IA
Richmond, VA
Forsyth, GA
Glendale, AZ
Cameroon, Africa
Hernando, MS
Beaver County, PA
Kailua, HI
Georgetown, SC
Las Vegas, NV
Booneville, CA
Long Beach, CA
Sandusky, OH
Hawthorn Woods, IL
Austintown, OH
Fishers, IN
Dallas, TX
Lemont, IL
Fayettville, NC
Durham, NC
New Orleans, LA
Houston, TX
Jacksonville, FL
Sugar Land, TX
Hartford, CT
Harvey, LA
Buena Park, CA
Atlanta, GA
Leland, MS
HOW ACQ.
D7-09
UFA-06 (NE)
T-12 (NYJ)
FA-12
UFA-12 (TEN)
D1-12
D3-12
D6-12
FA-12
T-12 (MIA)
D3-09
T-12 (STL)
UFA-12 (BAL)
FA-12
FA-12
D1-09
T-12 (DEN)
D5-12
D4-11
FA-11
W-12 (NE)
D6-06
FA-12
FA-12
D2-10
D7-10
FA-12
FA-12
T-12 (PHI)
FA-12
FA-12
UFA-12 (OAK)
FA-12
FA-12
W-12 (NYJ)
T-12 (PHI)
FA-10
D1-11
UFA-12 (CIN)
FA-10
FA-12
D2-12
D3-12
FA-12
D1-01
UFA-12 (BAL)
D7-10
D1-10
D1-02
D3-11
D2-09
D5-03
FA-08
GP/GS/DNP/IA
8/0/0/0
8/0/0/0
0/0/8/0
3/0/0/2
8/8/0/0
8/8/0/0
7/0/0/1
7/0/0/1
3/0/0/2
5/5/1/2
8/8/0/0
7/0/0/1
8/8/0/0
1/0/0/0
0/0/0/1
6/4/0/2
8/3/0/0
8/4/0/0
5/0/0/3
8/0/0/0
8/0/0/0
8/8/0/0
8/0/0/0
8/8/0/0
3/0/0/5
8/8/0/0
8/0/0/0
8/0/0/0
8/0/0/0
6/0/0/1
6/1/0/0
7/7/1/0
3/0/0/1
1/0/0/2
6/0/0/2
7/7/0/1
8/5/0/0
8/8/0/0
8/8/0/0
2/1/0/6
3/1/0/2
7/6/0/1
8/8/0/0
3/1/0/0
8/7/0/0
7/7/0/1
8/0/0/0
8/5/0/0
6/6/0/2
8/3/0/0
5/5/0/3
5/5/0/3
8/8/0/0
24
24
23
22
23
23
25
24
R
1
R
R
1
R
1
1
Northern Illinois
Texas-San Antonio
Fresno State
Wyoming
Kent State
Iowa State
UTEP
Mount Union
Bluffton, IN
Tyler, TX
Los Angeles, CA
Houston, TX
Swissvale, PA
Palmdale, CA
Fort Worth, TX
Elida, OH
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
FA-12
0/0/0/5
27
Brigham Young
Iowa
Connecticut
Villanova
Iowa
Stanford
Michigan State
El Dorado Hills, CA
Greenwood, IN
Brookfield, CT
Hainesport, NJ
Omaha, NE
Sylvania, OH
Dayton, OH
D4-09
FA-11
FA-11
D2-11
W-11 (MIN)
FA-12
UFA-12 (BAL)
1/0/0/2
29
4
3
1
2
3
R
7
4/15/1988
24
R
Georgia
Ocilla, GA
D7-12
6/10/1990
22
R
Alabama
Hoover, AL
D5-12
24
24
23
26
22
3/0/0/0
3/3/0/1
COACHING STAFF
Bruce Arians (Offensive Coordinator), Greg Manusky (Defensive Coordinator), Marwan Maalouf (Special Teams Coordinator), Roy Anderson (Safeties Coach),
James Bettcher (Special Assistant to Head Coach), Brant Boyer (Assistant Special Teams Coach), Clyde Christensen (Quarterbacks Coach),
Gary Emanuel (Defensive Line Coach), Jeff FitzGerald (Linebackers Coach), Joe Gilbert (Assistant Offensive Line Coach); Mike Gillhamer (Secondary Coach),
Frank Giufre (Offensive Quality Control Coach), Harold Goodwin (Offensive Line Coach), Richard Howell (Assistant Strength & Conditioning), Roger Marandino (Strength & Conditioning),
Alfredo Roberts (Tight Ends Coach), David Walker (Running Backs Coach), Brad White (Defensive Quality Control Coach), Charlie Williams (Wide Receivers Coach).
26
DATE
1/2
DE
QB
OL
QB
RB
LB
DB
TE
QB
OT
PLAYER
Bill Polian
Chris Polian
Mike Tepper
Ollie Ogbu
Matt Murphy
Jeremy Ross
Jarred Fayson
Ryan Grigson
Jim Caldwell
Darren Evans
Jerrell Freeman
Mike Murphy
Devin Fitzsimmons
Pete Metzelaars
Rod Perry
Frank Reich
Bill Teerlinck
John Teerlinck
Jon Torine
Ron Turner
Mario Harvey
Chuck Pagano
A.Q. Shipley
Bruce Arians
Harold Goodwin
Ricky Thomas
Ron Prince
Greg Manusky
Marwan Maalouf
Roy Anderson
Roger Marandino
Zac Diles
Jaimie Thomas
James Williams
Mike Newton
Justin Hickman
Brandon Peguese
Brant Boyer
Gary Emanuel
Jeff FitzGerald
Joe Gilbert
Mike Gillhamer
Frank Giufre
Alfredo Roberts
Brad White
Charlie Williams
Robert Mathis
Peyton Manning
Jake Kirkpatrick
Trevor Vittatoe
Joseph Addai
Gary Brackett
Melvin Bullitt
Dallas Clark
Curtis Painter
Winston Justice
3/16
3/19
3/21
3/23
DE
WR
DB
OL
C
OG
WR
QB
Cory Redding
Reggie Wayne
Tom Zbikowski
Mike McGlynn
Samson Satele
Ryan Diem
Donnie Avery
Drew Stanton
4/3
LS
4/5
4/13
TE
DT
WR
Matt Overton
David Thorton
Kyle Miller
Brandon McKinney
Blair White
1/4
1/5
1/7
1/11
1/17
1/19
1/20
1/26
1/28
1/31
POS.
Vice Chairman
VP/GM
OT
DT
OG
WR
WR
GM
RB
LB
LB
C
2/2
2/7
2/9
2/13
2/14
3/5
3/7
3/8
3/9
3/14
LB
OG
OT
CB
DE
DE
COLTS TRANSACTIONS
TRANSACTION
Relieved of duties as Vice Chairman
Relieved of duties as Vice President and General Manager
Signed a reserve/futures contract
Named General Manager
Relieved of duties as Head Coach
Retired
Relieved of duties as Coaching Assistant
Relieved of duties as Offensive Line Coach
Relieved of duties as Special Assistant to the Defense
Relieved of duties as Wide Receivers Coach
Relieved of duties as Defensive Assistant
Relieved of duties as Defensive Line Coach
Relieved of duties as Strength and Conditioning Coach
Relieved of duties as Quarterbacks Coach
Named Head Coach
Named Offensive Coordinator
Named Offensive Line Coach
Relieved of duties as Tight Ends Coach
Relieved of duties as Assistant Offensive Line Coach
Named Defensive Coordinator
Named Special Teams Coordinator
Named Safeties Coach
Named Strength & Conditioning Coach
Waived
Waived
Waived
Named Assistant Special Teams Coach
Named Defensive Line Coach
Named Linebackers Coach
Named Assistant Offensive Line Coach
Named Secondary Coach
Named Offensive Quality Control Coach
Named Tight Ends Coach
Named Defensive Quality Control Coach
Named Wide Receivers Coach
Signed a contract extension
Released
Released
Released
Released
Released
Released
Traded along with a sixth round pick (187 overall) from the Philadelphia
Eagles for a sixth round pick (172 overall)
Signed as an unrestricted free agent
Re-signed
Retired
Traded along with a seventh round pick (214 overall) from the New York
Jets for a sixth round pick (187 overall)
Signed as a free agent
Named Player Development Coordinator
Waived
5/3
5/4
5/15
5/16
5/17
5/18
5/22
5/23
5/29
5/31
6/1
6/5
6/6
6/8
6/19
6/20
7/10
7/13
7/19
7/22
7/25
7/27
8/1
8/3
8/3
8/4
8/11
8/14
8/15
8/15
8/15
8/16
8/16
8/17
8/21
27
DE
DT
T
CB
OLB
CB
G
ILB
G
CB
S
S
WR
P
WR
S
TE
RB
James Aiono
TE
CB
RB
WR
LB
QB
TE
QB
G
C
G
NT
OLB
OLB
CB
FB
T
S
CB
WR
OLB
WR
C
CB
QB
RB
QB
LB
LB
DT
QB
CB
TE
TE
G
T
ILB
ILB
Chigbo Anunoby
Steven Baker
Cameron Chism
Kevin Eagan
Antonio Fenelus
Jason Foster
Chris Galippo
Hayworth Hicks
Buddy Jackson
Matt Merletti
Micah Pellerin
Jabin Sambrano
Brian Stahovich
Griff Whalen
Latarrius Thomas
Dominique Jones
Deji Karim
Ahmad Russell
Dave Razzon
T.J. McCreight
Todd Vasvari
Andrew Berry
Jon Shaw
Andre Smith
Mike Holmes
Vick Ballard
LaVon Brazill
Tim Fugger
Chandler Harnish
Brody Eldridge
David Legree
Justin Anderson
Zane Taylor
Matt Murphy
Josh Chapman
Brandon Peguese
Jerry Brown
Cassius Vaughn
Ryan Mahaffey
George Foster
Micah Pellerin
Korey Lindsey
T.Y. Hilton
Kevin Eagan
Kris Adams
Jake Kirkpatrick
Justin King
David Legree
Mewelde Moore
Trevor Vittatoe
Chris Galippo
Larry Lumpkin
Jason Shirley
Andrew Luck
D.J. Johnson
Dwayne Allen
Coby Fleener
Ben Ijalana
Ty Nsekhe
A.J. Edds
Moise Fokou/Greg Lloyd
G
ILB
OLB
RB
CB
ILB
ILB
CB
ILB
CB
ILB
Ben Ijalana
A.J. Edds
Tim Fugger
Alvester Alexander
Buddy Jackson
Scott Lutrus
Mike Balogun
Buddy Jackson
Scott Lutrus
Buddy Jackson
Larry Lumpkin
Signed as a college free agent
Claimed off waivers (JAX)
Named Area Scout
Named Area Scout
Named Director of College Scouting
Promoted to Assistant Director of College Scouting
Promoted to Pro Scouting Coordinator
Promoted to Pro Scout
Claimed off waivers (CHI)
Waived
Signed with the Colts
Waived
Claimed off waivers (PHI)
Waived
Waived
Traded from the Denver Broncos for FB Chris Gronkowski
Waived
Waived
Claimed off waivers (ARZ)
Waived
Waived
Released
Waived
Waived
Signed contract
Traded from the Philadelphia Eagles for DT Ollige Ogbu
Signed contract
Signed contract
Waived/Injured
Waived/Injured
Traded from the Philadelphia Eagles for CB Kevin Thomas and a
conditional 7th round draft pick
Placed on Injured Reserve
Elevated to the active roster from the Physically Unable to Perform List
Waived/Injured
Waived/Injured
Waived from the Injured Reserve List
Waived
8/21
8/26
CB
CB
Josh Gordy
Vontae Davis
8/26
8/26
8/26
8/26
8/26
8/26
8/26
8/26
8/26
8/26
8/26
8/27
8/27
8/27
8/27
8/27
8/28
8/28
8/29
8/30
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
8/31
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/1
9/2
9/3
9/3
9/3
9/7
9/7
9/7
9/7
9/7
CB
CB
CB
CB
S
S
LB
WR
RB
G
P
T
NT
WR
G
NT
WR
WR
WR
WR
WR
RB
TE
T
C
T
DT
ILB
TE
G
OLB
S
DT
WR
LS
RB
DE
OLB
CB
S
WR
CB
T
S
CB
T
S
T
NT
DT
OLB
G
TE
WR
S
RB
DE
OLB
CB
S
CB
RB
S
T
DE
CB
S
RB
OLB
Cameron Chism
Antonio Fenelus
Terrence Johnson
Chris Rucker
Matt Merletti
David Caldwell
Mike Balogun
Quan Cosby
Alvester Alexander
Jason Foster
Brian Stahovich
George Foster
Brandon McKinney
Griff Whalen
Justin Anderson
Josh Chapman
Jarred Fayson
Kashif Moore
Jarred Fayson
Jarred Fayson
Jeremy Ross
Darren Evans
Andre Smith
Mike Tepper
Zane Taylor
Steven Baker
Jason Shirley
Greg Lloyd
Kyle Miller
Hayworth Hicks
Jerry Brown
Latarrius Thomas
Chigbo Anunoby
Kashif Moore
Justin Snow
Deji Karim
James Aiono
Tim Fugger
Brandon King
Mike Newton
Jabin Sambrano
Korey Lindsey
George Foster
Jermale Hines
D.J. Johnson
Ty Nsekhe
Sergio Brown
Mike Person
Martin Tevaseu
Chigbo Anunoby
Jerry Brown
Hayworth Hicks
Kyle Miller
Kashif Moore
Latarrius Thomas
Deji Karim
James Aiono
Tim Fugger
Brandon King
Mike Newton
D.J. Johnson
Alvester Alexander
Latarrius Thomas
Darrion Weems
James Aiono
Brandon King
Mike Newton
Deji Karim
Tim Fugger
COLTS TRANSACTIONS
Traded from the St. Louis Rams for undisclosed 2014 NFL Draft pick
Traded from the Miami Dolphins for a second round pick and a
conditional late round pick in 2013.
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Placed on Reserve/Physically Unable to Perform List
Placed on Reserve/Non-Football Injury List
Waived/Injured
Claimed off waivers (CIN)
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived
Waived/Injured
Waived/Injured
Waived/Injured
Waived/Injured
Waived/Injured
Released from the Injured Reserve List
Waived
Waived
Waived
Claimed off waivers (NE)
Claimed off waivers (SF)
Claimed off waivers (NYJ)
Signed to the practice squad
Released from the practice squad
9/10
9/10
9/10
9/11
9/11
9/11
9/18
9/18
9/18
9/18
9/19
9/24
9/24
9/25
9/25
9/25
10/1
10/1
10/1
10/1
10/2
10/3
10/3
10/6
10/6
10/8
10/8
10/8
10/9
10/9
10/9
10/9
10/9
10/9
10/9
10/9
10/9
10/9
10/16
10/16
10/16
10/16
10/17
10/17
10/17
10/17
10/20
10/23
10/29
10/29
10/29
10/29
10/29
10/30
28
C
T
G
T
WR
C
DT
T
NT
T
WR
WR
WR
G
CB
CB
OLB
C
CB
CB
OLB
NT
DE
WR
T
TE
G
WR
CB
DE
NT
LB
CB
RB
LB
OLB
TE
FB
OLB
QB
TE
TE
DE
LB
OLB
QB
OLB
OLB
NT
RB
CB
RB
CB
RB
A.Q. Shipley
Mike Person
Trai Essex
Bradley Sowell
Kashif Moore
A.Q. Shipley
Chigbo Anunoby
Darrion Weems
Nicolas Jean-Baptiste
Tony Hills
Jabin Sambrano
Austin Collie
Nathan Palmer
Trai Essex
Darius Butler
Korey Lindsey
Mario Addison
A.Q. Shipley
D.J. Johnson
Marshay Green
Mario Addison
Nicolas Jean-Baptiste
Clifton Geathers
Kris Adams
Tony Hills
Dominique Jones
Seth Olsen
Kris Adams
Justin King
Clifton Geathers
Antonio Dixon
D.J. Bryant
Isaiah Green
Alvester Alexander
Mario Addison
Jerry Brown
Dominique Jones
Robert Hughes
Jerry Brown
Chandler Harnish
Dominique Jones
Weslye Saunders
Lawrence Guy
D.J. Bryant
Jerry Brown
Chandler Harnish
Jerry Brown
Monte Simmons
Antonio Dixon
Mewelde Moore
Marshay Green
Robert Hughes
Teddy Williams
Alvester Alexander
Waived
Waived
Signed to the active roster from the Tampa Bay practice squad
Signed to the active roster from the San Francisco practice squad
Released
Waived
Signed to the active roster
Waived
Signed to the active roster from the practice squad
Waived
Waived
Signed to the Washington Redskins from the practice squad
Waived
Waived
Signed to the active roster from the Green Bay practice squad
Waived
Released
2012 REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS / WEEK 9 / THROUGH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2012
WON 5, LOST 3
09/09 L 21-41
at Chicago
62,341
09/16 W 23-20
Minnesota
63,912
09/23 L 17-22
Jacksonville
63,536
10/07 W 30-27
Green Bay
67,020
10/14 L 9-35
at New York Jets
79,088
10/21 W 17-13
Cleveland
64,560
10/28 W 19-13 OT at Tennessee
69,143
11/04 W 23-20
Miami
66,479
11/08
at Jacksonville
11/18
at New England
11/25
Buffalo
12/02
at Detroit
12/09
Tennessee
12/16
at Houston
12/23
at Kansas City
12/30
Houston
Ind.
Opp.
TOTAL FIRST DOWNS
189
162
Rushing
49
57
Passing
118
89
Penalty
22
16
3rd Down: Made/Att
55/122
40/100
3rd Down Pct.
45.1
40.0
4th Down: Made/Att
4/5
2/4
4th Down Pct.
80.0
50.0
POSSESSION AVG.
31:14
28:46
TOTAL NET YARDS
3127
2818
Avg. Per Game
390.9
352.3
Total Plays
573
486
Avg. Per Play
5.5
5.8
NET YARDS RUSHING
847
1046
Avg. Per Game
105.9
130.8
Total Rushes
218
219
NET YARDS PASSING
2280
1772
Avg. Per Game
285.0
221.5
Sacked/Yards Lost
19/124
17/91
Gross Yards
2404
1863
Att./Completions
336/190
250/159
Completion Pct.
56.5
63.6
Had Intercepted
8
2
PUNTS/AVERAGE
33/48.1
39/47.4
NET PUNTING AVG.
33/40.1
39/42.9
PENALTIES/YARDS
56/489
66/638
FUMBLES/BALL LOST
10/5
7/1
TOUCHDOWNS
16
23
Rushing
5
9
Passing
10
14
Returns
1
0
* SCORE BY PERIODS
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 OT PTS
TEAM
41 43 32 37
6 159
OPPONENTS
26 82 34 49
0 191
* SCORING
TD-Ru-Pa-Rt K-PAT
FG S PTS
Vinatieri
0 0 0 0 13/13 16/22 0 61
Luck
3 3 0 0
0 18
Wayne
3 0 3 0
0 18
Allen
2 0 2 0
0 12
Hilton
2 0 2 0
0 12
D. Brown
1 1 0 0
0
8
Avery
1 0 1 0
0
6
Ballard
1 0 1 0
0
6
Carter
1 1 0 0
0
6
Freeman
1 0 0 1
0
6
M. Moore
1 0 1 0
0
6
TEAM
16 5 10 1 13/13 16/22 0 159
OPPONENTS
23 9 14 0 20/20 11/14 0 191
2-Pt Conv: D. Brown, TM 1-2, OPP 0-3
SACKS: Mathis 6, J. Hughes 3, Freeney 2,
Redding 2, Conner 1, Fokou 1, Freeman 1,
Nevis 1, TM 17, OPP 19
FUM/LOST: Luck 6/3, Allen 1/0, Ballard 1/0,
Brazill 1/1, Wayne 1/1
* PASSING
Luck
TEAM
OPPONENTS
Att Cmp
336 190
336 190
250 159
* RUSHING
No. Yds
Avg Long TD
D. Brown
74 319
4.3 19
1
Ballard
77 266
3.5 26
0
Luck
27 148
5.5 19
3
Carter
25
93
3.7
9
1
M. Moore
9
14
1.6
5
0
Avery
3
6
2.0
7
0
Hilton
2
1
0.5
1
0
Allen
1
0
0.0
0
0
TEAM
218 847
3.9 26
5
OPPONENTS
219 1046
4.8 61
9
* RECEIVING
No. Yds
Avg Long TD
Wayne
61 835 13.7 30t 3
Avery
34 454 13.4 48
1
Hilton
24 355 14.8 40t 2
Allen
23 249 10.8 22
2
Fleener
21 222 10.6 24
0
Ballard
8
94 11.8 19
1
Brazill
5
58 11.6 19
0
D. Brown
4
54 13.5 39
0
M. Moore
4
36
9.0 13
1
Adams
2
26 13.0 13
0
Saunders
LG
1
11 11.0 11
0
Saunders
TM
1
11 11.0 11
0
Jones
TM
1
8
8.0
8
0
Collie
1
6
6.0
6
0
Palmer
LG
1
-4 -4.0 -4
0
Palmer
TM
1
-4 -4.0 -4
0
TEAM
190 2404 12.7 48 10
OPPONENTS
159 1863 11.7 80t 14
* INTERCEPTIONS
No. Yds
Avg Long TD
Freeman
1
4
4.0
4t 1
Powers
1
0
0.0
0
0
TEAM
2
4
2.0
4t 1
OPPONENTS
8
98 12.3
35
0
* PUNTING
No. Yds Avg Net TB In Lg B
McAfee
33 1587 48.1 40.1 6 10 64 0
TEAM
33 1587 48.1 40.1 6 10 64 0
OPPONENTS
39 1847 47.4 42.9 3 13 66 0
* PUNT RETURNS
Ret FC Yds Avg Long TD
Hilton
13 12 103
7.9 14 0
Brazill
2 1
12
6.0
8 0
TEAM
15 13 115
7.7 14 0
OPPONENTS
17 4 144
8.5 23 0
* KICKOFF RETURNS
No. Yds
Avg Long TD
Vaughn
10 209 20.9
40
0
Brazill
3
50 16.7
20
0
M. Moore
3
50 16.7
24
0
Hilton
2
45 22.5
26
0
Zbikowski
2
52 26.0
34
0
TEAM
20 406 20.3
40
0
OPPONENTS
18 470 26.1
50
0
* FIELD GOALS
1-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50+
Vinatieri
0/ 0 6/ 6 2/ 5 5/ 6 3/5
TEAM
0/ 0 6/ 6 2/ 5 5/ 6 3/5
OPPONENTS
0/ 0 3/ 3 5/ 5 2/ 3 1/3
Vinatieri: (37N)(26G,45G,53G)(36N,37G)(24G,53N,
50G,28G)(20G,50G,47G)(38G)(20G,37B,44G)(48N,23G,
54B,47G,43G)
OPP: (35G,26G)(51G,29G)(44G,47G,26G)(52N,51N)()
()(39G,45N,30G)(37G,31G)
Yds Cmp% Yds/Att
2404 56.5 7.15
2404 56.5 7.15
1863 63.6 7.45
29
TD
10
10
14
TD% Int Int% Long Sack/Lost Rating
3.0 8
2.4 48
19/ 124
79.0
3.0 8
2.4 48
19/ 124
79.0
5.6 2
0.8 80t 17/ 91 101.5
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National Football League Game Summary
NFL Copyright © 2012 by The National Football League. All rights reserved. This summary and play-by-play is for the express purpose of assisting media in their
coverage of the game; any other use of this material is prohibited without the written permission of the National Football League.
Updated: 11/5/2012
Date: Sunday, 11/4/2012
Miami Dolphins at Indianapolis Colts
Start Time: 1:02 PM EST
at Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN
Game Day Weather
Game Weather: Partly Cloudy
Played Retr. Roof-Closed on Turf: Artificial
Temp: 44° F (6.7° C) Humidity: 64%, Wind: N 9 mph
Outdoor Weather: Partly cloudy, 44 degr. Wind N at 9 mph, Wind Chill: 39
Officials
Referee: Corrente, Tony (99)
Line Judge: Lewis, Darryll (130)
Back Judge: Wilson, Greg (119)
Umpire: Bryan, Fred (11)
Side Judge: Baynes, Allen (56)
Replay Official: Slavin, Howard
Head Linesman: McGrath, John (5)
Field Judge: Cavaletto, Gary (60)
Lineups
Miami Dolphins
Indianapolis Colts
Offense
Defense
Offense
WR
82 B.Hartline
LE
98 J.Odrick
WR
87 R.Wayne
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
TE
WR
QB
FB
RB
77
68
51
74
71
80
15
17
42
22
DT
DT
RE
LB
LB
LB
CB
CB
S
S
94
96
91
56
58
55
24
28
30
20
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
TE
WR
QB
F
RB
74
76
64
75
69
85
11
12
83
33
J.Long
R.Incognito
M.Pouncey
J.Jerry
J.Martin
A.Fasano
D.Bess
R.Tannehill
C.Clay
R.Bush
R.Starks
P.Soliai
C.Wake
K.Burnett
K.Dansby
K.Misi
S.Smith
N.Carroll
C.Clemons
R.Jones
Defense
DE
A.Castonzo
J.Reitz
S.Satele
M.McGlynn
W.Justice
W.Saunders
D.Avery
A.Luck
D.Allen
V.Ballard
Substitutions
NT
DT
SLB
MIKE
WILL
RUSH
LCB
SS
FS
RCB
90 C.Redding
99
95
98
53
50
93
32
28
41
25
A.Johnson
F.Moala
R.Mathis
K.Conner
J.Freeman
D.Freeney
C.Vaughn
T.Zbikowski
A.Bethea
J.Powers
Substitutions
P 2 B.Fields, K 5 D.Carpenter, WR 10 J.Gaffney, WR 14 M.Moore, CB 21
D.Presley, CB 25 R.Stanford, RB 26 L.Miller, S 27 J.Wilson, S 29 J.Amaya, RB
33 D.Thomas, RB 34 M.Thigpen, FB 41 J.Lane, DE 50 O.Vernon, LB 53
A.Spitler, LB 59 J.Freeny, G 64 J.Samuda, G 75 N.Garner, DE 79 D.Shelby, TE
88 J.Mastrud, LS 92 J.Denney, LB 93 J.Trusnik, DT 97 K.Randall
P 1 P.McAfee, K 4 A.Vinatieri, WR 13 T.Hilton, WR 15 L.Brazill, CB 20 D.Butler,
CB 27 J.Gordy, FB 29 R.Hughes, RB 31 D.Brown, RB 34 D.Carter, S 35
J.Lefeged, S 38 S.Brown, LS 45 M.Overton, ILB 51 P.Angerer, ILB 54
M.Harvey, OLB 55 J.Hickman, ILB 58 M.Fokou, T 60 B.Sowell, C 62 A.Shipley,
NT 68 M.Tevaseu, T 72 J.Linkenbach, DT 91 R.Mathews, OLB 92 J.Hughes, DT
94 D.Nevis
Did Not Play
Did Not Play
QB 8 Matt.Moore, WR 86 R.Matthews
QB 5 D.Stanton
Not Active
Not Active
QB 7 P.Devlin, CB 31 R.Marshall, S 40 A.Russell, LB 57 J.Kaddu, T 72
W.Yeatman, DT 78 T.McDaniel, TE 84 M.Egnew
WR 10 N.Palmer, CB 23 V.Davis, CB 30 M.Green, DE 66 C.Geathers, DE 67
L.Guy, T 78 T.Hills, TE 80 C.Fleener
Field Goals (made ( ) & missed)
D.Carpenter
(37) (31)
A.Vinatieri
1
3
7
Miami Dolphins
Indianapolis Colts
VISITOR:
HOME:
48WR (23) 54B (47) (43)
2
14
6
3
0
7
4
3
3
OT
0
0
Total
20
23
Scoring Plays
Team
Qtr
Dolphins
Colts
1
1
Dolphins
Colts
Dolphins
Colts
Colts
Dolphins
Colts
2
2
2
2
3
4
4
Time Play Description (Extra Point) (Drive Info)
4:15 D.Carpenter 37 yd. Field Goal (11-42, 5:19)
0:47 R.Wayne 9 yd. pass from A.Luck (A.Vinatieri kick) (9-80, 3:28)
13:25
9:37
5:07
0:07
1:49
13:12
5:58
C.Clay 31 yd. pass from R.Tannehill (D.Carpenter kick) (5-80, 2:22)
A.Vinatieri 23 yd. Field Goal (8-75, 3:48)
R.Bush 18 yd. run (D.Carpenter kick) (9-80, 4:30)
T.Hilton 36 yd. pass from A.Luck (A.Vinatieri kick) (9-82, 4:27)
D.Carpenter 31 yd. Field Goal (10-52, 3:37)
Visitor
Home
3
3
0
7
10
10
17
17
17
20
20
7
10
10
13
20
20
23
Time: 3:19
Miami Dolphins vs Indianapolis Colts
11/4/2012 at Lucas Oil Stadium
Final Individual Statistics
Miami Dolphins
RUSHING
R.Bush
Indianapolis Colts
ATT
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
RUSHING
ATT
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
10
41
4.1
18
1
V.Ballard
16
60
3.8
19
0
D.Thomas
6
37
6.2
20
0
D.Carter
8
31
3.9
9
0
L.Miller
1
7
7.0
7
0
A.Luck
1
5
5.0
5
0
R.Tannehill
1
-1
-1.0
-1
0
T.Hilton
1
1
1.0
1
0
18
84
4.7
20
1
Total
26
97
3.7
19
0
Total
ATT
CMP
ATT
CMP
R.Tannehill
38
22
290
2/9
1
35
0
90.9
A.Luck
48
30
433
1/14
2
48
0
105.6
Total
38
22
290
2/9
1
35
0
90.9
Total
48
30
433
1/14
2
48
0
105.6
TAR
REC
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
TAR
REC
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
12
8
107
13.4
35
0
R.Wayne
9
7
78
11.1
21
1
D.Bess
9
6
67
11.2
16
0
T.Hilton
11
6
102
17.0
36
1
J.Gaffney
3
2
27
13.5
18
0
D.Allen
7
6
75
12.5
22
0
D.Thomas
4
2
25
12.5
14
0
D.Avery
8
5
108
21.6
48
0
R.Bush
3
2
25
12.5
19
0
V.Ballard
6
3
38
12.7
15
0
C.Clay
1
1
31
31.0
31
1
L.Brazill
5
2
25
12.5
19
0
A.Fasano
4
1
8
8.0
8
0
D.Brown
1
1
7
7.0
7
0
M.Moore
1
0
0
0.0
0
0
W.Saunders
1
0
0
0.0
0
0
J.Lane
1
0
0
0.0
0
0
38
22
290
13.2
35
1
48
30
433
14.4
48
2
NO
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
NO
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
PASSING
PASS RECEIVING
B.Hartline
Total
INTERCEPTIONS
Total
PUNTING
YDS SK/YD TD
LG IN
PASSING
RT
PASS RECEIVING
Total
INTERCEPTIONS
Total
YDS SK/YD TD
LG IN
RT
NO
YDS
AVG
NET
TB
IN20
LG
PUNTING
NO
YDS
AVG
NET
TB
IN20
LG
B.Fields
4
213
53.3
46.0
0
2
60
P.McAfee
2
99
49.5
43.5
0
1
59
Total
4
213
53.3
46.0
0
2
60
Total
2
99
49.5
43.5
0
1
59
NO
YDS
AVG
FC
LG
TD
PUNT RETURNS
NO
YDS
AVG
FC
LG
TD
M.Thigpen
1
12
12.0
1
12
0
T.Hilton
4
29
7.3
0
14
0
Total
1
12
12.0
1
12
0
Total
4
29
7.3
0
14
0
NO
YDS
AVG
FC
LG
TD
NO
YDS
AVG
FC
LG
TD
M.Thigpen
3
79
26.3
0
27
0
T.Zbikowski
2
52
26.0
0
34
0
[TOUCHBACK]
3
0
0.0
0
0
0
[TOUCHBACK]
3
0
0.0
0
0
0
Total
3
79
26.3
0
27
0
Total
2
52
26.0
0
34
0
PUNT RETURNS
KICKOFF RETURNS
Miami Dolphins
FUMBLES
KICKOFF RETURNS
FUM
LOST
TD
FORCED
OPP-REC
YDS
TD
OUT-BDS
R.Tannehill
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
J.Long
R.Jones
C.Wake
Total
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
2
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
FUM
LOST
OWN-REC YDS
TD
FORCED
OPP-REC
YDS
TD
OUT-BDS
1
1
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Indianapolis Colts
FUMBLES
V.Ballard
A.Luck
D.Allen
D.Freeney
Total
OWN-REC YDS
1
0
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
Final Team Statistics
Visitor
Dolphins
Home
Colts
TOTAL FIRST DOWNS
20
27
By Rushing
5
4
By Passing
13
22
By Penalty
2
1
4-11-36%
13-19-68%
0-1-0%
0-0-0%
365
516
THIRD DOWN EFFICIENCY
FOURTH DOWN EFFICIENCY
TOTAL NET YARDS
Total Offensive Plays (inc. times thrown passing)
58
75
Average gain per offensive play
6.3
6.9
84
97
NET YARDS RUSHING
Total Rushing Plays
18
26
Average gain per rushing play
4.7
3.7
Tackles for a loss-number and yards
1-1
3-9
281
419
Times thrown - yards lost attempting to pass
2-9
1-14
Gross yards passing
290
433
38-22-0
48-30-0
NET YARDS PASSING
PASS ATTEMPTS-COMPLETIONS-HAD INTERCEPTED
Avg gain per pass play (inc.# thrown passing)
KICKOFFS Number-In End Zone-Touchbacks
PUNTS Number and Average
Had Blocked
FGs - PATs Had Blocked
7.0
8.6
5-5-3
6-6-3
4-53.3
2-49.5
0
0
0-0
1-0
46.0
43.5
12
29
No. and Yards Punt Returns
1-12
4-29
No. and Yards Kickoff Returns
3-79
2-52
Net Punting Average
TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE (Not Including Kickoffs)
No. and Yards Interception Returns
PENALTIES Number and Yards
FUMBLES Number and Lost
TOUCHDOWNS
Rushing
Passing
0-0
0-0
8-79
11-91
1-0
2-0
2
2
1
0
1
2
EXTRA POINTS Made-Attempts
2-2
2-2
Kicking Made-Attempts
2-2
2-2
FIELD GOALS Made-Attempts
RED ZONE EFFICIENCY
GOAL TO GO EFFICIENCY
SAFETIES
FINAL SCORE
TIME OF POSSESSION
2-2
3-5
1-3-33%
1-2-50%
0-0-0%
1-1-100%
0
0
20
23
25:06
34:54
Ball Possession And Drive Chart
Miami Dolphins
#
Time
Recd
Time
Lost
Time How Ball
Poss Obtained
Drive
Began
#
Play
Yds
Gain
Yds
Pen
Net
Yds
1st
Down
1
9:34
4:15
5:19 Missed FG
MIA 39
11
37
5
42
3
2
0:47
13:25
2:22 Kickoff
MIA 20
5
85
-5
80
4
IND 31
Touchdown
3
9:37
5:07
4:30 Kickoff
MIA 20
9
80
0
80
5
* IND 18
Touchdown
4
2:24
1:14
1:10 Missed FG
MIA 44
3
11
-7
4
0
MIA 48
Punt
5
0:07
0:00
0:07 Kickoff
MIA 20
1
-1
0
-1
0
MIA 20
End of Half
6
15:00
12:58
2:02 Kickoff
MIA 20
5
15
0
15
1
MIA 35
Punt
7
9:06
6:16
2:50 Punt
MIA 10
5
23
-10
13
1
MIA 23
Punt
8
1:49
13:12
3:37 Kickoff
MIA 35
10
52
0
52
3
* IND 13
9
5:58
3:51
2:07 Kickoff
MIA 21
4
18
0
18
1
MIA 39
Punt
10
2:39
1:37
1:02 Punt
MIA 17
7
47
-5
42
2
MIA 45
Downs
Drive
Began
#
Play
Yds
Gain
Yds
Pen
Net
Yds
1st
Down
Last
Scrm
How Given
Up
MIA 30
Missed FG
Last
Scrm
How Given
Up
* IND 19
Field Goal
Field Goal
(246) Average MIA 25
Indianapolis Colts
#
Time
Recd
Time
Lost
Time How Ball
Poss Obtained
1
15:00
9:34
5:26 Kickoff
IND 30
8
55
-15
40
2
2
4:15
0:47
3:28 Kickoff
IND 20
9
48
32
80
4
* MIA 9
Touchdown
3
13:25
9:37
3:48 Kickoff
IND 20
8
80
-5
75
2
* MIA 5
Field Goal
4
5:07
2:24
2:43 Kickoff
IND 20
8
44
0
44
3
MIA 36
Missed FG
5
1:14
0:07
1:07 Punt
IND 13
10
68
-10
58
5
MIA 29
Field Goal
6
12:58
9:06
3:52 Punt
IND 20
9
30
0
30
2
50
Punt
7
6:16
1:49
4:27 Punt
IND 18
9
92
-10
82
4
MIA 36
Touchdown
8
13:12
5:58
7:14 Kickoff
IND 6
13
69
0
69
4
MIA 25
Field Goal
9
3:51
2:39
1:12 Punt
IND 20
3
6
0
6
0
IND 26
Punt
10
1:37
0:00
1:37 Downs
IND 41
3
22
0
22
1
IND 44
End of Game
(208) Average IND 21
* inside opponent's 20
Time of Possession by Quarter
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
OT
Total
Visitor
Miami Dolphins
6:06
7:22
6:41
4:57
25:06
Home
Indianapolis Colts
8:54
7:38
8:19
10:03
34:54
Kickoff Drive No.-Start Average
Dolphins: 6 - MIA 23
Colts: 5 - IND 19
Final Defensive Statistics
Miami Dolphins
N.Carroll
Regular Defensive Plays
TKL
10
AST COMB
0
10
Special Teams
SK / YDS TFL Q IN PD FF
0
0
2 0
0
3
0
Misc
FR
0
TKL
0
AST
0
FF
0
FR
0
BL
0
TKL AST FF
0
0
0
FR
0
K.Dansby
6
3
9
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
K.Burnett
4
2
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
C.Clemons
4
2
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
S.Smith
4
1
5
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
C.Wake
4
0
4
1
14
0
2
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
R.Jones
4
0
4
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
J.Odrick
3
1
4
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
P.Soliai
3
0
3
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
J.Wilson
2
1
3
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
O.Vernon
1
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
D.Shelby
1
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
J.Trusnik
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
K.Misi
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
R.Stanford
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
K.Randall
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
J.Freeny
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
M.Moore
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
J.Long
Total
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
50
10
60
1
14
4
6
0
7
2
0
4
2
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
TKL = Tackle AST = Assist COMB = Combined QH=QB Hit IN = Interception PD = Pass Defense FF = Forced Fumble FR = Fumble Recovery
Indianapolis Colts
TKL
AST
FF
FR
TKL
/ YDS TFL QH IN
C.Vaughn
4
2
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
A.Bethea
3
3
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
M.Fokou
4
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
K.Conner
2
2
4
0
0
0
0
0
1
T.Zbikowski
2
1
3
0
0
0
0
0
J.Powers
2
1
F.Moala
0
3
3
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
1
R.Mathis
2
0
2
1
9
1
A.Johnson
2
0
2
0
0
D.Butler
1
1
2
0
P.Angerer
1
1
2
J.Freeman
1
1
C.Redding
0
2
D.Nevis
0
D.Freeney
AST
Misc
FF
FR
BL
TKL
FF
FR
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
0
2
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
R.Mathews
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
J.Hickman
0
1
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
M.Harvey
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
J.Hughes
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
S.Brown
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
P.McAfee
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
V.Ballard
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
D.Allen
SK
Special Teams
PD
Total
COMB
AST
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
26
22
48
2
9
2
6
0
2
1
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
First Half Summary
PERIOD SCORES
3 14 = 17
7 6 = 13
Dolphins
Colts
Team
Qtr
Dolphins
Colts
Dolphins
Colts
Dolphins
Colts
1
1
2
2
2
2
TIME OF POSSESSION
13:28
16:32
Dolphins
Colts
Scoring Plays
Time Play Description (Extra Point) (Drive Info)
4:15
0:47
13:25
9:37
5:07
0:07
Visitor
Home
3
3
10
10
17
17
0
7
7
10
10
13
D.Carpenter 37 yd. Field Goal (11-42, 5:19)
R.Wayne 9 yd. pass from A.Luck (A.Vinatieri kick) (9-80, 3:28)
C.Clay 31 yd. pass from R.Tannehill (D.Carpenter kick) (5-80, 2:22)
R.Bush 18 yd. run (D.Carpenter kick) (9-80, 4:30)
TOTAL FIRST DOWNS
Miami Dolphins
12
Indianapolis Colts
16
First Downs Rushing-Passing-by Penalty
4-7-1
1 - 14 - 1
3-5-60%
6-9-67%
210
295
28
39
TOTAL NET YARDS
Total Offensive Plays
NET YARDS RUSHING
61
22
NET YARDS PASSING
149
273
Gross Yards Passing
158
273
Times thrown-yards lost attempting to pass
2-9
0-0
14 - 10 - 0
28 - 19 - 0
Pass Attempts-Completions-Had Intercepted
Punts-Number and Average
1 - 44
0-0
Penalties-Number and Yards
4 - 49
7 - 55
Fumbles-Number and Lost
1-0
1-0
Red Zone Efficiency
1-2-50%
1-2-50%
Average Drive Start
MIA 29
IND 21
Miami Dolphins
RUSHING
Indianapolis Colts
ATT
YDS
AVG
D.Thomas
4
29
R.Bush
6
26
L.Miller
1
R.Tannehill
Total
PASSING
LG
TD
7.3
20
0
4.3
18
1
7
7.0
7
1
-1
-1.0
12
61
5.1
ATT
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
V.Ballard
6
9
1.5
10
0
D.Carter
3
7
2.3
4
0
0
A.Luck
1
5
5.0
5
0
-1
0
T.Hilton
1
1
1.0
1
0
20
1
Total
11
22
2.0
10
0
LG IN
RT
PASSING
ATT
CMP
YDS SK/YD TD
LG IN
RT
ATT
CMP
R.Tannehill
14
10
158
2/9
1
35
0 132.4
A.Luck
28
19
273
0/0
1
48
0
111.2
Total
14
10
158
2/9
1
35
0 132.4
Total
28
19
273
0/0
1
48
0
111.2
PASS RECEIVING
YDS SK/YD TD
RUSHING
TAR
REC
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
TAR
REC
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
B.Hartline
6
4
65
16.3
35
0
R.Wayne
6
6
72
12.0
21
1
D.Bess
3
3
32
10.7
14
0
T.Hilton
8
4
59
14.8
25
0
C.Clay
1
1
31
31.0
31
1
D.Avery
5
3
72
24.0
48
0
R.Bush
1
1
19
19.0
19
0
D.Allen
2
2
34
17.0
22
0
D.Thomas
1
1
11
11.0
11
0
V.Ballard
4
2
23
11.5
14
0
A.Fasano
1
0
0
0.0
0
0
D.Brown
1
1
7
7.0
7
0
M.Moore
1
0
0
0.0
0
0
L.Brazill
2
1
6
6.0
6
0
14
10
158
15.8
35
1
Total
28
19
273
14.4
48
1
Total
Miami Dolphins
N.Carroll
PASS RECEIVING
TKL
7
AST COMB
0
7
Special Teams
SK / YDS TFL Q IN PD FF
0
0
1 0
0
2
0
Misc
FR
0
TKL
0
AST
0
FF
0
FR
0
BL
0
TKL AST FF
0
0
0
FR
0
K.Dansby
3
2
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
R.Jones
3
0
3
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
S.Smith
2
1
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
15
3
18
0
0
1
1
0
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Total
First Half Summary
Indianapolis Colts
TKL
AST
A.Bethea
3
2
5
0
0
0
0
C.Vaughn
2
2
4
0
0
0
A.Johnson
2
0
2
0
0
R.Mathis
2
0
2
1
9
9
4
13
1
9
Total
COMB
SK
Special Teams
/ YDS TFL QH IN
PD
FF
FR
TKL
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
AST
Misc
FF
FR
BL
TKL
FF
FR
0
0
0
0
0
AST
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Miami Dolphins vs Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium
First Quarter
Play By Play
11/4/2012
IND wins toss, elects to Receive, and MIA elects to defend the South goal.
D.Carpenter kicks 69 yards from MIA 35 to IND -4. T.Zbikowski to IND 30 for 34 yards (J.Freeny).
Indianapolis Colts at 15:00, (1st play from scrimmage 14:54)
1-10-IND 30
(14:54) (Run formation) A.Luck pass short middle to D.Avery to IND 46 for 16 yards (N.Carroll).
1-10-IND 46
(14:24) (No Huddle) V.Ballard up the middle to IND 47 for 1 yard (P.Soliai).
2-9-IND 47
(13:50) (Run formation) V.Ballard left guard to IND 44 for -3 yards (K.Dansby; J.Odrick).
3-12-IND 44
(13:06) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short left to D.Allen to MIA 34 for 22 yards (K.Dansby).
1-10-MIA 34
(12:29) (Run formation) D.Brown right guard to MIA 30 for 4 yards (R.Jones).
P1
P2
PENALTY on IND-J.Reitz, Offensive Holding, 10 yards, enforced at MIA 34 - No Play.
1-20-MIA 44
(12:00) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short left to D.Brown to MIA 37 for 7 yards (K.Misi).
2-13-MIA 37
(11:18) A.Luck pass short middle to T.Hilton to MIA 25 for 12 yards (R.Jones).
3-1-MIA 25
(10:39) (Run formation) D.Carter up the middle to MIA 25 for no gain (K.Burnett; K.Dansby).
4-1-MIA 25
(9:51) (Field Goal formation) PENALTY on IND-A.Vinatieri, Delay of Game, 5 yards, enforced at MIA 25 - No Play.
4-6-MIA 30
(9:40) A.Vinatieri 48 yard field goal is No Good, Wide Right, Center-M.Overton, Holder-P.McAfee.
Penalty on IND-J.Linkenbach, Offensive Holding, declined.
Miami Dolphins at 9:34
1-10-MIA 39
(9:34) (Run formation) R.Bush right guard to MIA 40 for 1 yard (F.Moala; K.Conner).
2-9-MIA 40
(9:04) (Run formation) R.Tannehill pass short left to D.Bess to IND 46 for 14 yards (C.Vaughn).
1-10-IND 46
(8:35) (Run formation) R.Bush right end ran ob at IND 43 for 3 yards (R.Mathis).
2-7-IND 43
(8:06) (Run formation) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short right to M.Moore.
3-7-IND 43
(8:02) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short left to B.Hartline to IND 30 for 13 yards (C.Vaughn; T.Zbikowski).
1-10-IND 30
(7:24) (Run formation) R.Bush right tackle to IND 30 for no gain (J.Hickman; D.Nevis).
2-10-IND 30
(6:47) (Run formation) R.Bush up the middle to IND 28 for 2 yards (A.Bethea).
P1
P2
PENALTY on IND-D.Freeney, Defensive Offside, 5 yards, enforced at IND 30 - No Play.
2-5-IND 25
(6:23) (Run formation) D.Thomas left end to IND 19 for 6 yards (C.Vaughn; A.Bethea).
1-10-IND 19
(5:42) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill sacked at IND 28 for -9 yards (R.Mathis).
2-19-IND 28
(5:05) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass incomplete deep right to A.Fasano.
3-19-IND 28
(4:59) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short middle to D.Bess to IND 19 for 9 yards (A.Bethea).
4-10-IND 19
(4:21) D.Carpenter 37 yard field goal is GOOD, Center-J.Denney, Holder-B.Fields.
R3
MIA 3 IND 0, 11 plays, 42 yards, 1 penalty, 5:19 drive, 10:45 elapsed
D.Carpenter kicks 73 yards from MIA 35 to IND -8. T.Hilton, Touchback.
Indianapolis Colts at 4:15
1-10-IND 20
(4:15) A.Luck pass short right to R.Wayne pushed ob at IND 28 for 8 yards (J.Wilson; S.Smith).
2-2-IND 28
(3:50) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete short left to D.Avery (J.Wilson).
3-2-IND 28
(3:47) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short left to R.Wayne ran ob at IND 37 for 9 yards.
1-10-IND 37
2-14-IND 33
(3:10) (Run formation) B.Sowell reported in as eligible. V.Ballard left end to IND 34 for -3 yards (R.Jones). FUMBLES (R.Jones), and recovers
at IND 33. V.Ballard to IND 33 for no gain (N.Carroll).
(2:27) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete short left to D.Avery (N.Carroll).
3-14-IND 33
(2:22) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass deep right to T.Hilton to MIA 42 for 25 yards (C.Clemons) [J.Odrick].
1-10-MIA 42
(1:38) (Run formation) B.Sowell reported in as eligible. A.Luck pass incomplete deep right to D.Allen (K.Misi).
PENALTY on MIA-K.Misi, Defensive Pass Interference, 32 yards, enforced at MIA 42 - No Play.
1-10-MIA 10
(1:31) (Shotgun) T.Hilton right end to MIA 9 for 1 yard (C.Wake).
2-9-MIA 9
(:58) (Pass formation) A.Luck pass incomplete short left to T.Hilton.
3-9-MIA 9
(:53) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short middle to R.Wayne for 9 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
P3
P4
X5
P6
A.Vinatieri extra point is GOOD, Center-M.Overton, Holder-P.McAfee.
P.McAfee kicks 74 yards from IND 35 to MIA -9. M.Thigpen, Touchback.
1-10-MIA 20
1-10-IND 45
(:47) (Run formation) R.Tannehill pass deep right to B.Hartline ran ob at IND 45 for 35 yards.
Indianapolis challenged the pass completion ruling, and the play was Upheld. (Timeout #1.)
(:24) (Run formation) R.Tannehill pass short right to B.Hartline to IND 35 for 10 yards (J.Powers).
P4
P5
END OF QUARTER
Miami Dolphins
Indianapolis Colts
Score
3
7
Time
First Downs
Efficiencies
Poss
R
P
X
T
3 Down
4 Down
6:06
1
4
0
5
1/2
0/0
8:54
0
5
1
6
4/5
0/0
Second Quarter
Play By Play
11/4/2012
Miami Dolphins continued.
1-10-IND 35
(15:00) (Run formation) R.Bush up the middle to IND 33 for 2 yards (A.Johnson).
2-8-IND 33
(14:23) PENALTY on MIA-J.Long, False Start, 5 yards, enforced at IND 33 - No Play.
2-13-IND 38
(14:02) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass incomplete deep left to J.Gaffney.
PENALTY on IND-C.Vaughn, Illegal Contact, 5 yards, enforced at IND 38 - No Play.
1-10-IND 33
(13:56) (Run formation) L.Miller right end to IND 26 for 7 yards (P.Angerer).
2-3-IND 26
(13:34) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short left to D.Bess (J.Hickman).
X6
PENALTY on MIA-D.Bess, Illegal Shift, 5 yards, enforced at IND 26 - No Play.
2-8-IND 31
(13:32) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass deep right to C.Clay for 31 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
P7
D.Carpenter extra point is GOOD, Center-J.Denney, Holder-B.Fields.
D.Carpenter kicks 74 yards from MIA 35 to IND -9. T.Zbikowski, Touchback.
1-10-IND 20
(13:25) (Run formation) A.Luck pass deep middle to D.Avery to MIA 32 for 48 yards (S.Smith).
P7
Penalty on MIA-J.Odrick, Defensive Offside, declined.
1-10-MIA 32
(13:10) (Run formation) D.Carter up the middle to MIA 29 for 3 yards (D.Shelby).
2-7-MIA 29
(12:27) D.Carter left end to MIA 25 for 4 yards (K.Dansby).
3-3-MIA 25
(11:46) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short right to V.Ballard pushed ob at MIA 11 for 14 yards (N.Carroll). MIA-K.Burnett was injured during the play.
1-10-MIA 11
(11:24) (Run formation) A.Luck pass short left to D.Carter to MIA 8 for 3 yards (P.Soliai).
P8
PENALTY on IND-S.Satele, Ineligible Downfield Pass, 5 yards, enforced at MIA 11 - No Play.
1-15-MIA 16
(10:51) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short left to T.Hilton to MIA 14 for 2 yards (J.Odrick).
2-13-MIA 14
(10:10) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete short right to T.Hilton (N.Carroll).
3-13-MIA 14
(10:04) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short left to V.Ballard pushed ob at MIA 5 for 9 yards (N.Carroll).
4-4-MIA 5
(9:42) A.Vinatieri 23 yard field goal is GOOD, Center-M.Overton, Holder-P.McAfee.
MIA 10 IND 10, 8 plays, 75 yards, 3:48 drive, 5:23 elapsed
P.McAfee kicks 71 yards from IND 35 to MIA -6. M.Thigpen to MIA 20 for 26 yards (D.Butler).
Miami Dolphins at 9:37, (1st play from scrimmage 9:30)
1-10-MIA 20
2-8-MIA 22
(9:30) (Run formation) R.Tannehill sacked at MIA 13 for -7 yards (D.Freeney). FUMBLES (D.Freeney) [D.Freeney], recovered by MIA-J.Long
at MIA 14. J.Long to MIA 22 for 8 yards (A.Johnson). IND - Freeney credited with 0 sack yards.
(8:53) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short right to B.Hartline.
3-8-MIA 22
(8:48) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short middle to R.Bush to MIA 41 for 19 yards (A.Bethea).
1-10-MIA 41
(8:14) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short right to D.Thomas to IND 48 for 11 yards (R.Mathews).
1-10-IND 48
(7:41) (Run formation) D.Thomas left end to IND 28 for 20 yards (C.Vaughn).
1-10-IND 28
(7:00) (Run formation) R.Tannehill pass short right to B.Hartline to IND 21 for 7 yards (J.Powers).
2-3-IND 21
(6:29) (Run formation) D.Thomas up the middle to IND 19 for 2 yards (K.Conner; A.Bethea).
3-1-IND 19
(5:46) (Run formation) D.Thomas up the middle to IND 18 for 1 yard (C.Redding; M.Harvey).
R11
1-10-IND 18
(5:16) (Run formation) R.Bush left end for 18 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
R12
P8
P9
R10
PENALTY on IND-C.Vaughn, Unnecessary Roughness, 15 yards, enforced between downs.
D.Carpenter extra point is GOOD, Center-J.Denney, Holder-B.Fields.
D.Carpenter kicks 59 yards from MIA 50 to IND -9. T.Zbikowski, Touchback.
1-10-IND 20
(5:07) (Run formation) A.Luck pass deep middle to R.Wayne to IND 41 for 21 yards (N.Carroll).
1-10-IND 41
(4:32) (No Huddle) V.Ballard left end to IND 48 for 7 yards (S.Smith).
2-3-IND 48
(3:57) (Run formation) A.Luck pass short right to D.Avery pushed ob at MIA 44 for 8 yards (N.Carroll).
P10
1-10-MIA 44
(3:42) (Run formation) V.Ballard up the middle to MIA 34 for 10 yards (R.Jones). IND-S.Satele was injured during the play.
R11
Penalty on MIA-D.Shelby, Defensive 12 On-field, declined.
1-10-MIA 34
(3:20) (Run formation) V.Ballard up the middle to MIA 36 for -2 yards (P.Soliai).
2-12-MIA 36
(2:38) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete short left to V.Ballard [R.Jones].
Timeout #1 by MIA at 02:34.
3-12-MIA 36
(2:34) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete deep right to L.Brazill [C.Wake].
P9
4-12-MIA 36
(2:29) A.Vinatieri 54 yard field goal is BLOCKED (O.Vernon), Center-M.Overton, Holder-P.McAfee.
1-10-MIA 44
(2:24) R.Bush up the middle to MIA 46 for 2 yards (M.Fokou).
Two-Minute Warning
2-8-MIA 46
(2:00) (Shotgun) PENALTY on MIA-M.Pouncey, False Start, 7 yards, enforced at MIA 46 - No Play.
2-15-MIA 39
(2:00) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short middle to D.Bess to MIA 48 for 9 yards (A.Bethea).
3-6-MIA 48
(1:34) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short right to B.Hartline [D.Freeney].
4-6-MIA 48
(1:25) B.Fields punts 44 yards to IND 8, Center-J.Denney. T.Hilton to IND 13 for 5 yards (J.Trusnik).
1-10-IND 13
(1:14) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short right to D.Allen pushed ob at IND 25 for 12 yards (C.Wake).
1-10-IND 25
(1:08) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete deep middle to T.Hilton.
2-10-IND 25
(1:02) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short left to R.Wayne to IND 38 for 13 yards (J.Wilson).
P12
P13
Timeout #2 by IND at 00:52.
1-10-IND 38
(:52) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short right to R.Wayne ran ob at 50 for 12 yards.
P14
1-10-50
(:46) (Shotgun) A.Luck scrambles right end ran ob at MIA 45 for 5 yards (K.Dansby).
2-5-MIA 45
1-10-MIA 39
(:40) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short left to L.Brazill pushed ob at MIA 39 for 6 yards (N.Carroll) [O.Vernon].
The Replay Assistant challenged the pass completion ruling, and the play was Upheld.
(:34) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete deep right to T.Hilton.
2-10-MIA 39
(:29) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete deep left to V.Ballard.
P15
PENALTY on IND-W.Justice, Offensive Holding, 10 yards, enforced at MIA 39 - No Play.
2-20-MIA 49
(:24) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete short left to V.Ballard.
3-20-MIA 49
(:18) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass deep right to T.Hilton to MIA 29 for 20 yards (R.Stanford). IND-T.Hilton was injured during the play.
1-10-MIA 29
(:12) A.Vinatieri 47 yard field goal is GOOD, Center-M.Overton, Holder-P.McAfee.
P.McAfee kicks 74 yards from IND 35 to MIA -9. D.Presley, Touchback.
1-10-MIA 20
(:07) R.Tannehill kneels to MIA 19 for -1 yards.
END OF QUARTER
Miami Dolphins
Indianapolis Colts
Score
17
13
Time
Poss
7:22
R
3
7:38
1
First Downs
P
X
3
1
9
0
T
7
10
Efficiencies
3 Down
4 Down
2/3
0/0
2/4
0/0
P16
Third Quarter
Play By Play
11/4/2012
MIA elects to Receive, and IND elects to defend the South goal.
P.McAfee kicks 73 yards from IND 35 to MIA -8. M.Thigpen, Touchback.
1-10-MIA 20
(15:00) (Run formation) R.Tannehill pass short right to B.Hartline to MIA 28 for 8 yards (J.Powers; A.Bethea).
2-2-MIA 28
(14:30) (Run formation) R.Bush up the middle to MIA 31 for 3 yards (J.Freeman; F.Moala).
1-10-MIA 31
(13:54) (Run formation) R.Bush up the middle to MIA 35 for 4 yards (K.Conner).
2-6-MIA 35
(13:22) (Run formation) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short right to B.Hartline [J.Hickman].
3-6-MIA 35
(13:15) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short middle to D.Bess.
4-6-MIA 35
(13:10) B.Fields punts 59 yards to IND 6, Center-J.Denney. T.Hilton to IND 20 for 14 yards (J.Trusnik).
R13
1-10-IND 20
(12:58) (Run formation) A.Luck pass incomplete short right to R.Wayne.
2-10-IND 20
(12:54) D.Carter left end to IND 29 for 9 yards (O.Vernon).
3-1-IND 29
(12:13) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short left to D.Avery to IND 43 for 14 yards (N.Carroll).
1-10-IND 43
(11:29) (Run formation) A.Luck pass incomplete deep left to V.Ballard.
2-10-IND 43
(11:22) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete deep right to L.Brazill.
3-10-IND 43
(11:17) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short left to D.Avery pushed ob at MIA 35 for 22 yards (C.Clemons).
1-10-MIA 35
(10:51) D.Carter left end pushed ob at MIA 34 for 1 yard (N.Carroll).
2-9-MIA 34
(10:16) (Shotgun) A.Luck sacked at MIA 38 for -4 yards (C.Wake). FUMBLES (C.Wake), touched at MIA 48, recovered by IND-D.Allen at 50.
D.Allen to 50 for no gain (J.Odrick). MIA - Wake credited with 14 sack yards.
(9:19) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete deep left to D.Avery (N.Carroll). IND-D.Avery was injured during the play. His return is Questionable.
MIA-N.Carroll was injured during the play.
(9:13) P.McAfee punts 40 yards to MIA 10, Center-M.Overton, fair catch by M.Thigpen.
3-25-50
4-25-50
P17
P18
1-10-MIA 10
(9:06) (Shotgun) R.Bush up the middle to MIA 9 for -1 yards (J.Freeman).
2-11-MIA 9
(8:33) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short right to B.Hartline to MIA 21 for 12 yards (P.Angerer; J.Hughes).
1-10-MIA 21
(8:02) (Run formation) R.Bush left end pushed ob at MIA 24 for 3 yards (J.Hickman).
P14
PENALTY on MIA-A.Fasano, Offensive Holding, 10 yards, enforced at MIA 21 - No Play.
1-20-MIA 11
(7:35) (Run formation) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short left to A.Fasano [F.Moala].
2-20-MIA 11
(7:29) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short right to R.Bush pushed ob at MIA 17 for 6 yards (M.Fokou).
3-14-MIA 17
(7:00) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short left to D.Bess pushed ob at MIA 23 for 6 yards (D.Butler; D.Nevis).
4-8-MIA 23
(6:30) B.Fields punts 60 yards to IND 17, Center-J.Denney. T.Hilton to IND 18 for 1 yard (M.Moore).
1-10-IND 18
(6:16) (Run formation) V.Ballard left end to IND 22 for 4 yards (C.Clemons). MIA-P.Soliai was injured during the play.
2-6-IND 22
(5:50) (Run formation) A.Luck pass incomplete deep left to W.Saunders.
3-6-IND 22
(5:44) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short left to V.Ballard pushed ob at IND 37 for 15 yards (K.Burnett).
1-10-IND 37
(5:13) (Run formation) V.Ballard right tackle to IND 41 for 4 yards (K.Burnett).
2-6-IND 41
(4:33) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete short left to D.Allen (K.Dansby).
3-6-IND 41
(4:28) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short left to V.Ballard to MIA 46 for 13 yards (S.Smith).
P19
PENALTY on IND-D.Allen, Offensive Pass Interference, 10 yards, enforced at IND 41 - No Play.
3-16-IND 31
(3:59) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass deep left to L.Brazill to 50 for 19 yards (J.Wilson).
P20
1-10-50
(3:21) (Run formation) D.Carter up the middle to MIA 41 for 9 yards (C.Clemons; K.Burnett).
2-1-MIA 41
(2:38) (Run formation) D.Carter up the middle to MIA 36 for 5 yards (K.Randall).
R21
1-10-MIA 36
(1:58) (Run formation) A.Luck pass deep right to T.Hilton for 36 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
P22
A.Vinatieri extra point is GOOD, Center-M.Overton, Holder-P.McAfee.
P.McAfee kicks 72 yards from IND 35 to MIA -7. M.Thigpen to MIA 20 for 27 yards (S.Brown).
PENALTY on IND-J.Lefeged, Low Block, 15 yards, enforced at MIA 20.
1-10-MIA 35
(1:43) (Run formation) D.Thomas left end to MIA 38 for 3 yards (K.Conner). MIA-M.Pouncey was injured during the play.
2-7-MIA 38
(1:01) (Run formation) R.Tannehill pass short right to B.Hartline ran ob at IND 47 for 15 yards.
1-10-IND 47
(:43) (Run formation) D.Thomas up the middle to IND 42 for 5 yards (C.Redding; F.Moala).
P15
END OF QUARTER
Miami Dolphins
Indianapolis Colts
Score
17
20
Time
First Downs
Efficiencies
Poss
R
P
X
T
3 Down
4 Down
6:41
1
2
0
3
0/2
0/0
8:19
1
5
0
6
4/5
0/0
Fourth Quarter
Play By Play
11/4/2012
Miami Dolphins continued.
2-5-IND 42
(15:00) (Run formation) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short left to A.Fasano (K.Conner).
3-5-IND 42
(14:57) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short left to D.Bess to IND 29 for 13 yards (C.Vaughn).
P16
1-10-IND 29
(14:17) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short middle to D.Bess to IND 13 for 16 yards (D.Butler).
P17
1-10-IND 13
(13:30) (Run formation) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short right to J.Lane.
2-10-IND 13
(13:25) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short left to J.Gaffney.
3-10-IND 13
(13:22) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short left to D.Thomas.
4-10-IND 13
(13:17) D.Carpenter 31 yard field goal is GOOD, Center-J.Denney, Holder-B.Fields.
D.Carpenter kicks 71 yards from MIA 35 to IND -6. T.Zbikowski to IND 28 for 34 yards (J.Trusnik; O.Vernon).
PENALTY on IND-M.Tevaseu, Illegal Wedge, 6 yards, enforced at IND 12.
Indianapolis Colts at 13:12, (1st play from scrimmage 13:00)
1-10-IND 6
(13:00) (Run formation) A.Luck pass short right to D.Allen to IND 5 for -1 yards (N.Carroll).
2-11-IND 5
(12:20) (Shotgun) D.Carter up the middle to IND 5 for no gain (K.Burnett).
3-11-IND 5
(11:42) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short right to D.Allen to IND 25 for 20 yards (C.Clemons; K.Dansby).
1-10-IND 25
(10:59) (Run formation) V.Ballard left end to IND 28 for 3 yards (K.Dansby).
2-7-IND 28
(10:20) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short middle to D.Allen to IND 48 for 20 yards (C.Clemons).
1-10-IND 48
(9:40) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete deep right to L.Brazill.
2-10-IND 48
(9:34) A.Luck pass short right to T.Hilton pushed ob at MIA 45 for 7 yards (S.Smith).
3-3-MIA 45
(8:58) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short left to R.Wayne to MIA 39 for 6 yards (S.Smith) [C.Wake].
P25
1-10-MIA 39
(8:12) (Run formation) J.Linkenbach reported in as eligible. V.Ballard up the middle to MIA 29 for 10 yards (R.Jones).
R26
1-10-MIA 29
(7:32) (Run formation) J.Linkenbach reported in as eligible. V.Ballard up the middle to MIA 27 for 2 yards (K.Dansby).
2-8-MIA 27
(6:52) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short middle to D.Allen to MIA 25 for 2 yards (K.Burnett) [D.Shelby].
3-6-MIA 25
(6:06) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete short left to T.Hilton (R.Jones).
4-6-MIA 25
(6:03) A.Vinatieri 43 yard field goal is GOOD, Center-M.Overton, Holder-P.McAfee.
P23
P24
P.McAfee kicks 70 yards from IND 35 to MIA -5. M.Thigpen to MIA 21 for 26 yards (D.Butler).
1-10-MIA 21
(5:52) (Shotgun) R.Bush left end pushed ob at MIA 30 for 9 yards (T.Zbikowski).
2-1-MIA 30
(5:40) (No Huddle) R.Tannehill up the middle to MIA 30 for no gain (M.Fokou).
PENALTY on IND, Defensive 12 On-field, 5 yards, enforced at MIA 30 - No Play.
1-10-MIA 35
(5:00) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short left to J.Gaffney to MIA 44 for 9 yards (C.Vaughn).
2-1-MIA 44
(4:14) PENALTY on MIA-R.Incognito, False Start, 5 yards, enforced at MIA 44 - No Play.
2-6-MIA 39
(4:10) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short right to B.Hartline (D.Butler).
3-6-MIA 39
(4:05) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short right to D.Bess.
4-6-MIA 39
(4:00) B.Fields punts 50 yards to IND 11, Center-J.Denney. T.Hilton ran ob at IND 20 for 9 yards.
X18
1-10-IND 20
(3:51) (Run formation) J.Linkenbach reported in as eligible. V.Ballard left end to IND 23 for 3 yards (C.Wake).
2-7-IND 23
(3:45) (Run formation) J.Linkenbach reported in as eligible. V.Ballard left end to IND 26 for 3 yards (K.Dansby).
3-4-IND 26
(2:59) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass incomplete short middle to R.Wayne (S.Smith). MIA-R.Starks was injured during the play.
4-4-IND 26
(2:52) P.McAfee punts 59 yards to MIA 15, Center-M.Overton. M.Thigpen pushed ob at MIA 46 for 31 yards (P.McAfee).
PENALTY on MIA-M.Moore, Offensive Holding, 10 yards, enforced at MIA 27.
1-10-MIA 17
(2:39) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short right to A.Fasano to MIA 25 for 8 yards (M.Fokou).
2-2-MIA 25
(2:19) (No Huddle, Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short right to B.Hartline ran ob at MIA 32 for 7 yards.
P19
1-10-MIA 32
(2:14) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short left to J.Gaffney to 50 for 18 yards (T.Zbikowski).
P20
Two-Minute Warning
1-10-50
(2:00) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short left to R.Bush.
2-10-50
(1:56) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short right to D.Thomas.
3-10-50
(1:52) (Shotgun) PENALTY on MIA-M.Pouncey, False Start, 5 yards, enforced at 50 - No Play.
3-15-MIA 45
(1:52) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass incomplete short right to D.Bess.
4-15-MIA 45
(1:48) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short left to D.Thomas to IND 41 for 14 yards (M.Fokou) [C.Redding].
Penalty on MIA-J.Long, Offensive Holding, declined.
1-10-IND 41
(1:37) (Run formation) V.Ballard left end to IND 42 for 1 yard (J.Odrick).
2-9-IND 42
(1:31) (Run formation) J.Linkenbach reported in as eligible. V.Ballard up the middle to IND 44 for 2 yards (P.Soliai).
3-7-IND 44
(:46) (Run formation) J.Linkenbach reported in as eligible. V.Ballard left tackle to MIA 37 for 19 yards (J.Trusnik).
END OF QUARTER
Miami Dolphins
Indianapolis Colts
Score
20
23
Time
Poss
4:57
10:03
First Downs
R
P
X
0
4
1
T
5
2
5
3
0
Efficiencies
3 Down
4 Down
1/4
0/1
3/5
0/0
R27
Miscellaneous Statistics Report
Ten Longest Plays for Miami Dolphins
Yards
35
Qtr
1
Play Start
1-10-MIA 20
31
20
19
18
2
2
2
2
2-8-IND 31
1-10-IND 48
3-8-MIA 22
1-10-IND 18
18
16
15
14
13
4
4
3
1
1
1-10-MIA 32
1-10-IND 29
2-7-MIA 38
2-9-MIA 40
3-7-IND 43
Play Description
(:47) (Run formation) R.Tannehill pass deep right to B.Hartline ran ob at IND 45 for 35 yards.
Indianapolis challenged the pass completion ruling, and the play was Upheld. (Timeout #1.)
(13:32) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass deep right to C.Clay for 31 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
(7:41) (Run formation) D.Thomas left end to IND 28 for 20 yards (C.Vaughn).
(8:48) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short middle to R.Bush to MIA 41 for 19 yards (A.Bethea).
(5:16) (Run formation) R.Bush left end for 18 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
PENALTY on IND-C.Vaughn, Unnecessary Roughness, 15 yards, enforced between downs.
(2:14) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short left to J.Gaffney to 50 for 18 yards (T.Zbikowski).
(14:17) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short middle to D.Bess to IND 13 for 16 yards (D.Butler).
(1:01) (Run formation) R.Tannehill pass short right to B.Hartline ran ob at IND 47 for 15 yards.
(9:04) (Run formation) R.Tannehill pass short left to D.Bess to IND 46 for 14 yards (C.Vaughn).
(8:02) (Shotgun) R.Tannehill pass short left to B.Hartline to IND 30 for 13 yards (C.Vaughn; T.Zbikowski).
Ten Longest Plays for Indianapolis Colts
Yards
Qtr
Play Start
Play Description
48
2
1-10-IND 20
36
25
22
22
21
20
20
3
1
1
3
2
2
4
1-10-MIA 36
3-14-IND 33
3-12-IND 44
3-10-IND 43
1-10-IND 20
3-20-MIA 49
3-11-IND 5
(13:25) (Run formation) A.Luck pass deep middle to D.Avery to MIA 32 for 48 yards (S.Smith).
Penalty(Run
on MIA-J.Odrick,
Defensive
declined.
(1:58)
formation) A.Luck
pass Offside,
deep right
to T.Hilton for 36 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
(2:22) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass deep right to T.Hilton to MIA 42 for 25 yards (C.Clemons) [J.Odrick].
(13:06) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short left to D.Allen to MIA 34 for 22 yards (K.Dansby).
(11:17) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short left to D.Avery pushed ob at MIA 35 for 22 yards (C.Clemons).
(5:07) (Run formation) A.Luck pass deep middle to R.Wayne to IND 41 for 21 yards (N.Carroll).
(:18) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass deep right to T.Hilton to MIA 29 for 20 yards (R.Stanford). IND-T.Hilton was injured during the
play.
(11:42) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short right to D.Allen to IND 25 for 20 yards (C.Clemons; K.Dansby).
20
19
4
3
2-7-IND 28
3-16-IND 31
(10:20) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass short middle to D.Allen to IND 48 for 20 yards (C.Clemons).
(3:59) (Shotgun) A.Luck pass deep left to L.Brazill to 50 for 19 yards (J.Wilson).
Offense
Defense
VISITOR
Touchdown Scoring Information
Miami Dolphins
2
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Player Scoring Information
Club Player
TD Rush
TD
Rec KO TD
TD
Punt Int TD
TD
Fum
TD
Misc
TD
FG
XP
2Pt
Rush
2Pt
Rec
Sfty
Points
MIA
D.Carpenter
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
0
0
0
8
MIA
R.Bush
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
MIA
C.Clay
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
IND
A.Vinatieri
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
2
0
0
0
11
IND
T.Hilton
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
IND
R.Wayne
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
Possession Detail
Largest Lead
Drives Leading
Time of Possession Leading
First Half
Second Half
Game
Visitor
Home
Visitor
Home
Visitor
Home
7
2
4
0
0
2
3
2
7
4
4
2
1:17
0:00
4:52
2:49
6:09
2:49
Largest Deficit
-4
-7
-3
0
-4
-7
Drives Trailing
1
4
3
2
4
6
2:22
11:06
6:46
8:19
9:08
19:25
Time of Possession Trailing
Times Score Tied Up
1
1
2
Lead Changes
4
2
6
Playtime Percentage
Percent of playtime per player on offense, defense and special teams
Miami Dolphins
Offense
Indianapolis Colts
Defense
Special Teams
Offense
Defense
Special Teams
R Incognito
G
63 100%
4
14% M McGlynn
G
80 100%
7
25%
J Jerry
G
63 100%
4
14% J Reitz
G
80 100%
7
25%
J Martin
T
63 100%
4
14% A Castonzo
T
80 100%
7
25%
R Tannehill
QB
63 100%
A Luck
QB
80 100%
J Long
T
63 100%
R Wayne
WR
78
98%
M Pouncey
C
61 97%
D Allen
TE
73
91%
4
14%
A Fasano
TE
60 95%
1
4% W Justice
T
60
75%
5
18%
D Bess
WR
54 86%
2
7% T Hilton
WR
57
71%
5
18%
B Hartline
WR
54 86%
RB
53
66%
C Clay
TE
34 54%
2
C
50
62%
11
39%
D Thomas
RB
33 52%
9
7% A Shipley
32% D Avery
WR
50
62%
R Bush
RB
28 44%
C
30
38%
J Gaffney
WR
27 43%
TE
29
36%
12
43%
J Lane
FB
12 19%
6
WR
26
32%
12
43%
M Moore
WR
10 16%
17
T
22
28%
7
25%
J Samuda
G
2
3%
RB
L Miller
RB
2
3%
J Mastrud
TE
1
2%
C Clemons
FS
N Carroll
V Ballard
S Satele
4
W Saunders
21% L Brazill
61%
B Sowell
14%
D Carter
15
19%
14
50%
J Linkenbach
T
7
9%
7
25%
R Hughes
RB
6
8%
5
18%
D Brown
RB
3
4%
J Freeman
LB
63 100%
3
11%
A Bethea
FS
63 100%
3
11%
C Vaughn
CB
62 98%
12
43%
T Zbikowski
SS
58 92%
10
36%
J Powers
CB
51 81%
2
7%
D Freeney
LB
48 76%
3
11%
C Redding
DE
44 70%
3
11%
J Hughes
LB
43 68%
10
36%
F Moala
DT
37 59%
4
14%
D Butler
CB
30 48%
10
36%
D Nevis
DT
26 41%
7
25%
K Conner
LB
25 40%
5
18%
A Johnson
NT
25 40%
4
14%
M Fokou
LB
24 38%
12
43%
R Mathis
LB
20 32%
J Hickman
4
14%
80 100%
11
39%
CB
80 100%
10
36%
R Jones
FS
80 100%
9
32%
S Smith
CB
80 100%
K Dansby
LB
80 100%
K Burnett
LB
74 92%
7
25%
J Odrick
DE
74 92%
6
21%
R Starks
DT
66 82%
7
25%
C Wake
DE
62 78%
J Wilson
FS
50 62%
24
86%
O Vernon
DE
44 55%
19
68%
P Soliai
DT
33 41%
6
21%
K Misi
LB
21 26%
3
11%
K Randall
DT
19 24%
5
18%
D Shelby
DE
18 22%
1
4%
J Trusnik
LB
13 16%
28
100%
R Stanford
CB
5
6%
12
43%
J Freeny
LB
1
1%
16
57%
LB
18 29%
18
64%
82% R Mathews
61% M Tevaseu
DE
17 27%
9
32%
NT
14 22%
1
4%
39% P Angerer
32% J Gordy
LB
13 21%
CB
11 17%
8
29%
LB
14
50%
A Spitler
LB
23
J Amaya
SS
17
M Thigpen
RB
11
D Carpenter
K
9
B Fields
P
8
J Denney
LS
8
29% M Harvey
29% S Brown
SS
18
64%
FS
18
64%
P
15
54%
LS
9
32%
D Presley
DB
7
25% J Lefeged
N Garner
G
4
14% P McAfee
M Overton
1
2%
STAT PACK
TEAM STATS
COLTS
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
3rd DOWN
EFFICIENCY
FIRST DOWNS
T
R
Pa Pe
TOTAL OFF.
YDS
PLYS
RUSHING
YDS
ATT
22
17
23
28
21
21
30
27
4
5
6
8
0
10
12
4
356
278
437
464
298
321
457
516
63
63
75
89
65
69
74
75
63
84
124
119
41
148
171
97
15
30
29
30
17
37
34
26
189
49 118 22
3,127
573
847
218
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
16
10
15
16
15
8
16
22
2
2
2
4
6
3
2
1
------------------PASSING-----------------YDS
ATT COM I
SK/YD
293
194
313
345
257
173
286
419
3
2
0
4
4
3
2
1
2,280 19 -
PUNTS PUNT RETURNS
KO RETURNS
NO-AVG NO YDS FC TD NO
YDS TD
INT BY IND
NO YDS TD
16
30
0
17
23
13
11
14
45
31
46
55
44
29
38
48
23
20
22
31
22
16
26
30
3
0
1
1
2
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5-51.4
5-53.6
6-46.7
5-44.6
3-43.7
5-48.4
2-43.5
2-49.5
2
1
4
2
0
1
1
4
12
11
29
13
0
8
13
29
1
1
1
5
3
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
1
5
0
4
1
3
2
73
19
139
0
71
24
28
52
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
124
336
190
8
2
4
1
33-47.7
15
115
13 0
20
406
0
3/11
27%
2/10
20%
7/16
10/19
44%
53%
8/20
40%
10/14
10/21
1028
11/4
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
-----------------PASSING------------------YDS
ATT COM I
SK/YD
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
6/15 40%
6/12 50%
13/19 68%
PEN.
NO-YDS
3
7
11
9
3
7
5
11
56 -
FUM. ---------------------SCORING--------------------NO/LT TD TDr TDp TDrt PAT
2-PT
FG
T.O.P.
19
51
106
100
27
50
45
91
2/2
0/0
0/0
1/0
2/2
1/1
2/0
2/0
3
2
2
3
0
2
2
2
1
0
0
1
0
2
1
0
1
2
2
2
0
0
1
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3/3
2/2
2/2
1/1
0/0
2/2
1/1
2/2
0/0
0/0
0/0
1/2
0/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
0/1
3/3
1/2
3/4
3/3
1/1
2/3
3/5
24:32
29:38
32:24
35:16
26:20
35:21
33:56
34:54
489
10/5
16
5
10
1
13/13
1/2
16/22
31:14
ATLANTA
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
[
OPPONENTS
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
3rd DOWN
EFFICIENCY
FIRST DOWNS
T
R
Pa Pe
TOTAL OFF.
YDS
PLYS
RUSHING
YDS
ATT
26
19
15
21
22
19
20
20
8
4
10
6
14
3
7
5
15
14
3
11
8
14
11
13
3
1
2
4
0
2
2
2
428
327
333
356
351
319
339
365
70
65
54
61
64
58
56
58
114
95
185
149
252
55
112
84
33
26
32
24
44
17
25
18
314
232
148
207
99
264
227
281
162
57
89
16
2,818
486
1,046
219
1,772
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
4/12
33%
7/15
47%
4/13
31%
4/13
31%
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
2
4
1
5
1
0
2
2
- 19
- 13
- 7
- 28
- 6
- 0
- 9
- 9
17 - 91
35
35
21
32
19
41
29
38
21
27
10
20
12
25
22
22
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
3
0
1
1
2
0
1
0
63
0
22
0
13
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
250
159
2
8
98
0
6/12
50%
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
PUNTS PUNT RETURNS
KO RETURNS
NO-AVG NO YDS FC TD NO
YDS TD
INT BY OPP.
NO YDS TD
6/13 46%
5/11
45%
13/19 68%
5-41.6
4-48.0
6-53.5
7-45.1
5-52.0
5-41.4
3-43.3
4-53.3
1
5
3
4
0
2
1
1
23
51
8
19
0
12
19
12
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
4
1
3
2
2
1
3
49
111
20
95
54
55
7
79
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
39-47.27 17
144
4
0
18
470
0
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
COLTS
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
11/18
11/25
12/2
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
66 -
1ST
7
7
7
0
3
7
3
7
2ND
7
10
7
3
3
7
0
6
41
43
3RD
0
3
0
16
0
3
3
7
4TH
7
3
3
11
3
0
7
3
32
37
TOTAL
21
23
17
30
9
17
19
23
1ST
7
3
3
7
0
0
3
3
2ND
17
3
0
14
21
6
7
14
5
2
2
4
5
2
1
2
3
0
1
1
3
0
0
1
2
2
1
3
2
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5/5
2/2
1/1
3/3
5/5
1/1
1/1
2/2
0/0
0/0
0/1
0/1
0/0
0/1
0/0
0/0
2/2
2/2
3/3
0/2
0/0
0/0
2/3
2/2
35:28
30:22
27:36
24:44
33:40
24:39
30:53
25:06
638
8/1
23
9
14
0
18/18
0/3
9/12
28:46
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
6
159
26
82
49
3RD
10
0
10
0
7
7
0
0
4TH
7
14
9
6
7
0
3
3
34
49
T.O.P.
0/0
2/1
2/0
0/0
0/0
1/0
1/0
1/0
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
Opponents
OT
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
FUM. --------------------SCORING---------------------NO/LT TD TDr TDp TDrt PAT
2-PT
FG
48
105
67
89
110
75
65
79
TEAM SCORING BY QUARTER
* Punt number and average does not reflect blocks
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
PEN.
NO-YDS
7
11
6
9
8
9
8
8
OT
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
TOTAL
41
20
22
27
35
13
13
20
0
191
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
STAT PACK
INDIVIDUAL PASSING STATS
12 Andrew Luck
5 Drew Stanton
COMP
YDS
PCT
TD
INT
LG
RATING
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
45
31
46
55
23
20
22
31
309
224
313
362
51.1
64.5
47.8
56.4
1
2
2
2
3
0
1
1
26
41
40t
30
52.9
107.5
75.7
81.0
Did Not Play
Did Not Play
Did Not Play
Did Not Play
Inactive
Inactive
Inactive
Inactive
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
44
29
38
48
22
16
26
30
280
186
297
433
50.0
55.2
68.4
62.5
0
0
1
2
2
0
1
0
29
30
22
48
51.3
74.8
89.5
105.6
Did Not Play
Did Not Play
Did Not Play
Did Not Play
Inactive
Practice Squad
Practice Squad
Practice Squad
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
Career Totals
190
190
2,404
2,404
56.5%
56.5%
10
10
8
8
48
48
74.6
74.6
336
336
ATT
0
187
COMP
0
104
YDS
0
1,158
PCT
0.0%
55.6%
TD
8 Chandler Harnish
ATT
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
INT
0
5
0
9
LG
0
87t
RATING
0.0
63.1
ATT
0
0
COMP
0
0
YDS
0
0
PCT
0.0%
0.0%
TD
0
0
INT
LG
RATING
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
INDIVIDUAL RUSHING STATS
31 Donald Brown
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
Career Totals
NO.
YDS
9
16
18
17
48
45
62
84
14
0
74
415
33 Vick Ballard
LG
TD
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
5.3
2.8
3.4
4.9
Inactive
Inactive
80
5.7
0
0.0
18t
15
9
14
1
0
0
0
0
0
6
13
12
11
25
84
55
60
1.5
2.2
2.4
1.8
3.1
4.2
4.6
3.8
3
9
5
7
5
26
17
19
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
4
4
6
1
3
6
1
9
21
50
24
-1
12
28
5
4.5
5.3
12.5
4.0
-1.0
4.0
4.7
5.0
6
7
19
9
-1
5t
9
5
0
0
0
1
0
2
0
0
0
2
0
0
1
0
19
0
4
6
5
6
8
20
12
16
0
0
0
7
0
0
-1
0
0
0
0.0
3.5
0.0
0.0
-1.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
7
0
0
-1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
19
80t
1
11
77
77
266
266
3.5
3.5
26
26
0
0
27
27
148
148
5.5
5.5
19
19
3
3
3
19
6
112
2.0
5.9
7
37t
0
1
NO.
TD
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
319
1,742
4.3
4.2
26 Mewelde Moore
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
Career Totals
NO.
YDS
0
1
2
0
-2
0
3
3
0
9
503
11 Donnie Avery
12 Andrew Luck
AVG
13 T.Y. Hilton
34 Delone Carter
AVG
LG
TD
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
0.0
-2.0
0.0
Inactive
5
1.7
11
3.7
0
0.0
NWT
0
-2
0
0
0
0
5
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
1.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
1
1
0.0
0.0
1
1
0
0
14
2,261
1.6
4.5
5
33
0
6
0
50
0
4
11
2
8
25
126
YDS
AVG
LG
83 Dwayne Allen
Inactive
Inactive
Inactive
0
0.0
13
3.3
41
3.7
8
4.0
31
3.9
0
5
6
7
9
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
93
470
9
42
1
3
1
1
3.6
3.7
STAT PACK
INDIVIDUAL RECEIVING STATS
87 Reggie Wayne
15 LaVon Brazill
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
@ Chicago
9
135
15
23
0
1
10
10.0
10
0
9/16
MINNESOTA
6
71
11.8
30t
1
9/23
10/7
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
8
88
11.0
16
0
0
13
212
16.3
30
1
0
0
0.0
0
0
10/14
@ NY Jets
5
87
17.4
29
0
1
14
14.0
14
0
10/21
CLEVELAND
6
73
12.2
30
0
0
0
0.0
0
0
10/28
11/4
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
7
91
13.0
22
0
1
9
9.0
9
7
78
11.1
21
1
2
25
12.5
19
11/8
@ Jacksonville
11/18
@ New England
11/25
12/2
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
12/9
TENNESSEE
12/16
@ Houston
12/23
12/20
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
NO.
YDS
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
Inactive
0
0
0.0
0
0
Inactive
1
3
3.0
3t
1
5
35
7.0
17
0
Injured Reserve
4
38
9.5
11
1
Injured Reserve
2
33
16.5
21
0
Injured Reserve
1
9
9.0
9
0
0
Injured Reserve
4
56
14.0
20
0
0
Injured Reserve
6
75
12.5
22
0
DNP
0
0.0
83 Dwayne Allen
17 Austin Collie
NO.
9/9
0
0
1
6
AVG
6.0
LG
6
TD
0
2012 Totals
61
835
13.7
30t
3
5
58
11.6
19
0
1
6
6.0
6
0
23
249
10.8
21
2
Career Totals
923
12,543
13.6
71t
76
5
58
11.6
19
0
173
1,845
10.7
73t
16
23
249
10.8
21
2
11 Donnie Avery
81 Kris Adams
33 Vick Ballard
80 Coby Fleener
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
9/9
@ Chicago
3
37
12.3
26
1
2
26
13.0
13
0
6
82
13.7
24
0
0
0
0.0
0
0
9/16
MINNESOTA
9
111
12.3
41
0
0
0
0.0
0
0
2
16
8.0
9
0
0
0
0.0
0
0
9/23
JACKSONVILLE
2
28
14.0
15
0
0
0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0
0
10/7
GREEN BAY
3
22
7.3
10
0
NWT
5
41
8.2
18
0
1
4
4.0
4
0
10/14
@ NY Jets
4
60
15.0
24
0
Practice Squad
4
42
10.5
12
0
2
17
8.5
9
0
10/21
CLEVELAND
4
46
11.5
16
0
Practice Squad
2
17
8.5
10
0
1
19
19.0
19
0
10/28
@ Tennessee
4
42
10.5
17
0
Practice Squad
2
24
12.0
15
0
1
16
16.0
16t
1
11/4
MIAMI
5
108
21.6
48
0
Practice Squad
3
38
12.7
15
0
11/8
@ Jacksonville
11/18
@ New England
11/25
BUFFALO
12/2
@ Detroit
12/9
TENNESSEE
12/16
@ Houston
12/23
@ Kansas City
12/30
HOUSTON
Inactive
2012 Totals
34
454
13.4
41
1
2
26
13.0
13
0
21
222
10.6
24
0
8
94
11.2
19
1
Career Totals
137
1,762
12.9
69t
10
2
26
13.0
13
0
21
222
10.6
24
0
8
94
11.2
19
1
NO.
YDS
LG
TD
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
0
0
0.0
0
0
0.0
0
0
46 Dominique Jones
26 Mewelde Moore
31 Donald Brown
13 T.Y. Hilton
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
AVG
TD
9/9
@ Chicago
1
8
8.0
8
0
1
11
11.0
11
0
9/16
MINNESOTA
0
0
0.0
0
0
1
8
8.0
8
0
1
15
15.0
15
0
0
0
9/23
JACKSONVILLE
0
0
0.0
0
0
1
4
4.0
4t
1
4
113
28.3
40t
1
1
39
39
39
0
10/7
GREEN BAY
0
0
0.0
0
0
3
37
12.3
26
0
2
8
4.0
5
0
10/14
@ NY Jets
Practice Squad
0
10/21
CLEVELAND
Practice Squad
0
0
10/28
@ Tennessee
NWT
1
13
11/4
MIAMI
NWT
11/8
@ Jacksonville
11/18
@ New England
11/25
BUFFALO
12/2
@ Detroit
12/9
TENNESSEE
12/16
@ Houston
12/23
@ Kansas City
12/30
HOUSTON
Inactive
0
0.0
Inactive
Inactive
0
0
3
31
10.3
16
0
0.0
0
0
2
22
11.0
14
0
13.0
13
0
5
35
7.0
14
0
0
0
0.0
0
0
6
102
17.0
36
1
1
7
7.0
7
0
NWT
Inactive
2012 Totals
1
8
8.0
8
0
4
36
9.0
13
1
24
355
14.8
40t
2
4
54
13.5
39
0
Career Totals
1
8
8.0
8
0
218
1,911
8.8
50
8
24
355
14.8
40t
2
51
514
10.1
72
0
LG
TD
NO.
LG
TD
NO.
YDS
AVG
LG
TD
0
10 Nathan Palmer
NO.
YDS
AVG
85 Weslye Saunders
YDS
AVG
9/9
@ Chicago
NWT
9/16
MINNESOTA
NWT
NWT
9/23
JACKSONVILLE
NWT
NWT
10/7
GREEN BAY
0
0
0
0
0
10/14
@ NY Jets
1
-4
-4.0
-4
0
10/21
CLEVELAND
0
0
0.0
0
0
10/28
@ Tennessee
11/4
MIAMI
11/8
@ Jacksonville
11/18
@ New England
11/25
BUFFALO
12/2
@ Detroit
12/9
TENNESSEE
12/16
@ Houston
12/23
@ Kansas City
12/30
HOUSTON
NWT
NWT
NWT
0
0
0.0
0
Inactive
1
11
11.0
11
0
Inactive
0
0
0.0
0
0
2012 Totals
1
-4
-4.0
-4
0
1
11
11.0
11
0
0
0
0.0
0
0
Career Totals
1
-4
-4.0
-4
0
5
40
8.0
14
1
0
0
0.0
0
0
51
STAT PACK
INDIVIDUAL KICKING STATS
COLTS
FIELD GOALS
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/20
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
OPPONENTS
11-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50+ TOTAL
FIELD GOALS
50+
TOTAL
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
1-1
0-0
2-2
1-1
0-0
1-1
1-1
0-1
0-0
1-2
0-0
0-0
1-1
0-1
0-0
0-0
1-1
0-0
0-0
1-1
0-0
1-1
2-3
0-0
1-1
0-0
1-2
1-1
0-0
0-0
0-1
0-1
3-3
1-2
3-4
3-3
1-1
2-3
3-5
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
1-1
1-1
1-1
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
1-1
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
2-2
2-2
0-0
0-0
2-2
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-1
0-0
0-0
1-1
0-0
0-2
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
2-2
2-2
3-3
0-2
0-0
0-0
2-3
2-2
0-0
6-6
2-5
5-6
3-5
16-22
0-0
3-3
5-5
2-3
1-3
11-14
INDIVIDUAL PUNTING STATS
INDIVIDUAL PUNT RETURNS
1 Pat McAfee
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
Career Totals
NO.
YDS
AVG
TB
IN20
LG
BL
NET
5
5
6
5
3
5
2
2
257
268
280
223
131
242
87
99
51.4
53.6
46.7
44.6
43.7
48.4
43.5
49.5
1
0
1
0
1
2
1
0
2
0
2
2
2
1
0
1
63
64
63
47
55
59
48
59
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
42.8
43.4
42.0
40.8
37.0
38.0
24.0
43.5
33
250
1,587
11,253
48.1
45.0
6
22
10
73
11-19 20-29 30-39 40-49
64
66
0
1
9/9
@ Chicago
9/16
MINNESOTA
9/23
10/7
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
10/14
@ NY Jets
10/21
CLEVELAND
10/28
11/4
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
11/8
@ Jacksonville
11/18
@ New England
11/25
12/2
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
12/9
TENNESSEE
12/16
@ Houston
12/23
12/30
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
40.1
44.9
15 LaVon Brazill
13 T.Y. Hilton
NO. YDS AVG FC LG TD NO. YDS AVG FC LG TD
2
12
6.0 1 8
0
Inactive
Did Not Play
1
11 11.0 1 11 0
0
0
0.0 0 0
0
4
29 7.3 1 14 0
0
0
0.0 0 0
0
2
13 6.5 5 7
0
0
0
0.0 0 0
0
0
0
0.0 3 0
0
0
0
0.0 0 0
0
1
8
8.0 2 8
0
0
0
0.0 0 0
0
1
13 13.0 0 13 0
2
2
2012 Totals
Career Totals
12
12
6.0
6.0
1
1
8
8
0
0
9
9
74
74
8.2 12 14
7.6 12 14
0
0
INDIVIDUAL KICKOFF RETURNS
15 LaVon Brazill
NO.
9/9
9/16
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
1
9/23
10/7
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
11/8
11/18
11/25
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
12/2
@ Detroit
AVG
LG
20 Cassius Vaughn
TD NO. YDS
15
15.0
15
Did Not Play
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0
0
2
0
0
0
35
0
0
0
17.5
0.0
0.0
0.0
2012 Totals
3
50
Career Totals
3
50
12/9
TENNESSEE
12/16
@ Houston
12/23
@ Kansas City
12/30
YDS
AVG
LG
26 Mewelde Moore
TD NO. YDS AVG
7.0
0.0
LG
TD
7
0
0
0
2
0
51
0
25.5
0.0
28
0
0
0
1
0
7
0
0
0
4
0
113
0
28.3
0.0
40
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0
Inactive
20
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
2
0
36
0
9
0
18.0
0.0
4.5
0.0
19
0
9
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
24
19
0.0
24.0
19.0
NWT
16.7
20
0
10
209
20.9
40
0
3
50
16.7
20
0
19
544
28.6
97t
1
47
839
13 T.Y. Hilton
NO. YDS AVG
LG
Inactive
19.0
19
28 Tom Zbikowski
TD
NO. YDS AVG LG
TD
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
1
19
0
1
0
26
0
26
0.0
26
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
24
19
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
52
0.0
0.0
0.0
26.0
0
0
0
34
0
0
0
0
16.7
24
0
2
45
22.5
26
0
2
52
26.0
34
0
17.9
33
0
2
45
22.5
26
0
2
52
26.0
26
0
HOUSTON
52
STAT PACK
INDIVIDUAL DEFENSIVE STATS
93 Dwight Freeney
TACKLES
SOLO - ASST. -- TOTAL
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
CAREER TOTALS
0
0
0
SKS
0.0
Inactive
Inactive
1.0
0.0
INT
0
98 Robert Mathis
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
DEF. FUM. REC. SOLO - ASST. -- TOTAL
0
0
0
6
5
1
2
2
3
2
2
8
8
3
4
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
9/23
10/7
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
10/14
@ NY Jets
10/21
CLEVELAND
10/28
11/4
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
11/8
@ Jacksonville
11/18
@ New England
11/25
12/2
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
12/9
TENNESSEE
12/16
@ Houston
12/23
12/30
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totoal
CAREER TOTALS
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
3
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
3
0
0
1
2
2
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0.0
0.0
1.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
2
1.0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
4
306
2
58
6
364
2.0
104.5
0
0
1
15
0
43
0
3
16
350
9
114
25
464
6.0
89.5
0
0
0
15
1
40
0
14
5
6
1
3
6
9
SKS
INT
41 Antoine Bethea
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
SKS
INT
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Inactive
Inactive
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
3
1
0
1
1
1
1
1
5
4
0
8
2
2
1
0.0
1.0
0.0
0.0
1.0
0.0
1.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
8
9
1
4
6
6
7
3
4
4
1
3
0
0
4
3
12
13
2
7
6
6
11
6
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
1
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
3
0
3
0
1
1
3
1
4
1
0
3
3
15
25
8
13
23
38
3.0
4.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
44
470
19
284
63
754
0.0
0.5
0
12
6
40
0
5
0
3
4
47
8
30
12
77
SKS
INT
53 Kavell Conner
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
SKS
INT
INT
PASS FOR
DEF. FUM.
FUM.
REC.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
95 Fili Moala
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
DEF. FUM. REC. SOLO - ASST. -- TOTAL SKS
1
2
3
0
7
1
1
0
28 Tom Zbikowski
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
CAREER TOTALS
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
TACKLES
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
68 Martin Tevaseu
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
1
0
0
92 Jerry Hughes
9/16
2.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
Inactive
Inactive
Inactive
INT
2
1
TACKLES
9/9
SKS
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Inactive
Inactive
Inactive
0.0
0.0
2.0
INT
PASS FOR
DEF. FUM.
FUM.
REC.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
90 Cory Redding
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
4
1
3
2
4
1
4
2
0
1
5
2
3
1
0
1
4
2
8
4
7
2
4
3
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
4
2
4
5
4
3
2
4
4
3
1
4
3
5
2
8
8
5
5
9
7
8
4
0.0
1.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
3
2
0
4
1
3
0
0
7
1
6
2
2
0
2
2
4
2
21
62
13
21
34
83
0.0
1.0
0
2
4
8
0
0
0
0
28
109
26
96
50
201
1.0
1.0
0
0
4
6
0
2
0
2
10
289
12
140
22
429
0.0
0.0
0.0
2.0
0.0
Inactive
0.0
0.0
2.0
27.5
INT
PASS FOR
DEF. FUM.
FUM.
REC.
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
3
15
0
4
1
10
\
50 Jerrell Freeman
TACKLES
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
CAREER TOTALS
SKS
INT
91 Ricardo Mathews
58 Moise Fokou
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
SKS
INT
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
INT
PASS FOR
DEF. FUM.
FUM.
REC.
6
10
8
6
8
5
11
1
7
8
8
5
11
2
4
1
13
18
16
11
19
7
15
2
0.0
1.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
4
3
1
1
0
4
0
0
0
3
2
0
0
0
2
2
4
6
3
1
0
4
0.0
0.0
0.0
1.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
1
2
1
1
0
2
0
0
1
3
1
2
0
2
1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
55
55
46
46
101
101
1.0
1.0
1
1
2
2
1
1
0
0
17
83
5
37
18
116
1.0
2.0
0
0
1
5
0
2
0
0
3
14
7
16
10
30
0.0
1.0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
53
STAT PACK
99 Antonio Johnson
TACKLES
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
CAREER TOTALS
SKS
INT
25 Jerraud Powers
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
CAREER TOTALS
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
9
1
4
2
4
7
2
1
1
1
0
3
1
3
1
6
10
2
4
5
5
10
3
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
2
1
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
2
1
1
1
0
1
0
0
3
2
1
1
1
1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
96
7
55
17
151
0.0
1.5
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
1
34
165
11
55
45
220
0.0
0.0
1
6
7
32
0
1
0
1
3
3
6
6
9
9
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
2
5
2
1
5
7
3
2
1
1
0
3
1
10
136
9
30
19
166
SKS
0.0
0.0
0.0
Inactive
Did Not Play
0.0
0.0
Innactive
0.0
1.0
INT
54 Mario Harvey
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
0
32
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
97
1
0
1
2
38
2
0
1
3
134
SKS
0.0
0.0
0.0
Inactive
NWT
NWT
NWT
NWT
0.0
1.0
INT
0
0
0
0
1
SKS
INT
SKS
INT
38 Sergio Brown
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
1
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
1
2
0
1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
3
3
2
2
5
5
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
37
0
4
2
41
94 Drake Nevis
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
2
0
0
2
3
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
SKS
INT
1
3
1
2
5
2
3
2
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
1.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
3
1
1
1
0
6
15
13
23
19
38
1.0
1.0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
4
40
2
19
6
59
20 Darius Butler
0
0
0
5
2
3
3
4
0
0
0
0
2
0
1
2
0
0
0
5
4
3
4
6
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
2
1
1
2
17
35
5
9
22
44
0.0
0.0
0
1
2
6
0
0
0
0
2
85
1
10
2
92
54
SKS
NWT
NWT
NWT
0.0
0.0
Inactive
Inactive
0.0
0.0
0.0
INT
PASS FOR
DEF. FUM.
FUM.
REC.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0
1
2
3
0
0
0
1
27 Josh Gordy
0
2
0
2
3
2
2
2
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
INT
NWT
NWT
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
1
1
1
0
2
0
1
0
32 Cassius Vaughn
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
CAREER TOTALS
FUM.
REC.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
TACKLES
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
PASS FOR
DEF. FUM.
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
21 Justin King
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
INT
1
0
5
0
5
2
2
2
TACKLES
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
55 Justin Hickman
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
0
0
4
0
2
0
1
0
23 Vontae Davis
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
CAREER TOTALS
INT
1
0
1
0
3
2
1
2
TACKLES
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
SKS
0.0
0.0
Inactive
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
INT
PASS FOR
DEF. FUM.
FUM.
REC.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
1
6
0
0
0
1
66 Clifton Geathers
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
8
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
1
1
2
3
INT
NWT
NWT
NWT
Practice Squad
1
0.0
0
2
0.0
0
0
0.0
0
Innactive
3
5
0.0
0.0
0
0
PASS FOR
DEF. FUM.
FUM.
REC.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
STAT PACK
51 Pat Angerer
TACKLES
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
CAREER TOTALS
PLAYER
Robert Mathis
4
1
1
2
1
1
6
2
2
6
132
4
99
10
231
SKS
Inactive
Inactive
Inactive
Inactive
Inactive
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
2.0
35 Joe Lefeged
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
SKS
INT
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
6
0
3
0
1
1
14
0
18
1
32
0.0
0.0
0
2
0
4
0
0
0
0
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
at JAC at NE
BUF
at DET
GAME-BY-GAME SACKS
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
at Chi
MIN
JAC
GB
at NYJ
CLE
at TEN
MIA
2.0/19 1.0/1
1.0/7
1.0/6
Jerrell Freeman
1.0/10
Kavell Conner
1.0/0
Jerry Hughes
1.0/2
67 Lawrence Guy
INT
PASS FOR FUM.
TACKLES
1
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
0
1
1
12/9
NWT
NWT
NWT
NWT
NWT
0.0
0.0
Inactive
0.0
0.0
INT
PASS FOR
DEF. FUM.
FUM.
REC.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
12/16 12/23 12/30
TEN at HOU at KC
Tot.
HOU
1.0/9
6.0/42
1.0/10
1.0/0
1.0/6
1.0/1
3.0/9
Moise Fokou
1.0/6
1.0/6
Cory Redding
2.0/12
2.0/12
Dwight Freeney
1.0/4
1.0/0
TEAM TOTAL
PLAYER
Jerrell Freeman
2.0/19 4.0/13 1.0/7
5.0/28
1.0/6
0/0.0
1.0/8
2.0/9
2.0/9
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
MIN
JAC
GB
at NYJ
CLE
at TEN
MIA
1/4t
11/18
11/25
12/2
at JAC at NE
11/8
BUF
at DET
12/9
12/16 12/23 12/30
TEN at HOU at KC
Tot.
HOU
1/4t
1/0
1/4t
16.0/91
GAME-BY-GAME INTERCEPTIONS
at Chi
Jerraud Powers
TEAM TOTAL
2.0/4
1.0/8
Drake Nevis
0/0
0/0
1/0
1/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
55
2/4t
STAT PACK
INSIDE 20 EFFICIENCY
COLTS
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
Pos
4
3
3
5
2
3
4
2
TD
2
1
1
3
0
2
2
1
PAT
2
1
1
1
0
2
2
1
2-Pt.
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
FG
0
2
1
2
1
1
1
1
MFG
1
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
INT
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
Fum
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Pts
14
13
10
27
3
17
16
10
TD%
50.0%
33.3%
33.3%
60.0%
0.0%
66.7%
50.0%
50.0%
Score Pts/
Pct.
Poss
50.0% 3.5
100.0% 4.3
66.7% 3.3
100.0% 5.4
50.0% 1.5
100.0% 5.7
75.0% 4.0
100.0% 5.0
26
12
10
1
9
3
2
0
110
46.2%
80.2%
Score Pts/
Pct.
Poss
100.0% 5.7
100.0% 5.7
100.0% 3.0
100.0% 6.7
100.0% 7.0
100.0% 6.0
100.0% 3.0
100.0% 4.3
4.2
OPPONENTS
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
Pos
6
3
2
3
5
1
2
3
TD
4
2
0
3
5
1
0
1
PAT
4
2
0
2
5
0
0
1
2-Pt.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
FG
2
1
2
0
0
0
2
2
MFG
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
INT
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Fum
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Pts
34
17
6
20
35
6
6
13
TD%
66.7%
66.7%
0.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
0.0%
33.3%
25
16
14
0
9
0
0
0
137
64.0% 100.0%
56
5.5
STAT PACK
GOAL TO GO
COLTS
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/20
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
Score Pts/
Pct.
Poss
100.0% 7.0
100.0% 7.0
100.0% 7.0
100.0% 6.0
0.0%
0.0
100.0% 7.0
100.0% 5.0
100.0% 7.0
Pos
1
1
1
4
0
2
2
1
TD
1
1
1
3
0
2
1
1
PAT
1
1
1
1
0
2
1
1
2-Pt.
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
FG
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
MFG
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
INT
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Fum
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Pts
7
7
7
24
0
14
10
7
TD%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
75.0%
0.0%
100.0%
50.0%
100.0%
12
10
8
1
2
0
0
0
76
83.3% 100.0%
6.3
OPPONENTS
9/9
9/16
9/23
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/8
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9
12/16
12/23
12/30
@ Chicago
MINNESOTA
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
@ NY Jets
CLEVELAND
@ Tennessee
MIAMI
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
Score Pts/
Pct.
Poss
100.0% 7.0
100.0% 7.0
100.0% 3.0
100.0% 6.5
100.0% 7.0
100.0% 6.0
100.0% 3.0
0.0%
0.0
Pos
3
1
1
2
3
1
1
0
TD
3
1
0
2
3
1
0
0
PAT
3
1
0
1
3
0
0
0
2-Pt.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
FG
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
MFG
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
INT
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Fum
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Pts
21
7
3
13
21
6
3
0
TD%
100.0%
100.0%
0.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
0.0%
0.0%
12
10
8
0
2
0
0
0
74
83.3% 100.0%
57
6.2
STAT PACK
GAME-BY-GAME STARTERS
OFFENSE
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
TE
WR
QB
F
RB
S. Olsen
S. Satele
M. McGlynn
W. Justice
C. Fleener
D. Avery
A. Luck
D. Brown (RB)
D. Jones (FB)
A. Castonzo
S. Olsen
S. Satele
M.McGlynn J. Linkenbach
C. Fleener
D. Avery
A. Luck
D. Allen
D. Brown
A. Castonzo
S. Olsen
S. Satele
M. McGlynn
W. Justice
C. Fleener
D. Avery
A. Luck
D. Allen
D. Brown
A. Castonzo J. Linkenbach A. Shipley M. McGlynn
W. Justice
C. Fleener
D. Avery
A. Luck
D. Allen
D. Brown
V. Ballard
D. Allen (TE) A. Castonzo
9/9
@ Chicago
9/16
MINNESOTA
R. Wayne
9/23
JACKSONVILLE
R. Wayne
10/7
GREEN BAY
R. Wayne
10/14 @ NY Jets
R. Wayne
A. Castonzo J. Linkenbach
S. Satele
M. McGlynn
W. Justice
C. Fleener
D. Avery
A. Luck
D. Allen
10/21 CLEVELAND
R. Wayne
A. Castonzo J. Linkenbach
S. Satele
M. McGlynn
W. Justice
T. Hills
D. Avery
A. Luck
D. Allen
V. Ballard
10/28 @ Tennessee
R.Wayne
A.Castonzo
J. Linkenbach
S. Satele
M.McGlynn
W. Justice
C. Fleener
D. Avery
A. Luck
D. Allen
V. Ballard
11/4
MIAMI
R. Wayne
A. Castonzo
J. Reitz
S. Satele
M. McGlynn
W. Justice
W. Saunders
D. Avery
A. Luck
D. Allen
V. Ballard
11/8
@ Jacksonville
11/18 @ New England
11/25 BUFFALO
12/2
@ Detroit
12/9
TENNESSEE
12/16 @ Houston
12/23 @ Kansas City
12/30 HOUSTON
DEFENSE
DE
NT
DT
SLB
MIKE
WILL
RUSH
LCB
RCB
SS
FS
9/9
@ Chicago
C. Redding
A. Johnson
F. Moala
R. Mathis
K. Conner
J. Freeman
D. Freeney
V. Davis
J. Powers
T. Zbikowski
A. Bethea
9/16
MINNESOTA
C. Redding
A. Johnson
F. Moala
R. Mathis
K. Conner
J. Freeman
J. Hughes
V. Davis
J. Powers
T. Zbikowski
A. Bethea
9/23
JACKSONVILLE C. Redding
A. Johnson
F. Moala
R. Mathis
K. Conner
J. Freeman
J. Hughes
V. Davis
J. Powers
T. Zbikowski
A. Bethea
10/7
GREEN BAY
C. Redding
A. Johnson
F. Moala
R. Mathis
K. Conner
J. Freeman
D. Freeney
C. Vaughn
J. Powers
T. Zbikowski
A. Bethea
10/14 @ NY Jets
C. Redding
A. Johnson
D. Nevis
J. Hughes
K. Conner
J. Freeman
D. Freeney
C. Vaughn
J. Powers
T. Zbikowski
A. Bethea
10/21 CLEVELAND
R. Mathews
A. Johnson
D. Nevis
J. Hughes
K. Conner
J. Freeman
D. Freeney
V. Davis
J. Powers
T. Zbikowski
A. Bethea
10/28 @ Tennessee
C. Redding
A.Johnson
D. Nevis
J. Hughes
K. Conner
J. Freeman
D. Freeney
V. Davis
J. Powers
T. Zbikowski
A. Bethea
11/4
MIAMI
C. Redding
A. Johnson
F. Moala
R. Mathis
K. Conner
J. Freeman
D. Freeney
C. Vaughn
J. Powers
T. Zbikowski
A. Bethea
11/8
@ Jacksonville
11/18 @ New England
11/25 BUFFALO
12/2
@ Detroit
12/9
TENNESSEE
12/16 @ Houston
12/23 @ Kansas City
12/30 HOUSTON
GAME-BY-GAME INACTIVES
9/9
@ Chicago
QB C. Harnish, WR T. Hilton, WR A. Collie, RB D. Carter, ILB P. Angerer, T M. Person, G J.Reitz
9/16
MINNESOTA
QB C. Harnish, WR A. Collie, RB D. Carter, ILB P. Angerer, T W. Justice, G J, Reitz, OLB D. Freeney
9/23
JACKSONVILLE QB C. Harnish, CB J. Gordy, RB D. Carter, ILB P. Angerer, T B. Sowell, G J. Reitz, OLB D. Freeney
10/7
GREEN BAY
QB C. Harnish, CB J. King, CB V. Davis, RB M. Moore, ILB P. Angerer, G S. Olsen, G Joe Reitz
10/14 @ NY Jets
QB C. Harnish, RB D. Brown, ILB P. Angerer, NT M. Tevaseu, G J. Reitz, DE F. Moala, OLB R. Mathis
10/21 CLEVELAND
CB D. Butler, RB D. Brown, NT M. Tevaseu, G J. Reitz, DE C. Redding, DE F. Moala, OLB R. Mathis
10/28 @ Tennessee
WR N. Palmer, CB D. Butler, DE L. Guy, T T. Hills, DE F. Moala, NT A. Dixon, OLB R. Mathis
11/4
MIAMI
WR N. Palmer, CB V. Davis, CB M. Green, DE C. Geathers, DE L. Guy, T T.Hills, TE C. Fleener
11/8
@ Jacksonville
11/18 @ New England
11/25 BUFFALO
12/2
@ Detroit
12/9
TENNESSEE
12/16 @ Houston
12/23 @ Kansas City
12/30 HOUSTON
58
STAT PACK
COLTS 3RD & 4TH DOWN CONVERSIONS
3rd Down
Made
Att.
OPPONENTS 3RD & 4TH DOWN CONVERSIONS
4th Down
Effic.
Made
Att.
3rd Down
4th Down
Effic.
Made
Att.
Effic.
Made
Att.
12
33%
0
Effic.
9/9
@ Chicago
2
10
20%
2
2
100%
9/9
@ Chicago
4
0
0%
9/16
MINNESOTA
7
16
44%
0
0
0%
9//16
MINNESOTA
7
15
47%
1
1
100%
9/23
JACKSONVILLE
10/7
GREEN BAY
10
19
53%
0
0
0%
9/23
JACKSONVILLE
4
13
31%
0
0
8
20
40%
0
1
0%
10/7
GREEN BAY
4
13
31%
0
0
0%
10/14 @ NY Jets
6
12
50%
1
1
100%
0%
10/14 @ NY Jets
3
11
27%
0
0
0%
10/21 CLEVELAND
6
15
40%
1
1
100%
10/21 CLEVELAND
6
13
46%
0
1
0%
10/28 @ Tennessee
6
12
50%
1
1
100%
10/28 @ Tennessee
5
11
45%
0
0
0%
13
19
68%
0
0
0%
11/4
MIAMI
4
11
36%
0
1
0%
11/8
@ Jacksonville
11/4
MIAMI
11/8
@ Jacksonville
11/18 @ New England
11/18 @ New England
11/25 BUFFALO
11/25 BUFFALO
12/2
@ Detroit
12/2
@ Detroit
12/9
TENNESSEE
12/9
TENNESSEE
12/16 @ Houston
12/16 @ Houston
12/23 @ Kansas City
12/23 @ Kansas City
12/30 HOUSTON
12/30 HOUSTON
3rd Down And
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10+
SEASON
COLTS
4-11
8-9
9-16
5-14
3-8
3-8
2-2
2-4
3-7
16-43
55-122
OPPONENTS
8-10
6-8
2-7
3-7
7-8
3-11
1-6
2-6
1-5
7-32
40-100
COLTS SCORING DRIVES
Opponent
Qtr
Time Rem.
Plays
Net Yards
Poss.
How Acquired
Chicago (9/9)
1
-
-
-
-
Interception
Chicago (9/9)
2
3:17
5
77
2:15
Kickoff
Scoring play
J. Freeman 4 yd. interception return
D. Brown 18 yd. run
Chicago (9/9)
4
10:20
12
80
4:52
Punt
D. Avery 4 yd. pass from A. Luck
Minnesota (9/16)
1
0:49
13
80
6:59
Kickoff
D. Allen 3 yd. pass from A Luck
Minnesota (9/16)
2
1:49
9
40
4:13
Fumble
A. Vinatieri 26 yd. Field Goal
Minnesota (9/16)
2
0:07
8
64
1:04
Punt
Minnesota (9/16)
3
7:06
14
53
7:54
Kick off
Minnesota (9/16)
4
0:08
4
45
0:23
Kickoff
Jacksonville (9/23)
1
3:42
6
74
3:31
Kickoff
T. Hilton 40 yd. pass from A. Luck
Jacksonville (9/23)
2
0:37
14
80
4:53
Punt
M. Moore 4 yd. pass from A. Luck
Jacksonville (9/23)
4
0:56
5
48
0:37
Punt
Green Bay (10/7)
2
6:21
8
63
3:09
Punt
Green Bay (10/7)
3
11:06
5
39
2:13
Interception
Green Bay (10/7)
3
7:42
8
38
2:26
Punt
Green Bay (10/7)
3
0:18
6
58
2:59
Missed FG
Green Bay (10/7)
4
8:04
8
75
3:23
Punt
R. Wayne 30 yd. pass from A. Luck
D. Allen 8 yd. pass from A. Luck
A. Luck 3 yd. run
Green Bay (10/7)
4
0:35
13
80
3:55
Kickoff
New York Jets (10/14)
1
6:02
7
57
3:13
Punt
2
6:06
11
53
3:41
Kickoff
4
14:40
9
47
1:56
Kickoff
Cleveland (10/21)
1
7:23
11
80
7:37
Kickoff
A. Luck 3 yd. run
Cleveland (10/21)
2
7:41
14
76
6:20
Kickoff
A. Luck 5 yd. run
Cleveland (10/21)
3
3:19
17
61
8:34
Kickoff
Tennessee (10/28)
1
1:06
12
83
6:29
Kickoff
Tennessee (10/28)
3
10:20
10
49
4:40
Kickoff
Tennessee (10/28)
4
3:24
14
80
7:02
Kickoff
D. Carter 1 yd. run
Tennessee (10/28)
OT
10:11
9
80
4:49
Kickoff
V. Ballard 16 yd. pass from A. Luck
Miami (11/4)
1
0:47
9
80
3:28
Kickoff
Miami (11/4)
2
9:37
8
75
3:48
Kickoff
Miami (11/4)
2
0:07
10
58
1:07
Punt
Miami (11/4)
3
1:49
9
82
4:27
Punt
T. Hilton 36 yd. pass from A. Luck
Miami (11/4)
4
5:58
13
69
7:14
Kickoff
59
STAT PACK
OPPONENTS SCORING DRIVES
Opponent
Qtr
Time Rem.
Plays
Net Yards
Poss.
How Acquired
Chicago (9/9)
1
7:19
11
80
4:04
Kickoff
Chicago (9/9)
2
10:33
11
95
5:52
Punt
Chicago (9/9)
2
5:32
7
46
4:08
Interception
Chicago (9/9)
2
0:44
8
72
2:33
Kickoff
M. Bush 1 yd. run
Chicago (9/9)
3
11:52
4
55
2:10
Punt
M. Forte 6 yd. run
Chicago (9/9)
3
10:02
4
4
1:44
Fumble
Chicago (9/9)
4
6:08
7
80
4:12
Kickoff
A. Jeffery 42 yd. pass from J. Cutler
Minnesota (9/16)
1
7:48
12
44
7:12
Kickoff
B. Walsh 51 yd. Field Goal
Minnesota (9/16)
2
11:38
9
46
4:11
Kickoff
B. Walsh 29 yd. Field Goal
Minnesota (9/16)
4
5:07
10
54
5:03
Punt
Minnesota (9/16)
4
0:31
9
47
2:19
Punt
Jacksonville (9/23)
1
7:13
14
54
7:47
Kickoff
J.Scobee 44 yd. Field Goal
Jacksonville (9/23)
3
12:05
1
59
0:11
Punt
M. Jones-Drew 59 yd. run
Jacksonville (9/23)
3
2:55
7
16
3:23
Interception
Jacksonville (9/23)
4
11:02
11
77
5:25
Punt
Jacksonville (9/23)
4
0:45
1
80
0:11
Kickoff
C.Shorts 80 yd. pass from B. Gabbert
Green Bay (10/7)
1
2:07
6
56
2:33
Downs
J. Kuhn 2 yd. run
Green Bay (10/7)
2
12:25
8
65
2:46
Punt
Ja. Jones 6 yd. pass from A. Rodgers
Green Bay (10/7)
2
4:21
3
66
2:00
Kickoff
R. Cobb 31 yd. pass from A. Rodgers
Green Bay (10/7)
4
4:30
2
49
0:14
Punt
Ja. Jones 8 yd. pass from A. Rodgers
2
14:13
14
80
6:49
Kickoff
2
9:47
5
35
3:04
Interception
2
0:27
11
70
5:39
Kickoff
3
1:36
7
91
3:54
Punt
4
1:05
5
14
2:47
Fumble
S. Greene 2 yd. run
Cleveland (10/21)
2
14:01
16
90
8:22
Kickoff
G. Little 14 yd. pass from B. Weeden
Cleveland (10/21)
3
11:53
6
80
3:07
Kickoff
J. Gordon 33 yd. pass from B. Weeden
Tennessee (10/28)
1
7:35
13
59
7:25
Kickoff
R. Bironas 39 yd. Field Goal
Tennessee (10/28)
2
1:00
12
72
6:28
Punt
K. Wright 23 yd. pass form M. Hasselbeck
Tennessee (10/28)
4
10:26
10
68
5:39
Punt
R. Bironas 30 yd. Field Goal
Miami (11/7)
1
4:15
11
42
5:19
Missed FG
Miami (11/7)
2
13:25
5
80
2:22
Kickoff
C. Clay 31 yd. pass from R. Tannehill
Miami (11/7)
2
5:07
9
80
4:30
Kickoff
R. Bush 18 yd. run
Miami (11/7)
4
13:12
10
52
Kickoff
D. Carpenter 31 yd. Field Goal
KICKOFF ANALYSIS
3:37
Scoring play
M. Bush 1 yd. run
B. Marshall 3 yd. pass from J. Cutler
R. Gould 35 yd. Field Goal
R. Gould 26 yd. Field Goal
S. Burton 7 yd. pass from C. Ponder
K. Rudolph 6 yd. pass from C. Ponder
S. Hill 5 yd. pass from M. Sanchez
S. Greene 10 yd. run
J. Hill 5 yd. pass from M. Sanchez
S. Greene 4 yd. run
D. Carpenter 37 yd. Field Goal
Opponent
No.
No. in EZ
TB
Opp. Ret
Ret. Yds.
Ret. Avg.
Out of Bounds
Onside Rec/Att
@ Chicago
4
4
2
2
49
24.5
0
0/0
MINNESOTA
6
5
2
4
111
27.8
0
0/0
JACKSONVILLE
4
4
3
1
20
20.0
0
0/0
GREEN BAY
7
7
4
3
95
31.7
0
0/0
@ NY Jets
4
4
2
2
54
27.0
0
0/0
CLEVELAND
4
4
2
2
55
27.5
0
0/0
@ Tennessee
4
3
3
1
7
7.0
0
0/0
MIAMI
5
5
3
3
79
26.3
0
0/0
38
36
21
18
470
24.0
0
0/0
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
2012 Totals
60
STAT PACK
WEEKLY TEAM RANKINGS
NFL
AFC
DEFENSE
OFFENSE
OFFENSE
RUSH
PASS
DEFENSE
OVERALL
RUSH
PASS
OVERALL
OVERALL
RUSH
PASS
OVERALL
Week 1
15/356.0
25/63.0
7/293.0
27/428.0
19/114.0 30/314.0
6/356.0
13/63.0
2/293.0
14/428.0
RUSH
PASS
Week 2
24/317.0
29/73.5
17/244.5
Week 3
14/357.0
23/90.3
12/266.7
21/377.5
14/104.5 25/273.0
12/317.0
13/73.5
7/244.5
9/377.5
7/104.5 12/273.0
20/362.6
25/131.3 14/231.3
8/357.0
11/90.3
7/266.7
8/362.6
12/131.3 5/231.3
Week 4
17/267.8
21/67.8
12/200.0
18/272.0
23/98.5
15/173.5
9/267.8
11/67.8
6/200.0
7/272.0
11/98.5 15/173.5
Week 5
10/307.0
19/78.0
6/229.0
19/288.8
25/107.0 15/181.8
5/307.0
11/78.0
2/229.0
8/288.8
11/107.0 6/181.8
Week 6
13/305.5
26/71.8
9/233.7
17/299.2
29/132.5
3/166.7
6/3035.5
12/71.8
5/233.7
7/299.2
14/132.5 1/166.7
Week 7
15/307.7
22/82.7
11/225.0
16/302.0
26/121.4
7/180.6
6/307.7
10/82.7
5/225.0
6/302.0
12/121.4 3/180.6
Week 8
8/373.0
17/107.1
9/265.9
19/350.4
27/137.4
7/213.0
Week 9
4/390.9
19T/105.9 6/285.0
18/352.3
25/130.8 11T/221.5
9/114.0 16/314.0
3/373.0
8/107.1
4/265.9
8/350.4
12/137.4 4/213.0
3/390.9
9T/105.9
3/285.0
7/352.3
10/130.8 5T/221.5
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
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Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Week 17
TURNOVER TABLE
OPPONENT
TAKEAWAYS
FUMBLES
INT
TOTAL
GIVEAWAYS
FUMBLES
INT
TOTAL
DIFFERENCE
RESULT
@ Chicago
0
1
1
2
3
5
-4
L, 21-41
MINNESOTA
1
0
1
0
0
0
1
W, 23-20
JACKSONVILLE
GREEN BAY
0
0
0
0
1
1
-1
L, 17-22
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
W, 30-27
@ NY Jets
0
0
0
2
2
4
-4
L, 9-35
CLEVELAND
0
0
0
1
0
1
-1
W, 17-13
@ Tennessee
0
0
0
0
1
1
-1
W, 19-13
MIAMI
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
W, 23-20
@ Jacksonville
@ New England
BUFFALO
@ Detroit
TENNESSEE
@ Houston
@ Kansas City
HOUSTON
TURNOVER EXCHANGE
POINT DIFFERENTIAL
TAKEAWAY
INT
FR
SCR
TD
FG
PTS
TD%
FG%
%PTS
COLTS
3
2
1
1
2
1
17
66.7%
100%
100%
OPPONENTS
13
8
5
4
2
3
23
15.4%
23.1%
38.5%
61
STAT PACK
BIG PLAYS
COLTS COMPLETIONS OVER 20 YARDS
OPPONENT COMPLETIONS OVER 20 YARDS
DATE
OPP
YDS
RECEIVER
PASSER
QTR
DATE
OPP
YDS
RECEIVER
PASSER
11/4
vs. Miami
36t
T. Hilton
A. Luck
3
10/21
vs. Browns
33t
J. Gordon
B. Weeden
QTR
3
11/4
vs. Miami
48
D. Avery
A. Luck
2
11/4
vs. Miami
31t
C. Clay
R. Tannehill
2
4
9/16
vs. Vikings
41
D. Avery
A. Luck
1
9/23
vs. Jacksonville
80
C. Shorts
B. Gabbert
9/23
vs. Jacksonville
40
T. Hilton
A. Luck
1
9/9
@ Chicago
42
A. Jeffery
J. Cutler
4
9/23
vs. Jacksonville
39
D. Brown
A. Luck
4
11/4
vs. Miami
35
B. Hartline
R. Tannehill
1
9/23
vs. Jacksonville
36
T. Hilton
A. Luck
4
9/9
@ Chicago
31
M. Forte
J. Cutler
2
9/23
vs. Jacksonville
32
T. Hilton
A. Luck
4
10/7
vs. Packers
31
R. Cobb
A. Rodgers
2
9/16
vs. Vikings
30
R. Wayne
A. Luck
2
9/9
@ Chicago
29
D. Hester
J. Cutler
2
10/7
vs. Packers
30
R. Wayne
A. Luck
2
9/28
@ Tennessee
29
N. Washington
M. Hasselbeck
3
10/21
vs. Browns
30
R. Wayne
A. Luck
1
9/28
@ Tennessee
29
J. Cook
M. Hasselbeck
4
10/7
vs. Packers
29
R. Wayne
A. Luck
2
10/7
vs. Packers
26
R. Cobb
A. Rodgers
4
9/9
@ Chicago
26
D. Avery
A. Luck
4
9/9
@ Chicago
25
D. Bennett
J. Cutler
2
10/7
vs. Packers
26
R. Wayne
A. Luck
4
10/21
vs. Browns
25
B. Watson
B.Weeden
3
10/7
vs. Packers
26
T. Hilton
A. Luck
4
9/9
@ Chicago
24
B. Marshall
J. Cutler
2
10/14
@ NY Jets
26
R. Wayne
A. Luck
4
10/7
vs. Packers
24
Ja. Jones
A. Rodgers
4
11/4
vs. Miami
25
T. Hilton
A. Luck
1
9/9
@ Chicago
23
A. Jeffery
J. Cutler
3
9/9
@ Chicago
24
C. Fleener
A. Luck
3
10/14
@ NY Jets
23
N. Bellore
T. Tebow
2
10/14
@ NY Jets
24
D. Avery
A. Luck
1
9/28
@ Tennessee
23
K. Wright
M. Hasselbeck
2
9/9
@ Chicago
23
R. Wayne
A. Luck
2
9/9
@ Chicago
22
B. Marshall
J. Cutler
4
9/9
@ Chicago
22
C. Fleener
A. Luck
2
9/23
vs. Jacksonville
22
K. Elliott
B. Gabbert
3
9/9
@ Chicago
22
C. Fleener
A. Luck
2
9/16
vs. Vikings
20
P. Harvin
C. Ponder
3
9/28
@Tennessee
22
R. Wayne
A. Luck
2
9/16
vs. Vikings
20
A Peterson
C. Ponder
4
9/28
@Tennessee
22
R. Wayne
A. Luck
3
11/4
vs. Miami
22
D. Allen
A. Luck
1
11/4
vs. Miami
22
D. Avery
A. Luck
3
9/9
@ Chicago
21
R. Wayne
A. Luck
4
10/14
@ NY Jets
21
D. Allen
A. Luck
2
11/4
vs. Miami
21
R. Wayne
A. Luck
2
9/9
@ Chicago
20
R. Wayne
A. Luck
4
9/16
vs. Vikings
20
D. Avery
A. Luck
4
9/16
vs. Vikings
20
R. Wayne
A. Luck
4
9/28
@Tennessee
20
D. Allen
A. Luck
1
9/28
@Tennessee
20
R. Wayne
A. Luck
OT
11/4
vs. Miami
20
T. Hilton
A. Luck
2
11/4
vs. Miami
20
D. Allen
A. Luck
4
DATE
OPP
YDS
RUSHER
QTR
DATE
OPP
YDS
RUSHER
10/21
vs. Browns
26
V. Ballard
4
11/4
vs. Miami
18t
R. Bush
2
9/23
vs. Jacksonville
25
A. Luck
4
10/14
@ NY Jets
61
J. McKnight
3
9/28
@ Tennessee
19
D. Brown
3
9/23
vs. Jacksonville
59
M. Jones-Drew
3
9/28
@ Tennessee
19
D. Brown
OT
10/7
vs. Packers
41
A. Green
4
9/9
@ Chicago
18
D. Brown
2
9/9
@ Chicago
32
M. Forte
1
OPPONENT RUSHES OVER 15 YARDS
COLTS RUSHES OVER 15 YARDS
QTR
9/9
@ Chicago
18
D. Brown
2
10/14
@ NY Jets
21
S. Greene
1
9/28
@ Tennessee
17
V. Ballard
3
9/9
@ Chicago
20
M. Bush
3
9/16
vs. Minnesota
16
A. Luck
3
11/4
vs. Miami
20
D. Thomas
2
9/16
vs. Minnesota
15
D. Brown
3
9/23
vs. Jacksonville
19
M. Jones-Drew
2
62
10/7
vs. Packers
19
A. Rodgers
1
10/14
@ NY Jets
19
S. Greene
2
10/14
@ NY Jets
16
S. Greene
4
STAT PACK
TEAM HIGHS AND LOWS
MOST POINTS
FEWEST POINTS
Colts
30
vs. Green Bay (10/7)
Opponents
41
at Chicago (9/9)
Colts
27
Opponents
24
at Chicago (9/9)
Colts
30
at Tennessee (10/28)
Opponents
26
at Chicago (9/9)
Colts
171
Opponents
252
at NY Jets (10/14)
Colts
37
vs. Cleveland (10/21)
Opponents
44
at NY Jets (10/14)
Colts
419
vs. Miami (11/4)
Opponents
314
at Chicago (9/9)
Colts
55
Opponents
41
Colts
31
Colts
16
Opponents
27
vs. Minnesota (9/16)
Opponents
10
vs. Jacksonville (9/23)
Colts
5.0
Opponents
4.0
two times, last at NY Jets (10/14
Colts
516
vs. Miami (11/4)
Colts
278
Opponents
428
at Chicago (9/9)
Opponents
319
MOST POINTS IN A HALF
9
at NY Jets (10/14)
13
two times, last at Tennessee (10/28)
Colts
3
four times, last vs. Cleveland (10/21)
Opponents
3
two times, last at Tennessee (10/28)
FEWEST POINTS IN A HALF
MOST FIRST DOWNS
FEWEST FIRST DOWNS
MOST RUSHING YARDS
Colts
17
Opponents
15
FEWEST RUSHING YARDS
MOST RUSHING ATTEMPTS
Colts
41
at NY Jets (10/14)
Opponents
55
FEWEST RUSHING ATTEMPTS
MOST PASSING YARDS
Colts
15
at Chicago (9/9)
Opponents
17
Colts
173
Opponents
99
at NY Jets (10/14)
Colts
29
Opponents
19
at NY Jets (10/14)
FEWEST PASSING YARDS
MOST PASS ATTEMPTS
FEWEST PASS ATTEMPTS
MOST PASS COMPLETIONS
FEWEST PASS COMPLETIONS
MOST SACKS
FEWEST SACKS
MOST TOTAL NET YARDS
Colts
0.0
Opponents
0.0
FEWEST TOTAL NET YARDS
MOST TIME OF POSSESION
FEWEST TIME OF POSSESION
Colts
35:21
Opponents
35:28
at Chicago (9/9)
Colts
3
at Chicago (9/9)
Opponents
1
Colts
11
two times, last vs. Miami (11/4)
Opponents
11
106
110
at NY Jets (10/14)
MOST INTERCEPTIONS
Colts
24:32
at Chicago (9/9)
Opponents
24:39
FEWEST INTERCEPTIONS
MOST PENALTIES
Colts
0
three times, last vs. Miami (11/4)
Opponents
0
six times, last vs. Miami (11/4)
Colts
3
two times, last at NY Jets (10/14)
Opponents
6
19
48
at Chicago (9/9)
at Chicago (9/9)
FEWEST PENALTIES
MOST YARDS PENALIZED
Colts
Opponents
Colts
Opponents
FEWEST YARDS PENALIZED
Colts
Opponents
63
STAT PACK
INDIVIDUAL HIGHS & TOP PERFORMANCES
MOST YARDS RUSHING
Colts
Opponents
RUSHING YARDS
84, two times
last, V. Ballard
84
V. Ballard
177
M. Jones-Drew
84
D. Brown
80
D. Brown
MOST RUSHING TOUCHDOWNS
Colts
2
A. Luck
Opponents
3
S. Greene
at NY Jets (10/14)
MOST YARDS PASSING
Colts
Opponents
433
333
A. Luck
J. Cutler
vs. Miami (11/4)
at Chicago (9/9)
MOST PASSING ATTEMPTS
Colts
55
A. Luck
Opponents
41
B.Weeden
RUSHING ATTEMPTS
20
V. Ballard
18
17
D. Brown
D. Brown
LONGEST RUSH
26
19
V. Ballard
V. Ballard
vs. Miami (11/4)
19
D. Brown
RECEPTIONS
MOST COMPLETIONS
13
R. Wayne
Colts
31
A. Luck
9
R. Wayne
Opponents
27
C. Ponder
9
D. Avery
HIGHEST COMPLETION PCT. (MIN 15 ATT)
at Chicago (9/9)
RECEIVING YARDS
Colts
68.40%
A. Luck
212
R. Wayne
Opponents
77.10%
C. Ponder
135
R. Wayne
113
T. Hilton
at Chicago (9/9)
MOST TOUCHDOWN PASSES
Colts
2, four times
last, A. Luck
vs. Miami (11/4)
3
A. Rodgers
Opponents
MOST RECEPTIONS
Colts
Opponents
13
12
R. Wayne
P. Harvin
MOST RECEIVING YARDS
Colts
212
R. Wayne
Opponents
119
B. Marshall
LONGEST RECEPTION
48
D. Avery
vs. Miami (11/4)
41
40
D. Avery
T. Hilton
PASSING ATTEMPTS
55
48
A. Luck
A. Luck
vs. Miami (11/4)
46
A. Luck
at Chicago (9/9)
PASS COMPLETIONS
MOST TOUCHDOWN RECEPTIONS
Colts
31
A. Luck
1, 10 times
last time T. Hilton
vs. Miami (11/4)
30
A. Luck
vs. Miami (11/4)
2
Ja. Jones
26
A. Luck
Colts
12
A. Luck
40
C. Vaughn
Opponents
18
S. Greene
at NY Jets (10/14)
34
T. Zbikowski
vs. Miami (11/4)
28
C. Vaughn
at Chicago (9/9)
Opponents
MOST POINTS
LONGEST KICKOFF RETURN
MOST SACKS
Colts
2, two times
last, C. Redding
Opponents
2, two times
last, Q. Coples
at NY Jets (10/14)
MOST INTERCEPTIONS
Colts
Opponents
1, two times
2
last, J. Powers
T. Jennings
at Chicago (9/9)
64
LONGEST FIELD GOAL
53
A. Vinatieri
50
50
A. Vinatieri
A. Vinatieri
at NY Jets (10/14)
UPDATED PLAYER BIOS
Dwayne Allen
#83
Tight End
6-3, 255 - College: Clemson - 1st Year with Colts - D3-2012
GP/GS/DNP/IA: 8/8/0/0
Career Games/Started: 8/8
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Started at tight end in his first career NFL contest at Chicago (9/9), but did not register a catch.
Caught his first NFL reception against Minnesota (9/16), which went for a three-yard touchdown.
Totaled five receptions for 35 yards and a long catch of 17 yards against Jacksonville (9/23).
Started at tight end and caught four passes for 38 yards (9.5 avg.) and one touchdown against Green Bay
(10/7). His eight-yard touchdown reception came from quarterback Andrew Luck in the third quarter.
Started at tight end and caught two passes for 33 yards against the New York Jets (10/14). Caught a
season-long pass of 21 yards in the second quarter.
Caught one pass for nine yards in a victory over the Cleveland Browns (10/21).
Finished with 56 receiving yards on four receptions while adding a long catch of 20 yards against Tennessee
(10/28). Also added one special teams tackle.
Set season highs with six receptions for 75 yards including a long reception of 22 yards against Miami
(11/4).
Game
Season
Career
Receptions
23
23
Yards
249
249
Avg.
10.8
10.8
LG
22
22
TD
2
2
Carries
1
1
Yards
0
0
Avg.
0.0
0.0
Pat Angerer
LG
0
0
TD
0
0
#51
Inside Linebacker
6-0, 236 - College: Iowa - 3rd Year with Colts - D2-2010
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Listed as inactive for the season opener at Chicago (9/9).
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 2 contest against Minnesota (9/16).
Listed as inactive for a Week 3 meeting against Jacksonville (9/23).
Listed as inactive for the Colts Week 5 contest against Green Bay (10/7).
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 6 meeting at the New York Jets (10/14).
Competed in his first game of the season against Cleveland (10/21) and finished with six tackles.
Saw action at linebacker and totaled two tackles and one pass defensed against Tennessee (10/28).
Posted two tackles in a 23-20 victory over Miami (11/4) in Week 9.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
6
132
Tackles
Asst.
Total
4
10
99
231
Sacks
0.0
2.0
66
INT
0
1
PD
1
6
FF
0
3
FR
0
1
UPDATED PLAYER BIOS
Donnie Avery
#11
Wide Receiver
5-11, 200 - College: Houston - 1st Year with Colts - UFA-2012
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Started at wide receiver in a Week 1 contest at Chicago (9/9) and totaled three receptions for 31 yards and
one touchdown. His touchdown came on a four-yard pass from quarterback Andrew Luck in the fourth
quarter and marked his second touchdown in as many games having scored in the 2011 regular season
finale as a member of the Tennessee Titans.
Led both teams in receiving with nine receptions for 111 yards (12.3 avg.) against Minnesota (9/16) and
added two carries for seven yards. The 111 receiving yards is his second-highest total in a game while his
nine receptions tied his single-game career-high, which he previously set on November 16, 2008 at San
Francisco.
Caught two passes for 28 yards, including a long reception of 15 yards against Jacksonville (9/23).
Finished with three catches for 22 yards vs. Green Bay (10/7) and topped 1,500 yards for his career.
Totaled four receptions for 60 yards and a long catch of 24 yards against the New York Jets in Week 6
(10/14). Also added one carry.
Made his sixth start of the season at wide receiver and finished the game with four receptions for 46 yards
against Cleveland (10/21).
Started at wide receiver against Tennessee (10/28) and caught four passes for 42 yards and a long
reception of 17 yards.
Led both teams in receiving with 108 yards on five catches against Miami (11/4), which includes a seasonlong grab of 48 yards. The game marked his second 100-yard performance of the season.
Game
Season
Career
Receptions
34
137
Yards
454
1,762
Avg.
13.4
12.9
LG
48
69t
TD
1
10
Carries
3
17
Yards
6
105
Avg.
2.0
6.2
Vick Ballard
LG
7
37t
TD
0
1
#33
Running Back
5-10, 217 - College: Mississippi St. - 1st Year with Colts - D5-2012
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Saw action at running back in his first career NFL contest against Chicago (9/9). Finished with four carries
for six yards.
Posted six carries for 13 yards and a long rush of nine yards against Minnesota (9/16).
Logged five rushes for 12 yards in a Week 3 loss to Jacksonville (9/23).
Against Green Bay (10/7) finished with six carries for 11 yards.
Made his first career NFL start in Week 6 against the Jets (10/14) and contributed with eight carries for 25
yards and two receptions for 17 yards.
Started at running back against Cleveland (10/21) and logged a season-high 84 rushing yards on 20 carries
while adding one reception for 19 yards. Contributed to the team’s season-high 148 rushing yards.
Started at running back against Tennessee (10/28) and totaled 12 carries for 55 yards and contributed with
the game-winning 16-yard touchdown reception in overtime to seal a 19-13 victory. Was part of a Colts
rushing attack that generated a season-high 171 rushing yards.
Against Miami (11/4), led both teams in rushing with 60 yards on 16 carries and added three receptions for
38 yards in his fourth career start.
Game
Season
Career
Carries
77
77
Yards
266
266
Avg.
3.5
3.5
LG
26
26
TD
0
0
67
Receptions
8
8
Yards
94
94
Avg.
11.8
11.8
LG
19
19
TD
1
1
UPDATED PLAYER BIOS
Antoine Bethea
#41
Safety
5-11, 196 - College: Howard - 7th Year with Colts - D6-2006
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Started at free safety in the season opener at Chicago (9/9) and finished second on the team in tackles with
12 (eight solo) while contributing with two passes defensed.
Made a start at free safety against Minnesota (9/16) and tallied 13 tackles (nine solo) and one PD.
Collared two tackles and one pass defensed in a Week 3 contest against Jacksonville (9/23).
Against the Packers (10/7) led the secondary with seven tackles (four solo).
Started at free safety against the Jets (10/14) and compiled six solo tackles.
Led the secondary with six tackles while adding one pass defensed in a win against Cleveland (10/21).
Made a start at free safety against Tennessee (10/28) and led the secondary with 11 tackles (seven solo).
Tied for the team lead in tackles with six (three solo) against Miami (11/4).
Game
Season
Career
Solo
44
470
Tackles
Asst.
Total
19
65
284
756
Sacks
0.0
0.5
INT
0
12
PD
5
39
FF
0
5
LaVon Brazill
FR
0
3
#15
Wide Receiver
5-11, 191 - College: Ohio - 1st Year with Colts - D6-2012
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•
•
•
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•
Against Chicago (9/9) in his first career NFL game, totaled one reception for 10 yards while contributing with
two punt returns for 12 yards and one kickoff return for 15 yards.
Did not play against Minnesota (9/16).
Competed on special teams against Jacksonville (9/23) and finished with one tackle.
Contributed on special teams against Green Bay (10/7).
Caught one pass for 14 yards and returned two kickoffs for 35 yards against the Jets (10/14).
Was targeted once at wide receiver and made a crucial special teams tackle on punt coverage in the fourth
quarter against Cleveland (10/21).
Caught one pass for nine yards and contributed on special teams against Tennessee (10/28).
Saw action at wide receiver against Miami (11/4) and totaled two catches for 25 yards and a long reception
of 19 yards.
Game
Season
Career
Receptions
5
5
Yards
58
58
Avg.
11.6
11.6
Game
Season
Career
No
2
2
Yards
12
12
Punt Returns
Avg.
6.0
6.0
Game
Season
Career
No
3
3
Yards
50
50
Kickoff Returns
Avg.
FC
16.7
0
16.7
0
68
LG
19
19
FC
1
1
TD
0
0
LG
8
8
TD
0
0
LG
20
20
TD
0
0
UPDATED PLAYER BIOS
Donald Brown
#31
Running Back
5-10, 210 - College: Connecticut - 4th Year with Colts - D1-2009
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•
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Started at running back in the season opener at Chicago (9/9) and compiled nine rushes for 48 yards (5.3
avg.) and one touchdown. Recorded his first touchdown of the season on an 18-yard rush.
Compiled 16 carries for 45 yards and a long rush of 15 yards against Minnesota (9/16).
Led the team in rushing with 18 carries for 62 yards (3.4 avg.) while adding one reception for 39 yards
against Jacksonville (9/23).
Led both teams in rushing with 17 carries for 84 yards (4.9 avg.) and added two receptions for eight yards
against Green Bay (10/7). His rushing total was the most since a career-high 161-yard performance against
Tennessee on December 18, 2011.
Listed as inactive for a Week 6 contest at the New York Jets (10/14).
Listed as inactive for a Week 7 meeting against the Cleveland Browns (10/21).
Led the team in rushing with 14 carries for 80 (5.7 avg.) and was part of a season-high 171 rushing yards
against Tennessee (10/28). On the team’s overtime scoring drive, totaled 39 yards on six carries.
Caught one pass for seven yards in reserve duty against Miami (11/4).
Game
Season
Career
Carries
74
415
Yards
319
1,742
Avg.
4.3
4.2
LG
19
80t
TD
1
11
Receptions
4
51
Yards
54
514
Avg.
13.5
10.1
Sergio Brown
LG
39
72
TD
0
0
#38
Safety
6-2, 210 - College: Notre Dame - 1st Year with Colts - W-2012
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Saw action in his first contest as a member of the Colts at Chicago (9/9).
Played in the team’s home opener against Minnesota (9/16), but did not record a tackle.
Totaled one tackle in a Week 3 meeting against Jacksonville (9/23) and added a stop on special teams.
Participated in the Colts secondary and on special teams against Green Bay (10/7) and totaled one tackle,
one pass defensed and three special teams stops.
Competed in a Week 6 contest at the New York Jets (10/14).
Saw action against Cleveland (10/21) in a Week 7 meeting.
Contributed in the secondary and on special teams against Tennessee (10/28).
Participated on special teams in a victory over Miami (11/4) and totaled one special teams stop.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
2
37
Tackles
Asst.
Total
0
2
4
41
Sacks
0.0
0.0
69
INT
0
1
PD
1
2
FF
0
0
FR
0
1
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Darius Butler
#20
Cornerback
5-10, 185 - College: Connecticut - 1st Year with Colts - FA-2012
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Signed by the Colts as a free agent on September 25, 2012.
Saw action against Green Bay (10/7) but did not record a tackle.
Compiled two solo tackles and one special teams stop against the New York Jets (10/14).
Listed as inactive for a Week 7 contest against Cleveland (10/21).
Listed as inactive for a Week 8 meeting at Tennessee (10/28).
Saw significant time in the secondary during a Week 9 contest against Miami (11/4) and totaled two tackles
and one pass defensed. Also added two special teams stops.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
3
84
Tackles
Asst.
Total
1
4
10
94
Sacks
0.0
0.0
INT
0
3
PD
1
9
FF
0
0
FR
0
0
Delone Carter
#34
Running Back
5-9, 238 - College: Syracuse - 2nd Year with Colts - D4-2011
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•
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•
•
•
•
Listed as inactive for the season opener at Chicago (9/9).
Listed as inactive against Minnesota (9/16) in Week 2.
Listed as inactive against Jacksonville (9/23) in Week 3.
Saw action in his first contest of the season against Green Bay (10/7).
Totaled four carries for 13 yards in his second game of the season at the New York Jets (10/14).
In a Week 7 meeting against Cleveland (10/21) tallied a season-high 11 carries for 41 yards and contributed
to the team’s season-high 148 rushing yards.
Contributed with two carries for eight yards and the game-tying one-yard touchdown rush with 3:24
remaining in the fourth quarter at Tennessee (10/28). Also added a seven-yard rush, which converted a
crucial fourth down on the team’s game-tying scoring drive.
Saw action at running back in a Week 9 victory over Miami (11/4) and totaled eight carries for 31 yards.
Game
Season
Career
Carries
25
126
Yards
93
470
Avg.
3.7
3.7
LG
9
42
TD
1
3
70
Receptions
0
5
Yards
0
18
Avg.
0.0
3.6
LG
0
7
TD
0
0
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Anthony Castonzo
#74
Tackle
6-7, 315 - College: Boston College - 2nd Year with Colts - D1-2011
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•
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•
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Started at left tackle in a Week 1 contest at Chicago (9/9) and blocked for the Colts to generate 356 net
yards.
Started at left tackle against Minnesota (9/16) and provided time for quarterback Andrew Luck to throw for
224 yards and two touchdowns.
Started at left tackle against Jacksonville (9/23) and opened rushing lanes for the Colts to generate a
season-high 124 rushing yards.
Made a start at left tackle against Green Bay (10/7) and blocked for quarterback Andrew Luck to set career
highs in completions (31), attempts (55) and yards (362).
Started at left tackle against the New York Jets (10/14) and provided time for the Colts to generate 298 total
net yards.
Blocked for a Colts rushing attack that totaled a season-high 148 yards against Cleveland (10/21).
Started at left tackle at Tennessee (10/28), and paved the way for a Colts rushing attack to generate a
season-high 171 rushing yards en route to 457 net yards.
Started at left tackle in a 23-20 Week 9 victory over Miami (11/4) and provided time for the Colts to total 516
net yards, including 419 net passing yards.
Kavell Conner
#53
Inside Linebacker
6-0, 243 - College: Clemson - 3rd Year with Colts - D7-2010
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•
•
•
•
•
•
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Started at MIKE linebacker at Chicago (9/9) in Week 1 and posted eight tackles and two tackles for loss.
Against the Vikings (9/16), started at MIKE linebacker and posted eight tackles (four solo), his first career
sack and one pass defensed.
Posted five tackles (two solo) against Jacksonville (9/23) in Week 3.
Tallied five tackles (four solo) and one tackle for loss against Green Bay (10/7).
Started at MIKE linebacker against the New York Jets (10/14) and finished the game having totaled nine
tackles (five solo) and one pass defensed.
Against Cleveland (10/21), started at MIKE linebacker and tied for the team lead with seven tackles.
Started at MIKE linebacker and registered eight tackles at Tennessee (10/28).
Totaled four tackles (two solo) in a Week 9 win against Miami (11/4) and added one pass defensed.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
28
109
Tackles
Asst.
Total
26
54
96
205
Sacks
1.0
1.0
71
INT
0
0
PD
3
5
FF
0
2
FR
0
2
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Vontae Davis
#23
Cornerback
5-11, 205 - College: Illinois - 4th Year with Colts - TR-2012
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•
•
•
•
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Started his first game as a member of the Colts at left cornerback against Chicago (9/9). Finished the game
with five tackles.
Started at left cornerback against Minnesota (9/16) and finished the game with seven tackles (five solo).
Started at left cornerback against Jacksonville (9/23) and recorded three tackles and one pass defensed.
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 5 contest against Green Bay (10/7).
Was active, but did not participate in a Week 6 contest at the New York Jets (10/14).
Made his first start at left cornerback in three weeks and registered three tackles against Cleveland (10/21).
Started at left cornerback and collared one tackle at Tennessee (10/28) before leaving the game with a knee
injury in the first quarter.
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 9 contest against Miami (11/4).
Game
Season
Career
Solo
10
136
Tackles
Asst.
Total
9
19
25
161
Sacks
0.0
1.0
INT
0
9
PD
1
33
FF
0
1
Coby Fleener
FR
0
0
#80
Tight End
6-6, 252 - College: Stanford - 1st Year with Colts - D2-2012
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•
•
•
•
•
•
In his first career NFL game, started at tight end against Chicago (9/9) and ranked second on the team in
receiving with six receptions for 82 yards (13.7 avg.) and a long reception of 24 yards.
Caught two passes for 16 yards with a long reception of nine yards against Minnesota (9/16).
Was targeted twice in a Week 3 matchup against Jacksonville (9/23), but did not register a catch.
Finished second on the team in receiving with five catches for 41 yards against the Packers (10/7).
Started at tight end and caught four passes for 42 yards against the New York Jets (10/14).
Caught two passes for 17 yards in a Week 7 meeting against Cleveland (10/21).
Started at tight end at Tennessee (10/28) and caught two passes for 24 yards and a long reception of 15
yards.
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 9 meeting against Miami (11/4).
Game
Season
Career
Receptions
21
21
Yards
222
222
Avg.
10.6
10.6
72
LG
24
24
TD
0
0
UPDATED PLAYER BIOS
Moise Fokou
#58
Inside Linebacker
6-1, 236 - College: Maryland - 1st Year with Colts - T-2012
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•
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•
•
•
•
Competed at Chicago (9/9) in his first game in a Colts uniform and finished the game with two tackles and
one special teams stop.
Saw action at linebacker and special teams against Minnesota (9/16) and totaled two solo tackles and one
special teams stop.
Compiled four solo tackles in a Week 3 contest against Jacksonville (9/23).
Participated at both linebacker and on special teams against Green Bay (10/7) and logged six tackles (three
solo) and one sack, his first of the 2012 season. Also added one special teams tackle.
Against the New York Jets (10/14), finished the game with three tackles.
Contributed with one tackle at linebacker in Week 7 against Cleveland (10/21).
Saw action at linebacker at Tennessee (10/28), but did not record a tackle.
Posted four solo tackles in a Week 9 victory against Miami (11/4).
Game
Season
Career
Solo
17
83
Tackles
Asst.
Total
5
22
37
120
Sacks
1.0
2.0
INT
0
0
PD
0
4
FF
0
2
FR
0
0
Jerrell Freeman
#50
Inside Linebacker
6-0, 234 - College: Mary Hardin-Baylor - 1st Year with Colts - FA-2012
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Started at WILL linebacker in his first career NFL start at Chicago (9/9) and led the team with 13 tackles (six
solo), one pass defensed and one interception, which he returned four yards for a touchdown. The
interception return for a touchdown was the first for the Colts since Week 14 of the 2011 season.
Led the team in tackles (18) while contributing with his first career sack and forced fumble against Minnesota
(9/16). Dropped Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder for a 10-yard loss in the second quarter while forcing
a fumble on the play.
Started at WILL linebacker against Jacksonville (9/23) and led the team in tackles for the second
consecutive week with 16 (eight solo).
Made his fourth start of the season at WILL linebacker against Green Bay (10/7) and led the team in tackles
for the fourth consecutive week with 11 (six solo).
Started at WILL linebacker against the Jets (10/14) and led the team in tackles for the fifth consecutive week
with 19 (eight solo).
Led the team in tackles for the sixth consecutive week with seven (five solo) while starting at WILL
linebacker against Cleveland (10/21).
Made a start at WILL linebacker and led the team in tackles for the seventh consecutive week with 15 (11
solo).
Compiled two tackles and one tackle for loss in a Week 9 victory over Miami (11/4) starting at WILL
linebacker. Had his streak of leading the team in tackles end at seven games.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
55
55
Tackles
Asst.
Total
46
101
46
101
Sacks
1.0
1.0
73
INT
1
1
PD
1
1
FF
1
1
FR
0
0
UPDATED PLAYER BIOS
Dwight Freeney
#93
Outside Linebacker
6-1, 268 - College: Syracuse - 11th Year with Colts - D1-2002
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Started at RUSH linebacker at Chicago (9/9). Left the game in the first quarter with an ankle injury.
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 2 contest against Minnesota (9/16).
Listed as inactive for a Week 3 meeting against Jacksonville (9/23).
Started at RUSH linebacker against Green Bay (10/7) and finished the game with two tackles and one sack
for a loss of four yards. The sack was the first of his career against Green Bay and number 103.5 of his
st
career. It came against Aaron Rodgers, which marked the 51 different quarterback he has sacked.
In his third start of the season at RUSH linebacker, collected two tackles and one pass defensed against the
New York Jets (10/14).
Started at RUSH linebacker against Cleveland (10/21) and compiled one tackle and one tackle for loss.
At Tennessee (10/28) made a start at RUSH linebacker and totaled one tackle.
Made a start at RUSH linebacker and compiled one tackle, which included a sack and forced fumble of
Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill in the second quarter. The sack was Freeney’s second of the season
th
and number 104.5 of his career. The forced fumble was the 44 of his career.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
5
307
Tackles
Asst.
Total
2
7
58
365
Sacks
2.0
104.5
INT
0
0
PD
1
14
FF
1
44
FR
0
3
Clifton Geathers
#66
Defensive End
6-7, 325 - College: South Carolina - 1st Year with Colts - FA-2012
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•
•
•
•
Was signed to the practice squad on October 3, 2012 and elevated to the active roster on October 9.
In his first game as a member of the Colts, saw action on the defensive line and finished with one tackle
against the New York Jets (10/14).
Contributed on the defensive line against Cleveland (10/21) and finished with two tackles.
Saw action in the team’s Week 8 contest at Tennessee (10/28).
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 9 meeting against Miami (11/4).
Game
Season
Career
Solo
1
1
Tackles
Asst.
Total
2
3
4
5
Sacks
0.0
0.0
74
INT
0
0
PD
0
0
FF
0
0
FR
0
0
UPDATED PLAYER BIOS
Josh Gordy
#27
Cornerback
5-11, 195 - College: C. Michigan - 2nd Year with Colts - TR-2012
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•
•
•
•
Saw action in his first game as a member of the Colts at Chicago (9/9).
Competed on special teams in the team’s Week 2 matchup against Minnesota (9/16) and notched one stop.
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 3 game against Jacksonville (9/23).
Saw action against Green Bay (10/7) and finished with three tackles.
Finished with one tackle as a member of the Colts’ secondary at the New York Jets (10/14).
Competed in the secondary against Cleveland (10/21) and posted one tackle and one special teams stop.
Contributed in the secondary with one tackle at Tennessee (10/28) in the team’s 19-13 overtime victory.
Saw action in the team’s Week 9 victory against Miami (11/4).
Game
Season
Career
Solo
4
40
Tackles
Asst.
Total
2
6
19
59
Sacks
0.0
0.0
INT
0
3
PD
0
5
FF
0
0
FR
0
1
Marshay Green
#30
Cornerback
5-10, 175 - College: Mississippi - 2nd Year with Colts - FA-2012
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•
Was signed from the practice squad to the active roster on October 29, 2012.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
0
1
Tackles
Asst.
Total
0
0
0
1
Sacks
0.0
0.0
INT
0
0
PD
0
0
FF
0
0
FR
0
0
Lawrence Guy
#67
Defensive End
6-4, 300 - College: Arizona State - 1st Year with Colts - FA-2012
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•
•
•
Signed to the Colts active roster from the Green Bay Practice squad on October 17, 2012.
In his first career game as a member of the Colts, totaled one tackle against Cleveland (10/21).
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 8 meeting at Tennessee (10/28).
Listed as inactive for Indianapolis’ Week 9 contest against Miami (11/4).
Game
Season
Career
Solo
1
1
Tackles
Asst.
Total
0
1
0
1
Sacks
0.0
0.0
75
INT
0
0
PD
0
0
FF
0
0
FR
0
0
UPDATED PLAYER BIOS
Mario Harvey
#54
Inside Linebacker
6-0, 264 - College: Marshall - 1st Year with Colts - FA-2012
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Competed in the season opener at Chicago (9/9) and finished with one TFL and one special teams stop.
Saw action in the team’s Week 2 contest against Minnesota (9/16), but did not record a tackle.
Played against Jacksonville (9/23) in Week 3, but did not tally a tackle.
Participated on special teams against Green Bay (10/7) in a Week 5 meeting and posted two tackles.
Saw action at the New York Jets (10/14) and finished with one tackle and one special teams stop.
Tallied two tackles at linebacker in a Colts victory against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7.
Competed in a Week 8 meeting at Tennessee (10/28), but did not record a tackle.
Saw action on the defensive line against Miami (11/4) in Week 9 and tallied one tackle.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
3
3
Tackles
Asst.
Total
2
5
2
5
Sacks
0.0
0.0
INT
0
0
PD
0
0
FF
0
0
FR
0
0
Justin Hickman
#55
Outside Linebacker
6-2, 258 - College: UCLA - 1st Year with Colts - FA-2012
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Saw action in his first career NFL contest at Chicago (9/9) and added one special teams tackle. Along with
teammate Joe Lefeged, assisted in pinning two of Pat McAfee’s punts inside the five-yard line.
Competed in the team’s Week 2 meeting against Minnesota (9/16), but did not record a tackle.
Posted three tackles in the team’s Week 3 contest against Jacksonville (9/23).
Saw action at outside linebacker against Green Bay (10/7) and totaled two tackles.
Finished with one tackle in the team’s Week 6 contest at the New York Jets (10/14).
Competed at linebacker against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7 and contributed with one tackle.
Saw action at linebacker and on special teams and contributed with one tackle and one special teams stop
at Tennessee (10/28).
Recorded one tackle and applied pressure to Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill against Miami (11/4).
Game
Season
Career
Solo
3
3
Tackles
Asst.
Total
6
9
6
9
Sacks
0.0
0.0
Tony Hills
INT
0
0
PD
0
0
FF
0
0
FR
0
0
#78
Tackle
6-5, 304 - College: Texas - 1st Year with Colts - FA-2012
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•
•
•
Signed to the active roster from the Colts practice squad on October 6, 2012.
Filled-in on reserve duty during his first contest as a member of the Colts against Green Bay (10/7).
Saw action on the offensive line at the New York Jets (10/14).
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T.Y. Hilton
#13
Wide Receiver
5-9, 183 - College: Florida Int’l - 1st Year with Colts - D3-2012
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Started his first career NFL game in the tight end position and helped block for the Colts to total 321 net
offensive yards against Cleveland (10/21).
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 8 meeting at Tennessee (10/28).
Listed as inactive for the team’s season opener at Chicago (9/9).
In his first career NFL game, caught one pass for 15 yards while adding one punt return for 11 yards and
one kickoff return for 19 yards.
Led both teams in receiving against Jacksonville (9/23) with four receptions for 113 yards and one
touchdown. The touchdown, which came from quarterback Andrew Luck in the first quarter, was the first of
his career. Also contributed with four punt returns for 29 yards and one kickoff return for 26 yards.
Caught three passes for 37 yards and a long reception of 26 yards against Green Bay (10/7). Also added
two punt returns for 13 yards.
Totaled three catches for 31 yards and a long reception of 16 yards at the New York Jets (10/14).
Caught two passes for 22 yards and added one punt return for eight yards against Cleveland (10/21) in
Week 7.
Recorded five receptions for 35 yards and one punt return for 13 yards in an overtime victory at Tennessee
(10/28).
Registered his second 100-yard performance of the season with six catches for 102 yards against Miami
(11/4). Added a 36-yard touchdown, his second of the season, in the third quarter. Part of a 100-yard
receiving duo with wide receiver Donnie Avery (108 yards). Also added four punt returns for 29 yards.
Game
Season
Career
Receptions
24
24
Yards
355
355
Avg.
14.8
14.8
LG
40t
40t
TD
2
2
Carries
2
2
Yards
1
1
Avg.
0.5
0.5
Game
Season
Career
No
13
13
Yards
103
103
Punt Returns
Avg.
7.9
7.9
FC
12
12
LG
14
14
TD
0
0
Game
Season
Career
No
2
2
Yards
45
45
Kickoff Returns
Avg.
FC
22.5
0
22.5
0
LG
26
26
TD
0
0
77
LG
1
1
TD
0
0
UPDATED PLAYER BIOS
Jerry Hughes
#92
Outside Linebacker
6-2, 254 - College: TCU - 3rd Year with Colts - D1-2010
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Competed at outside linebacker in the team’s Week 1 contest at Chicago (9/9) and finished with one tackle.
Started at RUSH linebacker and contributed with five tackles, and one sack against Minnesota (9/16).
Brought down Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder in the third quarter, which led to a Vikings punt.
Started at RUSH linebacker against Jacksonville (9/23) and posted four tackles (three solo) and one special
teams tackles.
Saw action on special teams against Green Bay (10/7) and contributed with three special teams stops.
Made his third start of the season at strongside linebacker against the New York Jets (10/14) and totaled
eight tackles (seven solo) and one sack, his second of the season.
Against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7, collared two tackles and one tackle for loss in the team’s win.
Started at strongside linebacker at Tennessee (10/28) and posted two tackles and one sack in the fourth
quarter.
Contributed with one tackle in a Week 9 victory over Miami (11/4).
Game
Season
Career
Solo
15
25
Tackles
Asst.
Total
8
23
13
38
Sacks
3.0
4.0
INT
0
0
PD
0
0
FF
0
0
FR
0
0
Robert Hughes
#29
Fullback
5-11, 235 - College: Notre Dame - 1st Year with Colts - FA-2012
•
•
Signed from the practice squad to the active roster on October 29, 2012.
Saw action in his first career NFL contest against Miami (11/4) on special teams.
Game
Season
Career
Carries
0
0
Yards
0
0
Avg.
0.0
0.0
LG
0
0
TD
0
0
78
Receptions
0
0
Yards
0
0
Avg.
0.0
0.0
LG
0
0
TD
0
0
UPDATED PLAYER BIOS
Antonio Johnson
#99
Nose Tackle
6-3, 310 - College: Mississippi St. - 5th Year with Colts - FA-2008
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Started at nose tackle in the team’s season opener at Chicago (9/9) and registered one tackle.
Against the Vikings in Week 2 (9/16), started at nose tackle, but did not tally a stop.
Notched five tackles starting at nose tackle against Jacksonville (9/23) in Week 3.
Started at nose tackle against Green Bay (10/7) in a Week 5 meeting.
Tied a season-high five tackles starting at nose tackle against the New York Jets (10/14).
Started his sixth game of the season at nose tackle and finished with two tackles against Cleveland (10/21).
Made a start at nose tackle and totaled two tackles in a 19-13 overtime victory at Tennessee (10/28).
Recorded two solo tackles in the team’s Week 9 victory against Miami (11/4). Part of a defense that limited
the Dolphins to 84 net rushing yards.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
10
96
Tackles
Asst.
Total
7
17
55
151
Sacks
0.0
1.5
INT
0
0
PD
0
2
FF
0
0
FR
0
1
Winston Justice
#69
Tackle
6-6, 317 - College: USC - 1st Year with Colts - TR-2012
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Started at right tackle in a Week 1 contest at Chicago (9/9) and opened rushing lanes for running back
Donald Brown to finish with a 5.3 rushing average and one touchdown.
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 2 meeting against Minnesota (9/16).
Started at right tackle against Jacksonville (9/23) in Week 3 and provided time for quarterback Andrew Luck
to throw for 313 yards and two touchdowns.
Made a start at right tackle and blocked for a Colts offense to generate 464 net yards against Green Bay
(10/7).
Started at right tackle against the New York Jets (10/14) and blocked for quarterback Andrew Luck to throw
for 280 yards.
Against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7 started at right tackle and blocked for the team’s season-high in
rushing with 148 yards.
Started at right tackle at Tennessee (10/28) and blocked for a Colts’ rushing game that finished with a
season-high 171 rushing yards.
Blocked for quarterback Andrew Luck to set an NFL rookie record for single-game passing yards (433) in a
Colts 23-20 victory over Miami (11/4).
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Joe Lefeged
#35
Safety
6-0, 205 - College: Rutgers - 2nd Year with Colts - FA-2011
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In the season opener at Chicago (9/9), participated in the secondary and on special teams. Helped pin two
of Pat McAfee’s punts inside the five-yard line.
Saw action on special teams against Minnesota (9/16) and led the team with five special teams stops.
Competed on special teams in a Week 3 contest against Jacksonville (9/23) and tallied two solo special
teams tackles.
Participated on special teams against Green Bay (10/7) in Week 5.
Finished with one special teams tackle in a Week 6 matchup against the New York Jets (10/14).
Saw action in the secondary and on special teams and contributed with one tackle and one special teams
stop against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7.
Participated on special teams at Tennessee (10/28) in Week 8.
Played on special teams in the Colts’ Week 9 victory over Miami (11/4).
Game
Season
Career
Solo
1
14
Tackles
Asst.
Total
0
1
18
32
Sacks
0.0
0.0
INT
0
2
Jeff Linkenbach
PD
0
4
FF
0
0
FR
0
0
#72
Tackle
6-6, 323 - College: Cincinnati - 3rd Year with Colts - FA-2010
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Saw action at tackle in the team’s season opening contest at Chicago (9/9).
Made his first start of the season at right tackle against Minnesota (9/16) and provided time for quarterback
Andrew Luck to register 224 passing yards and two touchdowns.
Entered the game against Jacksonville (9/23) in a reserve role and helped the team rush for 124 total yards.
Made his second start of the season against Green Bay (10/7) and provided time for quarterback Andrew
Luck to throw for 362 yards and two touchdowns.
Started at left guard against the New York Jets (10/14) in Week 6 and provided time for the Colts to compile
298 net yards.
Against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7, started at left guard and blocked for a Colts offensive attack to record
321 net yards.
Started at left guard and provided time for the Colts to record 457 net yards, including a season-high 171 net
rushing yards.
Blocked for the team to produce 516 net yards and 419 net passing yards in a 23-20 win over Miami (11/4).
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Andrew Luck
#12
Quarterback
6-4, 234 - College: Stanford - 1st Year with Colts - D1-2012
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In his first career NFL start at Chicago (9/9), completed 23-of-45 passes for 309 yards, one touchdown and
three interceptions for a 52.9 quarterback rating. Also added two carries for nine yards. His 309 passing
yards is the highest total by a Colts rookie quarterback in their franchise debut.
Against the Vikings (9/16), completed 20-of-31 passes for 224 yards and two touchdowns for a 107.5
quarterback rating. Also contributed with four rushes for 21 yards. Engineered two two-minute scoring
drives. The first came at the end of the second quarter when he hit wide receiver Reggie Wayne for a 30yard touchdown reception. The second came with 31 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter when he drove
the team 40 yards to set up Adam Vinatieri’s game-winning 53-yard field goal.
Completed 22-of-46 attempts for 313 yards, two touchdowns and one interception for a 75.7 passer rating in
his third career NFL start vs. Jacksonville (9/23). The 313 passing yards were the second-most for a Colts
quarterback in the last two seasons (Dan Orlovsky - 353 on Dec. 4, 2011). Also added four carries for 50
rushing yards.
Set career highs in completions (31), attempts (55) and yards (362) while adding three total touchdowns
(two passing, one rushing) against Green Bay (10/7). Led the team back from an 18-point deficit capture a
30-27 victory, becoming the first rookie quarterback to accomplish the feat since Detroit’s Matthew Stafford
in 2009. Became the Colts’ first rookie quarterback since Bert Jones in 1973 to throw a touchdown pass in
each of his first four career games. Became the first rookie in NFL history to pass for 1,200-plus yards
(1,208) and record at least two wins in his team’s first four games. Joined Carolina quarterback Cam Newton
as the only players in NFL history to pass for at least 300 yards in three of their first four career games.
Completed 22-of-44 passes for 280 yards and two interceptions at the New York Jets (10/14) in his fifth
career start.
In his sixth career start, completed 16-of-29 passes for 186 yards and added two rushing touchdowns in a
victory over Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7. Became the third quarterback in franchise history and the first
since 1988 to rush for two touchdowns in a single game.
Completed 26-of-38 passes for 297 yards, one touchdown and one interception for an 89.5 quarterback
rating in a 19-13 overtime victory at Tennessee (10/28). Also added six carries for 28 rushing yards. Threw
the game-winning 16-yard touchdown pass to running back Vick Ballard in overtime to seal the victory.
Finished with a career day as he completed 30-of-48 passes for 433 yards and two touchdowns for a 105.6
quarterback rating against Miami (11/4). His 433 yards set a new NFL record for passing yards by a rookie
quarterback in a single game and topped his rookie franchise record for single game passing yards (362 vs.
Green Bay on Oct. 7, 2012). Became the second rookie in NFL history to record four 300-yard passing
games (Peyton Manning, 1998). His 433 passing yards mark the third-highest total in a single game in
franchise history. His first half passing total of 273 yards is the fourth highest total in franchise history for a
first half (Peyton Manning, 324 vs. Buffalo on Sept. 23, 2001). Luck also became the second player in the
NFL this season with 270-plus passing yards in the first half (Drew Brees, 314 in Week 7 vs. Tampa Bay).
He threw two touchdown passes, his first to Reggie Wayne (nine yards) in the first quarter and the second, a
36-yard touchdown to fellow rookie T.Y. Hilton in the third quarter.
Game
Season
Career
ATT
336
336
Game
Season
Career
COMP
190
190
Carries
27
27
Yards
2,404
2,404
Yards
148
148
81
PCT
56.5
56.5
Avg.
5.5
5.5
TD
10
10
LG
19
19
INT
8
8
TD
3
3
LG
48
48
RATING
79.0
79.0
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Ricardo Mathews
#91
Defensive Tackle
6-3, 310 - College: Cincinnati - 3rd Year with Colts - D7-2010
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Saw action in the team’s season opener at Chicago (9/9).
Competed against the Vikings (9/16) in the regular season home opener and posted one tackle.
Tallied three tackles in a Week 3 meeting against Jacksonville (9/23).
Saw action against Green Bay (10/7) in Week 5 and tallied one assisted tackle.
Compiled two tackles in a Week 6 contest at the New York Jets (10/14).
Made his first career NFL start against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7.
Saw action in a Week 8 meeting at Tennessee (10/28), and notched two assisted tackles.
Participated on the defensive line in the team’s Week 9 win against Miami (11/4) and totaled one tackle.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
3
14
Tackles
Asst.
Total
7
10
16
30
Sacks
0.0
1.0
INT
0
0
PD
0
2
FF
0
0
FR
0
0
Robert Mathis
#98
Outside Linebacker
6-2, 245 - College: Alabama A&M - 10th Year with Colts - D5-2003
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Started at strongside linebacker in the team’s season opener at Chicago (9/9) and posted eight tackles (six
solo), 2.0 sacks and three tackles for loss. He sacked Jay Cutler on the first play of the game and added his
th
second of the contest in the third quarter. The two-sack performance by Mathis is the 18 of his career and
the first since a December 22, 2011 meeting against Houston (2.0).
Against the Vikings in Week 2 (9/16), compiled eight tackles (five solo) and one sack. His 3.0 sacks through
the first two games of the season match his career-best of 3.0 sacks which he totaled through Week 2 of the
2010 campaign.
Compiled three tackles and recorded a sack and forced fumble when he brought down quarterback Blaine
Gabbert on a third down in the first quarter against Jacksonville (9/23). The sack stalled Jacksonville’s
offensive drive and forced a field goal. Mathis has recorded at least one sack in six consecutive games
dating back to the 2011 campaign.
Started at strongside linebacker against Green Bay (10/7) and finished with four tackles and one sack for a
loss of six yards. The sack was his team-leading fifth of the season as he has totaled at least one sack in
each of his last seven games. The streak marks the second-best of his career dating back to Sept. 11, 2005
– Nov. 7, 2005 (nine sacks in eight straight games).
Listed as inactive for a Week 7 meeting against Cleveland (10/21).
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 8 contest at Tennessee (10/28).
In his first contest back from a three-game absence due to an injury, recorded a sack of Dolphins
quarterback Ryan Tannehill in the first quarter against Miami (11/4). With the sack, Mathis improved his
consecutive games sack streak to eight, which ties a personal best. The streak dates back to a Week 15
meeting against the Tennessee Titans on Dec. 18, 2011. In the eight-game sack streak, he has totaled 10.0
sacks. He currently leads the team this season with 6.0 sacks. Also added two tackles and one tackle for
loss.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
16
350
Tackles
Asst.
Total
9
25
114
464
Sacks
6.0
89.5
82
INT
0
0
PD
0
15
FF
1
40
FR
0
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Pat McAfee
#1
Punter
6-1, 220 - College: West Virginia - 4th Year with Colts - D7-2009
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In a Week 1 meeting at Chicago (9/9), logged five punts for a 51.4 average and a 42.8 net with two kicks
pinned inside the 20-yard line. Recorded a long punt of 63 yards in the first quarter, which marked his third
longest punt of his career and the longest since a 64-yard kick last season against Kansas City (10/9/11).
Recorded 268 punt yards against Minnesota (9/16) and became the fifth Colts punter all-time with 10,000
punting yards. In the third quarter, registered a 64-yard punt, which tied the second-longest of his career
(10/9/11 vs. Kansas City, 64).
Against Jacksonville (9/23) in Week 3 recorded six punts for a 46.7 average with two pinned inside the 20yard line. His longest punt went for 63 yards. Also registered three touchbacks.
Totaled five punts for a 44.6 average and 40.8 net while pinning two inside the 20-yard line against Green
Bay (10/7). Also added four touchbacks on kickoffs and one tackle.
Finished with three punts for a 43.7 average and 37.0 net. Recorded a long punt of 55 yards in the third
quarter. Added two touchbacks on kickoffs.
Against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7, totaled five punts for a 48.4 average and a 38.0 net. Pinned one punt
inside the 20-yard line, added two touchbacks on kickoffs and totaled one special teams tackle.
Notched two punts for a 43.5 average with a long kick of 48 yards at Tennessee (10/28). Also added three
touchbacks on kickoffs.
Totaled two punts for a 49.5 average and added a long kick of 59 yards against Miami (11/4). Also added
three touchbacks on kickoffs and held for kicker Adam Vinatieri’s three field goals.
Game
Season
Career
NO.
33
250
YDS
1,587
11,253
AVG
48.1
45.0
TB
6
22
Mike McGlynn
IN20
10
73
LG
64
66
BL
0
1
NET
40.1
38.0
#75
Guard/Center
6-4, 327 - College: Pittsburgh - 1st Year with Colts - UFA-2012
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Started at right guard in his first career game in a Colts uniform at Chicago (9/9). Provided protection for
quarterback Andrew Luck to throw for 309 yards.
Made his second start of the season at right guard against Minnesota (9/16). Blocked for the Colts to
generate 278 net yards.
Against Jacksonville (9/23) in Week 3, started at right guard and provided time for quarterback Andrew Luck
to throw for 313 yards and two touchdowns.
Started at right guard against Green Bay (10/7) in Week 5 and provided time for the Colts to total 464 net
yards, the team’s highest total since a 2010 contest against New England (467).
Started at right guard at the New York Jets (10/14) and provided time for quarterback Andrew Luck to throw
for 280 passing yards.
Against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7, blocked for a rushing attacked that set a season-high 148 yards while
paving the way for quarterback Andrew Luck’s two rushing touchdowns.
Made his seventh start of the season at right guard at Tennessee (10/28) and blocked for a rushing attack
that totaled a season-high 171 net yards in an overtime victory.
Started at right guard in the team’s 23-20 victory over Miami (11/4) and paved the way for the Colts to total
516 net yards and 419 net passing yards.
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Fili Moala
#95
Defensive End
6-4, 310 - College: USC - 4th Year with Colts - D2-2009
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Started at defensive tackle in the season opener at Chicago (9/9) and tallied three tackles.
Against the Vikings in Week 2 (9/16), started at defensive tackle and finished with one stop.
Posted four tackles (three solo) in a Week 3 meeting against Jacksonville (9/23).
Started at defensive tackle against Green Bay (10/7) and posted one tackle before leaving with an injury.
Listed as inactive for a Week 7 meeting against Cleveland (10/21).
Listed as inactive for a Week 8 contest at Tennessee (10/28).
Compiled three tackles in the team’s 23-20 victory over Miami (11/4). Part of a defense that held the
Dolphins to 84 net rushing yards.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
4
47
Tackles
Asst.
Total
8
12
30
77
Sacks
0.0
2.0
INT
0
0
PD
0
1
FF
0
0
FR
0
0
Drake Nevis
#94
Defensive Tackle
6-1, 310 - College: LSU - 2nd Year with Colts - D3-2011
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Saw action at defensive tackle in the season opener at Chicago (9/9) and totaled one tackle.
Participated at defensive tackle against Minnesota (9/16) and compiled three tackles.
Contributed with one solo tackle against Jacksonville (9/23) in a Week 3 contest.
Saw action on the defensive line against Green Bay (10/7) and contributed with two tackles.
Made his first start of the season at defensive tackle against the New York Jets (10/14) and finished with five
tackles.
Against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7, started at defensive tackle and assisted with two tackles.
Started at defensive tackle at Tennessee (10/28) and totaled three tackles and his first career NFL sack in
the first quarter when he brought down Matt Hasselbeck.
Contributed with two tackles in a Week 9 victory against Miami (11/4). Part of a defensive line that limited
the Dolphins to 84 net rushing yards.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
6
15
Tackles
Asst.
Total
13
19
23
38
Sacks
1.0
1.0
84
INT
0
0
PD
0
1
FF
0
0
FR
0
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Matt Overton
#45
Long Snapper
6-1, 254 - College: W. Washington - 1st Year with Colts - FA-2012
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Handled snapping duties for Pat McAfee to total a 51.4 punting average and kicker Adam Vinatieri to convert
all three extra point attempts at Chicago (9/9).
Against Minnesota (9/16), handled snapping duties for punter Pat McAfee to record a 53.6 average while
snapping for kicker Adam Vinatieri to convert all three field goal attempts, including the game-winning 53yard field goal in the fourth quarter. Also contributed with two special teams stops.
Handled snapping duties for punter Pat McAfee to compile 46.7-yard average against Jacksonville (9/23) in
Week 3. Also assisted in Adam Vinatieri’s 37-yard field goal in the fourth quarter and two PATs. Finished the
contest with one special teams tackle.
Handled snapping duties for Adam Vinatieri’s three successful field goal conversions of 24, 50 and 28 yards
against Green Bay (10/7). Also snapped for punter Pat McAfee to average 44.6 punting yards and added
Handled snapping duties as kicker Adam Vinatieri converted all three field goal attempts of 20, 50 and 47
yards. Also snapped for punter Pat McAfee’s 43.7 average.
Handled snapping duties against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7 for punter Pat McAfee to average 48.4 yards
per punt while snapping for kicker Adam Vinatieri’s 38-yard field goal and two extra points.
Handled snapping duties for kicker Adam Vinatieri’s two field goals and one PAT as well as punter Pat
McAfee’s two punts for a 43.5 average at Tennessee (10/28). Notched one special teams tackle.
Handled snapping duties for three Adam Vinatieri field goals of 23, 47 and 43 yards against Miami (11/4).
Also snapped for Pat McAfee to total two punts for a 49.5 average.
Nathan Palmer
#10
Wide Receiver
5-11, 195 - College: Northern Ill. - 1st Year with Colts - FA-2012
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Signed to the Colts active roster from the San Francisco practice squad on September 24, 2012.
Participated in his first career NFL contest against Green Bay (10/7) and was targeted once at wide receiver.
Was targeted twice and caught one pass against the New York Jets (10/14).
Competed in a Week 7 contest against Cleveland (10/21), but did not record a catch.
Listed as inactive for a Week 8 contest at Tennessee (10/28).
Game
Season
Career
Receptions
1
1
Yards
-4
-4
Avg.
-4.0
-4.0
85
LG
0
0
TD
0
0
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Jerraud Powers
#25
Cornerback
5-10, 187 - College: Auburn - 4th Year with Colts - D3-2009
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Started at right cornerback in a Week 1 meeting at Chicago (9/9) and finished with six tackles (five solo),
one tackle for loss and one pass defensed.
Against Minnesota in Week 2 (9/16), finished the game with 10 tackles (nine solo) and two passes defensed.
Made a start at right cornerback against Jacksonville (9/23) in Week 3 and finished the game with two
tackles and one pass defensed.
Started at right cornerback against Green Bay (10/7) and finished the game with four stops, one interception
and one pass defensed. The interception came in the third quarter and led to a Colts touchdown.
Started at right cornerback against the New York Jets (10/14) and contributed with five tackles.
Against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7, started at right cornerback and tallied five tackles while tying for the
team lead with two passes defensed in a Colts victory.
Ranked second in the secondary with 10 tackles (seven solo) in a 19-13 overtime victory at Tennessee
(10/28).
Started at right cornerback against Miami (11/4) and contributed with three tackles before leaving the game
with an injury in the fourth quarter.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
34
165
Tackles
Asst.
Total
11
45
55
220
Sacks
0.0
0.0
INT
1
6
PD
8
33
FF
0
1
FR
0
1
Cory Redding
#90
Defensive End
6-4, 315 - College: Texas - 1st Year with Colts - UFA-2012
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Started at defensive end in the season opener at Chicago (9/9) and compiled one pass defensed.
Against Minnesota (9/16), started at defensive end and totaled seven tackles, one pass defensed and one
th
fumble recovery, the 10 of his career. The recovery led to a 26-yard field goal.
Contributed with one tackle in a Week 3 contest against Jacksonville (9/23).
Started at defensive tackle against Green Bay (10/7) in Week 5 and finished the game with his third careermultiple sack performance (2.0) as well as adding six tackles.
Started at defensive end against the New York Jets (10/14) and totaled two tackles.
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 7 contest against Cleveland (10/21).
Started at defensive end and totaled four tackles in a victory at Tennessee (10/28).
Made a start at defensive end in a 23-20 victory over Miami (11/4) and finished with two tackles. Part of a
defensive line that limited the Dolphins to 84 net rushing yards.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
10
289
Tackles
Asst.
Total
12
20
140
427
Sacks
2.0
27.5
86
INT
0
1
PD
2
14
FF
0
4
FR
1
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Joe Reitz
#76
Guard
6-7, 322 - College: W. Michigan - 2nd Year with Colts - FA-2010
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Listed as inactive for a Week 1 contest at Chicago (9/9).
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 2 meeting against Minnesota (9/16).
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 3 contest against Jacksonville (9/23).
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 5 game against Green Bay (10/7).
Listed as inactive for the team’s matchup with the New York Jets (10/14) in Week 6.
Listed as inactive for the Colts’ Week 7 meeting against Cleveland (10/21).
Competed in his first game of the season as a reserve on the offensive line at Tennessee (10/28).
Made his first start of the season at left guard against Miami (11/4) and provided time for quarterback
Andrew Luck to set an NFL rookie record for passing yards in a single game (433).
Samson Satele
#64
Center
6-3, 299 - College: Hawaii - 1st Year with Colts - UFA-2012
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Started a Week 1 contest at Chicago (9/9) and blocked for quarterback Andrew Luck to generate 309
passing yards.
Started at center against Minnesota (9/16) and blocked for quarterback Andrew Luck to total 224 passing
yards and two touchdowns in a 23-20 victory.
Started at center against Jacksonville (9/23) and opened rushing lanes for running back Donald Brown to
generate 62 rushing yards and the Colts to combine for 124 rushing yards.
Did not see action in the team’s Week 5 contest against Green Bay (10/7).
Started at center against the New York Jets (10/14) and blocked for a passing attack that compiled 257 net
yards.
Started at center against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7 and blocked for quarterback Andrew Luck to throw for
186 yards while rushing for two touchdowns.
Started at center and blocked for a Colts offensive attack to finish with 457 net yards and a season-high 171
rushing yards at Tennessee (10/21).
Against Miami (11/4), started at center and was part of an offensive line that helped the offense generate
516 net yards and 419 net passing yards. Left the game with an injury in the second quarter.
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Weslye Saunders
#85
Tight End
6-5, 270 - College: South Carolina - 1st Year with Colts - FA-2012
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Signed by the Colts as a free agent on October 16, 2012.
Competed in his first career game as a member of the Colts against Cleveland (10/21).
Caught his first pass as a member of the Colts, an 11-yard gain in the fourth quarter, at Tennessee (10/28).
Started his first game as a member of the Colts at tight end against Miami (11/4) and was targeted one time.
Game
Season
Career
Receptions
5
5
Yards
40
40
Avg.
8.0
8.0
LG
14
14
TD
1
1
Carries
0
0
Yards
0
0
Avg.
0.0
0.0
LG
0
0
A.Q. Shipley
TD
0
0
#62
Center
6-1, 309 - College: Penn State - 1st Year with Colts - FA-2012
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Saw action in his first game in a Colts uniform at Chicago (9/9).
Was waived by the Colts on September 10 and signed to the practice squad the following day. Was elevated
to the active roster on October 1.
Made his first career NFL start against Green Bay (10/7) in Week 5 and provided time for quarterback
Andrew Luck to throw for 362 passing yards and two touchdowns.
Saw action in the team’s Week 6 contest at the New York Jets (10/14).
Competed in the team’s Week 7 meeting against Cleveland (10/21).
Played on special teams in the Colts’ Week 8 contest at Tennessee (10/28).
Saw significant time at center replacing an injured Samson Satele in the second quarter against Miami
(11/4). Was part of an offensive line that helped generate 516 net yards and 419 net passing yards.
Bradley Sowell
#60
Tackle
6-7, 320 - College: Mississippi - 1st Year with Colts - FA-2012
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Signed by the Colts off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers practice squad on September 11, 2012.
Competed in his first contest as a member of the Colts against Minnesota (9/16)
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 3 contest against Jacksonville (9/23).
Participated on special teams against Green Bay (10/7) in Week 5.
Saw action against the New York Jets (10/14) in Week 6.
Was a reserve on the offensive line against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7.
Competed on special teams in a Week 8 match-up at Tennessee (10/28).
Played in the team’s Week 9 victory over Miami (11/4).
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Drew Stanton
#5
Quarterback
6-3, 243 - College: Michigan St. - 1st Year with Colts - TR-2012
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Served as the backup quarterback in a Week 1 meeting at Chicago (9/9).
Listed as the backup quarterback against Minnesota (9/16) in Week 2.
Was the backup quarterback for the Colts in a Week 3 meeting against Jacksonville (9/23).
Listed as the backup quarterback for the Colts’ Week 5 matchup against Green Bay (10/7).
Served as the backup quarterback in the team’s Week 6 meeting at the New York Jets (10/14).
Listed as the backup quarterback for the team’s Week 7 contest against Cleveland (10/21).
Listed as the backup quarterback for the team’s Week 8 meeting at Tennessee (10/28).
Listed as the backup quarterback for the team’s Week 9 contest against Miami (11/4).
Game
Season
Career
ATT
0
187
Game
Season
Career
COMP
0
104
Carries
0
30
Yards
0
1,158
Yards
0
166
PCT
0.0
55.6
Avg.
0.0
5.5
TD
0
5
LG
0
20
INT
0
9
LG
0
87t
RATING
0.0
63.1
TD
0
2
Martin Tevaseu
#68
Nose Tackle
6-2, 325 - College: UNLV - 1st Year with Colts - W-2012
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Competed in his first game as a member of the Colts at Chicago (9/9) and logged one tackle.
Saw action in a Week 2 contest against Minnesota (9/16) and compiled one tackle.
Collared three solo tackles in the team’s Week 3 contest against Jacksonville (9/23).
Participated in the team’s Week 5 contest against Green Bay (10/7). Left the game in the fourth quarter with
an injury.
Listed as inactive for the team’s Week 6 contest at the New York Jets.
Listed as inactive for Indianapolis’ Week 7 meeting against Cleveland (10/21).
Saw action on the defensive line at Tennessee (10/28) and totaled one tackle and one tackle for loss.
Competed on the defensive line and on special teams in the team’s Week 9 victory against Miami (11/4).
Game
Season
Career
Solo
5
7
Tackles
Asst.
1
2
Total
6
9
Sacks
0.0
0.0
89
INT
0
0
PD
0
0
FF
0
0
FR
0
0
UPDATED PLAYER BIOS
Cassius Vaughn
#32
Cornerback
5-11, 195 - College: Mississippi - 1st Year with Colts - TR-2012
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Saw action in the secondary and on special teams in his first game in a Colts uniform at Chicago (9/9).
Contributed with two kickoff returns for 51 yards.
Competed in the team’s Week 2 meeting against Minnesota (9/16), but did not register a tackle.
Posted four kickoff returns for 113 yards (28.3 avg.) against Jacksonville (9/23) in Week 3. Added a 40-yard
return in the fourth quarter.
Made his first start of the season at left cornerback against Green Bay (10/7) and finished the game with five
tackles.
Started at left cornerback in Week 6 at the New York Jets (10/14) and compiled four tackles. Also returned
two kickoffs for 36 yards, including a 19-yard return.
Competed in the secondary in the team’s Week 7 victory against Cleveland (10/21) and recorded three
tackles and one pass defensed.
Saw action at cornerback in Week 8 at Tennessee (10/28) and posted four tackles and one pass defensed
in the overtime victory. Also returned two kickoffs.
Started at left cornerback in the team’s victory over Miami (11/4) in Week 9 and tied for the team lead with
six tackles (four solo).
Game
Season
Career
Solo
17
35
Game
Season
Career
No
8
17
Tackles
Asst.
Total
5
22
9
44
Yards
173
508
Sacks
0.0
0.0
INT
0
1
Kickoff Returns
Avg.
FC
21.6
0
29.8
0
90
PD
2
6
LG
40
97t
FF
0
0
TD
0
1
FR
0
3
UPDATED PLAYER BIOS
Adam Vinatieri
#4
Kicker
6-0, 206 - College: S. Dakota St. - 7th Year with Colts - UFA-2006
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Converted all three extra point attempts and missed his lone field goal opportunity in the season opener at
Chicago (9/9). He became the 11th player in NFL history with 600-plus PAT attempts. Vinatieri has also
scored at least one point in 131 consecutive games.
Converted all three of his field goal attempts (26, 45 and 53 yards) while adding two extra points for a total of
11 points against Minnesota (9/16). Split the uprights on a 26-yard field goal with 1:49 remaining in the
second quarter to give the Colts a 10-6 lead. Added his second field goal of the day at the 7:06 mark in the
third quarter on a 45-yard attempt, which gave the Colts a 20-6 advantage. Notched the game-winning 53yard kick with eight seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, which was the longest game-winning field goal
of his career. The field goal conversions were the 388th, 389th and 390th of his career. Has tallied at least
one point in 132 consecutive games.
Split the uprights on a 37-yard field goal in the fourth quarter against Jacksonville (9/23) in Week 3 while
adding two PATs for five points. Improved his streak of scoring at least one point to 133 consecutive games.
Split the uprights on three field goals of 24, 50 and 28 yards while adding one PAT for 10 points against
Green Bay (10/7). Notched the team’s first points of the game with a 24-yard field goal in the second quarter
and added his second from 50 yards in the third quarter. Added a 28-yard attempt in the fourth quarter,
which gave the Colts a 22-21 lead with 8:04 remaining in the fourth quarter. Continued his streak of scoring
at least one point to 134 consecutive contests.
Converted all three field goal attempts of 20, 50 and 47 yards at the New York Jets (10/14) and has now
converted field goals in 38 different NFL stadiums. The 50-yard kick was his third of 50-plus yards this
season.
Converted on his only field goal attempt of 38 yards while adding two extra points in a victory against
Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7.
Contributed with two field goals and one extra point for seven points at Tennessee (10/28). His 44-yard field
goal in the third quarter made him the eighth player in NFL history with 400 career field goals. The kick also
exceeded 1,800 points for his NFL career. Following his PAT attempt after Delone Carter’s game-tying
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touchdown, Vinatieri became the 10 player in NFL history with 600 extra points for a career. Vinatieri
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competed in his 250 NFL game, which ranks second among active players (Jason Hanson (DET), 318).
Notched three field goals from 23, 47, and 43 yards and added two PATs for 11 points against Miami (11/4).
Improved his consecutive games scoring streak to 138.
Game
Season
Career
PATs
11-11
600-610
1-19
0-0
9-9
20-29
6-6
147-152
91
30-39
2-5
125-152
40-49
5-6
107-146
50+
3-5
15-30
Total
16-22
403-489
UPDATED PLAYER BIOS
Reggie Wayne
#87
Wide Receiver
6-0, 198 - College: Miami - 12th Year with Colts - D1-2001
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In the season opener at Chicago (9/9), finished the contest with nine catches for 135 yards, leading both
teams in receiving. For the second consecutive year, totaled over 100 yards in the season opener. The
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receiving performance was his 36 career 100-plus-yard game. Wayne improved his streak of consecutive
games played to 167, which ranks third in franchise history and is the longest streak by active wide receivers
in the NFL. With nine catches against the Bears, moved past wide receiver Jimmy Smith for sole possession
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of 15 place on the NFL’s all-time receptions list (871). With 11,843 career receiving yards, he also passed
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Don Maynard (11,834) for 21 place on the league’s all-time receiving yardage list.
Against Minnesota (9/16), finished the contest with six receptions for 71 yards and one touchdown. With his
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career total of 11,914 yards, he surpassed Michael Irvin (11,904) for 20 place on the league’s all-time
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receiving yardage list. With his touchdown reception, Wayne also tied Nat Moore and Torry Holt for 28
place on the league’s all-time touchdown receptions list.
Against Jacksonville (9/23) in Week 3, started at wide receiver and finished the game with eight catches for
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88 yards. With his 88 receiving yards, he became the 20 player in NFL history to reach 12,000 career
receiving yards (12,002). With eight catches, he also improved his career total to 885 and surpassed
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Keenan McCardell (883) for 14 place on the NFL’s all-time receptions list.
Set a career-high with 212 receiving yards on 13 receptions against Green Bay (10/7) while adding the
game-winning four-yard touchdown with 35 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter. His 212 receiving yards
were the second-highest single-game total in franchise history (224 Raymond Berry at Washington,
11/10/57) as Wayne moved up three spots on the league’s all-time receiving yardage list surpassing Charlie
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Joiner for 17 place. His receiving total marked his 40 career 100-yard performance and second 200-yard
game. Led the team with six receptions for 104 yards in the first half, which was the third highest first half
receiving total of his career. Moved past former running back Edgerrin James (12,065) for second place on
the franchise’s all-time scrimmage yards list. Improved his streak of catching at least one pass to 100
consecutive games.
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Led both teams in receiving with five catches for 87 yards at the New York Jets (10/14) and became the 14
player in NFL history to reach 900 career receptions. With 87 yards, surpassed wide receiver Jimmy Smith
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(12,214) for 16 place on the league’s all-time receiving yardage list. Also improved his streak of
consecutive games with at least one reception to 101.
Led both teams in receiving with 73 yards on six catches against Cleveland (10/21). Entering the week,
ranked third in the NFL with 593 receiving yards and has upped his season total to 666 yards. Averaging
111.0 yards per game.
Led both teams in receiving with seven receptions for 91 yards (13.0 avg.) at Tennessee (10/28). With his
receiving total, he surpassed Lenny Moore for second place on the Colts’ all-time all-purpose yardage list
with 12,465.
Totaled seven receptions for 78 yards and one touchdown against Miami (11/4). With his first quarter
touchdown, surpassed Edgerrin James (75) for third place on the franchise’s all-time touchdowns list. He
also passed James (458) for seventh place on the team’s all-time scoring list. With seven receptions against
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the Dolphins, Wayne moved past Torry Holt (920) for 13 place on the league’s all-time receptions list. With
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his first quarter touchdown, he also moved into a tie for 25 place on the league’s all-time touchdown
receptions list (76) with Fred Biletnikoff and Harold Jackson.
Game
Season
Career
Receptions
61
923
Yards
835
12,543
Avg.
13.7
13.6
92
LG
30t
71t
TD
3
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UPDATED PLAYER BIOS
Tom Zbikowski
#28
Safety
5-11, 200 - College: Notre Dame - 1st Year with Colts - FA-2012
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Started at strong safety in the season opener at Chicago (9/9) and logged four tackles and one pass
defensed.
Against Minnesota (9/16), started at strong safety and contributed with two tackles. Also contributed with
Led the secondary with eight tackles (three solo) in Week 3 against Jacksonville (9/23).
Started at strong safety against Green Bay (10/7) in Week 5 and finished with four tackles and one pass
defensed.
Against the New York Jets (10/14) in Week 6, started at strong safety and finished with seven tackles (four
solo).
Started at strong safety against Cleveland (10/21) in Week 7 and finished with two tackles and tied for the
team lead with two passes defensed.
Started at strong safety at Tennessee (10/28) and finished the contest with four solo tackles.
Against Miami (11/4), started at strong safety and totaled three tackles (two solo) in the team’s 23-20 victory
over the Dolphins.
Game
Season
Career
Solo
21
62
Tackles
Asst.
Total
13
34
21
83
Sacks
0.0
1.0
93
INT
0
2
PD
2
6
FF
0
0
FR
0
0
ADDITIONAL BIOS
SAFETY SERGIO BROWN
Sergio Brown #38
Safety
6-2, 210 pounds
Notre Dame
Claimed off Waivers – 2012 (Patriots)
1st Year with Colts/3rd Year in NFL
Born: May 22, 1988
Career Transactions:
• Claimed by the Colts off waivers on September 1, 2012.
• Waived by the New England Patriots on August 31, 2012.
• Elevated to the Patriots 53-man roster on October 23, 2010.
• Signed to the Patriots practice squad on September 6, 2010.
• Released by the Patriots on September 4, 2010.
• Signed by the Patriots as an undrafted free agent on April 29, 2010.
2011 (PATRIOTS):
• Played in 15 games with three starts, contributing 30 tackles, nine special teams tackles and one interception.
• Saw action on special teams in all three playoff games, making three special teams tackles.
• Recorded his first career interception vs. San Diego (9/18) in his first career start. Picked off Philip Rivers at the New
England 17-yard line. Held Chargers tight end Antonio Gates without a reception and added eight tackles.
• Picked up two special teams tackles in the Divisional Playoffs vs. Denver (1/14).
2010 (PATRIOTS):
• Finished the season with nine total tackles, three special teams tackles and one special teams fumble recovery.
• Played in his first NFL game in the 23-20 win at San Diego (10/24), a day after being signed to the active roster. Finished
the game with five tackles.
• Recovered a muffed punt return by C.J. Spiller at Buffalo (12/26) late in the fourth quarter for his first career fumble recovery
in a 34-3 win.
COLLEGE:
• Played in 44 games with 18 starts and finished with 89 total tackles at Notre Dame.
• After participating primarily on special teams during his first two seasons, became a starter midway through his junior
season in 2008.
• As a senior in 2009, started in 12 games and finished with 50 total tackles with one sack.
• As a junior in 2008, started in six-of-13 games and finished with 28 tackles and one sack.
• Played on special teams and as a reserve in the secondary as a freshman and sophomore.
• Saw action in 11-of-13 games as a true freshman in 2006.
PERSONAL:
• Born May 22, 1988.
• Majored in marketing.
• Accounted for 710 all-purpose yards and scored four touchdowns as a senior wide receiver at Proviso East High School
in Maywood, Ill.
• Also had 41 tackles, two sacks and six interceptions as a senior safety.
Career Statistics
Year
GP/GS
2011 NE
11/0
2010 NE
15/3
Total
26/3
Solo Asst. Total
7
1
8
18
8
26
25
9
34
Sacks
0.0
0.0
0.0
PD
0
1
1
95
FF
0
0
0
FR
1
0
1
INT
0
1
1
Yards
0
2
2
Avg.
0.0
2.0
2.0
LG
0
2
2
TD
0
0
0
ADDITIONAL BIOS
CORNERBACK DARIUS BUTLER
Darius Butler #20
Cornerback
5-11, 185 pounds
Connecticut
Free Agent – 2012
1st Year with Colts/4th Year in NFL
Born: March 18, 1986
• Signed by the Colts on September 25, 2012.
• Waived by the Carolina Panthers on August 31, 2012.
• Claimed off waivers by the Panthers on September 8, 2011.
• Waived by the New England Patriots on September 7, 2011.
• Signed by the Patriots on July 13, 2009.
• Selected by the Patriots in the second round (41st overall) of the 2009 NFL Draft.
2011 (PANTHERS):
• Played in 13 games with six starts after being claimed off waivers from New England in September.
• Registered 31 tackles (26 solo) and seven passes defensed, while adding two special teams tackles.
2010 (PATRIOTS):
• Played in 15 games with three starts, recording 23 tackles (22 solo) and six passes defensed.
• Also saw action in one postseason contest, where he made one solo tackle.
2009 (PATRIOTS):
• Played in 14 games with five starts.
• Posted 35 tackles (33 solo), three interceptions and eight passes defensed.
• Returned five kickoffs for 104 yards.
• Intercepted his first career pass when he picked off Kerry Collins in his first NFL start against Tennessee (10/18/09).
• At Houston (1/3/10), picked off a pass by quarterback Matt Schaub and returned it 91 yards for a touchdown, the fourthlongest interception return in New England Patriots history.
COLLEGE:
• Started all 45 games he played in at Connecticut.
• Tallied 180 tackles, three forced fumbles, 10 interceptions, including two returned for touchdowns, and 26 passes defensed.
• Averaged 25.6 yards on 35 kickoff returns with one touchdown.
• Earned first-team All-Big East Conference honors as a senior in 2008.
• Started 10 games and collected 40 tackles and four passes defensed.
• Returned 20 kickoffs for 471 yards.
• Saw action on offense at wide receiver, scoring one receiving touchdown and one rushing touchdown.
• Started 13 games as a junior in 2007.
• Produced 54 tackles, two forced fumbles, two interceptions and seven passes defensed.
• Tied for the team lead with four interceptions as a sophomore in 2006.
• As a freshman in 2005, ranked first on the team with four interceptions and eight passes defensed.
• Returned an interception 86 yards for a touchdown and a kickoff 90 yards for a score to become the first Husky to have a
defensive and special teams touchdown in the same season.
• Redshirted as a true freshman in 2004.
PERSONAL:
• Attended Coral Springs (Fla.) Charter School.
• Majored in sociology at Connecticut.
Career Statistics
Year
GP/GS
2011 CAR
13/6
2010 NE
15/3
2009 NE
14/5
Total
42/14
Solo Asst. Total
26
3
29
26
2
28
29
4
33
81
9
90
Sacks
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
PD
9
6
8
23
FF
0
0
0
0
FR
0
0
0
0
INT
0
0
3
3
Yards
0
0
91
91
Avg.
0.0
0.0
30.3
30.3
LG
0
0
91t
91t
TD
0
0
1
1
Career Playoff Statistics
Year
GP/GS
Solo Asst. Total
2010 NE
1/0
1
0
1
2009 NE
1/0
1
0
1
Total
2/0
2
0
2
Sacks
0.0
0.0
0.0
PD
0
0
0
FF
0
0
0
FR
0
0
0
INT
0
0
0
Yards
0
0
0
Avg.
0.0
0.0
0.0
LG
0
0
0
TD
0
0
0
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ADDITIONAL BIOS
CORNERBACK VONTAE DAVIS
Vontae Davis #23
Cornerback
5-11, 205 pounds
Illinois
TR – 2012 (Miami)
Born: May 27, 1988
• Acquired by the Colts in a trade with the Miami Dolphins in exchange for a second-round pick and a conditional late-round
pick in the 2013 NFL Draft.
• Originally selected by Miami in the first round (25th overall) in the 2009 NFL Draft.
2011 (DOLPHINS):
• Started all 12 games in which he played, finishing the season with 43 tackles (39 solo) and a team-leading four interceptions
for 60 yards.
• Tied for first on the team with eight passes defensed and had one sack.
• Finished tied for second on the team in tackles with six stops vs. Houston (9/18) despite missing some of the game with a
hamstring injury.
• Finished tied for second on the team in tackles with six stops vs. N.Y. Jets (10/17).
• Had four tackles and one interception vs. Washington (11/13), picking off a Rex Grossman pass and returning it 28 yards.
• Finished second on the team in tackles with five stops and had one interception at Dallas (11/23), picking off a Tony Romo
pass and returning it 25 yards.
• Had four tackles including his first career sack vs. Oakland (12/4), tackling Raiders quarterback Carson Palmer for a sevenyard loss.
• Had five tackles and two interceptions at Buffalo (12/18), picking off Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick twice for a total of
seven yards in returns, marking his first career game of two-or-more interceptions.
• Inactive four games, with three of those due to a hamstring injury.
2010 (DOLPHINS):
• Started 15-of-16 games, finishing the season with 51 tackles, a team-leading 12 passes defensed and one interception.
• Had six tackles and two passes defensed at Minnesota (9/19), including an interception, picking off a Brett Favre pass.
• Matched against the Patriots' Randy Moss the majority of the game vs. New England (10/4) and helped hold Moss without
a catch for only the fifth time in his career.
• Had seven tackles and one pass defensed at Baltimore (11/7).
• Matched against the Titans' Randy Moss the majority of the game vs. Tennessee (11/14) and helped hold Moss to one
catch for 26 yards.
• Finished tied for second on the team in tackles with four stops vs. Cleveland (12/5).
2009 (DOLPHINS):
• Started nine games and finished the season with 48 tackles (44 solo) to go along with 11 passes defensed and a teamleading four interceptions that he returned for a total of 64 yards with one touchdown.
• Became the first Dolphin rookie to lead the team in interceptions since safety Louis Oliver had four in 1989.
• One of only two rookie cornerbacks ever to lead the Dolphins in interceptions, along with Lloyd Mumphord, who had five
in his rookie season in 1969.
• His four interceptions ranks tied for fifth among Dolphins rookies.
• Made his Dolphins and NFL debut in a reserve role at Atlanta (9/13).
• Had two tackles and one interception vs. Buffalo (10/4), picking off a Trent Edwards pass and returning it 23 yards for a
touchdown, marking both his first NFL interception and his first NFL touchdown.
• Made his first career NFL start and had six tackles and two passes defensed vs. N.Y. Jets (11/1).
• Had six tackles and two passes defensed at New England (11/8), including an interception, picking off a Tom Brady pass
and returning it 15 yards.
• Had three tackles and one interception vs. New England (12/6), picking off a Tom Brady pass in the end zone for a touchback.
• Had three tackles, one pass defensed and one interception at Tennessee (12/20), coming when he picked off a Vince
Young pass in the first series of the game and returned it 26 yards.
• Finished second on the team in tackles with six stops and added two passes defensed vs. Houston (12/27).
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ADDITIONAL BIOS
CORNERBACK VONTAE DAVIS
College:
• Started 34-of-36 games played as a three-year starter at Illinois and posted career statistics of 206 tackles (139 solo),
seven interceptions, three forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and 22 passes defensed.
• Added nine kickoff returns for 215 yards (23.9 avg.) and returned a blocked punt for a touchdown
• Started 11-of-12 games as a junior in 2008 and was named a consensus All-Big Ten Conference first-team selection after
he posted a career-high 78 tackles (53 solo) and tied for second in the conference with three forced fumbles to go along
with two interceptions, eight passes defensed and a fumble recovery.
• Started all 12 games as a sophomore in 2007 and was the only sophomore semifinalist for the Jim Thorpe Award.
• Selected All-Big Ten Conference first-team by the league’s coaches and earned second-team honors from the media.
• Recorded 76 tackles (56 solo) and ranked sixth in the league with eight pass deflections and four interceptions.
• Blocked two punts for 31 yards in returns, including a touchdown and added 116 yards on four kickoff returns (29.0 avg.).
• Started 11-of-12 games in which he played as a freshman in 2006 and was honored as a Freshman All-America selection
by The Sporting News, Scout.com and Rivals.com.
• Earned honorable mention All-Big Ten Conference honors by both the coaches and the media.
• Named the team’s Rookie of the Year.
• Recorded 52 tackles (30 solo), an interception, a fumble recovery and six passes defensed.
• Majored in speech communications.
Personal:
• Attended Dunbar Senior High School in Washington, D.C.
• Selected as a PrepStar AII-America choice and Washington D.C. Gatorade Player of the Year.
• Rated the top recruit in the Washington D.C. area.
• Was named to the Washington Post All-Metro team, in addition to picking up DCIAA West first-team all-conference honors.
• Had eight interceptions and 38 solo tackles as a senior, while adding 25 receptions for 612 yards and recording over 1,000
all-purpose yards.
• Led Dunbar High to a 9-2 record and a win in the Turkey Bowl, the DCIAA city championship game.
• Also lettered in track.
• Brother, Vernon, played tight end at Maryland and was the sixth overall pick in the 2006 NFL Draft by the San Francisco
49ers, making them the third set of brothers to both be first-round NFL draft choices, joining Eli (2004, QB, 1st overall, San
Diego/Traded to New York Giants) and Peyton Manning (1998, QB, 1st overall, Indianapolis) and Jerome (2003, DE, 15th
overall, Philadelphia) and Stocker McDougle (2000, T, 20th overall, Detroit).
• Full name is Vontae O. Davis.
• Born in Washington, D.C.
Career Statistics
Year
GP/GS
2011 MIA
12/12
2010 MIA
16/15
2009 MIA
16/9
Total
44/36
Solo Asst. Total
39
4
43
43
8
51
44
4
48
126
16
142
Sacks
1.0
0.0
0.0
1.0
PD
9
12
11
32
98
FF
0
1
0
1
FR
0
0
0
0
INT
4
1
4
9
Yards
60
0
64
124
Avg.
15.0
0.0
16.0
13.8
LG
28
0
26
28
TD
0
0
1
1
ADDITIONAL BIOS
INSIDE LINEBACKER MOISE FOKOU
Moise Fokou #45
Inside Linebacker
6-1, 236 pounds
Maryland
TR – 2012 (Philadelphia)
Born: August 28, 1985
• Acquired by the Colts in a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles along with linebacker Greg Lloyd in exchange for cornerback
Kevin Thomas and a conditional seventh round selection in the 2013 NFL Draft.
• Originally selected by Philadelphia in the seventh round (230th overall) in the 2009 NFL Draft.
2011 (EAGLES):
• Competed in 11 games (seven starts) and totaled 27 tackles (15 solo) and one pass defensed.
• Ranked second on the team with 10 special teams tackles before being placed on Injured Reserve on November 29.
• Set a season-high seven tackles in the season opener at St. Louis (9/11).
2010 (EAGLES):
• Saw action in all 16 contests (11 starts) and posted 41 tackles (33 solo), one sack, one pass defensed and two forced fumbles.
• Led the team with 19 special teams tackles.
• Started at linebacker and notched his first career forced fumble at San Francisco (10/10).
• Registered his first career sack at the New York Giants (12/19) and contributed with a season-best seven tackles and a
team-leading four special teams stops.
• Finished with six tackles in the team’s Wild Card Playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers (1/9).
2009 (EAGLES):
• In his rookie season, played in all 16 games (four starts) and contributed with 30 tackles (18 solo) and one pass defensed.
• Tied for first on the team in special teams tackles (20) and recovered two fumbles on special teams.
• Recovered a fumble on a kickoff return by Domenik Hixon against the New York Giants (11/1), which led to a field goal.
• Started his first NFL game against Dallas (11/8) and recorded four tackles.
• Set a career-high with nine tackles at San Diego (11/15).
• Finished with three tackles in the team’s Wild Card Playoff loss to the Dallas Cowboys (1/9).
College:
• Registered 182 tackles in 39 career games at Maryland.
• Was an All-ACC selection as a senior SAM linebacker in 2008 and totaled 77 tackles, a career-best 12 tackles for loss and 5.0 sacks.
• His 5.0 sacks in 2008 were the most by a Maryland linebacker since Shawne Merriman had a team-best 8.5 in 2004.
• Tallied 84 tackles, three forced fumbles and a team-high 17 special teams stops in 2007.
• Was selected to play in the 2009 Under Armour Senior Bowl.
• Started his collegiate career at Division III Frostburg State and registered 70 tackles in 10 games.
• Graduated Maryland with a degree in criminology and criminal justice.
Personal:
• Attended Bullis (Maryland) High School in Potomac, Md.
• Was an All-IAC and second-team All-Met selection as a senior running back and linebacker. Also garnered team MVP
honors that year.
• Founded The Root 53 Foundation, which assists urban youth.
• Immigrated to the United States in 1990 from Cameroon in central Africa.
Career Statistics
Year
GP/GS
2011 PHI
11/7
2010 PHI
16/11
2009 PHI
16/4
Total
43/22
Solo Asst. Total
15
12
27
33
8
41
18
12
30
66
32
98
Sacks
0.0
1.0
0.0
1.0
PD
2
1
1
4
FF
0
2
0
2
FR
0
0
0
0
INT
0
0
0
0
Yards
0
0
0
0
Avg.
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
LG
0
0
0
0
TD
0
0
0
0
Career Playoff Statistics
Year
GP/GS
Solo Asst. Total
2010 PHI
1/1
3
3
6
2009 PHI
1/1
2
1
3
Total
2/2
5
4
9
Sacks
0.0
0.0
0.0
PD
0
0
0
FF
0
0
0
FR
0
0
0
INT
0
0
0
Yards
0
0
0
Avg.
0.0
0.0
0.0
LG
0
0
0
TD
0
0
0
Special Teams Tackles: 49 (2011 – 10, 2010 – 19, 2009 - 20);
Special teams fumble recoveries: 2 (1 at NYG (12/13/09), 1 vs. NYG (11/1/09))
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ADDITIONAL BIOS
DEFENSIVE END CLIFTON GEATHERS
Clifton Geathers #66
Defensive End
6-7, 325 pounds
South Carolina
Free Agent – 2012
1st Year with Colts/2nd Year in NFL
Born: December 11, 1987
• Elevated to the Colts active roster on October 9, 2012.
• Signed to the Colts practice squad on October 3, 2012.
• Waived by the Dallas Cowboys on August 31, 2012.
• Re-signed with the Cowboys on April 20, 2012.
• Acquired from waivers by the Cowboys on December 8, 2010.
• Waived by the Seattle Seahawks on December 7, 2010.
• Signed by the Seahawks on November 27, 2010.
• Waived by the Miami Dolphins on November 26, 2010.
• Elevated to the Dolphins 53-man active roster on October 23, 2010.
• Signed to the Dolphins practice squad on September 21, 2010.
• Released from the Dolphins practice squad on September 18, 2010.
• Signed to the Dolphins practice squad on September 15, 2010.
• Waived by the Dolphins on September 13, 2010.
• Acquired from waivers by the Dolphins on September 5, 2010.
• Waived by the Cleveland Browns on September 4, 2010.
• Signed with the Browns on June 29, 2010.
• Drafted by the Browns in the sixth round (186th overall) of the 2010 NFL Draft.
2011 (COWBOYS):
• Played in a career-high five games and assisted on two tackles while adding three pressures.
• Inactive the first three games of the season then played against Detroit (10/2).
• Recorded his first career statistics at Tampa Bay (12/17) with a tackle and a pressure.
• Notched a tackle and two pressures against Philadelphia (12/24).
2010 (BROWNS/DOLPHINS/SEAHAWKS/COWBOYS):
• Originally drafted by Cleveland in the sixth round (186th overall) of the 2010 NFL Draft but was released during final cuts.
• Claimed by the Dolphins off waivers on September 5, was released on September 15 and placed on Miami’s practice
squad on September 16.
• Elevated to the Dolphins active roster on October 23.
• Played in his first career game against Pittsburgh (10/24) but did not record any statistics.
• Released by the Dolphins on November 26.
• Signed to the Seahawks active roster on November 27 but did not play in any games and was released December 7.
• Claimed off waivers by Dallas on December 8.
• Made his Cowboys debut along the defensive line at Arizona (12/25).
COLLEGE:
• Finished his collegiate career at South Carolina with 72 tackles, 12 tackles for loss, six sacks, two forced fumbles and one
fumble recovery while playing in 36 games.
• Recorded 41 tackles, 3.5 sacks, 8.5 tackles for loss, two forced fumbles and one fumble recovery while playing in 12 games as a junior.
• Credited with 29 tackles as a sophomore while playing in all 13 games, making one start.
• Saw action in 11 games, registering two tackles in his first season at South Carolina.
PERSONAL:
• Attended Carvers Bay High School in Hemingway, S.C.
• Participated in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl game in January 2006.
• Enrolled at South Carolina in January 2007 after spending the fall at Hargrove Military Academy in Chatham, Va.
• Majored in African-American studies.
• Older brother, Robert, was a fourth round selection by Cincinnati in 2004 and plays defensive end.
• Father, Robert Sr., was a third round pick by Buffalo in 1981.
• Uncle, Jumpy, was a second round pick by New Orleans in 1984 and played 13 years in the NFL.
Career Statistics
Year
GP/GS
2011 DAL
5/0
2010 MIA/DAL 2/0
Total
7/0
Solo Asst. Total
0
2
2
0
0
0
0
2
2
Sacks
0.0
0.0
0.0
PD
0
0
0
100
FF
0
0
0
FR
0
0
0
INT
0
0
0
Yards
0
0
0
Avg.
0.0
0.0
0.0
LG
0
0
0
TD
0
0
0
ADDITIONAL BIOS
CORNERBACK JOSH GORDY
Josh Gordy #40
Cornerback
5-11, 195 pounds
Central Michigan
TR – 2012 (St. Louis)
Born: February 9, 1987
• Acquired by the Colts in a trade with the St. Louis Rams in exchange for an undisclosed selection in the 2014 NFL Draft.
• Elevated to the Rams 53-man roster from the practice squad on September 21, 2011.
• Signed to the Rams practice squad on September 6, 2011.
• Released from the Green Bay Packers on September 3, 2011.
• Elevated to the Packers 53-man roster from the practice squad on December 1, 2010.
• Signed to the Packers practice squad on September 15, 2010.
• Released by the Jacksonville Jaguars on August 31, 2010.
• Signed as an undrafted free agent by the Jaguars on April 26, 2010.
2011 (PACKERS/RAMS):
• Played in 14 games (nine starts) with the Rams and totaled 42 tackles (32 solo), five passes defensed, three interceptions
and a fumble recovery.
• Recorded six tackles (three solo) at Dallas (10/23).
• Tallied an interception in his first career start when he picked off Drew Brees against New Orleans (10/30). Finished the
game with a career-high seven solo tackles.
• Notched his second interception of the season when he picked off Andy Dalton and returned it 30 yards against Cincinnati
(12/18).
• Recorded an interception in his second consecutive game after picking off Charlie Batch at Pittsburgh (12/24).
2010 (JAGUARS/PACKERS):
• Appeared in two regular season games with the Packers.
• Made a special teams tackle in his NFL debut against San Francisco (12/5).
• Played in three preseason games with the Jaguars before being waived prior to the start of the regular season.
College:
• Appeared in 47 games (45 starts) at Central Michigan, totaling 212 tackles (134 solo), 37 passes defensed and 10 interceptions.
• Earned second-team All-MAC honors as a senior after leading the team with 14 passes defensed and three interceptions.
• Started 11 games and posted 47 tackles (30 solo), seven passes defensed and an interception his junior season.
• Appeared in 10 games (eight starts) and posted a career-high four interceptions as a sophomore on his way to being
named CMU’s Most Valuable Defensive Back.
• As a freshman, started all 14 games and led the secondary with a career-high 66 tackles (41 solo).
• Named the MAC West Division Defensive Player of the Week after returning an interception 100 yards for a touchdown
against Akron (9/16).
Personal:
• Lettered three times in football and four times in track and was an all-state and all-area selection at Washington County
(Warthen, Ga.) High School.
• Posted 69 tackles, six interceptions (two returned for touchdowns) and 2.0 sacks for his career.
• Returned an interception 101 yards for a touchdown in the state semifinals at the Georgia Dome as a senior.
• Member of the state champion 4x100 relay team in 2004 that set a school record of 41.45 seconds.
• Cousin, Robert Edwards, was a first-round draft choice of the New England Patriots in 1998.
• Born in Augusta, Ga.
Career Statistics
Year
GP/GS
2011 STL
14/9
2010 GB
2/0
Total
16/9
Solo Asst. Total
36
17
53
0
0
0
36
17
53
Sacks
0.0
0.0
0.0
PD
5
0
5
101
FF
0
0
0
FR
1
0
1
INT
3
0
3
Yards
37
0
37
Avg.
12.3
0.0
12.3
LG
30
0
30
TD
0
0
0
ADDITIONAL BIOS
CORNERBACK MARSHAY GREEN
Marshay Green #30
Cornerback
5-10, 175 pounds
Mississippi
Free Agent – 2012
Born: January 14, 1986
• Elevated to the Arizona Cardinals 53-man roster on December 31, 2011.
• Signed to the Cardinals practice squad on September 5, 2011.
• Waived by the Cardinals on September 2, 2011.
• Elevated to the Cardinals 53-man roster on November 23, 2010.
• Signed to the Cardinals practice squad on September 7, 2010.
• Waived by the Cardinals on September 5, 2010.
• Signed as an undrafted free agent by the Cardinals on April 26, 2010.
2011 (CARDINALS):
• After spending the first 16 weeks of the season on the practice squad, elevated to the 53-man roster on December 31, 2012.
• Made his NFL debut and had one unassisted tackle against Seattle (1/1).
2010 (CARDINALS):
• After spending the first 11 weeks of the season on the Cardinals practice squad, elevated to the 53-man roster on November 23, 2011.
• Inactive for each of the final six regular season games.
COLLEGE:
• Finished career ranked fourth all-time at Ole Miss in punt return yardage (917 yards on 93 returns) and sixth in kickoff
return yardage (984 yards on 41 returns).
• 24.0-yard kick return average is the highest of any of the top 10 career leaders.
• Three career punt return touchdowns tied for second on the school’s all-time list.
• Recorded two of the school’s top five single-game kickoff return yardage performances (146 and 159 yards).
• All-time leader in punt return yards in the Cotton Bowl with 185 yards in two appearances.
• Saw action as a wide receiver during his first two years, starting six-of-23 games played, but switched to cornerback for
final two seasons, starting 24-of-25 games played.
• For his career, registered 61 tackles and two interceptions on defense as well as 50 receptions for 434 yards with two
touchdowns and eight carries for 42 yards on offense.
• In 2009, started all 12 games played at cornerback, registering 29 tackles (23 solo), 1.5 tackles for loss, and two pass
break-ups as a team captain.
• Ranked fifth in the SEC in punt returns with an average of 10.2 yards per return (264 yards) on 26 attempts.
• Recorded a season-long 63-yard punt return and finished with a career-high and Cotton Bowl record 106 return yards on
four attempts against Oklahoma State.
• As a junior in 2008, moved from wide receiver to cornerback midway through spring drills and saw action in all 13 games (12 starts).
• Totaled 32 tackles, two interceptions and a team-high six passes defensed in first season on defense.
• Ranked sixth in the SEC in punt return average (10.9 yard avg.).
• Named Defensive MVP of the Cotton Bowl, returning an interception 65 yards for a touchdown and notching three tackles
against Texas Tech; also returned four punts for 79 yards with a long of 54 yards.
• Played in 11 games with five starts at flanker in 2007, finishing third on the team in receptions with 31 for 260 yards.
• Registered a team-high 27 kickoff returns for 631 yards, ranking third on the Ole Miss single-season list.
• Led team in punt returns with 12 attempts for 48 yards and one touchdown.
• As a freshman, appeared in all 12 games (one start) and finished the season ranked fourth overall and first among freshmen
in the SEC in punt return average (11.2 yards per return) as well as second in the SEC and first among freshmen in kickoff
return average (25.2 yards per return).
• Finished second on the team with 786 all-purpose yards (65.5 per game) and returned one punt for a touchdown.
• Ranked second on the team with 19 receptions, fourth with 174 receiving yards, and tied for first with two touchdown receptions.
PERSONAL:
• Scored 98 career touchdowns and helped lead Bastrop (La.) High School to a 44-6 record, four straight district titles, and
three straight Class 4A quarterfinals appearances.
• Three-time first team all-state selection, once as a return specialist and twice as a tailback. Named all-district 1-4A four times.
• Named Offensive Player of the Year for state and district.
• Named to New Orleans Times-Picayune Top 20 team and Baton Rouge Advocate Top 24 team in Louisiana.
• Totaled 501 yards on 22 punt returns (22.8 yards per return) with three touchdowns and two kickoff returns for scores.
• Lettered four times in basketball and track.
• Majored in Parks and Recreation Management.
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ADDITIONAL BIOS
DEFENSIVE END LAWRENCE GUY
Lawrence Guy #67
Defensive End
6-4, 300 pounds
Arizona State
Free Agent – 2012
1st Year with Colts/1st Year in NFL
Born: March 17, 1990
• Signed by the Colts on October 17, 2012.
• Signed to the Green Bay Packers practice squad on September 3, 2012.
• Waived by the Packers on August 31, 2012.
• Placed on Injured Reserve on September 3, 2011.
• Signed by the Packers on July 29, 2011.
• Originally selected by the Packers in the seventh round (233rd overall) of the 2011 NFL Draft.
2011 (PACKERS):
• Placed on injured reserve at the final roster reduction on September 3.
• Started training camp in competition for playing time in the rotation up front, appearing in the preseason opener at Cleveland
(8/13) and making four tackles (three solo).
• Selected by Green Bay with the second of two seventh-round choices (233rd overall) in the 2011 NFL Draft, the first player
to be drafted by the franchise out of Arizona State since 1995.
COLLEGE:
• Earned honorable mention All-Pac-10 Conference honors each of his three seasons at Arizona State.
• Was part of defenses that led the Pac-10 and finished in the top 20 nationally in run defense in 2009 and 2010.
• An early entry in the 2011 NFL Draft, played in 35 games for the Sun Devils with 31 starts.
• Recorded 122 tackles (74 solo), including 23 for a loss, eight sacks, two fumble recoveries and a forced fumble during his career.
• As a junior in 2010, started all 12 games and recorded 41 tackles (27 solo), six tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks and two passes defensed.
• Helped ASU lead the Pac-10 and finish 16th in the country in run defense (119.7 yards per game).
• Recorded three tackles (two solo) and a sack at Wisconsin (9/18).
• Part of a defense that gave up just eight yards rushing on 33 carries (0.2 avg.) in 42-0 win vs. Washington State (10/30).
• As a sophomore in 2009, started 11 contests and registered 37 tackles (20 solo) and a fumble recovery, while leading the
team with a career-high 4.5 sacks.
• Part of an ASU defense that led the conference and finished 19th in the nation in run defense (108.6 ypg).
• Posted a career-high 2.5 sacks and five tackles (four solo) at Washington State (10/10) as the Cougars registered minus54 rushing yards on 32 attempts (-1.7 avg.).
• Finished with five tackles (three solo), two sacks and a forced fumble against California (10/31). Helped limit the Golden
Bears to 57 yards rushing on 30 carries (1.9 avg.).
• As a freshman in 2008, appeared in all 12 games, starting eight of them.
• Earned first-team Freshman All-America honors from the Football Writers Association of America, Sporting News,
PhilSteele.com and CollegeFootballNews.com.
• Won the Bill Kajikawa Sun Devil Award as the team’s most outstanding freshman.
• Posted career-high 44 tackles (27 solo), including a career-best 10 stops for a loss, two sacks and a fumble recovery.
• Made his first career start at California (10/4), registering six tackles (two solo), four for a loss and a half-sack.
• Recovered a fumble and returned it 22 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter against Washington State (11/15). Also
had three tackles (two solo) and a tackle for a loss in the 31-0 win, Arizona State’s first shutout since 1996.
• Registered five tackles (three solo), 2.5 tackles for loss and a sack against UCLA (11/28).
PERSONAL:
• Named a PrepStar All-American at Western High School in Las Vegas, Nev. after finishing his three-year career with 238
tackles (171 solo), 30.5 sacks and three fumble recoveries.
• Ranked the No. 1 overall player in the state of Nevada by Rivals.com and the No. 1 defensive tackle in Nevada by ESPN Scouts, Inc.
• Listed as the No. 67 overall player in the nation by Scout.com.
• Was named to the Tacoma News Tribune’s “Western 100” list.
• Earned first-team “Best in the West” honors from the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
• Named a second-team All-America selection by EA Sports.
• Appeared in the 2008 U.S. Army All-American Bowl.
• Registered 102 tackles (69 solo), 15.5 sacks and a fumble recovery as a senior.
• Led the team with 89 tackles (67 solo) as a junior, adding 12 sacks and a fumble recovery.
• Also lettered four years in track and three years in wrestling.
• Names his father and his brothers as the biggest influences in his life.
• Brother, Dell, ran track at Arizona State.
• Majored in education and sociology.
• Born in Las Vegas.
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ADDITIONAL BIOS
TACKLE TONY HILLS
Tony Hills #78
Tackle
6-5, 304 pounds
Texas
Free Agent – 2012
Born: November 4, 1984
• Signed to the Colts practice squad on September 18, 2012.
• Waived by the Denver Broncos on August 31, 2012.
• Signed by the Broncos on September 8, 2011.
• Waived by the Pittsburgh Steelers on September 3, 2011.
• Became a restricted free agent on July 25, 2011.
• Signed by the Steelers on July 7, 2008.
• Selected by the Steelers in the fourth round (130th overall) of the 2008 NFL Draft.
2012 (COLTS):
• Signed to the Colts practice squad on September 18, 2012.
• Spent the preseason with the Denver Broncos.
2011 (BRONCOS):
• Was inactive for 15 regular season games and did not play in one other contest before seeing his first action with the Broncos in their AFC Wild Card Playoff Game vs. Pittsburgh (1/8).
2010 (STEELERS):
• Saw action on special teams and along the offensive line in four regular season games.
• Played on special teams in Super Bowl XLV against Green Bay (2/6).
2009 (STEELERS):
• Played one contest for the Steelers, seeing his first NFL action on special teams at Baltimore (11/29).
2008 (STEELERS):
• Inactive for all 16 regular season games and all three postseason contests during his rookie campaign.
COLLEGE:
• Played 42 games at the University of Texas, starting his final 24 contests at left tackle and being named a first-team AllAmerica selection by the Walter Camp Foundation following his senior year.
• Allowed just four quarterback sacks and seven pressures in 743 pass plays over his final two seasons.
PERSONAL:
• Attended Alief Elsik (Houston, Texas) High School, where he was a three-year starter at tight end.
• Earned All-Greater Houston and all-district honors his final two seasons in addition to being named a Parade All-America
selection and adding third-team Class 5A all-state recognition as a senior.
• Full name is Anthony Tramaine Hills.
• Born on November 4, 1984, in Houston.
Career GP/GS:
2011 DEN: 0/0 (1/0 Playoffs)
2010 PIT: 4/0 (1/0 Playoffs)
2009 PIT: 0/0
2008 PIT: 0/0
Total: 4/0 (2/0) 104
ADDITIONAL BIOS
FULLBACK ROBERT HUGHES
Robert Hughes #29
Fullback
5-11, 235 pounds
Notre Dame
Free Agent – 2012
Born: June 21, 1989
• Released from the Washington Redskins practice squad on September 11, 2012.
• Signed to the Redskins practice squad on September 3, 2012.
• Waived by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on August 31, 2012.
• Signed by the Buccaneers on April 19, 2012.
• Signed to the Chicago Bears practice squad on December 19, 2011.
• Waived by the Bears on September 3, 2011.
• Signed as an undrafted free agent by the Bears on July 26, 2011.
2011 (BEARS):
• Played in four preseason games, totaling 18 carries for 69 yards and two touchdowns.
• Spent the final two weeks of the season on the practice squad.
College:
• Played in 47 games for Notre Dame, totaling 1,392 rushing yards on 321 carries with 15 touchdowns and 43 receptions for
370 yards.
• Posted three 100-yard rushing games in his college career.
• As a senior, received the Nick Pietrosante Award, an award presented annually to the Notre Dame player who best exemplifies the courage, loyalty, teamwork, dedication and pride of the late Irish All-America fullback.
• First Notre Dame freshman to eclipse 100 rushing yards in consecutive weeks since 1982.
Personal:
• Selected for the 2007 U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio, Texas.
• Named first-team all-state by the Chicago Tribune after rushing for 1,780 yards and 22 touchdowns as a senior at Hubbard
High School.
• Helped lead Hubbard to an 8-3 season and reach the second round of the state playoffs in his senior season.
• Ran for 1,920 yards and 19 touchdowns as a junior, adding 71 tackles and five sacks at nose tackle while helping Hubbard
reach the Class 6A state semifinals.
• Rushed for 1,000 yards as a freshman and 1,034 yards as a sophomore to earn all-area honors.
• Uncle E.J. Jones played running back for the Kansas City Chiefs in 1985.
• Son of Earl Reed and Blanchie Reed.
• Majored in sociology.
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ADDITIONAL BIOS
WIDE RECEIVER NATHAN PALMER
Nathan Palmer #10
Wide Receiver
5-11, 195 pounds
Northern Illinois
Free Agent – 2012
Born: April 14, 1989
• Signed by the Colts off the San Francisco 49ers practice squad on September 24, 2012.
• Signed to the 49ers practice squad on September 1, 2012.
• Waived by the 49ers on August 31, 2012.
• Signed by the 49ers as an undrafted free agent on May 4, 2012.
College:
• Played in 48 games (20 starts) for Northern Illinois and registered 93 receptions for 1,575 yards and 16 touchdowns.
• Rushed for 200 yards and one touchdown on 21 carries.
• As a senior in 2011, played in 14 games (five starts) and recorded 47 receptions for 695 yards and seven touchdowns.
Also added six carries for 30 yards.
• As a junior in 2010, played in 14 games (eight starts) and caught 29 passes for 532 yards and six touchdowns. Rushed
three times for 23 yards.
• As a sophomore in 2009, played in 11 games (four starts) and registered five receptions for 70 yards and one touchdown.
Ran for 135 yards and one touchdown on 11 attempts.
• As a freshman in 2008, played in nine games (three starts) and recorded 12 receptions for 278 yards and two touchdowns.
Added one carry for 12 yards.
Personal:
• Attended Elkhart (Ind.) Central High School.
• Was a first-team all-state and all-conference selection.
• Also earned Offensive Player of the Year honors.
• Majored in general studies.
• Born in Elkhart, Ind.
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ADDITIONAL BIOS
TIGHT END WESLYE SAUNDERS
Weslye Saunders #85
Tight End
6-5, 270 pounds
South Carolina
Free Agent – 2012
Born: January 16, 1989
•Signed by the Colts on October 16, 2012.
•Waived by the Pittsburgh Steelers on October 12, 2012.
•Signed by the Steelers as an undrafted free agent on July 26, 2011.
2011 (STEELERS):
•Played in 16 games (six starts) and caught four passes for 29 yards and a touchdown.
•Scored his first career touchdown at Kansas City (11/27).
•Caught his first career pass at Indianapolis (9/25).
•Blocked for Steelers’ rushers to gain 174 yards on the ground vs. Tennessee (10/9).
•Made his first career start at tight end and helped block for Steelers’ rushers to gain 185 yards on the ground, including
running back Rashard Mendenhall’s 146 yards and one touchdown vs. Jacksonville (10/16).
•Started and helped block for the Steelers’ offense to gain 445 total yards at Arizona (10/23).
•Started at tight end in his first career postseason contest in the AFC Wild Card Game at Denver (1/8).
COLLEGE:
•Played in 36 games (13 starts) at South Carolina and finished his career with 60 receptions for 718 yards and six touchdowns.
•As a junior in 2009, played in 12 games (10 starts) and was named to the Mackey Award preseason watch list.
•Named fourth-team All-SEC by Phil Steele.
•Ranked third on the squad with 32 receptions, while logging 353 yards receiving with three touchdowns.
•As a sophomore in 2008, appeared in all 13 games, making three starts.
•Caught 16 passes for 214 yards and three touchdowns.
•As a freshman in 2007, garnered Freshman All-SEC honors by the Sporting News, was a Sporting News Honorable Mention
Freshman All-American and a CollegeFootballNews.com third-team Freshman All-American.
•Played in 11 games and caught 12 passes for 151 yards.
PERSONAL:
•Played tight end and defensive end for Riverside High School (Durham, N.C).
•Helped the Pirates reach the 4-AA state championship game.
•Finished the season 11-5 after starting the year 3-4.
•Caught 58 passes for 718 yards with seven touchdowns.
•Also had 242 yards rushing with 10 scores on 32 carries.
•Logged 86 tackles and eight sacks as a defensive end.
•Was a Shrine Bowl participant.
•Was all-region and all-conference as a junior after recording 20 catches for 308 yards and six touchdowns at tight end, and
52 tackles, four sacks, 14 tackles for loss and two forced fumbles at defensive end.
•Son of Barry Saunders, a columnist for the Raleigh News-Observer.
Career Statistics
Year
GP/GS
2011 PIT
16/6
Total
16/6
Rec
4
4
Yards
29
29
Avg.
7.3
7.3
LG
14
14
107
TD
1
1
ADDITIONAL BIOS
TACKLE BRADLEY SOWELL
Bradley Sowell #60
Tackle
6-7, 320 pounds
Mississippi
Free Agent – 2012
Born: June 6, 1989
• Signed off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers practice squad on September 11, 2012.
• Signed to the Buccaneers practice squad on September 3, 2012.
• Waived by the Buccaneers on September 1, 2012.
• Signed by the Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent on April 30, 2012.
College:
• Played in 49 games for Mississippi, starting 36 of the final 37.
• Named All-SEC second-team by The Associated Press and Phil Steele in 2010 and All-SEC third-team by College Sport
Madness in 2011.
• In 2010, helped Ole Miss allow the fewest sacks in the SEC and rank third in rushing offense.
• In 2009, helped the Ole Miss offense rank second in the SEC and 14th in the country in sacks allowed.
• Blocked for Dexter McCluster’s 1,169-yard season in 2009, the second-highest total in Ole Miss history.
Personal:
• Attended Hernando (Miss.) High School.
• Rated as one of the top 30 players in Mississippi by Rivals.com, Scout.com, SuperPrep and the Sun Herald (Miss.).
• Named to the SuperPrep All-Region Team.
• Majored in Marketing Communications.
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NOSE TACKLE MARTIN TEVASEU
Martin Tevaseu #68
Nose Tackle
6-2, 325 pounds
UNLV
Claimed off Waivers – 2012 (N.Y. Jets)
1st Year with Colts/3rd Year in NFL
Born: September 30, 1985
• Claimed off waivers by the Colts on September 1, 2012.
• Waived by the New York Jets on August 31, 2012.
• Elevated to the Jets 53-man active roster on October 22, 2011.
• Signed to the Jets practice squad on October 18, 2011.
• Released by the Jets on October 18, 2011.
• Elevated to the Jets 53-man active roster on October 12, 2011.
• Signed to the Jets practice squad on September 5, 2011.
• Released by the Jets on September 4, 2011.
• Elevated to the Jets active roster on January 22, 2011.
• Signed to the Jets practice squad on September 7, 2010.
• Released by the Jets on September 4, 2011.
• Signed by the Jets as a free agent on July 20, 2010.
• Released by the Cleveland Browns on June 15, 2010.
• Signed by the Browns on May 17, 2010.
2011 (JETS):
• Saw action in five games, collecting one tackle.
• Spent the first five weeks of the season on the practice squad before joining the active roster in Week 6.
2010 (JETS):
• Signed prior to training camp and spent the entire regular season and first two playoff games as a member of the Jets
practice squad.
• Signed to the active roster before the AFC Championship Game at Pittsburgh (1/24/11) and saw action on defense.
College:
• Posted 48 tackles and two sacks as a two-year starter at UNLV.
• Named Defensive MVP and team captain as a senior.
• Enrolled at Santa Rosa (Calif.) Junior College and earned first-team all-league honors in his freshman year after collecting
40 tackles, five sacks and three passes defended.
• Re-enrolled at Santa Rosa JC in 2007.
Personal:
• Full name is Martin Tauamanu Tevaseu.
• Married to the former Leah Guerrero.
• Earned a spot on the Dean’s Honor List in 2008 en route to Academic All-MWC honors.
• Named school’s athlete of the year as well as Anderson Valley High School student body president.
• Was first-team all-conference and team MVP in basketball as a senior in high school.
Career Statistics
Year
GP/GS
2011 NYJ
5/0
Total
5/0
Solo Asst. Total
0
1
1
0
1
1
Sacks
0.0
0.0
PD
0
0
109
FF
0
0
FR
0
0
INT
0
0
Yards
0
0
Avg.
0.0
0.0
LG
0
0
TD
0
0
2012 GAME SUMMARIES
WEEK 1 AT CHICAGO GAME NOTES
COLTS 21
BEARS 41
• The Indianapolis Colts fell to the Chicago Bears in the 2012
regular season opener by a 41-21 margin at Soldier Field.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Soldier Field
The Indianapolis Colts fell to the Chicago Bears by a 41-21
margin in the 2012 regular season opener at Soldier Field.
Inside Linebacker Jerrell Freeman opened the scoring with
a four-yard interception return for a touchdown. The Bears
responded with two touchdowns and a field goal before Donald Brown found the end zone on an 18-yard rush. Bears
running back Michael Bush posted a one-yard rushing
touchdown to claim a 24-14 halftime advantage. Chicago
scored 10-unanswered points to open the second half with
a Matt Forte six-yard rushing touchdown and a Robbie
Gould field goal. Rookie quarterback Andrew Luck threw his
first career touchdown pass to wide receiver Donnie Avery
at the 10:20 mark in the fourth quarter, but a comeback fell
short as the Bears secured a 41-21 win. Luck threw for 309
yards in his NFL debut, while wide receiver Reggie Wayne
led both teams in receiving with nine catches for 135 yards.
Team Qtr Time
Colts
1 11:23
Bears
Bears
1
2
7:19
10:33
Bears
Colts
Bears
Bears
Bears
Colts
2
2
2
3
3
4
5:32
3:17
0:44
11:52
10:02
10:20
Bears
4
6:08
SCORING DRIVES
Scoring Play
Freeman 4 yd. INT return
(Vinatieri kick)
Bush 1 yd. run (Gould kick)
Marshall 3 yd. pass from Cutler
(Gould kick)
Gould 35 yd. field goal
Brown 18 yd. run (Vinatieri kick)
Bush 1 yd. run (Gould kick)
Forte 6 yd. run (Gould kick)
Gould 26 yd. field goal
Avery 4 yd. pass from Luck
(Vinatieri kick)
Jeffery 42 yd. pass from Cutler
(Gould kick)
TEAM STATISTICS
Total Net Yards
Net Yards Rushing
Net Yards Passing
Total First Downs
Net Punting Average
Penalties
Touchdowns
Red Zone Efficiency
Time of Possession
STARTERS
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
WR
TE
QB
RB
F
COLTS
Wayne
DE
Redding
Castonzo NT
Johnson
Olsen
DT
Moala
Satele
SLB Mathis
McGlynn MIKE Conner
Justice
WILL Freeman
Avery
RUSHFreeney
Fleener
LCB Davis
Luck
RCB Powers
Brown
SS
Zbikowski
Jones
FS
Bethea
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
WR
TE
QB
RB
FB
Colts
356
63
293
22
2-10-20%
5-51.4
42.8
3-19
2-2
3
0-1
2-4-50%
24:32
BEARS
Marshall
LE
Webb
DT
Spencer
NT
Garza
RE
Louis
WLB
Carimi
MLB
Hester
SLB
Davis
LCB
Cutler
RCB
Forte
SS
Rodriguez FS
IND
7
CHI
0
7
7
7
14
7
14
14
14
14
21
17
17
24
31
34
34
21
41
Bears
428
114
314
26
4-12-33%
5-41.6
35.2
7-48
0-0
5
2-2
4-6-67%
35:28
Idonije
Melton
Toeaina
Peppers
Briggs
Urlacher
Roach
Jennings
Tillman
Wright
Conte
• On Chicago’s second drive of the game, inside linebacker
Jerrell Freeman intercepted a Jay Cutler pass and returned
it four yards for a touchdown, signifying the first points of the
2012 season for the Colts. The interception return for a
touchdown was the first for the Colts since Week 14 of the
2011 season when cornerback Jacob Lacey returned a pick
32 yards for a touchdown.
• The Colts engineered a five-play, 71-yard drive, at the end
of the second quarter, which culminated in a Donald Brown
18-yard rushing touchdown. The touchdown was the first
from the Colts offense this season and cut the Bears lead to
17-14. Indianapolis also totaled 36 rushing yards on the
drive.
• Quarterback Andrew Luck pieced-together the team’s second offensive touchdown drive of the game in the fourth
quarter, which was capped by a Donnie Avery four-yard
touchdown reception. The 12-play, 80-yard drive totaled
4:52. The touchdown for Avery was his second in as many
games after catching a touchdown in the 2011 regular season finale as a member of the Tennessee Titans.
• In his first career NFL start, quarterback Andrew Luck
completed 23-of-45 passes for 309 yards, one touchdown
and three interceptions. Luck’s 309 passing yards is the highest total by a Colts rookie quarterback in their franchise
debut.
• Wide receiver Reggie Wayne finished the contest with nine
catches for 135 yards, leading both teams in receiving. For
the second consecutive year, he totaled over 100 yards in
the season opener (106 – 9/11/11 at Houston). The receiving
performance also marked his 36th career 100-plus-yard
game. Wayne improved his streak of consecutive games
played to 167, which ranks third in franchise history and is
the longest streak by active wide receivers in the NFL.
• With nine catches against the Bears, Wayne moved past
wide receiver Jimmy Smith for sole possession of 15th place
on the NFL’s all-time receptions list (871). He is now 13
catches away from moving past wide receiver Keenan McCardell (883) for 14th place. With 11,843 career receiving
yards, Wayne also passed Don Maynard (11,834) for 21st
place on the league’s all-time receiving yardage list.
• In his NFL debut, rookie tight end Coby Fleener finished
second on the Colts in receiving with six receptions for 82
yards.
• Kicker Adam Vinatieri notched three extra points against
the Bears and became the 11th player in NFL history with
600-plus PAT attempts. Vinatieri has also scored at least one
point in 131 consecutive games.
• Safety Antoine Bethea led the defense in tackles with nine
and became the sixth member of the Colts to record 700plus stops in franchise history.
• On the first play of the game, outside linebacker Robert
Mathis dropped Bears quarterback Jay Cutler for a 12-yard
loss. Mathis added his second sack of the game in the third
quarter, bringing his career total to 85.5. The two-sack performance by Mathis is the 18th of his career and the first
since a December 22, 2011 meeting against Houston (2.0).
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2012 GAME SUMMARIES
WEEK 2 VS. MINNESOTA GAME NOTES
COLTS 23
VIKINGS 20
•The Indianapolis Colts won their first game of the 2012 campaign by a 2320 margin over the Minnesota Vikings at Lucas Oil Stadium. The Colts improved their all-time regular season home record against the Vikings to 10-0
and have won their last four games against Minnesota. Dating back to 2003,
the Colts are 8-2 in their last 10 home openers.
Lucas Oil Stadium
The Colts earned their first win of the season when kicker
Adam Vinatieri split the uprights on a 53-yard field goal with
eight seconds remaining in the fourth quarter to solidify a 2320 victory. It was the longest game-winning kick of Vinatieri’s
career as he finished the day 3-of-3 in field goals. Quarterback Andrew Luck completed 20-of-31 passes for 224 yards
and two touchdowns in his second start while wide receiver
Donnie Avery led both teams in receiving with nine catches
for 111 yards. Indianapolis took a 17-6 lead at halftime when
Luck hit wide receiver Reggie Wayne on a 30-yard touchdown with seven seconds remaining in the second quarter.
The Vikings were able to tie the score at 20 apiece with two
unanswered touchdowns in the fourth quarter, but Vinatieri’s
field goal sealed the win. Defensively, inside linebacker Jerrell Freeman led the team tackles while adding his first career sack and forced fumble.
Team Qtr Time
Vikings 1
7:48
Colts
1
0:49
Vikings 2
Colts
2
Colts
2
11:38
1:49
0:07
Colts
3
Vikings 4
7:06
5:07
Vikings 4
0:31
Colts
0:08
4
SCORING DRIVES
Scoring Play
MIN
Walsh 51 yd. field goal
3
Allen 3 yd. pass from Luck
3
(Vinatieri kick)
Walsh 29 yd. field goal
6
6
Wayne 30 yd. pass from Luck
6
(Vinatieri kick)
6
Burton 7 yd. pass from Ponder 13
(Walsh kick)
Rudolph 6 yd. pass from Ponder 20
(Walsh kick)
20
TEAM STATISTICS
Total Net Yards
Net Yards Rushing
Net Yards Passing
Total First Downs
Net Punting Average
Penalties
Touchdowns
Red Zone Efficiency
Time of Possession
STARTERS
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
WR
TE
QB
RB
F
COLTS
Wayne
DE
Redding
Castonzo NT
Johnson
Olsen
DT
Moala
Satele
SLB Mathis
McGlynn MIKE Conner
Linkenbach WILL Freeman
Avery
RUSH Hughes
Fleener
LCB Davis
Luck
RCB Powers
Brown
SS
Zbikowski
Allen
FS
Bethea
TE
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
WR
TE
QB
FB
HB
Vikings
327
95
232
19
7-15-47%
4-48.0
45.3
11-105
2-1
2
2-2
2-3-67%
30:22
VIKINGS
Carlson
LE
Kalil
NT
Johnson
UT
Sullivan
RE
Fusco
SLB
Loadholt MLB
Harvin
WLB
Rudolph
LCB
Ponder
RCB
Felton
SS
Peterson FS
IND
0
7
7
10
17
20
20
20
23
Colts
278
84
194
17
7-16-44%
5-53.6
43.4
7-51
0-0
2
3-3
1-3-33%
29:38
Robison
Guion
Williams
Allen
Greenway
Brinkley
Henderson
Winfield
Cook
Raymond
Smith
•With 31 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter and the game tied at 20
apiece, quarterback Andrew Luck drove the team 40 yards on three completions to set up kicker Adam Vinatieri’s 53-yard game-winning field goal.
The conversion was the 24th for Vinatieri’s career in the final minute of
fourth quarter or overtime. It was also the longest game-winning field goal
for Vinatieri, topping his previous mark of 51 yards at San Diego on November 23, 2008.
•Vinatieri converted all three of his field goal attempts (26, 45 and 53 yards)
while adding two extra points for a total of 11 points in the game. The 17year veteran has tallied at least one point in 132 consecutive games.
•On its opening offensive possession of the game, the Colts drove 80 yards
in 13 plays and capped the drive with an Andrew Luck three-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dwayne Allen. The catch for Allen was the first of
his NFL career. On the drive, Indianapolis converted all three third down attempts. Luck also hit wide receiver Donnie Avery on three occasions for
65 yards, including a 41-yard connection to the Vikings’ three-yard line. The
catch for Avery was the fifth-longest of his career and his longest since October 25, 2009 against the Colts (50 yards).
•The Colts pieced-together a two-minute drive at the end of the second
quarter and drove 64 yards in 1:11 culminating in a wide receiver Reggie
Wayne 30-yard touchdown reception. On the drive, Luck completed 4-of-5
passes for 54 yards. The touchdown gave Indianapolis a 17-6 lead as Luck
finished the first half having completed 11-of-17 passes for 146 yards and
two touchdowns for a 131.0 quarterback rating.
•Wide receiver Donnie Avery led both teams in receiving with nine receptions for 111 yards (12.3 avg.). The 111 receiving yards is the second-highest total for Avery in a game while his nine receptions tied his single-game
career-high, which he previously set on November 16, 2008 at San Francisco.
•Wide receiver Reggie Wayne finished the contest with six receptions for
71 yards and one touchdown. With his career total of 11,914 yards, he surpassed Michael Irvin (11,904) for 20th place on the league’s all-time receiving yardage list. With his touchdown reception, Wayne also tied Nat Moore
and Torry Holt for 28th place on the league’s all-time touchdown receptions
list.
•Quarterback Andrew Luck finished his second career start having completed 20-of-31 passes for 224 yards and two touchdowns for a 107.5 quarterback rating.
•Outside linebacker Robert Mathis logged his third sack of the season
when he brought down Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder in the first
quarter. Through two games, Mathis has totaled 3.0 sacks, matching his
best start to a season (3.0 in 2010). In 2010, Mathis finished with 11.0 sacks.
•On back-to-back plays in the second quarter, outside linebacker Kavell
Conner and inside linebacker Jerrell Freeman recorded their first career
NFL sacks. Conner’s came on a second down when he dropped Ponder for
a loss. Freeman followed with a sack and a forced fumble on third down.
The ball was recovered by defensive end Cory Redding who totaled his 10th
career fumble recovery. The turnover led to a Colts 26-yard field goal.
•Freeman led the team in tackles (13 according to the gamebook) in addition to one sack, one tackle for loss and one forced fumble. He has now
forced a turnover in both games this season (interception return for a touchdown against Chicago in Week 1).
•Outside linebacker Jerry Hughes registered his first sack of the season
and second of his career when he brought down Ponder in the third quarter.
The sack led to a Vikings punt.
•Punter Pat McAfee recorded 268 punt yards and became the fifth Colts
punter all-time with 10,000 punting yards. In the third quarter, McAfee registered a 64-yard punt, which tied the second-longest of his career (10/9/11
vs. Kansas City, 64).
•The Colts offense provided sustained drives against the Vikings totaling
14, 13, nine and eight plays. On those drives, Indianapolis notched two
touchdowns and two field goals. The team opened the game having scored
on four of their first five possessions.
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2012 GAME SUMMARIES
WEEK 3 VS. JACKSONVILLE GAME NOTES
COLTS 17
JAGUARS 22
• The Indianapolis Colts (1-2) fell to the Jacksonville Jaguars (12) by a 22-17 margin in a Week 3 meeting at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Lucas Oil Stadium
The Colts fell victim to a last-minute comeback at the hands
of the Jackonsville Jaguars, falling 22-17 in a Week 3 meeting at Lucas Oil Stadium. Indianapolis jumped out to a 14-3
halftime lead when Andrew Luck connected with T.Y. Hilton
for a 40-yard touchdown in the first quarter and running back
Mewelde Moore for a four-yard score in the second stanza.
Hilton led both teams in receiving with four receptions for
113 yards. The Jaguars scored 13 unanswered points in the
second half on a Maurice Jones-Drew 59-yard rush and two
Josh Scobee field goals to reclaim a 16-14 lead. With 56
seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, the Colts drove 48
yards in five plays to set up an Adam Vinatieri 37-yard field
goal. The kick split the uprights and gave Indianapolis a 1716 advantage. On their ensuing possession, Jacksonville
needed one play to find the end zone when Cecil Shorts took
a Blaine Gabbert pass 80 yards to the end zone. The score
sealed the Jaguars’ third consecutive victory over the Colts.
SCORING DRIVES
Team Qtr Time Scoring Play
JAX
Jaguars 1 7:13 Scobee 44 yd. field goal
3
Colts
1 3:42 Hilton 40 yd. pass from Luck
3
(Vinatieri kick)
Colts
2 0:37 Moore 4 yd. pass from Luck
3
(Vinatieri kick)
Jaguars 3 12:05 Jones-Drew 59 yd. run
10
(Scobee kick)
13
16
Colts
4 0:56 Vinatieri 37 yd. field goal
16
Jaguars 4 0:45 Shorts 80 yd. pass from Gabbert 22
(run failed)
TEAM STATISTICS
Total Net Yards
Net Yards Rushing
Net Yards Passing
Total First Downs
Net Punting Average
Penalties
Touchdowns
Red Zone Efficiency
Time of Possession
STARTERS
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
WR
TE
QB
RB
F
COLTS
Wayne
DE
Redding
Castonzo NT
Johnson
Olsen
DT
Moala
Satele
SLB Mathis
McGlynn MIKE Conner
Justice
WILL Freeman
Avery
RUSH Hughes
Fleener
LCB Davis
Luck
RCB Powers
Brown
SS
Zbikowski
Allen
FS
Bethea
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
WR
TE
QB
FB
RB
Jaguars
333
185
148
15
4-13-31%
6-53.5
45.3
6-67
2-0
2
3-3
0-2-0%
27:36
IND
0
7
14
14
• The Colts found the scoreboard on their opening offensive
possession when Luck found wide receiver T.Y. Hilton for a 40yard touchdown. The six-play drive consisted of 74 yards. The
touchdown was the first of Hilton’s NFL career as the 40-yard
pass marked the second longest this season for Luck (Week 2
vs. Minnesota – Donnie Avery 41 yards). The score also signified the second consecutive game the Colts scored a touchdown on their opening offensive possession (Week 2 vs.
Minnesota – Dwayne Allen three-yard touchdown).
• Luck threw his second touchdown pass of the first half when
he hit running back Mewelde Moore for a four-yard score with
42 seconds remaining in the second quarter to give the Colts a
14-3 halftime advantage. The touchdown was the eighth receiving score of Moore’s career and the first since Oct. 30, 2011 vs.
New England when he was a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• Wide receiver Reggie Wayne finished the game with eight
catches for 88 yards. With his 88 receiving yards, he became
the 20th player in NFL history to reach 12,000 career receiving
yards (12,002). With eight catches, Wayne also improved his
career total to 885 and surpassed Keenan McCardell (883) for
14th place on the NFL’s all-time receptions list.
• Wide receiver T.Y. Hilton led both teams in receiving with four
receptions for 113 yards and one touchdown. His 40-yard score
in the first quarter was the first of his career.
14
14
17
17
Colts
437
124
313
23
10-19-53%
6-46.7
42.0
11-106
0-0
2
1-2
1-3-33%
32:24
JAGUARS
Robinson LE
Monroe
DT
Brewster DT
Meester
RE
Nwaneri
OLB
Whimper MLB
Blackmon OLB
Lewis
LCB
Gabbert
RCB
Owens
SS
Jones-DrewFS
• Quarterback Andrew Luck completed 22-of-46 attempts for
313 yards, two touchdowns and one interception for a 75.7
passer rating in his third career NFL start. The 313 passing
yards were the second-most for a Colts quarterback in the last
two seasons (Dan Orlovsky - 353 on Dec. 4, 2011).
Mincey
Alualu
Knighton
Branch
Bosworth
Posluszny
Allen
Mathis
Cox
Landry
Lowery
• Running back Donald Brown logged a season-high 62 rushing yards while Luck contributed with 50 yards. As a team, the
Colts posted 124 rushing yards, which was the most in a single
game this season.
• Outside linebacker Robert Mathis recorded a sack and forced
fumble when he brought down Jaguars quarterback Blaine Gabbert on a third down in the first quarter. The sack stalled Jacksonville’s offensive drive and forced a field goal. Mathis has
recorded at least one sack in six consecutive games dating back
to the 2011 campaign, which marks his second best streak since
Sept. 11, 2005 – Nov. 7, 2005 (nine sacks in eight straight
games).
• Inside linebacker Jerrell Freeman led the team in tackles for
the third consecutive week (nine tackles according to the gamebook).
• Kicker Adam Vinatieri split the uprights on a 37-yard field goal
attempt in the fourth quarter to give the Colts a 17-16 advantage. Along with two PATs, he finished the day with five points
and improved his streak of consecutive games with at least one
point to 133.
• Cornerback Cassius Vaughn totaled 113 kickoff return yards
including a 40-yard return in the fourth quarter.
• The Colts offense converted six-of-eight third down attempts
in the first half en route to generating 188 net yards and 137 net
passing yards. Indianapolis finished the game with 437 net
yards, which is the team’s second-highest total in the last two
seasons (452 yards on Dec. 4, 2011 vs. New England).
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2012 GAME SUMMARIES
WEEK 5 VS. GREEN BAY GAME NOTES
COLTS 30
PACKERS 27
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Lucas Oil Stadium
The Colts tied the third largest comeback (18 points) in franchise history after defeating the Green Bay Packers by a 3027 margin. The victory was a special moment for the team
who was informed earlier in the week that Head Coach
Chuck Pagano was stricken with leukemia and would not be
in attendance. Offensive Coordinator/Interim Head Coach
Bruce Arians earned the victory in his coaching debut.
Rookie quarterback Andrew Luck threw for 362 yards and
two touchdowns while rushing for another while wide receiver Reggie Wayne set a career-high with 212 receiving
yards and the game-winning four-yard touchdown with 35
seconds left in the game. The Colts outscored Green Bay
27-7 in the second half. With seconds remaining on the
clock, Packers kicker Mason Crosby missed a 51-yard field
goal, which sailed wide right and secured the victory for the
Colts. The Indianapolis defense contributed with five second
half sacks, including two from defensive end Cory Redding.
SCORING DRIVES
GB
Packers 1 2:07 Kuhn 2 yd. run (Crosby kick)
7
Packers 2 12:25 Ja. Jones 6 yd. pass from Rodgers 14
(Crosby kick)
Colts
14
Packers 2 4:21 Cobb 31 yd. pass from Rodgers 21
(Crosby kick)
Colts
3 11:06 Allen 8 yd. pass from Luck
21
(Vinatieri kick)
Colts
21
Colts
3 0:18 Luck 3 yd. run (pass failed)
21
Colts
21
Packers 4 4:30 Ja. Jones 8 yd. pass from Rodgers 27
Colts
4 0:35 Wayne 4 yd. pass from Luck
27
(Brown run)
TEAM STATISTICS
Total Net Yards
Net Yards Rushing
Net Yards Passing
Total First Downs
Net Punting Average
Penalties
Touchdowns
Red Zone Efficiency
Time of Possession
STARTERS
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
WR
TE
QB
RB
F
COLTS
Wayne
DE
Redding
Castonzo NT
Johnson
LinkenbachDT
Moala
Shipley
SLB Mathis
McGlynn MIKE Conner
Justice
WILL Freeman
Avery
RUSH Freeney
Fleener
LCB Vaughn
Luck
RCB Powers
Brown
SS
Zbikowski
Allen
FS
Bethea
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
TE
TE
QB
RB
TE
Packers
356
141
215
21
4-13-31%
7-45.1
43.3
9-89
0-0
4
0-2
3-3-100%
24:44
IND
0
0
3
3
10
13
19
22
22
30
Colts
464
119
345
28
8-20-40%
5-44.6
40.8
9-100
1-0
3
3-4
3-5-60%
35:16
PACKERS
Ja. Jones LE
Newhouse NT
Lang
DE
Saturday LOLB
Sitton
BLB
Bulaga
MLB
Finley
ROLB
Williams
LCB
Rodgers
RCB
Benson
SS
Crabtree FS
Pickett
Raji
Wilson
Walden
Hawk
Smith
Matthews
Williams
Shields
Woodson
Burnett
•The Indianapolis Colts defeated the Green Bay Packers by a 30-27 margin
in a Week 5 meeting at Lucas Oil Stadium. With the win, the Colts improved
their all-time series record against Green Bay to 21-20-1. The Colts faced
an 18-point deficit in the second quarter (21-3), and tied the third largest
comeback in franchise history (21 points four times, 20 points one time, 18
points now four times). The last time the team came back from that large of
a deficit came on October 6, 2003 when the Colts were down 21 points to
Tampa Bay, but came back to win the game 38-35 in overtime.
•The Colts defeated the Packers in stunning fashion as wide receiver Reggie Wayne scored on a four-yard touchdown with 35 seconds remaining in
the game. Wayne posted a career day as he tallied a career-high 212 receiving yards on 13 receptions. It was Wayne’s highest receiving total since
he finished with 200 yards against Dallas on December 5, 2010. With 212
yards against the Packers, Wayne (12,214) moved up three spots on the
league’s all-time receiving yardage list and surpassed Charlie Joiner
(12,146) for 17th place. With his touchdown, Wayne (75) also tied Larry
Fitzgerald and James Lofton for 27th place on the league’s all-time receiving
touchdowns list. Wayne led the team with six receptions for 104 yards in
the first half. The total was the third-highest in his career following a 137yard performance against Green Bay in 2004 and a 111-yard total against
Cincinnati in 2005. With 212 total yards against the Packers, Wayne tallied
his 40th 100-yard receiving performance and his second career 200-yard
game. With 212 receiving yards against the Packers, Wayne (12,214)
moved past former Colts running back Edgerrin James (12,065) for second
place on the franchise’s all-time scrimmage yards list. Wayne improved his
streak of catching at least one pass to 100 consecutive games. The streak
dates back to a Week 1 contest against the New York Giants on September
10, 2006.
•Quarterback Andrew Luck finished his fourth career start having completed career highs in completions (31), attempts (55) and yards (362) as
well as adding two touchdowns and one rushing touchdown. He has thrown
a touchdown pass in each of his first four career games and became the
first Colts rookie to accomplish the feat since Bert Jones in 1973. L u c k ’ s
second touchdown pass of the game went to wide receiver Reggie Wayne
with 35 seconds remaining in the contest. The score proved to be the gamewinner as Wayne recorded his second touchdown of the season. L u c k
logged his first career rushing touchdown when he found the end zone from
three yards out in the third quarter. Following a failed two-point conversion,
the score cut Green Bay’s lead to 21-19. The touchdown signified the team’s
third consecutive scoring possession to start the second half (touchdown,
field goal, touchdown). Following a Jerraud Powers interception, Luck
found the end zone on the team’s first drive of the second half when he hit
fellow rookie, tight end Dwayne Allen for an eight-yard pass. The score
marked Allen’s second receiving touchdown of his career and cut Green
Bay’s lead to 21-10.
•Running back Donald Brown totaled 17 rushes for 84 yards for a 4.9 average against the Packers. It was Browns highest rushing total this season
and the most yards gained since a 161-yard performance last season
against Tennessee (12/18/11).
•Wide receiver Donnie Avery finished the contest with 22 receiving yards
and topped the 1,500 receiving yardage mark for his career.
•The Colts generated 464 yards of total net offense (119 rushing, 345 passing). The total is the most for the team since November 21, 2010 in a contest
against New England (467 yards). The 345 passing yards are the most
since December 5, 2010 in a game against Dallas (365). Indianapolis totaled
28 first downs, which is also the highest total since the 2010 meeting against
New England (28).
•The Colts logged five sacks in the second half against Aaron Rodgers. The
sack total is the highest for the team since October 4, 2009 (5.0) against
Seattle. Defensive end Cory Redding posted his third career multiple-sack
game when he brought down Rogers on two occasions. Outside linebacker
Robert Mathis recorded a fourth quarter sack of Rodgers giving him a
team-leading fifth sack of the season. Mathis has totaled at least one sack
in each of his last seven games, marking the second-best streak of his career dating back to Sept. 11, 2005 – Nov. 7, 2005 (nine sacks in eight
straight games). Dwight Freeney logged his first sack of the season on a
third down in the fourth quarter. The sack was the first of his career against
Green Bay and number 103.5 of his career. It came against Rodgers, which
marked the 51st different quarterback Freeney has sacked in his career.
Only four teams, including Atlanta, Detroit, New Orleans and Washington
remain on Freeney’s list of teams without a sack. Inside linebacker Moise
Fokou posted his first sack of the season and the second of his career when
he brought down Rodgers in the fourth quarter.
•Cornerback Jerraud Powers intercepted his first pass of the season and
the sixth of his career when he picked off Aaron Rodgers in the third quarter.
The interception led to a Colts touchdown, cutting the Packers lead to 2110.
•Kicker Adam Vinatieri notched the team’s first points of the game with a
24-yard field goal in the second quarter. He added his second field goal
from 50-plus-yards (50 yards) in the third quarter and added a 28-yard attempt in the fourth quarter. The last kick gave the Colts a 22-21 lead with
8:04 remaining in the fourth quarter. He finished the game with three field
goals and one PAT for 10 points. Vinatieri continued his streak of scoring at
least one point to 134 consecutive contests.
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2012 GAME SUMMARIES
WEEK 6 AT N.Y. JETS GAME NOTES
COLTS 9
JETS 35
MetLife Stadium
Indianapolis fell to the New York Jets by a 35-9 margin ina
Week 6 meeting at MetLife Stadium. The Colts took a 3-0
lead in the first quarter before surrendering 21 points in the
second stanza to fall behind 21-6 at halftime. The Jets
posted 14 points in the second half en route to their third victory of the season. Kicker Adam Vinatieri split the uprights
from 20, 50 and 47 yards finishing the day 3-of-3 in attempts.
Wide receiver Reggie Wayne led both teams in receiving
with five catches for 87 yards and became the 14th player
in NFL history to reach 900 career receptions. With 87 yards,
Wayne (12,301) also surpassed wide receiver Jimmy Smith
(12,214) for 16th place on the league’s all-time receiving
yardage list and improved his streak of consecutive games
with at least one reception to 101. Defensively inside linebacker Jerrell Freeman led the team in tackles for the fifth
straight week while outside linebacker Jerry Hughes made
his third start of the season and recorded one sack.
Team
Colts
Jets
Jets
Colts
Jets
Jets
Colts
Jets
SCORING DRIVES
Qtr Time Scoring Play
IND
3
2 14:13 S. Hill 5 yd. pass from Sanchez 3
(Folk kick)
2 9:47 Greene 10 yd. run (Folk kick)
3
6
2 0:27 J. Hill 5 yd. pass from Sanchez 6
(Folk kick)
6
9
9
TEAM STATISTICS
Colts
298
41
257
21
3-11-27%
3-43.7
37.0
3-27
2-2
0
3-3
0-2-0%
26:20
Total Net Yards
Net Yards Rushing
Net Yards Passing
Total First Downs
Net Punting Average
Penalties
Touchdowns
Red Zone Efficiency
Time of Possession
NYJ
0
7
14
14
21
28
28
35
•Reggie Wayne led both teams in receiving with five catches
for 87 yards and became the 14th player in NFL history to
reach 900 career receptions. With 87 yards, Wayne (12,301)
surpassed wide receiver Jimmy Smith (12,214) for 16th
place on the league’s all-time receiving yardage list. Wayne
also improved his streak of consecutive games with at least
one reception to 101. The streak dates back to a Week 1
contest against the New York Giants on September 10,
2006.
•Kicker Adam Vinatieri gave the Colts a 3-0 lead when he
split the uprights on a 20-yard field goal at the 6:02 mark in
the first quarter. With the successful kick, Vinatieri has now
converted a field goal in 38 different NFL stadiums. He added
his third field goal of the season from 50-plus yards in the
second quarter to cut the Jets’ lead to 14-6 and split the uprights on his third attempt of the game, a 47-yard attempt.
•Running back Vick Ballard made his first career NFL start
and finished the game with eight carries for 25 yards.
•Rookie tight ends Coby Fleener (4-42) and Dwayne Allen
(2-33) combined for six receptions for 75 yards.
•Outside linebacker Jerry Hughes made his third start of the
season and contributed with eight tackles and the team’s
lone sack of the contest. The sack was his second of the
season and the third of his career.
•Inside linebacker Jerrell Freeman led the team in tackles
for the fifth consecutive week with 14 (seven solo).
Jets
351
252
99
22
6-12-50%
5-52.0
48.0
8-110
0-0
5
0-0
5-5-100%
33:40
•The Colts’ defense limited the Jets to 99 net passing yards
as New York’s quarterbacks completed 12-of-19 passing attempts.
STARTERS
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
WR
TE
QB
RB
TE
COLTS
Wayne
DE
Redding
Castonzo NT
Johnson
LinkenbachDT
Nevis
Satele
SLB Hughes
McGlynn MIKE Conner
Justice
WILL Freeman
Avery
RUSH Freeney
Fleener
LCB Vaughn
Luck
RCB Powers
Ballard
SS
Zbikowski
Allen
FS
Bethea
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
TE
WR
QB
FB
RB
JETS
CumberlandDE
Ferguson NT
Slauson
DT
Mangold OLB
Moore
WILL
Howard
MIKE
Keller
OLB
Schilens
CB
Sanchez CB
Hilliard
S
Greene
S
Coples
Devito
Wilkerson
Allen
Scott
Harris
Pace
Wilson
Cromartie
Landry
Bell
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2012 GAME SUMMARIES
WEEK 7 VS. CLEVELAND GAME NOTES
COLTS 17
BROWNS 13
•The Indianapolis Colts (3-3) defeated the Cleveland Browns (1-6) by a 1713 margin at Lucas Oil Stadium and improved their home record to 3-1 this
season. The game marked the first time this year the Colts did not trail at
any point in the contest.
Lucas Oil Stadium
The Colts evened their record to 3-3 and improved to 3-1 at
home with a 17-13 victory over the Cleveland Browns at
Lucas Oil Stadium. Indianapolis took a 14-6 halftime advantage on two rushing touchdowns from quarterback Andrew
Luck, who became the third quarterback in franchise history
to rush for two touchdowns in a single-game. Luck finished
the contest having completed16-of-29 passes for 186 yards.
The Browns came within one in the third quarter when quarterback Brandon Weeden found wide receiver Josh Gordon
for a 33 yard touchdown. The Colts responded with an Adam
Vinatieri 38-yard field goal toward the end of the third quarter, which would cap the scoring and seal a 17-13 victory. Indianapolis set a season-high in rushing with 148 net yards
while running backs Vick Ballard (84) and Delone Carter (41)
both set season highs in rushing. Defensively, the Colts totaled six passes defensed, led by Jerraud Powers (2) and
Tom Zbikowski (2).
SCORING DRIVES
CLE
Colts
1 7:23 Luck 3 yd. run (Vinatieri kick)
0
Browns 2 14:01 Little 14 yd. pass from Weeden 6
(kick aborted)
Colts
2 7:41 Luck 5 yd. run (Vinatieri kick)
6
Browns 3 11:53 Gordon 33 yd. pass from Weeden 13
(Dawson kick)
Colts
13
TEAM STATISTICS
Browns
319
55
264
19
6-13-46%
5-41.4
39.8
9-75
1-0
2
0-0
1-1-100%
24:39
Total Net Yards
Net Yards Rushing
Net Yards Passing
Total First Downs
Net Punting Average
Penalties
Touchdowns
Red Zone Efficiency
Time of Possession
IND
7
7
14
14
17
Colts
321
148
173
21
6-15-40%
5-48.4
38.0
7-50
1-1
2
1-1
2-3-67%
35:21
STARTERS
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
WR
TE
QB
RB
TE
COLTS
Wayne
DE
Mathews
Castonzo NT
Johnson
LinkenbachDT
Nevis
Satele
SLB Hughes
McGlynn MIKE Conner
Justice
WILL Freeman
Avery
RUSH Freeney
Hills
LCB Davis
Luck
RCB Powers
Ballard
SS
Zbikowski
Allen
FS
Bethea
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
TE
WR
QB
TE
RB
BROWNS
Little
LDE
Thomas
DT
Greco
DT
Mack
RDE
Lauvao
SLB
Schwartz MLB
Watson
WLB
Gordon
LCB
Weeden
RCB
Cameron FS
Richardson SS
Sheard
Rubin
Winn
Rucker
Johnson
Jackson
Maiava
Haden
Brown
Young
Ward
•Quarterback Andrew Luck completed 16-of-29 passes for 186 yards and
added two rushing touchdowns in his sixth career start.
•Luck added his second rushing touchdown of the game with a five-yard
run in the second quarter to give the Colts a 14-7 lead. The 14-play drive
totaled 71 yards as the Colts recorded back-to-back touchdowns in their
first two possessions. With the touchdown, Luck became the third quarterback in franchise history and the first since 1988 to log two rushing touchdowns in one game. Luck is also one rushing touchdown shy of tying the
team record for the most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in a single
season (four, set in 1974, 2001 and 2006).
Colts Quarterbacks with Two Rushing Touchdowns in a Single Game
Player
Date
Opponent
TDs
Andrew Luck 10/21/12
Cleveland
2
Ricky Turner 12/4/88
Miami
2
Bert Jones
10/20/74
New York Jets 2
•Luck found the end zone on a three-yard rush on the team’s opening offensive possession of the game. On the drive, he completed 4-of-4 passes
for 67 yards while running back Vick Ballard contributed with 18 rushing
yards and 19 receiving yards. Ballard was involved in 6-of-11 plays on the
scoring drive. The touchdown marked the third time this season the Colts
found the end zone on their opening offensive possession of the game (Minnesota in Week 2 and Jacksonville in Week 3).
•The Colts generated a season-high 148 rushing yards, which is the team’s
highest total since Dec. 18, 2011 with 205 yards against Tennessee. Ballard
contributed with a season-high 84 yards on 20 carries while running back
Delone Carter also added a season-high with 41 yards. Indianapolis
recorded 10 rushing first downs, which was the most in any game this season.
•Wide receiver Reggie Wayne led both teams in receiving with six receptions for 73 yards (12.2 avg.). Entering the week, Wayne ranked third in the
NFL with 593 receiving yards and has upped his season total to 666 yards.
He is averaging 111.0 yards per game and is on pace for his eighth career
1,000-yard season.
•The Indianapolis offense totaled 321 net yards (148 rushing and 186 passing) and 21 first downs.
•The Colts defense limited the Browns to 55 net rushing yards, which is the
lowest total for an opponent this season and the lowest for an opponent
since the 2010 regular season finale against the Tennessee Titans (51
yards).
•The Colts finished the game without a sack for the first time since Oct. 16,
2011 against Cincinnati. The last time Indianapolis won a contest without a
sack came on December 9, 2010 at Tennessee.
•Safety Antoine Bethea and inside linebacker Jerrell Freeman tied for the
team lead in tackles (six) while cornerback Jerraud Powers (2) and Tom
Zbikowski (2) tied for the lead in passes defensed.
•The Colts led in time of possession by a 35:21 - 24:39 margin. The 35:21
was the team’s best time of possession all season.
•Kicker Adam Vinatieri extended the Colts lead to 17-13 with a 38-yard
field goal in the third quarter. On the possession, the Colts drive consisted
of 17 plays while consuming 8:34 off the clock. The 17-play drive was the
longest for Indianapolis this season.
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2012 GAME SUMMARIES
WEEK 8 AT TENNESSEE GAME NOTES
COLTS 19
TITANS 13 OT
•The Indianapolis Colts defeated the Tennessee Titans by 19-13 margin in
overtime at LP Field. The win snapped a 10-game road losing streak and
put the Colts over .500 for the first time since the 2010 regular season finale.
Indianapolis’ victory was also the team’s seventh in the last eight meetings
against Tennessee.
LP Field
The Colts improved to 4-3 with a 19-13 overtime victory
against Tennessee in Week 8. Trailing 13-6 late in the fourth
quarter, Indianapolis mounted an 80-yard drive, which resulted in a Delone Carter one-yard touchdown run to tie the
score. The Colts won the ensuing overtime toss and drove
80 yards again. Quarterback Andrew Luck hit running back
Vick Ballard on a 16-yard swing pass. Ballard took the ball
and dove to the corner of the end zone for the game-winning
score. Indianapolis totaled a season-high 171 rushing yards
led by running back Donald Brown who recorded 80. Luck
completed 26-of-38 passes for 297 yards, one touchdown
and one interception for an 89.5 quarterback rating. Wide
receiver Reggie Wayne led both teams in receiving with
seven receptions for 91 yards. Defensively, the Colts posted
two sacks and held the Titans to three second half points.
Team
Titans
Colts
Titans
Colts
Titans
Colts
Colts
Qtr
1
1
2
Time
7:35
1:06
1:00
SCORING DRIVES
Scoring Play
IND
Bironas 39 yd. field goal
0
3
Wright 23 yd. pass from Hasselbeck
(Bironas kick)
3
6
4 10:26 Bironas 30 yd. field goal
6
4 3:24 Carter 1 yd. run (Vinatieri kick) 13
OT 10:11 Ballard 16 yd. pass from Luck
19
TEAM STATISTICS
Colts
457
171
286
30
6-12-50%
2-43.5
24.0
5-45
2-0
2
2-3
2-4-50%
33:56
Total Net Yards
Net Yards Rushing
Net Yards Passing
Total First Downs
Net Punting Average
Penalties
Touchdowns
Red Zone Efficiency
Time of Possession
TEN
3
3
10
10
13
13
13
COLTS
Wayne
DE
Redding
Castonzo NT
Johnson
LinkenbachDT
Nevis
Satele
SLB Hughes
McGlynn MIKE Conner
Justice
WILL Freeman
Avery
RUSH Freeney
Fleener
LCB Davis
Luck
RCB Powers
Allen
SS
Zbikowski
Ballard
FS
Bethea
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
TE
WR
QB
FB
RB
TITANS
WashingtonLE
Otto
DT
Hutchinson DT
Velasco
RE
Harris
SLB
Stewart
MLB
Stevens
WLB
Britt
CB
Hasselbeck CB
Q. Johnson FS
C. Johnson SS
•After winning the coin toss, the Colts drove 80 yards on nine plays for the
game-winning touchdown, which was set up by a quarterback Andrew
Luck 16-yard pass to running back Vick Ballard. Ballard made a dive to
the end zone and the play, which was reviewed, was upheld for the winning
score.
•Andrew Luck completed 26-of-38 passes for 297 yards, one touchdown
and one interception for an 89.5 quarterback rating. He fell three yards shy
of his fourth-career 300-yard passing game.
•At the 3:24 mark in the fourth quarter, running back Delone Carter tied the
game with a one-yard touchdown rush. Carter found the end zone one play
following his seven-yard fourth down rush, which gave the Colts the ball at
the goal line. The touchdown for Carter was his first of the season and the
third of his career.
•The Colts rushing attack generated a season-high 171 yards led by Donald
Brown who totaled 80 yards on 14 carries. On the team’s game-winning
scoring drive, Brown contributed with 39 yards on six carries. Vick Ballard
notched 55 yards on 12 carries and added the 16-yard game-winning touchdown reception in overtime.
•Wide receiver Reggie Wayne led both teams in receiving with seven receptions for 91 yards (13.0 avg.). With his receiving total, he surpassed
Lenny Moore for second place on the Colts’ all-time all-purpose yardage list
with 12,465.
•Tight end Dwayne Allen totaled a season-high 56 receiving yards on four
receptions, which included a 20-yard catch on the team’s first offensive play.
Titans
339
112
227
20
5-11-45%
3-43.3
39.0
8-65
1-0
1
2-3
0-2-0%
30:53
•Adam Vinatieri contributed with two field goals and one extra point for
seven points on the day. He notched his first field goal of the game with a
20-yard attempt to tie the score at 3-3 in the first quarter. The kick capped
a 12-play, 83-yard scoring drive, which included 43 passing yards on Luck’s
3-of-4 passing. Vinatieri’s 44-yard field goal in the third quarter cut the Titans
lead to 10-6. With the kick, he became the eighth player in NFL history with
400 career field goals. The kick also exceeded 1,800 points for his NFL career. Following his PAT attempt after Delone Carter’s game-tying touchdown, Vinatieri became the 10th player in NFL history with 600 extra points
for a career. Finally, Vinatieri competed in his 250th NFL game, which ranks
second among active players (Jason Hanson (DET), 318).
•The Colts offense totaled 457 net yards (286 passing, 171 rushing), which
is the second-highest total for the team this season (Green Bay, 464). The
171 rushing yards and 5.0 yards per carry average both season highs. The
Colts totaled a season-high 30 first downs, topping the 28 recorded against
Green Bay.
STARTERS
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
WR
TE
QB
FB
RB
•Today’s contest was Indianapolis’ first overtime game since December 5,
2010 in a loss against Dallas. It was the team’s first overtime win since December 26, 2004 against San Diego (34-31).
Morgan
Casey
Marks
Wimbley
Ayers
McCarthy
Brown
Verner
McCourty
Babineaux
Griffin
•Defensive tackle Drake Nevis logged his first career sack in the first quarter and stalled a Tennessee drive, which led to a field goal.
•Outside linebacker Jerry Hughes recorded his third sack of the season
and his second in the last three games when he brought down Matt Hasselbeck in the fourth quarter.
•Inside linebacker Jerrell Freeman has led the team in tackles each week
this season and continued his streak with a team-leading 14 stops (11 solo).
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2012 GAME SUMMARIES
WEEK 9 VS. MIAMI GAME NOTES
COLTS 23
DOLPHINS 20
•The Indianapolis Colts (5-3) defeated the Miami Dolphins (4-4) by a 23-20
margin at Lucas Oil Stadium and have compiled the team’s first three-game
winning streak since 2010 (Weeks 13-16, four games). The Colts improved
their home record to 4-1 this season and have won four consecutive games
against the Dolphins dating back to 2003.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Lucas Oil Stadium
The Colts defeated the Miami Dolphins by a 23-20 margin
at Lucas Oil Stadium to improve to 5-3 on the year. Quarterback Andrew Luck finished with a career day as he completed 30-of-48 passes for 433 yards and two touchdowns
while setting a new NFL record for single-game passing
yards by a rookie. Luck found Reggie Wayne for a nine-yard
touchdown in the first quarter, but the Dolphins managed to
take a 17-13 halftime lead. Indianapolis held the Dolphins to
three points in the second half and found the scoreboard via
a 36-yard touchdown pass from Luck to T.Y. Hilton to give
the Colts a 20-17 lead. Three field goals from Adam Vinatieri,
including his kick from 43 yards with 5:58 contributed in the
win. Both Hilton (102) and wide receiver Donnie Avery (108)
topped the 100-yard receiving plateau. Defensively, linebackers Robert Mathis and Dwight Freeney each contributed
with one sack apiece.
SCORING DRIVES
MIA
Dolphins 1 4:15 Carpenter 37 yd. field goal
3
Colts
1 0:47 Wayne 9 yd. pass from Luck
3
(Vinatieri kick)
Dolphins 2 13:25 Clay 31 yd. pass from Tannehill 10
(Carpenter kick)
Colts
10
Dolphins 2 5:07 Bush 18 yd. run (Carpenter kick) 17
Colts
17
Colts
3 1:49 Hilton 36 yd. pass from Luck
17
(Vinatieri kick)
Dolphins 4 13:12 Carpenter 31 yd. field goal
20
Colts
20
TEAM STATISTICS
Dolphins
365
84
281
20
4-11-36%
4-53.3
46.0
8-79
1-0
2
2-2
1-3-33%
25:06
Total Net Yards
Net Yards Rushing
Net Yards Passing
Total First Downs
Net Punting Average
Penalties
Touchdowns
Red Zone Efficiency
Time of Possession
IND
0
7
7
10
10
13
20
20
23
Colts
516
97
419
27
13-19-68%
2-49.5
43.5
11-91
2-0
2
3-5
1-2-50%
34:54
STARTERS
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
WR
TE
QB
F
RB
COLTS
Wayne
DE
Redding
Castonzo NT
Johnson
Reitz
DT
Moala
Satele
SLB Mathis
McGlynn MIKE Conner
Justice
WILL Freeman
Avery
RUSH Freeney
Saunders LCB Vaughn
Luck
RCB Powers
Allen
SS
Zbikowski
Ballard
FS
Bethea
WR
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
TE
WR
QB
FB
RB
DOLPHINS
Hartline
LE
Long
DT
Incognito DT
Pouncey RE
Jerry
LB
Martin
LB
Fasano
LB
Bess
CB
Tannehill CB
Clay
S
Bush
S
Odrick
Starks
Soliai
Wake
Burnett
Dansby
Misi
Smith
Carroll
Clemons
Jones
•Quarterback Andrew Luck finished with a career day as he completed 30of-48 passes for 433 yards and two touchdowns for a 105.6 quarterback
rating. His 433 yards set a new NFL record for passing yards by a rookie
quarterback in a single game and topped his rookie franchise record for single game passing yards (362 vs. Green Bay on Oct. 7, 2012). Luck became
the second rookie in NFL history to record four 300-yard passing games
(Peyton Manning, 1998). Luck’s 433 passing yards mark the third-highest
total in a single game in franchise history. His total sits behind Peyton Manning’s record of 472 against Kansas City on Oct. 31, 2004 and his total of
440 yards versus Jacksonville on Sept. 25, 2000. The Colts finished with
419 net passing yards, which is tied for the fifth highest total in franchise
history and the most since Sept. 12, 2010 against Houston (419). Luck’s
first half passing total of 273 yards is the fourth highest total in franchise
history for a first half (Peyton Manning, 324 vs. Buffalo on Sept. 23, 2001).
He also became the second player this season with 270-plus passing yards
in the first half (Drew Brees, 314 in Week 7 vs. Tampa Bay). Luck set career
highs in passing yards (433) and attempts (48), tied a career-high in touchdown passes (two) and totaled his second-highest amount in completions
(30). Luck threw two touchdown passes, his first to Reggie Wayne (nine
yards) in the first quarter and the second, a 36-yard touchdown to fellow
rookie T.Y. Hilton. Hilton’s score gave the Colts a 20-17 lead in the third
quarter. The touchdown for Hilton was the second of his career as he finished the game with 102 receiving yards.
•On the team’s second possession of the game, quarterback Andrew Luck
threw a nine-yard touchdown strike to wide receiver Reggie Wayne to give
the Colts a 7-3 lead in the first quarter. With the touchdown, Wayne surpassed Edgerrin James (75) for third place on the franchise’s all-time touchdowns list. Wayne also passed James (458) for seventh place on the team’s
all-time scoring list. With seven receptions against the Dolphins, Wayne
moved past Torry Holt (920) for 13th place on the league’s all-time receptions list. With his first quarter touchdown, Wayne also moved into a tie for
25th place on the league’s all-time touchdown receptions list (76) with Fred
Biletnikoff and Harold Jackson. Wayne finished the game with 78 receiving
yards and topped 12,500 receiving yards for his career (12,543).
•T.Y. Hilton finished with 102 receiving yards, his second 100-yard performance this season. Wide receiver Donnie Avery also topped the 100-yard
receiving plateau (108) to lead both teams in receiving yards. The duo
marked the 39th time in franchise history that there were two 100-plus-yard
receivers in the same game. The last time it happened came on Jan. 24,
2010 in a playoff meeting against the New York Jets (Pierre Garcon, 151
yards and Austin Collie, 123 yards). The last time it happened during the
regular season came on Dec. 18, 2008 at Jacksonville (Reggie Wayne, 108
yards and Dallas Clark, 105 yards).
•Running back Vick Ballard led both teams in rushing with 60 yards on 16
carries and added three receptions for 38 yards.
•In his first contest back from a three-game absence due to an injury, outside
linebacker Robert Mathis recorded a sack of Dolphins quarterback Ryan
Tannehill in the first quarter. With the sack, Mathis improved his consecutive
games sack streak to eight, which ties a personal best. The streak dates
back to a Week 15 meeting against the Tennessee Titans on Dec. 18, 2011.
In the eight-game sack streak, he has totaled 10.0 sacks. Mathis currently
leads the team this season with 6.0 sacks.
•Outside linebacker Dwight Freeney recorded career sack number 104.5,
which is also his second sack of the season when he dropped Tannehill and
forced a fumble in the second quarter. The forced fumble is the 44th of
Freeney’s career.
•Kicker Adam Vinatieri contributed with three field goals of 23, 47 and 43
yards and added two extra points for 11 points on the day. He improved his
consecutive games scoring streak to 138.
•Inside linebacker Jerrell Freeman topped the 100-tackle mark for the season.
•The Colts registered their best third down percentage of the season at 68.4
percent (13-of-19). It was the 14th highest third down percentage for the
team in a single game in franchise history and the highest since Nov. 21,
2010 against New England (78.6 percent on 11-of-14 conversions).
•Indianapolis generated 516 total net yards, which is the 13th highest total
in a single game in franchise history. The net yardage is the most since the
Colts posted 567 against Tennessee on Dec. 5, 2004.
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Bob Kravitz: As Colts rally around Chuck Pagano, something special happening in Indy
Bob Kravitz
Indianapolis Star
November 5, 2012
He looked thin but not frail, the trademark Chuck Pagano goatee gone along with most of his hair. But standing in the middle of the
Colts locker room -- both pregame and postgame -- Pagano's eyes shone brightly. He is winning his fight. His football team, the
Indianapolis Colts, had just won its fight, beating the Miami Dolphins 23-20.
They are fighting together.
And amazing, inspiring things are happening.
"As I mentioned before the game, you guys are living a vision, not circumstances," Pagano told the team after the game. "Because you
know where they (the media) had us in the beginning, every last one of them, but you refused to live in circumstances. And you
decided consciously as a team, as a family, to living a vision. And that's why you bring things home the way you brought it home
today. That's why you're champions, and well on your way.
"I've got circumstances. I understand it. You understand it. It's already beat."
The locker room sounded with joyous applause.
"My vision, I'm living to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and hoist the Lombardi Trophy several times."
Something special is happening here in Indianapolis, the kind of thing they commit to celluloid. A nowhere team is going somewhere,
maybe even to the playoffs, a team nobody, myself included, believed had any more than five or six wins in it. But the thing that gives
it national resonance and emotional cachet is the fact these Colts are doing it for their coach, and if that sounds hokey, well, that's too
bad, because it's true.
This is not a team with playoff talent, not with so many rookies and first-year Colts. But it's becoming a team with playoff heart and
spirit and vision, a group of men playing with a higher sense of purpose.
"To see where this is at right now is so incredibly miraculous," team owner Jim Irsay said.
"I'm telling you, if (General Manager) Ryan (Grigson) isn't Executive of the Year already, if you look at having no cap room and
where this team was ... Then we lose our coach, and unlike New Orleans, we didn't have months to prepare for something like that.
And then all the injuries on top of that.
"And then what Andrew (Luck) has done. If anybody said the word 'rookie' next to that kid, you'd put him in a mental asylum. He
looks like he's been in the league for six years."
It's hard to imagine at the halfway point in this cherished season: The Colts are 5-3 and have a very good chance to make the playoffs.
Seriously, make the playoffs. Who saw that coming? Nobody saw that coming. Even the true-blue dreamers lacked the audacity to
believe the Colts could be a .500 team or better and make a run at the postseason.
But they are writing the best, most unlikely story in all of professional football, a team completely rebuilt, playing for their head
coach, playing for each other, doing things we thought were unimaginable.
"For me, (the goal) is to make sure we make the playoffs because he's got a great chance to be back at the end of December," interim
coach Bruce Arians said. "We need to make sure we extend this season so he can be back on the sidelines with us, healthy. That's our
goal."
Something special is building here. And it's building around Luck, who Arians accurately said played a "Pro Bowl caliber" game. It
was downright Peyton-esque. Didn't matter if it was third-and-3 or third-and-15; the Colts converted, time and time and time again.
Luck was brilliant in the pocket, moving around, buying time like a New Age Ben Roethlisberger, establishing himself -- not RGIII,
not anybody else -- as the front-runner to win Rookie of the Year.
The numbers tell the story: The Colts were 13-of-19 on third-down conversions against the best third-down defense in the league, and
Luck broke the rookie record for most passing yards (433).
It wasn't a surprise to everybody that Pagano was coming Sunday, at least those who read Irsay's tweets. But it was a shock to most of
the players when the head coach showed up shortly before Sunday's game and spoke from his heart about the journey both him and
this team have undertaken.
"Before the game, I'm running back to the training room, and this guy hit me in the chest real hard," safety Antoine Bethea said. "I'm
like, 'What the hell?' I didn't see who it was up close and didn't recognize him, so I didn't know it was him. Then I came out later and
there he was. I guess I got the Chuck in the chest."
Said Jerraud Powers: "When he showed up, the whole locker room exploded. You would have thought he would be on the sidelines
today. That might be the first time I've ever been touched before a game. It was touching and it was inspiring. We figure, if we can
have half the heart he's shown, we can do anything."
Now Pagano heads back for his second tough round with chemotherapy. "He's fighting Ali, Tyson and Foreman," Irsay said. "He's
going into the ring with no gloves. It's going to be tough, but I know he'll overcome."
Now the Colts head to Jacksonville for a Thursday night game that will go a long way toward establishing them as a true playoff
contender.
You've got to love both their chances.
Colts GM Ryan Grigson uncovers gem north of the border with Jerrell Freeman
Indianapolis Star
Mike Chappell
November 4, 2012
Ryan Grigson's first signing as Indianapolis Colts general manager tugged at his heartstrings.
He looked north of the border. He looked to the Canadian Football League. He looked to Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker Jerrell
Freeman.
Consider it completing a circle. Grigson's first job as a pro scout was with Saskatchewan in 1998.
"One summer," Grigson said wistfully.
All that's missing is a glossy reminder of that first hire.
When Freeman arrived at the team's Northwestside complex in mid-January to sign his three-year, $1.46 million contract, Grigson
wanted to commemorate the occasion with a photo of him shaking hands with Freeman. It would have been similar to an entrepreneur
framing the first dollar he made and hanging it on the wall.
Never happened. For whatever reason, the photo op was missed and Grigson isn't interested in setting up another and passing it off as
the original.
Instead of glancing at a photo to remind him of his first move as Colts GM, Grigson can point to the flesh-and-blood version. Freeman
will start his eighth game at Will (weakside) linebacker this afternoon when the Miami Dolphins visit Lucas Oil Stadium. He leads the
defense and ranks fourth in the NFL with 69 tackles.
Freeman first appeared on Grigson's radar in December when Grigson still was turning over rocks as the Philadelphia Eagles' director
of player personnel. He graded the top Arena Football League players, those in the United Football League. He cast an eye at the CFL.
As it turned out, the Eagles were stocked at Will linebacker, Freeman's projected NFL position. When Grigson was named the Colts'
GM in January, he inherited an aging, pricey roster he soon would blow up.
"I had a laundry list of players we couldn't keep," he said. "I knew I could get one guy who could run and hit. I knew (Freeman) was a
guy who could make it because he could run and I knew he could be good on (special) teams.
"I knew he would be a good back-end roster guy while he developed in this defense at Will.''
Freeman was a 6-0, 234-pounder who had developed into an all-around linebacker for the Roughriders. In 2011, he led the CFL with
105 tackles and added six sacks and three interceptions.
He spent three seasons with Saskatchewan, pursuing his dream.
"I just wanted to extend my football career, regardless where it was," Freeman said.
The CFL represented a consolation prize. Freeman signed with the Tennessee Titans as an undrafted rookie out of Division III Mary
Hardin-Baylor in 2008, but failed to make the final cut.
"Canada was a good experience for me," he said. "It just so happened I was able to do pretty good and was able to come back (to the
NFL)."
While the Colts and Dolphins have significant NFL business to debate today, the event offers an opportunity for a reunion of former
CFL standouts.
Other CFL products include Colts linebacker Justin Hickman, who was with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 2009-11, and Miami
defensive end Cameron Wake (B.C. Lions, 2007-08) and return specialist Marcus Thigpen (Hamilton, 2010-11).
Thigpen is a former Indiana University standout. Wake is one of the CFL's most prized exports.
Since joining the Dolphins in 2009, he's tied for fifth in the league with 35 1/2 sacks. The Colts' pass-rush tandem of Robert Mathis
and Dwight Freeney has 35 and 33, respectively. Wake earned a 2010 Pro Bowl berth on the strength of 14 sacks.
Wake's return to the NFL was more remarkable than Freeman's. The Penn State product signed with the New York Giants on May 6,
2005, but released six weeks later. He worked as a mortgage broker in 2006 before resuming his football career with the B.C. Lions.
His persistence has paid off. Wake's original four-year contract involved league-minimum base salaries and paid him $1.23 million in
the first three years. In May, the Dolphins signed him to a four-year, $49 million extension that included $20 million in guarantees.
It would be foolish to predict a similar meteoric rise for Freeman. But he's already made more of an impact in his first season than
Wake, who started one game, appeared in 14 and had as many tackles on special teams (11) as on defense.
Grigson beams every time Freeman's name is mentioned even though he jokes he occasionally makes it a point to keep Freeman
grounded.
"I'm so happy for him," he said. "He comes from a hard-working family. He knows the value of hard work. He's got a smile on his
face every day when I give him some ribbing.
"He runs like the wind. He was a guy I always thought could play."
Ryan Grigson is the architect behind Colts’ early success, just don’t ask him to take any credit
Indianapolis Star
Bob Kravitz
November 1, 2012
It’s not that Ryan Grigson doesn’t want to do this interview; he’s fine with it, and very obliging, particularly now that he’s had four
cups of coffee. It’s just that the Colts have been showered with so many compliments lately — local compliments and national
compliments — he’s deathly afraid that all these kind words will dull the Colts’ new-found edge.
“The other day, it hit me all at once; every morning I read the press clippings and I’m thinking, ‘Oh boy,’” Grigson said, referring to
the positive reviews the Colts have been receiving lately, including a Sports Illustrated note that picked Indy to reach the playoffs.
“You want them to be focused enough to keep all the background noise out, but with a young team, you don’t know.”
“It’s funny, just (Wednesday) I went to BA’s (Bruce Arians’) office, ready to tell him my concerns, and before I could even say
anything, he said to me, ‘I’ve already addressed that with the team. I’ve already told them, don’t read or believe the press clippings.’
“But we got over the one hump without our first road win, now we’ll learn how we handle success.’’
No matter how the rest of this season goes, it can be safely said Jim Irsay found a solid architect in Grigson. That’s not to say he’ll
always have the Midas touch; I saw Mike Shanahan go cold in the drafting department, and Bill Polian’s last few drafts weren’t as
good as we had become accustomed. But for now, one season, building from the foundation up, Grigson gets high grades, and would
earn Early-Season Executive of the Year if there was such a thing.
Make no mistake: This is a glorified expansion team. Check out the current 53-man roster. Thirty-four of the 53 guys are either
rookies or first-year Colts. That’s an unheard-of number for an established team, especially one that’s been a consistent Super Bowl
contender most of the last 14 years.
When the Colts lined up against Tennessee last Sunday, eight of 11 offensive starters were rookies or first-year Colts; three of 11 on
defense.
But the Colts, starting over essentially, are 4-3 and playing an important game Sunday against the 4-3 Miami Dolphins at Lucas Oil.
This is a team some national writers believed would win one or two games. This is a team I thought would win five games, maybe six.
Overachievement, anybody?
“My old boss (Eagles GM Howie Roseman) used to tell me, ‘You should be an expansion team GM,’” Grigson said. “I have such an
affection for the back end of the roster guys, the practice squad, development guys, because that’s where the real scouting comes into
play.”
That’s where my staff has done such a great job. I told them from Day 1, don’t give me fancy spreadsheets and flow charts and
window dressing BS, find me players, and I don’t care where they come from.”
Grigson and Tom Telesco and their staff has had success at five levels:
The Draft
Of course, you’re supposed to have success in the Draft when you’re picking first or second in every round; the real challenge comes
later when Grigson, like Bill Polian before him, starts picking in the middle and late portions of each round.
But at first glance, this appears to be one of the Colts’ best drafts in a very long time.
Watch out next for nose tackle Josh Chapman, who is coming off knee surgery and should be ready to play again next week or two
weeks from now.
“(Defensive coordinator) Greg (Manusky) just came back to my office and showed me a play where Chapman took on a 340-pound
guard on the practice squad and just tossed him like he wasn’t there,’’ Grigson said. “He’s got rare power. And he’s an angry man. He
relishes the dirtiness and nastiness of playing the position.’’
Free agency
This was a heck of a trick, given the fact the Colts have $37 million in dead money from previous contracts. But Grigson has been
able to assemble some pieces, and specifically rebuild the offensive line, with folks like Mike McGlynn and Samson Satele.
“We’ve said from the beginning, we want guys with a little bit of an edge,” Grigson said. “Like McGlynn. He’s one of those guys, I
knew he had just enough skills to be a starter but what I liked was the nasty he brought to the offensive line. If you’re a tone-setter, a
tempo-setter, playing through the whistle and finishing guys, that’s what we want. You watch, when we score, he’s always the first Olineman down the field to slap a guy on the back of the helmet or pick him up. He plays with a zeal. He’s one of those guys who
shames other guys into playing harder.”
The bigger trick was finding guys in other leagues and off the streets, specifically former Canadian League linebacker Jerrell Freeman.
Grigson can barely contain himself talking about Freeman. The kid has been nothing short of a revelation.
Next year, and in the years to come, Grigson will have cash to spend on free agents. His philosophy there? If there’s a guy worth the
cash, he’s going to make a play. He doesn’t believe it’s an either/or proposition, building through the draft or building with free
agency. It’s a little bit of both, at least when the money is right.
Trades
He got right tackle Winston Justice for a song. He got Cassius Vaughn, currently the starter at cornerback in place of Vontae Davis,
for next to nothing. The only trade that looks questionable, at least at this point, is the one for Davis. When he’s played, he’s played
well, but some fluke injuries have kept him out of the lineup.
So the jury is still out there.
Retaining the right players
After the Bloody Friday when Grigson parted ways with so many veterans --- Dallas Clark, Gary Brackett, Joseph Addai, Jeff
Saturday and others --- it was thought the Colts would be even worse than their previous 2-14 record.
But Grigson kept the right guys. He kept Robert Mathis, who is the heart and soul of the defense. He kept Dwight Freeney, who
figures to be more productive now that Mathis is back in the lineup. And he brought back Reggie Wayne, merely the top receiver in
the league right now, rather than over-pay Pierre Garcon.
Massaging the roster on the run
The Colts have been decimated along the offensive and defensive lines early this season, but Grigson and his staff have found guys
who have stepped in and been very productive. Who is Lawrence Guy? Martin Tevaseu? Antonio Dixon?
Just don’t ask Grigson if he’s surprised it’s come together this quickly.
He was asked by ESPN.com’s Paul Kuharsky the other day and answered around the question. I asked it and he did the same thing.
“It’s like I tell the guys, ‘In this league, you can’t stop and smell the roses,’” Grigson said. “We’ve won four games. It’s not like we’ve
done anything yet. It’s not like we’re sitting here with double-digit wins. The minute you stop and smell the roses, you take your eyes
off the ball.”
They’ve done nothing, true, but they’ve done something, too. They’ve made midseason games relevant. It’s a good start for a
promising young franchise on the rebuild. As long as they don’t read the press clippings.
Colts DT Josh Chapman realizes gain through pain
Indianapolis Star
Phil Richards
November 1, 2012
Josh Chapman earned honorable mention All-America recognition and second-team All-Southeastern Conference honors while
playing nose tackle for Alabama last season. Of course it might have been better.
He did it on one leg. Chapman bit his lip, strapped on his brace and watched the trainers wrap him in a mile of tape; he played his final
seven games on a torn anterior cruciate ligament and torn meniscus in his left knee.
"It had pain to it, a lot of pain," Chapman explained in his self-unpretentious manner, "but at the same time, I was always taught pain
was temporary."
Chapman's decision to postpone reconstructive surgery until January and soldier on helped the Crimson Tide win the national
championship. It also impaired his performance, knocked him out of the Senior Bowl and the NFL Combine and sent him into the
2012 draft as damaged, or at least suspect, goods.
That's why the Indianapolis Colts don't feel they so much picked him as stole him with the first selection of the fifth round.
"He's the one holding the trophy in all those pictures," Colts general manager Ryan Grigson said. "That shows you what they thought
of him at Alabama.
"He was a warrior."
The warrior is back on the prowl. After spending all of training camp and the first seven weeks of the season on the reserve/nonfootball injury list, Chapman began practicing last week. The Colts have until Nov. 12 to add him to the 53-man active roster or he
misses the remainder of the year.
It's a weighty decision on a hefty player. The Colts hold Chapman (6-0, 316) in highest regard.
"We've got a lot invested, he's going to be a heck of a player, and I'd hate to put him out there if he's not ready," Colts interim coach
Bruce Arians said.
Low man wins
Grigson isn't being insensitive when he describes Chapman as looking "like a cartoon character." It's that Chapman is as wide as he is
high. He's all about leverage. Low man wins is his motto. He flashes hands that measure a comfortable 11 1/2inches, thumb tip to little
fingertip. He strikes a lineman. He clamps him. He plants his feet. He becomes a bridge abutment.
Chapman is an incredible block of muscle. He bench pressed a you've-got-to-be-kidding-me 600 pounds at Alabama.
Bo Davis, the defensive line coach the first four of Chapman's five years in Tuscaloosa, says there are two kinds of strength: 1. Weight
room strength; iron-pumping strength. 2. Natural strength; the kind that is strategically applied to gain advantage and overpower on
the football field. Chapman, Davis said, has both.
"I just love lifting weights," Chapman said. "That's just part of me."
Colts teammates are only now getting their first feel.
Defensive end Cory Redding describes Chapman as having "thighs on his arms."
Center Samson Satele lined up across from Chapman for the first time last week.
"Man is a load, man, and he knows how to move," Satele said. "I don't know how he was in college, but he's pretty damn good out
here."
Chapman was the throbbing heart of an Alabama unit that led college football in rushing defense at 72.2 yards a game. Crimson Tide
teammates called him "The Boss."
No wonder. With the knee getting progressively more painful last season, he sat out one game "to get my knee back up under me." It
was longtime Division II power Georgia Southern.
The Eagles rushed for 302 yards.
Chapman was back in the middle the following Saturday, playing on one leg, shutting down the run. That he was willing to sacrifice
himself thusly was no surprise to his teammates. Chapman played the final four games of his junior season with one arm; he deferred
surgery on a torn labrum until after the season.
The fact is, he is the most selfless of players at football's most selfless position.
He demands double teams. He revels in triple teams.
"It's the dirtiest, nastiest job, but at the same time, I love doing it," said Chapman, a resident of Hoover, a Birmingham, Ala., suburb.
"I'm not a guy who likes tackles. I mean it's fine when I get one, but when you know your 'backers are flying around, making hits, that
makes me happy."
You don't play football on a shredded knee unless you love it, and Grigson loves Chapman's attitude. He sees the same ardor in two
other Colts rookies, quarterback Andrew Luck and tight end Dwayne Allen.
"Not only are they really productive, tough, talented, talented guys, but they have a selfless attitude and that all comes from love of the
game," Grigson said. "They're like beacons to the other rookies to strive to be like.
"Chappy hasn't proven it on the field yet at the pro level but what he did in college is so remarkable and he did it at such a high level."
He's my baby
Josh's father, Joel Rice, worked for the Birmingham parks and recreation department. He ran basketball leagues for inner city kids. He
coached them. He mentored them. He inspired them. He played with them.
On Aug. 23, 1995, he went up for a layup and came down not on his feet, but in a heap. He was dead moments later of a heart attack.
Joel was 34. Josh was 6.
Joel was 6-6, 240 pounds but he stood even taller in the community. His funeral procession wasn't measured in cars. It was measured
in miles. Joel Rice was accorded the deepest show of respect.
"On his father's funeral day, the gangs all over the city, they put down their guns," Joel's brother Victor Rice said. "They all came to
his funeral. They all stood together. That's how his father was."
Josh didn't inherit his father's height, just his heft and his good heart.
"Great kid. Great guy to be around," said Davis, now defensive tackles coach at Texas. "I've known of things he's gone out of his way
to do for other guys. I loved being around him."
Josh inherited one other thing from his dad: a second father.
Uncle Victor stepped in like a sixth man. Victor had gone off to war with the army during Operation Desert Storm but before he left,
he and Joel had made a pact. If anything happened to either of them, the survivor would care for the kids.
Josh lived with his mother, Theresa Chapman, who works in a Birmingham cafeteria. He spent every summer and school break with
Victor, who resides in Lexington, Ky.
"I raised him like he was mine," Victor said. "He's my baby."
Chapman sits next to Redding, a 10-year veteran, in the D-line meeting room. He peppers Redding with questions about how to be a
pro, how to practice, how to eat, what to watch for on film, what techniques to hone and apply.
Chapman's voice flows soft and slow, honey rich, in the deep tones of the deep south. He has a pervasive patience, an underpinning
and overarching faith in himself and his creator, that things are fine and things will be fine.
It serves him well.
A family friend rented a room in Hoover's Winfrey Hotel on April 25, the first night of the NFL draft. Family and closest friends, "my
support staff," as Chapman calls them, joined him to celebrate.
The first round passed with no phone call. The room was rented for the another night.
The second and third rounds passed with no phone call.
"It was rough, man. Gosh," uncle Victor said. "Thursday night was OK, but Friday night, man, it was a bummer."
The family huddled. It did what the Chapmans and the Rices do. It prayed.
The room was rented again for Saturday. Finally the Colts called.
Grigson guesses that had Chapman been healthy, had he enjoyed a standout senior season, he might well have gone in the second
round. Grigson posits that, given time, Chapman might prove himself the equal of Memphis' Dontari Poe or Louisiana State's Michael
Brockers, defensive tackles taken by Kansas City and St. Louis with the 11th and 14th overall picks.
Poe got a four-year, $11.3 million contract. Brockers got $9.5 million. Brockers' guaranteed money, $5.4 million, is more than double
the value of Chapman's entire four-year deal, $2.315 million.
Chapman shrugs it off.
"I've got a strong faith in God," he said. "I was always told He'd never bring me this far to leave me. I keep faith in God and keep my
prayers up and I'm glad I'm part of a great team and a great organization and they run the same defense I love to run.
"Everything else will be taken care of just by me going out and being Josh Chapman."
Low man wins.
Luck, a Step Ahead as a Rookie, Hits Stride With Colts
Judy Battista
New York Times
October 11, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS — It was just a few practices into Andrew Luck’s professional career, during the Indianapolis Colts’ rookie
minicamp in the spring, when Clyde Christensen turned on the tiny camera and microphone attached to Luck’s helmet.
Christensen, the Colts’ quarterbacks coach, had gotten his first sense of how quickly Luck absorbed information after the scouting
combine, when the team gave him the portion of the playbook that included the five-step passing game. By the time Luck, the top pick
in the draft, got off his flight in California on his way back to Stanford University, he reached out to the Colts.
“O.K., good, what’s next?” he said, shocking coaches who thought that was a few weeks’ worth of work.
At the minicamp, the camera Christensen turned on was supposed to enhance his understanding of where his quarterback was looking
before throwing a pass. Luck’s camera did not work well. But the microphone provided an aural revelation of how the player one
college football official called “a human computer” would process his transition to the N.F.L.
“You give him the play; you’re talking to him; he’s asking questions, feeling out the call,” Christensen said. “He’s walking up to the
line of scrimmage, and it’s almost like ‘Rain Man’: he just repeats everything; he’s talking to himself about who had which
assignment.
“All of a sudden, he gets into the huddle, and he’s just a different guy. He went from ‘Is that the one?’ to ‘O.K., here it is.’ Like you’re
just meeting someone for the first time, but then you introduce them like they are a long-lost friend. He gave a good fake appearance
— that huddle wasn’t going to know if he had doubt.”
Luck, when told that his teammates were struck by the command of the huddle he had from the beginning, said with a laugh: “Well, I
managed to fool them. I was swimming on a lot of things. That’s part of playing the position, just being able to step into a huddle and
confidently say” — and here Luck rattled off an unintelligible play — “without it sounding like Swahili to you, even if you’re not
sure. What is it — never in doubt, hardly correct? We’ll take a little of that attitude.”
He will not have to take it much longer. In the first month of his first season, Luck — perhaps the most heralded player to enter the
league since the person he succeeded, Peyton Manning — was outplayed by Washington’s Robert Griffin III, who was drafted No. 2.
With the benefit of more experienced offensive teammates, Griffin has completed 69.1 percent of his passes, compared with Luck’s
54.2 completion percentage.
But on Sunday, in his fourth game, Luck crafted the first frame of his career highlight film. He led a second-half comeback from an
18-point deficit against Green Bay in the Colts’ first game since Coach Chuck Pagano left the team to receive treatment for leukemia.
A dazzling 80-yard drive in the closing minutes included Luck’s sliding away from Clay Matthews to fire a 15-yard strike to Reggie
Wayne — one of the few remaining holdovers from the Manning years, whom Luck said he was honored to throw to — on a thirdand-12 near midfield.
The enormous banners of Manning that had loomed from the side of Lucas Oil Stadium were removed long ago, in the days just
before the Colts selected Luck in April. But inside the building, the win over the Packers was the moment that Luck’s unobtrusive
arrival was complete. Luck has purposefully chosen to be low-key in his entrance to the N.F.L., and if a first overall draft pick can fly
under the radar, he has managed to do it.
He has filmed a commercial for a soccer video game, but that is about it for high-profile endorsements. That is in part because Luck’s
aw-shucks personality does not mesh well with the limelight. But it is also because Luck’s father, Oliver, a former N.F.L. quarterback
who is now West Virginia’s athletic director, has encouraged his son to keep his life simple for the first couple of years as a
professional, the better to focus his attention on the field. Luck is able to go to dinner with teammates near his downtown Indianapolis
home and dine relatively undisturbed.
But the Colts are 2-2 — already equaling their victory total from 2011 — and Griffin’s style of play has been questioned since he
sustained a concussion while scrambling in the Redskins’ loss to Atlanta on Sunday. Luck’s performance against the Packers seemed
to remind the league this week, as the Colts prepared to play the Jets, why Indianapolis chose to rebuild around him.
Gil Brandt, a former Dallas Cowboys personnel executive who continues to scout college players for NFL.com, said Luck’s second
half against Green Bay might be the best performance by a rookie he had ever seen.
None of this is likely to move the needle on Luck’s demeanor. He is famously cerebral and less-famously composed and selfdeprecating. Colts center Mike McGlynn described him as “egoless.”
Christensen said Luck wanted to be a normal guy. Luck’s first major piece of new furniture after he signed with Indianapolis was a
Ping-Pong table that he claimed was deluxe. Christensen invited Luck to his home to play and asked Luck to give him odds that the
coach could beat the quarterback. Luck told Christensen the odds were 8-1. Christensen won, and Luck left dejected.
“Typical N.F.L. quarterback,” Christensen said. “He wanted to bring his own paddle next time.”
But everyone around Luck struggles to think of a moment when he has seemed overwhelmed this year. Oliver Luck said that his son
had never been one to cause much drama and that even if he had doubts or concerns, he would probably keep them to himself. Andrew
Luck paused for several long beats trying to think about something that surprised him about the N.F.L. before marveling at how big a
machine the league is and how many people — from coaches to public relations staff members — work so many hours to keep it
moving.
“There haven’t been any major hiccups or a moment when I hit my boiling point yet, or a freakout session about anything,” Luck said.
“I don’t know everything. I will probably never know everything about playing this position, moving cities, starting with a new team.
Really, it was more just learning the playbook so I didn’t look like a fool out there. Which is not to say I pressed every day: ‘O.K., I
have to prove I’m worthy of the No. 1 pick.’ But the good thing about team sports is the pressure your teammates, maybe
inadvertently, put on you.”
Jim Harbaugh, his former coach at Stanford and now the coach of the San Francisco 49ers, advised Luck on how to make the
transition to the N.F.L. and what role to take as a rookie quarterback in the locker room. But Luck now leans most heavily on
Christensen and the bits of wisdom he gleaned from a decade of watching Manning in action.
Christensen talks to Luck about everything from how to watch film and when to nap to how to manage his interview schedule and the
most graceful way to check into the team hotel. The goal, Christensen emphasizes, is not to create another Manning, but merely to try
to save Luck some time and angst as he eases into his career.
The challenge for Christensen and the Colts’ offensive coordinator, Bruce Arians, who has taken over for Pagano as the head coach, is
not to overload Luck. Everything remains new for him — he recently wondered about the best way to deal with the Colts’ bye week
— and Christensen finds himself holding back even though Luck is clearly capable of racing ahead.
“He wants to go from home plate to second base and skip first,” Christensen said. “My job has been to keep him in the baselines.
We’re not even close to halfway on this thing. We’re still just learning, still trying to make sure we have the basics: scheme, playbook,
of going out on your own and doing something out of the ordinary. There is so much stress on the quarterback, you think you have to
do more. We want to be steady plodders and keep improving.”
At this rate, Luck’s profile will soon rise as high as the posters of Manning once did. Until then, Luck is not even sure what would
count as a successful rookie season for him.
“I would love to make the playoffs,” he said. “I know this is very cliché, but I don’t think I’m in the position, I don’t think the team is
in the position, to overlook anybody. I need to learn as much as I can while I still have that young, fresh approach to things. I just
wanted to make it to the first game and then go from there.”
On, off the field, right attitude has driven Colts' Cory Redding to success
Phil Richards
Indianapolis Star
October 11, 2012
Meet Cory Redding
Born: Nov. 15, 1980, Houston.
Family: Wife, Priscilla; children, Kaylie, 7; Cory Jr., 4; Christian, 2.
Vital statistics: Defensive end; 6-4, 315; 10th NFL season.
College: Texas; two-time All-American; started 38-of-52 career games.
NFL: Third-round pick of Detroit in 2003; started 66 consecutive games for Lions. Spent 2009 with Seattle, 2010-11 with Baltimore.
Signed as free agent with Colts in March for three years, $10.5 million. Has 421 tackles, 27 1/2 sacks, one interception, 14 passes
defended, four fumbles forced, 10 fumbles recovered in 135 games, 105 starts.
Hobbies: Golf; he’s a 100-shooter who celebrates a pair of pars in nine holes. Also a four-wheeler enthusiast who owns all-terrain
vehicles.
Fondest reverie: “My Father’s Day present to me, when my kids get older, is to go out and play a foursome with my kids.”
Bucket list: A big, fat Harley Davidson hog. “The moment I say I’m not playing any more, I’m going straight to the Harley shop and
I’m going to buy me a motorcycle and I’m going to ride off into the sunset.”
Quote: “At the end of the day it’s what have I done to make the person better to my left and to my right? If I can make them better, I
hope they will think about it and look to the person to their left, help that person, look to their right, help that person.”
Check the license plate on the front of his black GMC Denali.
"HTRA" it reads. "Have The Right Attitude."
Redding grew up in a single-parent home in Houston. His father was in and out until Cory was 8, then gone for good.
Uncle Charles was the nearest thing to a father figure. Uncle Charles served a tour of duty in Vietnam. He served a sentence in jail. He
got out. He went back. And while he was there he saw a guard viciously beat a convict who had disrespected him.
It didn't escape Uncle Charles' notice that on a wall at the scene of the thrashing four letters were written: "HTRA."
Uncle Charles avoided beatings. He adopted the slogan. He made it his motto. He passed it on.
Cory was 12 by then and getting into things, but he loved his uncle and for whatever reason, HTRA stuck. It evolved into a lifestyle.
"It's old and repetitive and I've heard it a thousand different ways, done it a thousand different times, but I don't think about it like
that," Redding said as he sipped coffee and munched on a muffin at the Starbucks down 56th Street from the Colts Northwest side
complex.
"It's just one day, one obstacle, one challenge, one thing at a time and keep my mindset, keep my attitude positive so whatever they
put in front of me, old or new, I'm going to go ahead and do it to the best of my ability."
Passing it on
Have the right attitude. Do the right thing. Do it every time. It's an objective, it's a creed, it's a quality worth passing on.
That's what the Cory Redding Foundation is about. One of its many functions is a program at Longfellow Magnate Middle School on
Indianapolis' near Eastside.
Students are required to sign a pledge that they will be responsible, respectful and abide by the school's code of conduct; they vow to
come to school every day committed to taking full advantage of learning opportunities by giving maximum effort all the time.
Redding donates 15 tickets for every Colts home game. Seven students are selected for each game based on teacher recommendations.
They, along with one of their parents and a school staff member, go to the game, receive a food and beverage voucher and an
autographed "C-Redd" backpack.
"One thing I've been really pleased with is it's evident to me how passionate Cory is about helping our kids," said Brian Burke,
principal of the first-year school. "This is important to him. You can really feel it and sense it when he comes out to talk to our kids.
"These kids come from the inner city and not the most wonderful circumstances. He gives them a chance to experience something
they wouldn't have a chance to do."
The group goes down on the field for a pre-game photo op. Afterward, students, parents and staff members join Redding outside the
Colts locker room. There are greetings, high-fives and hugs. There is a message. It varies with the game. It comes from the game.
Every game is a life-lesson.
After the Colts dramatic comeback conquest of the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, Redding told the kids when everyone counts you
out, don't you count yourself out. You can come back. You can do anything you want to do. You can be anything you want to be.
Look at what we did today.
Eighth-grader Heather Biggerstaff was one of the students present. She took in Redding's message. She saw Andrew Luck and Reggie
Wayne and Dwight Freeney. She was deeply impressed by it all. One thing stayed with her.
"(Redding's) arms," Biggerstaff said, her small hands arced in a 12-inch circle, "They're like this big."
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Redding can relate to those in adverse circumstances because he has known adversity. He grew up in it. He also spent his first six NFL
seasons, 2003-08, with the Detroit Lions.
The Lions lost an average of 11 games a season over that stretch. The Colts won an average of 13 over the same period.
Redding is a vibrant, vocal, relentless leader. He was team captain at North Shore High School, at the University of Texas and with
the Lions, but he had never known challenges like these.
He was a one-armed end in 2007, when he played with a torn rotator cuff and labrum. He was a one-legged end in 2008, when he
dislocated his kneecap and played with a torn meniscus.
It happened in mid-October.
"Popped it back in on the field. They got me on the sideline, taped me up, few pain pills, finished the game and played another eight
weeks," Redding remembered.
Football became agony. He couldn't practice. He couldn't climb the stairs at home. He crawled up to his bedroom every night. He got
down on his butt and slid down, a step at a time, each morning.
"My daughter, Kaylie, was 2 or 3 at the time," Redding said. "She made it a game. She thought it was funny."
The Lions were amidst an 0-16 season. Players checked out one after another. Redding played on until he underwent surgery after the
13th game. As captain, he felt it was his duty.
Robert Mathis sensed that commitment, saw that dedication, from Redding's first day with the Colts.
"When he walked through the door you felt the leader energy from him," the Colts 10th-year outside linebacker said. "There are not
too many of them around the league that set themselves aside for the greater good of the team, and he's one of those guys."
Colts calling
Colts coach Chuck Pagano knows Redding, the player and the person. They were together with the Baltimore Ravens in 2010-11.
That's why Redding's cell phone rang at 4 p.m. on March 13. It was the first moment of the first day of the 2012 free agent signing
period. Redding was Pagano's first call. The new Colts coach told Redding he needed him.
"He was a huge guy to get," Colts general manager Ryan Grigson said. "Cory was a key, core position. That's a cornerstone of a 3-4.
The 5-technique is so hard to find. It's the 6-4, 6-5, 300-pound body type that has to be athletic enough to rush the passer, but has to
set the edge like a trip-hammer and be strong at the point.
"He also was a guy who knew the defense so well. He was a vocal leader who could resonate through all these young guys that were
coming in."
Redding had a huge game against the Packers: six tackles, two sacks, two quarterback hits. Defensive ends are stars in 4-3 schemes.
They are grunts in the 3-4, a hybrid of which the Colts play. Ends are more like tackles; the good ones command double-teams, tie up
blockers, and on occasion, beat them to make plays.
Redding has been everything the Colts hoped. He has resonated with the young guys as Pagano and Grigson expected.
"I try to model my professionalism off Cory," Colts nose tackle Brandon McKinney said. "Guys ask him how to be a professional and
a family man. You see guys gravitate to him."
A lasting legacy
Redding strives to be a difference-maker. On the field, in life, it's all the same. HTRA is portable. It goes everywhere.
Redding met his wife of nine years, Priscilla, at Texas. They went home to their alma-mater in May. They gave $100,000 to endow the
Cory and Priscilla Redding Family Scholarship and pledged the Redding Foundation's support for ongoing fundraising.
The scholarship will go to needy students in the school's College of Education. Those students will become teachers, counselors,
principals, and the Reddings hope, difference-makers in the lives of youth.
"When I'm dead and gone and in the dirt 100 years from now, Cory Redding's presence is still going to be felt," Redding said,
"because of this scholarship giving that person an opportunity to get the tools they learned from me and my family and our scholarship
and what it embodies."
Those beneficiaries won't be the only ones studying. Redding took an online government class last summer. He's still working toward
his UT degree. To not do so, he said, would be hypocritical.
It's a simple case of a simple mindset: HTRA.
Bob Kravitz: Irsay, Grigson deliver game ball to Pagano after emotional Colts win
Indianapolis Star
Bob Kravitz
October 7, 2012
For you, Chuck.
"In my 40 years in this business, I've never been prouder of a team and how they battled back," team owner Jim Irsay told me after he
and general Ryan Grigson presented Pagano with the game ball early Sunday night at the IU Simon Cancer Center. "I've been in a lot
of winning locker rooms, Super Bowl locker rooms, but I've never had an experience like this. People talk about money, what the team
is worth, those kinds of things, but this was priceless. Absolutely priceless.
"We walked in, he (Pagano) got up, we all embraced and shed some tears and Chuck said, `You know, I don't feel so sick right now.'"
How great is that?
You should have seen them, Chuck. You should have seen the beaming smiles, the eyes rimmed red with tears, the unfettered joy that
suffused your Indianapolis Colts locker room late Sunday afternoon.
We know you weren't here, Chuck, know you were having a rough day over in room C23 at the IU Simon Cancer Center. But you
were here, Chuck, here in the hearts of all of your players and coaches and fans and well-wishers.
Did you see it, Chuck, see Andrew Luck spike the football and then run over to your chuckstrong banner and give it a loving tap after
he scored a touchdown?
This was for you, Coach. This victory, this amazing, come-from-behind, gut-check 30-27 victory over the Green Bay Packers, it was
for you.
"You know, you see things in the movie, but oftentimes, life isn't as beautiful as they make it out to be," Irsay said. "But this went way
past that. This was the stuff of movies. This was beautiful."
It's hard to know, Chuck, just how much emotion played in this game, but I've got to think -- we've all got to think -- that when they
went down 21-3 at halftime, it had to cross their minds: "Our coach is dealing with a lot more real-life adversity than a simple 21-3
deficit. Keep fighting. Keep fighting."
There have been a lot of great moments in recent Colts history, and there have been some emotional moments, the most emotional
coming in the Arizona game after Tony Dungy returned from his son's funeral. But this felt like the most inspirational and beautiful of
all of them. They wanted this for you, Chuck, and damned if they didn't find a way to make it happen.
Damned if Luck didn't take another step in his progression toward eventual greatness, taking a beating in the first half and fighting
back and making magical things happen. Did you jump out of your bed, Chuck, when Luck somehow eluded Clay Matthews' grasp
and completed that monster third-down pass to Reggie Wayne?
Damned if Wayne didn't play the best game of his amazing career, snatching everything and anything with those orange gloves.
Wayne knows you better than anybody, having first encountered you 16 years ago at the University of Miami. Everybody wanted this
for you, but nobody more than Wayne.
"I looked up and those orange gloves were catching everything," Luck said with a smile. "It seemed like there were eight pairs of
orange gloves out there."
It seemed that way, didn't it?
"The league might fine me," Wayne said of the possibility the NFL will hit him with a uniform violation. "But if they do, I'll take one
for the team."
Can we just pass a hat?
We will always remember this performance from Wayne -- 13 catches, 212 yards. He wanted this for you, Chuck. He wanted this as
badly as he's ever wanted anything in the game of football.
"They better make room in the Hall of Fame for Reggie," Irsay said, his voice still hoarse and wavering after visiting Pagano. "Right
next to Marvin (Harrison)."
They fought, Chuck, because they know how you're fighting. Many of them have been touched themselves by cancer -- friends,
relatives. They know about the hell of chemotherapy, the way it breaks down your body and soul. But they weren't going to quit,
Chuck, because they know you're not going to quit.
"We want Coach to know, we'll fight here while he fights over there," Dwight Freeney said.
Man, did they fight.
And, in the process, they grew up. A lot.
For a half, it looked like this would be one fairy tale that would never get written. The Packers dominated, moving the ball with
alacrity on offense, terrorizing and sacking Luck on defense. For all the emotion in the building, it looked, simply and sadly, like the
better, more talented team was going to win this game.
But it says something about the foundation you've built, Chuck, that your team, your organization, never flinched. "Give it up for
Chuck!" defensive end Cory Redding yelled at his teammates during the game. "Every play! Give it up for Chuck!"
So they dug in.
And suddenly, everything changed.
A Jerraud Powers interception started it early in the third quarter, and from there, the Colts were carried by an avalanche of excellence
and raw emotion.
The running game got in gear, the best game we've seen from Donald Brown and the patchwork offensive line in a long time. As a
result, the play-action game started working and Luck earned some time to throw.
The defense started pounding Aaron Rodgers, who went untouched in the first half and picked them apart.
The secondary, playing without two of its three best players, Justin King and Vontae Davis, started covering receivers.
And Luck and Wayne -- with help from the patchwork offensive line and others -- began to do remarkable, memorable things.
"We really didn't change anything in the second half," Powers said. "But the guys up front started putting pressure on (Rodgers),
forced him outside the pocket a couple of times and that made our job on the back end a lot easier. Once we started getting a couple of
sacks, the game changed.
"That's the most emotional game I've ever played in. Basically, you've got the whole NFL nation rallying around him. And even the
Packers, they came out wearing chuckstrong t-shirts. It just shows you, while we may be on different teams, we're all part of a
brotherhood."
Anthony Castonzo smiled as he thought about your reaction, Chuck.
"You can picture him with a big smile on his face in his hospital bed," Castonzo said. "That means a ton to us."
The joy in Irsay's voice was audible. "That's as excited and animated as I've seen Chuck," he said. "I'll never forget the look on his
face when we walked in with the game ball. We'll all treasure this moment forever."
They did it, Chuck.
They did it for you.
Chuck Pagano will be back and stronger than ever
Indianapolis Star
Bob Kravitz
October 1, 2012
If you pass by the Colts practice facility late some night, and look at it from a certain angle, you will see a lone light shining.
It’s the light that will stay on in Colts head coach Chuck Pagano’s office until he returns to the team after his battle with acute
promyelocytic leukemia.
It’s the light of hope.
“I feel with every fiber in my body, and I know Chuck feels the same way, that he can beat this thing,” team owner Jim Irsay said
during an emotional Monday morning press conference.
Now comes a challenge of a lifetime, something so much bigger than Pagano or the Colts ever could have imagined. The next few
weeks of chemotherapy will be hellish, and the months after that will be no picnic, either. But the statistics are on Pagano’s side, with
a 90 percent of chance of complete remission and cure.
And if you know anything about Pagano, you know he will beat this thing into submission.
The man who has given so many impassioned speeches to his players must now listen to, and believe, his own words.
“What’s our objective?” Pagano asked his team in a speech captured by NFL Films. “Why are we doing this? To win. Beat your man,
period. What is going to be our legacy, your legacy? Go home and write a script. Do you want to be an also-ran, just another guy, a
guy who had a cup of coffee, or do you want to be the best who ever played the position?
“The objective is to win.’’
Pagano will win. Because the stakes here are much higher than any single football game. We make predictions in this newspaper all
the time, and we’re going to make another one:
When training camp opens in Anderson next summer, Pagano will be on the field, whistle in hand, barking out orders, a man in full.
Understand, this is not child’s play. There is risk, of infection, of all kinds of things. There will be chemotherapy. At some point, there
might be a bone-marrow transplant. It will be the longest, toughest year of Pagano’s life.
But it will also provide Pagano with a chance to be so much more than an NFL football coach. He has a
chance to be an inspiration, a guiding light in the fight against cancer. He has a chance to move people the way Lance Armstrong
moved people, with or without the cheating scandal.
“We talked about (how) grabbing that Lombardi Trophy someday is going to be that much sweeter when we overcome this,” Irsay
said of his talks with Pagano. “How he’s going to be one of those men who can help others, talk to them in the hospital and say, ‘Hey,
I faced this diagnosis and here I am, 10, 15 years later living my life,’ and share his hope, strength and experience with others.’’
Pagano will need to be heroic in his recovery, but you know who the hero is right now? Tina Pagano, his wife. When the fatigue and
the bruising became alarming, she forced her husband to go to the doctor to get some tests run. If you know men, you know the last
thing they want to do is run to the doctor. Fatigue?
Please. Head coaches are always fatigued.
Thank heavens, then, for Tina. Thank heavens for the early bye week, which gave Pagano the freedom and time to get this checked.
Clearly, Pagano and his health are first and foremost in everybody’s mind, but it has to be asked: What happens now with the team?
What happens now that they’ve lost their leader for the rest of the season?
Tony Dungy once said, “The true measure of an organization can be seen by how it operates without its leader.”
To start, they made the right call in moving Bruce Arians into the interim role. Arians, himself a survivor of prostate cancer, has a ton
of experience in this league. He has asked all his assistants to do what they’ve been doing all along; only Arians’ responsibilities will
be increased. He will call plays and be the head coach.
“The defensive guys were shook up when I was cheering for them,” said Arians, an offensive coach. “The offensive guys thought I
was being a traitor.”
It should also bring a close, young team even closer, give it a heightened sense of purpose. Now they are playing for more than their
jobs and some victories. Now they are playing for Pagano, turning the Coltsstrong hashtag into Chuckstrong.
“I know that in meeting with the players, meeting with the coaches, there’s nothing more that we want than to get that Green Bay
game ball and have a victory game ball and be able to walk into that hospital and put it in his hands,” Irsay said. “That’s our goal.”
Pagano needs to know this: An entire region is rooting for him, just as we rallied around Tony Dungy and his family after Dungy’s
son’s suicide. These will be tough times, but tough people persevere. Pagano will be back and stronger than ever.
“The best way we can honor him is to keep playing hard and win,” Mathis said. “He’s going to be missed.
The energy he brought, the way he dealt with people, we’ll miss all of that. All we can do is support him and his family.”
As Mathis spoke, a giant card reading “Happy Birthday” and “Get Well Soon” was being signed by the entire team.
Tuesday, by the way, is Pagano’s 52nd birthday.
There will be plenty more. Count on that.
Beyond long shot: Jerrell Freeman's winding journey to the Indianapolis Colts
Indianapolis Star
Phil Richards
September 27, 2012
Crisis came early in Jerrell Freeman’s football career. He came out of University High School in Waco, Texas, a 188-pound defensive
end. No one wanted him.
He enrolled at an NCAA Division III school in Belmont, Texas — the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, a women’s college until
1971 that played its first football game in 1998. Freeman enrolled on an academic scholarship.
“I was 190 by the time I got up there. I beefed up,” said Freeman, now the Indianapolis Colts’ starting inside linebacker and the team’s
leading tackler. “I threw on about three pounds to get ready.”
All Freeman wanted to do was play football.
He excelled. The NFL’s Tennessee Titans signed him as an undrafted free agent in 2008. They cut him during the preseason.
“It was a humbling experience,” Freeman said. “I went up to Canada.”
He signed with the Saskatchewan Rough Riders. He played special teams as a rookie in 2009. He started one of the Rough Riders’ 18
regular-season games as a linebacker the next year. He was a CFL All-Star in 2011.
The Colts called. A batch of NFL teams called. There were visits, workouts, then an offer, from the Colts. He grabbed it.
When he arrived in Indianapolis in January, Freeman took a look at the depth chart. There was no one behind him. How could there
have been? He was No. 7.
No matter. All he wanted to do was play football.
“You look at that and you go, ‘Oh, man, I’m way down here.’ I just slowly worked my way to the top, every day, every day,” he said.
“I’ve been proving myself all the way up.
“Been through a lot, done a lot, have a nice little story. It’s just perseverance.”
That’s no accident.
Freeman got his impressive speed and perseverance from his father, a bullet-quick high school running back.
Jimmy Freeman started in the ditch. He repaired sewer line and water lines for the city of Waco. He worked his way up to backhoe
operator. He kept working. The workers work for Jimmy now; he’s the water department’s operations supervisor.
“I worked my way up, and that’s Jerrell,” said Jimmy, Jerrell’s hero and best friend. “We have a little saying called finger-popping
(think finger snaps): when everybody’s out finger-popping, having fun or going dancing or whatever, that’s when you put in your
work, when nobody’s watching.”
Jerrell didn’t go out on Friday nights after high school football games. It was his habit to get up early Saturday mornings, when no one
was watching, and go to the gym.
Nine-year Colt and former defensive captain Gary Brackett would have loved this guy. Freeman (6-0, 234) is undersized. He can run,
he can cover and you can’t bend or buckle his spirit. He is instinctive. He is studious. He is almost always in position: 13 tackles
against Chicago, 18 against Minnesota and 16 vs. Jacksonville (coach’s totals, per film review).
That’s no accident, either.
“He is the one guy I can say has progressed pretty much every single day,” Colts linebackers coach Jeff Fitzgerald said. “It might be
baby steps, it might be small increments but it’s been progress.”
Freeman, Fitzgerald said, has “set his feet in this defense. He’s not going away.”
Freeman’s three starts have come in the position vacated by another tackling machine, 2010 second-round draft pick Pat Angerer, a
boiling cauldron of football intensity.
Angerer suffered a broken foot on the first defensive snap of the Colts’ first preseason game. He did some limited work Tuesday and
Wednesday during the Colts’ two bye-week practices and hopes to play Oct. 7 when Green Bay visits. Whenever Angerer returns,
Freeman will remain in the mix for playing time.
In the meantime, Angerer has been impressed.
“You look at a guy like that and (you say), ‘Why was he in Canada?’.” Angerer said. “He’s a good football player and I think we’re a
better team with him. I’ve learned a lot from him.”
Freeman signed a three-year, $1.44 million contract with the Colts in January. That’s an average salary of $480,000, more than 10
times the $45,000 he made in Canada.
“Taxes up there slice it in half. Then with the exchange rate it takes some more,” Freeman said. “So when you come home, you’re not
really going to come home with much.”
That didn’t matter. For Freeman, the CFL wasn’t about making money, it was about paying dues. His motivation has never wavered.
Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee’s goal? To become ‘the best to ever do it’
Indianapolis Star
Phil Richards
September 22, 2012
Pat McAfee is a punter, a sure-handed holder, a kickoff specialist and an eager, effective tackler. He’s a free spirit, a wisecracker, a
jokester and one other thing.
He’s a determined, dead serious professional.
McAfee joined the Indianapolis Colts as a seventh-round draft choice in 2009 and he arrived on a mission with a vision that has never
wavered.
“I wanted to figure this out and try to become the best who ever did it. I think I’ll be trying to do that for the rest of my career,” he
said, snapping off the words now with the solemnity of a vow: “to be the best to ever do it.”
There’s more. McAfee, 25, is the Colts’ backup place-kicker. He kicked field goals at the University of West Virginia. He has kicked
them in NFL preseason games. He has spent the past four years studying and interrogating Adam Vinatieri, 39.
“I want to be the first to do all three,” he said of the punter-kicker-kickoff triple. “I’ve had the amazingly fortunate opportunity to
watch Adam, the greatest of all time, kick, day in and day out.
“He might outlast me in this league, but if I outlast him, I would love the opportunity to do all three and the front office knows that.”
McAfee converted 58-of-79 field goal attempts (73.4 percent) with a long of 52 yards at West Virginia. He will tell you that punting
was the least of his skills coming into the NFL.
So he has spent the past four years delving into its art and science. He has worked during the offseason with punting coach Jamie
Kohl, whose pupils include the New Orleans Saints’ Thomas Morstead, considered the NFL’s most technically pure punter. McAfee
has improved his leg strength. He has refined his technique.
He’s averaging 52.5 yards a punt, third in the league and a mere eight-tenths of a yard shy of the leader, Morstead. McAfee has had
three punts downed inside the 20-yard line, two inside the 6.
Nine of his 10 kickoffs have reached the end zone. He has four touchbacks, a figure that undoubtedly would be greater were
opponents not anxious to bring the ball out from seven and eight yards deep in the end zone to test the Colts’ traditionally shoddy
coverage.
Pat McAfee is a punter, a sure-handed holder, a kickoff specialist and an eager, effective tackler. He’s a free spirit, a wisecracker, a
jokester and one other thing.
He’s a determined, dead serious professional.
McAfee joined the Indianapolis Colts as a seventh-round draft choice in 2009 and he arrived on a mission with a vision that has never
wavered.
“I wanted to figure this out and try to become the best who ever did it. I think I’ll be trying to do that for the rest of my career,” he
said, snapping off the words now with the solemnity of a vow: “to be the best to ever do it.”
There’s more. McAfee, 25, is the Colts’ backup place-kicker. He kicked field goals at the University of West Virginia. He has kicked
them in NFL preseason games. He has spent the past four years studying and interrogating Adam Vinatieri, 39.
“I want to be the first to do all three,” he said of the punter-kicker-kickoff triple. “I’ve had the amazingly fortunate opportunity to
watch Adam, the greatest of all time, kick, day in and day out.
“He might outlast me in this league, but if I outlast him, I would love the opportunity to do all three and the front office knows that.”
McAfee converted 58-of-79 field goal attempts (73.4 percent) with a long of 52 yards at West Virginia. He will tell you that punting
was the least of his skills coming into the NFL.
So he has spent the past four years delving into its art and science. He has worked during the offseason with punting coach Jamie
Kohl, whose pupils include the New Orleans Saints’ Thomas Morstead, considered the NFL’s most technically pure punter. McAfee
has improved his leg strength. He has refined his technique.
He’s averaging 52.5 yards a punt, third in the league and a mere eight-tenths of a yard shy of the leader, Morstead. McAfee has had
three punts downed inside the 20-yard line, two inside the 6.
Nine of his 10 kickoffs have reached the end zone. He has four touchbacks, a figure that undoubtedly would be greater were
opponents not anxious to bring the ball out from seven and eight yards deep in the end zone to test the Colts’ traditionally shoddy
coverage.
Colts’ new long snapper Matt Overton definitely took road less traveled
Indianapolis Star
Philip B. Wilson
September 20, 2012
The Colts’ new long snapper hasn’t been noticed in two games, which is a good thing.
Matt Overton, the unknown successor to longtime standout Justin Snow, has quietly gone about his business hiking footballs on field
goals, extra points and punts without fail.
These guys typically don’t get any pub unless they screw up. Or unless you’re Snow, who became so proficient at the craft that he’s
still going strong in his 13th season, now with the Washington Redskins.
It was a surprise to many when the Colts kept Overton instead of Snow at the end of preseason. Nobody knew much about the new
guy. Everybody had grown accustomed to Snow as a mainstay, the guy who was always on the mark, hustled downfield on punts to
make 39 tackles, and was a generous community activist.
What’s even more surprising, to be honest, is Overton not giving up on his NFL dream. He went to junior college before snapping at
Western Washington, which is rather remote. Seattle cut him before the regular season in 2007.
So he snapped in Arena Football 2 for the Tri-Cities Fever in 2008. Then he moved onto the United Football League’s Florida Tuskers
in 2009. The Seahawks took another look at him in 2010, but cut him again in preseason. He spent the last two years with the UFL’s
Omaha Nighthawks. In 2010, he made the league’s top 10 list as its best long snapper.
Overton, 27, admits he had his doubts about ever making the NFL.
“There’s been times, definitely, but for whatever reason I had it in my heart to keep working,” he said. “As a man, sometimes, you’ve
got to give yourself a little reality check. The hardest thing about this business is not having some stability and just bouncing around.
At some point, you kind of feel like, ‘You know what, maybe I should just give it up and move on to the next chapter in my life.’ But
there was always something in my heart that told me to keep on moving and here I am today.”
He finally made it. Apart from his own perseverance, landing this job was a testament to Snow’s professionalism, too. The guy
Overton replaced actually helped him.
“I knew coming in here would be a challenge, competing against one of the best in the league, a 10-plus-year veteran in Justin Snow,
someone who I’ve looked up to growing up,” Overton said. “But once I got here, it was really great to compete against one of the best
because it brought the best out of me. Justin was such a great mentor for me, on and off the field, he really took me under his wing.
Once things got along in preseason, he started coaching me up more because we were into games. He made me feel more comfortable
and gave me some great tips and some things he’s learned over his career. Also (kicker Adam) Vinatieri and (punter Pat) McAfee and
the coaching staff have helped a lot as well.”
Vinatieri, Sunday’s hero with a game-winning 53-yard field goal, appreciated Snow and has quickly developed a similar respect for
Overton.
“I love Justin,” Vinatieri said. “He did a great job for this team for many, many years. He’s still a great snapper and can continue his
career. Matt, I can’t say enough good things about him. He came in here, total professional, every day he tried to get better and learn
the things he needed to. Credit Justin, he helped him along the way to develop his craft. I’ll tell you what, Matt, he’s a very good
snapper. He can cover and run down the field well. He does everything right. I look forward to him being very successful for many
years to come.”
The numbers suggest this long snapper switch was because of money. Snow was set to make $925,000. Overton costs just $390,000.
While that’s the bottom-line business reality, it’s somewhat unfair to Overton. He’s proven himself so far, although he realizes he’s
only as good as his next snap. Screw up once and people will be saying Snow should still be here.
He keeps hiking. Chicago’s season opener was a dream come true. Overton stays focused. He wants to continue to live the dream.
“It’s been six years that I’ve been on this journey to get to this point,” Overton said. “I just took any opportunity that came. I’ve been
released a lot, cut from teams, but I had to just keep on persevering. I knew I had what it took. Landing in Omaha in the United
Football League was a blessing for me. Getting that exposure and getting that experience, playing with some perennial pros like Jeff
Garcia, it’s definitely been a long road.”
Try to name another guy who reached the NFL after playing in AF2 and the UFL. Not a long list.
“No, not at all,” he said. “As a long snapper, you can be in this league for a long time. It was just one of those things where I had to
kind of wait for an opportunity and prepare for one. (Tight end) Dominique Jones and I crossed paths in the UFL and here we are on
the Colts team together.
“It goes to show that hard word does pay off. You can definitely take the road less traveled to where you want to go.”
Stops in Germany, Houston and Stanford helped shape Andrew Luck on his journey here
Indianapolis Star
Phil Richards
September 9, 2012
As the standout starting quarterback for Stanford University, Andrew Luck engaged in an unusual huddle ritual.
When Luck looped a particularly deft touch pass over a defender or fired a bullet into a tight window for a completion to Konrad
Reuland, the Cardinal tight end sometimes returned to the huddle to say:
"Gut geworfen!"
"Gut gefangen!," Luck would rejoin.
Good throw.
Good catch.
Gut grief.
Luck, who will make his NFL debut with the Indianapolis Colts this afternoon, is more than a unique talent; he springs from a unique
background. He was born in Washington, D.C., but spent 10 of his first 11 years in Europe, seven of them in Germany. He will
acknowledge his familiarity with the language but he disavows fluency.
That's Luck being Luck. Like when he refers to himself as "a scrub rookie," the fact that he was the first overall pick in the 2012 NFL
draft notwithstanding. Or after he threw for a 63-yard touchdown on his first preseason pass but afterward wanted to talk about
"hometown hero Harnish," Chandler Harnish, the Colts' Bluffton, Ind.-born No. 3 quarterback who went 3-for-3 in the same game.
Humility, it seems, is an international trait.
Luck's father, Oliver, was a storied quarterback at the University of West Virginia who in 1982 was a second-round draft choice of the
NFL's Houston Oilers. It was in Houston where a teammate, 12-year veteran Archie Manning, sometimes assigned Luck "rookie"
chores, like taking Manning's sons, Cooper and Peyton, to McDonald's.
By 1989, Oliver and his wife, Kathy, were attorneys working in Washington. When the NFL offered Oliver an executive position to
help launch the World League of American Football, later NFL Europe, Oliver accepted.
The Lucks thought it would be a wonderful opportunity to expose Andrew and the other children they
planned to have to a wider world. Daughters Mary Ellen, a junior volleyball player at Stanford, and Emily, a Stanford freshman, and
son Addison, a high school sophomore, were born in Europe.
As NFL Europe's point man, it was Oliver's job to study and understand the Old World sports culture. He chased all over Western
Europe attending not only World League football games but Champions League soccer and Premiere League rugby contests.
He took Andrew along. The interest in architecture that put Andrew on a course to eventually graduate with honors from Stanford's
Architectural Design program was sparked by the soaring stadiums he visited with Dad.
Andrew and his siblings didn't just live in Europe. For 10 years, they were immersed in it: schools, customs, traditions and cultures,
literature, languages and attitudes. They traveled Germany, Holland, Italy, England, Scotland, and France.
They say you are what you eat. The Lucks ate sauerbraten, coq au vin, paella and Yorkshire pudding. They ate European. And while
they visited Spain they ate summer suppers with and like the Spaniards, at 10:30 p.m. They quite naturally slipped, Oliver said, into
the rhythms and nuances of Spanish life.
How does one quantify the impact of all that?
"I wish I could compare it to a life where I've never spent any time overseas," Andrew said. "But I think I do appreciate different
cultures a little more. It opened my eyes to different cultures, different ways of going about things that are OK, that aren't taboo."
It opened his eyes to Stanford, where high scholarship is the common ground and celebrity walks it unnoticed. Luck arrived at the
gym at 6 for an early session one morning and found himself working out alongside Madame Secretary Condoleezza Rice, professor
of political science, former U.S. secretary of state and recently one of the first two women admitted to Augusta National Golf Club.
Inquiring and acquisitive
Nate Nakadate is the kind of teacher every lucky student should have. He's the one they will never forget.
Nakadate (NAH-kuh-dottie) teaches creative writing and senior English at Houston's Stratford High School. He is Irish/Cherokee. He
is a literati, musician, bon vivant, surfer-dude and fly fisherman.
He believes Europe opened Luck's mind. He recalls Luck as an intellectually vigorous and acquisitive student.
"There was an astute essay he penned about Hamlet's inner conflict and turmoil I recall, and from then on, I knew he would do well at
a stellar school like Stanford," Nakadate said. "Life and understanding it has to do with paying attention to the most minute details,
which he does well."
"Andrew always came to class fired up about life, literature and discussion. There was rarely any talk about football."
Stratford has on several occasions made Newsweek magazine's annual listing of America's Top High Schools. Luck was covaledictorian of the school's graduating class of 400 in 2008.
It was much the same at Stanford, where John Barton, director of the Architectural Design program, was Luck's academic advisor,
taught him in two classes and partnered with him on a project.
As early as his sophomore year, Luck was distinguishing himself with an aptitude Barton has seldom seen until the postgraduate level.
"He has an ability to see parts and whole at the same time," Barton said. "He can take apart an architectural project and say, "I see the
site plan and the way the structure integrates with it this way and because of the structure I want to pull the skin out this way and I
want to think about using these materials and being very different.
"When I saw that, I said, 'Oh, I get it. I see how you do it on the football field.' "
Homecoming and football
Luck didn't play football in Europe. No one but NFL Europe players did. On the infrequent occasions when Andrew and his father
threw a football around in the front yard of their home in Frankfurt and later
Düsseldorf, they drew stares.
Andrew played soccer and basketball. He was a ball handling midfielder in the former, dribbling, head always up, eyes surveying the
field, marking the defenders, calculating the angles. He was a point guard in the latter, dribbling, head always up, eyes surveying the
field, marking defenders, calculating angles.
He was the quarterback, you see, before he ever played a snap.
When the Lucks returned from Europe in 2001, they returned to Houston. Football is to Texas what basketball is to Indiana. Andrew
plunged into it.
He played defensive end while dabbling at running back and quarterback in fifth and sixth grade. Oliver was his Pop Warner League
coach and this was Texas Pop Warner; their team played at least one game under the lights.
By the time Andrew reached Stratford High School, where there are six football teams on campus, freshman A, B and C, sophomore,
junior varsity and varsity, he was a quarterback. Varsity coach Eliot Allen found a lot to like.
"He's a very genuine person. He cares about others. He's very, very humble," said Allen, neglecting any mention of football acuity,
arm strength, 40-yard dash time and the like.
Humility is a recurrent thread with Luck. As a kid, he so loathed the spotlight, he stiff-armed it, ran from it.
"I had a complete aversion to attention," Luck said. "Even in high school, what little attention a quarterback
got, I squirmed a lot."
At Stanford, coach Jim Harbaugh, the former Colts quarterback and current San Francisco 49ers coach, called Luck, the "AntiCelebrity" and the "Anti-Big Man on Campus."
So it's no surprise that Luck was nearly mute and entirely deferential as the sophomore starting quarterback at Stratford, a most
unusual circumstance in hard-charging Houston football. That changed during the season opener.
The Spartans were locked in a tense defensive struggle, protecting a three-point lead when they got the ball back with the clock ticking
down in the fourth quarter. They needed a game-clinching drive when Luck and his offensive teammates took the field.
"Andrew had never really talked before. He had always been so quiet," Eliot said. "I looked out on the field and I could see him
screaming in the huddle. His head was bobbing up and down, he was pointing. It was amazing to see."
Stratford made a couple first downs. The Spartans killed the clock and won the game.
"Andrew never did anything wrong," Eliot said. "Then the seniors came to the sideline and they were, 'Oh, my gosh. You should have
heard the language out there.' "
And a splash of Tabasco
It's a bright, sunny June morning. Luck hasn't yet signed the fully guaranteed four-year, $24 million contract the Colts would soon
award him, but his appetite is undiminished.
Sitting a few blocks from his downtown Indianapolis home, he orders a skillet breakfast: potatoes, ham, mushrooms and onions
blanketed with melted cheese and a pair of basted eggs. He keeps the Tabasco sauce handy. He uses it liberally.
The collar of his fashionable striped polo shirt is tousled and tucked under, but he is blissfully unaware. He is a manchild.
Between bites, he speaks easily, honestly, earnestly. He is engaged and engaging. He is agreeable, obliging,
trusting. He wanders off the record at times.
"You have a girlfriend," his interrogator probes hopefully.
"Yes," Luck responds.
"Can you tell me about her?" comes the question.
"No," he replies.
Luck has learned to deal with attention because the quarterback has to, like his father before him, but there are boundaries and Luck
isn't bashful about establishing them. Like his mother, Kathy, who declined to be interviewed for this story, and all stories, he has a
private side.
"He's very intelligent but he's not, like, nerdy," said Griff Whalen, the walk-on wide receiver who was Luck's Stanford roommate for
three years, then signed with the Colts as an undrafted free agent but suffered a season-ending a broken foot. "He's fun. He likes to
have a good time. He's very social.
"And he sleeps as much as anybody I know."
Whalen quickly learned to keep his hands off the remote when Luck was watching soccer and to quickly change the channel when a
Luck clip was aired on SportsCenter or one of the Bay Area stations. That was a boundary.
Whalen and his teammates teased Luck about his love of soccer (ugh), his battered flip-phone (decidedly unsmart and hopelessly
unfashionable), his weary Honda Accord (not cool), his singing (awful) and his Bananagrams (annoying).
The latter is a speed word game. It came in a care package and Luck was forever recruiting players for dorm room games. The
organizer almost always won.
Check with me
Eight days after the Colts made Luck the draft's first overall pick, he lined up under center with the rest of the club's rookie class. Luck
read the defense. He identified the "Mike," the defender off whom the offense keys its blocking scheme. He called the protection. He
began his cadence.
He watched the defense shift.
Luck didn't blink. He instantly made the check that re-identified the Mike, changed the protection and set the hot receivers and their
routes.
"All the other rookies just kind of stopped and looked at him and said, 'I have no idea what you're talking about Andrew,' " Colts
coach Chuck Pagano recalled. "So we just kind of blew the whistle, got them back in the huddle, got everybody on the same page and
moved forward.
"Typical Andrew."
It was the first day of rookie mini-camp. Luck had made a check that was three or four installations ahead.
Only he knew it.
"He's calm. He's pretty good at making decisions. He's going to be special," volunteered 12th-year Colt and five-time Pro Bowl
receiver Reggie Wayne.
"It's just 'Wow!' every day," testified Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians.
"He really is what we thought he was," affirmed Colts general manager Ryan Grigson.
Four-time NFL Most Valuable Player Peyton Manning's successor will make his debut this afternoon when the Indianapolis Colts play
the Chicago Bears in a season-opener at Soldier Field.
His name is Andrew Luck.
Colts coach Chuck Pagano is all about family
Indianapolis Star
Philip B. Wilson
September 7, 2012
They arrived early that morning, a teenage daughter eager to tag along with her coaching father for a day at the University of Miami
football office in the late 1990s.
"It was 5 o'clock, all the Spanish-speaking cleaning ladies are there," said Tara Lavier, now 30 and a married mother of two.
Chuck Pagano's oldest of three daughters describes in detail what resonated from that morning.
"My dad knows them all by name and says hello," she said. "They loved him. They taught him Spanish. And he respected them as
hard-working people. As he's always told me, 'It's so important to know, from who cleans the floor to whomever, you be nice and
respectable to everybody.'
"I thought it was so cool he knew the whole cleaning staff. That's the type of person he is. He's always been like that."
One of Pagano's first words, when hired as Indianapolis Colts coach in January, was "relationships."
"We were brought up that way," said San Diego defensive coordinator John Pagano, 45, Chuck's younger brother by six years. "One
of the greatest things is how genuine Chuck is. He's an inspiration. I always strive to be like him."
That would be an emotional guy with an indefatigable work ethic, a man who balances football with family while not losing sight of
the importance to respect and connect with people.
But to single him out for such traits, the way he sees it, would be like commending him for breathing.
"It's nothing special," Chuck Pagano said. "It's just the right thing to do."
Those closest to him suggest he's being modest about the qualities that have helped him succeed personally and professionally.
"He wants everything to be just and fair," said his mother, Diana, 78.
She has been married 50 years to Chuck's father, Sam, who retired with three high school state titles as a football coach in Boulder,
Colo.
"The thing about Chuck is he's learned loyalty," said Sam, 74, who echoes a message his son reinforces daily. "The foundation will be
relationships, trust and loyalty."
Marriage proposal
The Paganos consider themselves simple folks, so Chuck's ascendance to the Colts' helm is still surreal, especially when they see him
receiving national publicity.
"That part of it," said Chuck's wife, Tina, "it sometimes just makes me laugh."
Tara and her sisters -- Taylor, 22, and Tori, 18 -- crack up, too.
"It's so crazy," said Tori, who lives in Baltimore after graduating from high school a year early. "My family has honestly been
dreaming of this moment for my dad for so long. Obviously we know how great he is. It was just a matter of time for someone else to
see it."
It's no secret Chuck doesn't care for the spotlight. He says he loves flying under the radar, although people in his high-profile position
aren't afforded anonymity. He insists praise should be given to coaches, players and family. Anybody else, even those cleaning ladies,
not him.
That's the hard-nosed football coach talking. Yet his family gushes about him anyway. Tina appreciates how her husband sticks to a
weekly date night during the NFL season.
"That's something we've always done, even when we couldn't afford a babysitter," she said.
They've come a long way from a chance meeting in Boise, Idaho. It was his second season as an assistant at Boise State. Tina's brother
was a wide receiver. They were introduced after a game but she didn't think anything of it.
It turned into a whirlwind romance, but not without a memorable broken date early on, when Chuck had to work instead.
"In my mind, I'm like, 'OK, he's blowing me off. Who works on Sunday?' " Tina said. "Now I know."
She caught on quickly. What also caught her eye was how Chuck had a similar personality to her father, Ron Heffner, a man with a
tremendous heart. They were married about six months later.
"One thing led to another, we dated for a couple months, then I took a job at East Carolina," Chuck said. "She came for spring break, I
put her on a plane, she got home (to Boise). I called her later to see that she got home all right and I asked her to marry me over the
phone.
"I called her dad the next morning and he almost hung up on me. He couldn't believe it. Twenty-two years later, we're still cooking."
Speaking of which, Chuck can cook, too. When the family returns to Boise each summer for about a month, they look forward to his
special spaghetti sauce and homemade meatballs.
"That's his signature dish," said Tara, who lives in Boise.
He's tweaked the original recipe passed down from Sam, who learned it from his mother. And what's in it that makes it so special?
"A lot of love and a lot of feeling put in with that oregano, that basil, garlic and onions," Sam said. "And the best tomatoes are murano
tomatoes from Italy."
Back in Boise, Chuck also can't wait to hop on a bike and hit a trail, although his daughters are mindful it can be an exhausting
pursuit. He coaxed Taylor into a ride on the Boise River Greenbelt up to Table Rock last summer.
"It's something I've only done once before," she said. "I didn't want to do it in the beginning, but he's just so motivating. He's like,
'Come on, you'll feel so good after.' He's so encouraging and he's like, 'You have the strength, you can do anything.' "
About 90 minutes later, they finished the ride.
"I wouldn't let her quit," Chuck said.
It's just like when he drove Tori to gymnastics practice when she was in elementary school. She had grown tired of three-hour
workouts at such an early age and complained.
"He would be like, 'You stick to this. You started it, you're going to finish,' " she said. "He was always encouraging that way. He
taught us we're not quitters in this family."
The three girls are older and scattered. Taylor graduated from UNC-Wilmington and is about to attend an Arizona medical school
based on natural healing. Tori plans to enroll at the University of Maryland to study elementary education. Tara and her husband are
expecting a third daughter in November.
So their father stays closely connected through text messages.
"He'll send this text sometimes, it's long and heartfelt, and will make you cry," Taylor said. "I'll be like, 'Dad, why did you do that to
me? I've got a test today.' But they're always happy tears because it's always something loving and proud."
Adds Tara, "That smart phone is the worst thing to ever happen to him. Just kidding."
More than football
Never forget, though, Chuck Pagano can flip the switch and turn tenacious in an instant.
Tara recalled when Jimmy Graham was the first boy to pick her up for a date. Terrified her father would embarrass her, she begged
Tina to keep dad in check. The kids thought they were in the clear after leaving the house.
"We're walking out and dad comes walking around from the back of the house with a shovel," Tara said. "He sticks out his hand and
says, 'Hi.' Then he says, 'Just so you know, I've got a shovel here; if you don't have her home by 10 o'clock, I'll bury you in my
backyard and nobody will miss you.'"
She made it home on time.
"Oh yeah, are you kidding?" she said. "He was probably the last boy to ever come to the house to take me out on a date."
Colts players can expect their new leader to be just as intense and protective. Entrusted with the challenging task of turning around an
overhauled 2-14 team, he has used negative prognostications as motivation. One player T-shirt ranks the Colts dead last in 32nd.
Another highlights the slogan, "Build The Monster." It's all about fostering togetherness in that locker room.
"That's the kind of atmosphere we're trying to create here," Chuck Pagano said. "If you don't have family, what else do you have?"
This balancing act of family and football inevitably intersect. But what defines him is still quite simple.
"It's important for people to know that it's not always about football," Tori said. "There's a lot more to him as a person than being a
great football coach."
Castonzo realizes good fortune blocking for Luck
Chicago Tribune
Dan Pompei
August 23, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS — Protecting the blindside of Andrew Luck might entail a little more stress than protecting the blindside of Curtis
Painter or Dan Orlovsky.
Anthony Castonzo, the Colts' second-year left tackle out of Boston College, knows what it feels like.
"It's a big responsibility keeping (Luck) healthy," he said. "He's obviously a very good player we are going to need. So keeping him
healthy is my biggest job."
But blocking for Luck has its benefits for Castonzo, who went to Lake Zurich High School. Luck is pretty adept at avoiding pressure
if a pass rusher happens to slip by an offensive lineman.
"Different quarterbacks do things differently," Castonzo said. "Andrew slides around a lot. He moves around and kind of makes me
right no matter what I do from a blocking standpoint. He's able to move around real well."
Luck might have to be on the move a lot because he is playing behind an unproven offensive line. The Colts have three new starters on
the right side in tackle Winston Justice, guard Mike McGlynn and center Samson Satele.
Castonzo is the linchpin.
"I think the line is coming together well," Castonzo said. "We are communicating really well. I think we're building something good."
Castonzo never got to block for Peyton Manning because Manning sat out all of Castonzo's rookie year. But like everyone around the
Colts, Castonzo has been impressed with his new quarterback.
"He is a great leader," Castonzo said. "He's very even keeled which is great to have in a quarterback. He keeps his cool. After we went
down 14-0 (to the Steelers) the other day, he comes back to the huddle confident, with a smile on his face. He's ready to get us
pumped up and get us going. To get that leadership from a rookie is pretty awesome."
Now that Castonzo is a starter in the NFL, he no longer moonlights as a delivery man at his parents' Italian restaurant in Hawthorn
Woods.
He said his father and mother sold the eatery so they could travel to all of his games.
Rookie Fleener ‘ready to roll’ with Colts
Chicago Tribune
Dan Pompei
August 23, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS -- Andrew Luck isn’t the only high draft pick from Stanford going through his first NFL training camp with the
Colts.
Luck’s college teammate Coby Fleener is in the same boat. Fleener, a Lemont native who went to Joliet Catholic, likely will be in the
starting lineup for the Colts’ season opener against the Bears at Soldier Field.
“He’s coming along,” Colts general manager Ryan Grigson said of the 34th pick of the April draft. “He is a very gifted, gifted guy.
When the lights come on, he’s ready to roll. There is a process to becoming a pro. Every day he is learning.”
Fleener came to the Colts with the reputation as a special receiving tight end who needed work on his blocking. The Colts have made
it a point of emphasis that he improve his blocking.
"We know what his strengths are, but to be a complete player he has to become a better blocker,” Grigson said. “But the other things
he has are things you can’t teach, and that’s why he’s here in the first place. The way to sum him up in a nutshell is to say he is a kingsized wide receiver who plays above the rim. But he also can become that and a well-rounded tight end. He’s working hard at it.”
Fleener had a decent block on a 1-yard Donald Brown touchdown run against the Steelers on Monday. He talked about being a
“complete” tight end.
“You don’t want to just be a glorified wide receiver sitting on the end of the line,” Fleener said. There is a lot more to it than catching
balls.”
Catching balls hasn’t always been easy for the rookie either. He uncharacteristically dropped a few in camp.
“It’s partially a lack of concentration,” he said. “It was one of those things where you need to focus on every catch before you start
running upfield. It was frustrating to say the least, especially being looked at as one of the better receiving tight ends.”
Fleener said his biggest transition has been learning the playbook. It’s starting to click in, but he still has a lot to learn.
Figuring out the Colts offense quickly has been one of Luck’s strengths. Fleener has marveled at how his college teammate has been
able to transfer what he has learned in the classroom to the field.
“It’s not just knowing his position, it’s understanding the things around him that affect his position,” he said.
Luck is doing more than feeding Fleener passes. He’s even driving him to work until Fleener gets a car.
Their relationship is a definite advantage for both of them.
"It’s an advantage in that we started with a pretty good sense of each other’s timing,” Fleener said. “Now our real advantage is
knowing how to talk to each other to help each other understand as quickly as possible any changes that need to be made.”
Tom Zbikowski is a good fit for Indianapolis Colts
Chicago Tribune
Dan Pompei
August 23, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS — Chuck Pagano coached Tom Zbikowski for four years in Baltimore, so when he had a chance to run his own
team in Indianapolis, one of his first moves was to bring Zbikowski with him.
"He is invaluable because he played in the scheme," Pagano said of the safety. "He's another voice. He reinforces everything. Players
take to other players. Here is what they are talking about. Sometimes they can put it into terms they understand better. They pound the
message home. If there is any doubt, trust the system, play the technique, it will work out."
Zbikowski helps set the tone with the Colts that made the Ravens an AFC powerhouse.
"You are expected to play full tilt here every play," Zbikowski said.
Pagano said Zbikowski, who grew up in Arlington Heights and went to Buffalo Grove High School before playing collegiately at
Notre Dame, earned the respect of his teammates by working hard in the offseason.
So now Zbikowski is the Colts' starting strong safety and one of the building blocks of Pagano's new regime.
In four years with the Ravens, Zbikowski played mostly on special teams and in defensive packages. He came into training camp last
year with the inside track to start, but lost out to veteran Bernard Pollard.
In the previous offseason during the NFL lockout, Zbikowski had returned to his first love — boxing. He had three victories in
Madison Square Garden, the MGM Hotel in Las Vegas and the Boardwalk Hotel in Atlantic City.
Zbikowski had a blast, but looking back on it he wasn't sure it was the best thing for his football career.
"It's not that I wasn't focused last offseason," he said. "But this offseason when I spent every waking minute thinking about this
season, I understand I wasn't as focused then as I am now.
"It was a lesson learned. You need to step away from football sometimes, but I don't think your focus needs to be on another sport.
Some of the best advice I got from (my father Ed): You have to miss football to be good at it because you have to be hungry. You do
have to step back.
"But my focus wasn't where it should have been. I think I was riding a little too high from a couple of knockouts."
Still, Zbikowski has no regrets about his time in Baltimore. He said he enjoyed learning from seasoned pros like Ray Lewis, Ed Reed,
Terrell Suggs, Haloti Ngata, Derrick Mason and Anquan Boldin.
"As much as I didn't enjoy being in a backup role, it was an apprenticeship well served," he said. "And it was four years of not taking
too much physical abuse."
Now he is ready to take his NFL career to the next level.
As was the case with the Ravens, Zbikowski feels he is surrounded by teammates who love to play the game and buy into the team
concept.
For the time being, Zbikowski has put his boxing gloves in storage.
"Out of sight, out of mind," he said. "Every once in awhile I'll catch myself throwing some punches. It helps you keep loose. It's a
good workout for cross training. I really wanted to spar, but I made a conscious decision to keep it at a distance. It's too addictive, get
a little taste of it, then I get a little adrenalin rush."
Someday though, chances are very good he will return to the ring.
"I tell myself I won't," he said. "But I don't see myself staying away forever.
Brown, Colts, Aiming to Improve with a Little ‘Luck’
The Two River Times
By Vincent Landolfi, Jr.
A new era dawned in Indianapolis last week with the start of the Colts 2012 training camp held at Anderson University in Anderson,
Indiana. For the Hoosier faithful all across the state, the day had finally arrived when they would get to see, in action, their new
general manager, head coach, and quarterback, who happened to be this year’s #1 overall pick in the NFL draft. With so much
excitement in the air, you would really have to be paying attention to notice the running back now at the top of the team’s depth chart.
Donald Brown (RBC Class of 2005) is occupying that spot right now, and given the amount of effort and level of commitment it took
to get there, he might be doing so until it is pried from his old, retired hands. And, per usual, the sincerity and humility that are a part
of the Colt’s 2007 first-round pick’s persona is evident when he speaks from the heart.
“It doesn’t matter where I am on the depth chart. Always prepare like you’re the starter, and whatever opportunity comes – make the
most of it. I’m very excited about this year.” Brown told me, standing in the end zone after coming off A.U.’s turf game field at the
conclusion of the first morning’s walk through practice. “I am prepared for any possible situation for this season whether it’s getting a
majority of carries or on special teams, whatever it may be I’ve prepared for it and I’m ready for it.” Many people agree. And some,
like season-ticket holder, and Donald Brown fan James Stoots, from Plainfield, IN, think he is “set for a breakout year.”
One reason is because preparation has been a long suit in Mr. Brown’s repertoire going all the way back to his days as a schoolboy
standout on the fields of the Shore Conference.
“He was the hardest worker I’ve ever seen,” said New England Patriots scout Frank Edgerly, then the head football coach at Red Bank
Catholic H.S., Brown’s alma mater. “He out-lifted the strong guys, outran the speed guys, and was the first one ready to go again.”
Fast forward to the summer of 2012, where we find the former UConn star, not visiting his family and the beaches of his boyhood
home at the Jersey Shore, but two states down in Terrapin country. Eschewing vacation, Donald decided to spend several weeks
working out and honing his skills at The University of Maryland, where former Huskies Head Coach Randy Edsall is now the head
coach. “Physically I feel like this is the best shape I’ve been in, in a very long time”, Brown said, as a result of his off-season
activities.
Along with the Colts new regime, come many new players, a new system, and new playbook with new terminology. In order to have a
successful season, general manager Ryan Grigson, head coach Chuck Pagano, and the entire staff must meld all of these components
into one, harmonious unit. I asked Brown about the progress of this process.
“At the end of the day, every playbook’s the same; it’s the terminology that’s different. But this is probably the fifth time we’re
hearing it with O.T.A.s (organized team activities) and mini-camps so we are a lot more comfortable with it right now.
“It’s definitely coming together,” he added. “We’ve been together since early April so guys are getting comfortable with one another
and with the system.”
When asked about some particular plays offensive coordinator, Bruce Arians, has installed in order to ‘take advantage of his strengths,
a smile came over #31’s face.
“I love the new system – some downhill, smash-mouth running; it’s what I’m comfortable with. I am excited to get running.”
Of course, on the first day of camp, the stallion’s share of the media and fan attention was directed at one of the new faces in
Indianapolis, quarterback Andrew Luck. While the powers-that-be are trying to low-ball high expectations from being thrust upon the
rookie’s shoulders, the fans’ excitement seemed to have spilled over onto the field, after his 27 for 32 passing performance on day
one.
“He seems like a seasoned vet,” said Brown, when the fourth-year back was asked about his new signal caller. “He’s a student of the
game, and really picking up the offense. He’s very cool, calm, and collected; a great leader. He’s done a phenomenal job, and he’s
only going to get better.”
In the midst of all this newness, however, there remains a holdover from the previous Colts staff. Not so coincidentally, he is the man
who had a lot to do with the resurgence of Indy’s running game at the end of last season, and Donald Brown’s career in the process.
“I’m very excited and glad to have Dave back,” said Brown, of running backs coach David Walker, the former Syracuse Orangemen
two-time All-Big East runner. “He’s a phenomenal guy, and coach and he’s really helped elevate my game. I’m just very, very happy
to have him back.”
Former RBC star Donnie Brown is at the top of the Indianapolis Colts’ depth chart at the running back position.
But even a new system, excellent coach, and what Brown calls “a great backfield, with guys that bring many different things to the
table” (including second-year Syracuse alum Delone Carter, rookie Darren Evans, from Virginia Tech, and free-agent Mewelde
Moore, to name a few), Brown knows that holes need to be opened in order for a running game to succeed. Fear not. Grigson and
Pagano have anticipated and addressed this crucial team component in the draft and off-season signings.
“We have some big guys up front,” Brown told the media throng, alluding to the size of lineman such as 6’ 3” 300 lb. center Samson
Satele, acquired from the Oakland Raiders, rookie Steven Baker at 6’ 8” 301 lb., and 6’ 7” 315 lb. tackle Anthony Castonzo. “There
are some horses up there.”
So the horses are in the barn, and the table is set for the Colts’ upcoming 2012 NFL season. To what degree a rookie quarterback,
managing an explosive passing game, and newly recharged running game, along with an attacking style defense, under a new regime,
solidifies is anyone’s guess. Are there specific goals in place for this team to achieve?
“Just to get better everyday,” said Brown. “That’s our goal, that’s our mindset, every meeting, every walk-through, every practice. Just
get better and take it one day at a time.”
It is not surprising, for those of us who have had the opportunity to listen to Donald Brown answer questions in the past, and hear him
take the humble, pragmatic approach in his replies. Do not for one-minute make the mistake of thinking humble and desire are
mutually exclusive. Lesser men would be on to their next career by now if presented with some of the obstacles Brown has
encountered in his NFL life, including injuries to his ankle, shoulder, and torso, and a lack of playing time at the beginning of last
season.
During some of these more difficult times, some of the sentiment surrounding Brown was that even if he never plays another down in
the NFL, he owes no one anything. Here is a professional athlete who stands at only 5’ 10”, but is a legend at his high school and in
his community, led the nation in rushing in college while earning his degree on a full scholarship, and has already made a very good
living while providing us with some extremely memorable moments in the National Football League. But that scenario does not speak
to the heart of Donald Brown. Look up the meaning of the name Donald, and you’ll know exactly what I mean. You see, right now he
is occupying the spot at the top of the depth chart, and I think he likes the view from there
Colts camp report: Trust, patience key as new braintrust begins tough task
By Pete Prisco | Senior NFL Columnist
Aug. 10, 2012
ANDERSON, Ind. -- Who is Ryan Grigson?
When the Indianapolis Colts hired Grigson as general manager last winter, it surprised a lot of people and led many to ask that very
question.
But it shouldn't have. This is a guy who is 100 percent football. He came up through the scouting ranks -- he was once playerpersonnel director for an Arena League team -- and a lot of scouts and personnel people I respect think highly of him.
"Grinder, loves it, works it, isn't afraid to state his opinion," one personnel man said of Grigson. "They made a good hire."
Time will tell, but if his first draft can be used as an indicator, I would say he's off to a good start. Not only did the Colts land
quarterback Andrew Luck with the first pick in the draft -- OK, that was easy -- but they also got him two tight ends in Coby Fleener
and Dwayne Allen to help rebuild the offense and a speedy receiver in T.Y. Hilton.
Grigson is spending this summer on the practice field, but he's also furiously studying other rosters. As the worst team in 2011, he has
the first waiver claim on players, which is huge for a young team.
He is a big, former offensive tackle from Purdue who is quite a presence, which many of his former coworkers say helped him when
he fought for a player in the past. Grigson isn't afraid to go off the grid, which is good. Hiring Chuck Pagano as head coach might not
have been the sexiest choice, but the two seem to work well together and seem cut from the same cloth.
I like the fact that Grigson was willing to twist the knife a bit about me picking the Colts to go 1-15 -- the first coach, general
manager, scout or player in any camp to do so.
That speaks volumes to me about a guy's inner core. He is competitive. I respect that, and told Grigson so. I like a fight. He does too.
Too many times we forget about the scouts as more and more bean counters take over running teams. It's about football eyes, not
Moneyball-like approaches.
You might not know this 40-year-old who came up through scouting circles yet, but you should.
The Colts have the right guy.
Team Objectives
• Bring together all the youth. This is a young roster with just seven players left from Tony Dungy's last team in 2008. With a rookie
starter at QB, it puts a lot of pressure on veterans like Reggie Wayne to help keep this team focused at times when it may wane.
• Establish the physical style that Pagano wants. He comes from the Ravens, a team that used to beat up opponents with a bruising
style and the run game. That means the Colts have to change their personality from the past decade, which was a pass-first team. Do
they have the makeup to handle this change right away?
• Make a smooth transition to the 3-4 hybrid defense. The Colts are changing from their 4-3 defense to one that features more 3-4
looks. That means star pass rushers Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis will be doing more standing up as 3-4 outside linebackers,
rather than 4-3 rush ends. Expect Freeney to play a lot like Terrell Suggs did for Pagano in Baltimore. That means he will mostly be
going forward, rather than dropping into coverage. Mathis will drop more.
Camp Battles
Starting cornerback: Jerraud Powers is solid on one side but the other spot is wide open. Justin King, a former Rams starter, and
Cassius Vaughn, who came over from the Broncos, are the leaders right now. There's a good chance the Colts' starting corner could be
on another roster right now. Look for a lot of activity when cuts are made. Projected winner: Vaughn. But he will be challenged.
Left guard: This looks to be a battle between Joe Reitz and Jeff Linkenbach. Reitz is the more athletic of the two, but Linkenbach is a
mauler. This should be a camp-long battle, with Reitz seeming to have the early lead. Projected winner: Reitz. I think he might be the
better option in the long run.
Third receiver: Wayne is the top guy and Austin Collie is No. 2. So who's third? It appears veteran Donnie Avery, whose career has
been slowed by injuries, has the inside track. He did have a minor injury this week that isn't expected to keep him out long. Hilton
might be in the mix, but he has been slowed much of the offseason with a leg injury and is just now rounding into shape. Projected
winner: Avery. That's if he can stay healthy. Hilton might have the job later in the season.
Somebody to Watch
Freeney has been one of the league's best outside rushers over the past nine years. But his play tailed off some in 2011 and he enters
this season making the transition from down end to standup linebacker. But don't expect to see him dropping into coverage. This is a
player who will still spend most of the game attacking the quarterback. "We know what he does best," Pagano said. At $15 million for
this year, they better hope he gets there a lot.
Injury Roundup
• G Ben Ijalana was lost for the season with a torn ACL. It was uncertain whether he would push for time in the rotation anyway. The
book is that he might be a bust as a second-round pick in 2011.
• DT Josh Chapman. He is on the PUP list after having knee surgery last winter. He might spend the season on IR as a rookie. Watch
for him down the road, though.
• Avery. He has been having a good camp, but if he misses time it could give some younger receivers a chance to make the team.
The Last Word
Colts fans need to understand one word this season: Patience.
This is a work in progress, but in Grigson and Pagano they seem to have the right guys for the job. They are building through the draft
and did a nice job in their first one.
In getting Luck, they have the most important piece. Now comes the task of getting the right people around him. It will take a year or
two more, but it's sure nice to know you have the main piece in place.
As for this season, don't expect much. It's all about the future in Indianapolis -- one that looks bright with Luck.
Colts lineman, former HSE star Joe Reitz’s long road to the NFL
By Zak Keefer
Indianapolis Star Tribune
August 8, 2012
Lionel Vital’s eyes stayed fixed on the center from Western Michigan, the kid who was too slow, fouled too often and couldn’t get a
basket to drop.
But man, Vital thought, does he play hard.
The good news for the center: Vital was not scouring the Mid-American Conference basketball tournament for a future NBA lottery
pick. A scout for the Baltimore Ravens, he was in town on vacation simply wanting to watch some basketball.
He left captivated by a new prospect, a Fishers, Ind., native named Joe Reitz.
A year later, after watching Reitz play again, Vital called his head coach, Steve Hawkins.
“You have a kid playing the wrong sport,” Vital told him. “I think your center has a future in the NFL.”
The road since has hardened Reitz, now an offensive lineman for the Indianapolis Colts, into an NFL anomaly: He doesn’t have
college football on his resume.
He graduated from Western Michigan as the program's third-leading career scorer and rebounder. But for a 6-foot-7 center who had to
play under the basket, the NBA was not an option. Playing professionally overseas, however, was virtually assured.
Reitz went for the NFL.
“I figured I had nothing to lose,” he says now. “Maybe I could make a career out of it, maybe I could play a year, maybe I get cut the
first week.
“But I didn’t want to be 40 years old wondering to myself, ‘Could I have made it in the NFL?’”
One way to play
Reitz, 26, retraced his story at his Zionsville home a few weeks before training camp. He glanced at his wife, Jill, and their one-yearold daughter, Juliana. It took more than three years for him to see playing time in the NFL.
“There were definitely some hard days and long nights,” he says. “But I’m a big believer in God’s plan, and I know this is exactly
where I’m supposed to be right now.”
His words are tinged with humility. He knows life in the NFL is fragile.
“I’m still chasing the dream,” he says. “It’s the toughest job market in the world. You have to go out and win a job and keep a job
every day.”
It’s a lifetime, it seems, from his days at Hamilton Southeastern High School, where he was a two-way star in football and a hulking
center in basketball. College coaches recruited him in both sports, but he settled on hoops, never figuring he could earn a living one
day playing either one.
He started 126 games in four years at Western Michigan, branding his game with a brute physicality.
"Joe fouls people getting off the bus,” Hawkins joked. “He cannot play anything without being physical. He could probably breathe on
a kid and move him three or four feet. It just so happened that was our brand of basketball, so he fit right in.”
Hawkins loves to retell the story of Reitz diving into the bleachers in a futile attempt to save a loose ball. Opposing coaches, Hawkins
said, later used video of that play to motivate their players.
Reitz carried that mentality into his first NFL training camp, in 2008 with the Ravens. He needed it to survive while playing football
for the first time since high school, studying a 100-page playbook, seeing fearsome linebacker Ray Lewis across the line of
scrimmage.
“By far the most challenging thing I’ve ever done,” Reitz says.
Other college basketball players had landed successfully in the NFL without college football, including San Diego Pro Bowl tight end
Antonio Gates, who played basketball at Kent State, another MAC school. Yet as much as Reitz fought it, doubt would creep in at
times. There were sleepless nights, the seeming absurdity of it all crashing against him in ways a 300-pound defender never could.
“Sometimes in the middle of the grind,” Reitz says, “you don’t always see the light at the end of the tunnel.”
Jill, back in Kalamazoo finishing her senior year, offered long-distance support. They talked on the phone every night, often praying
together for most of the call.
“It was really rough,” she remembers. “It was his first taste of the NFL and he’d never been through anything like that before.
Sometimes, all I could do was listen.”
The long road home
Dreams of becoming the next Gates vanished quickly. Baltimore’s coaches were blunt: If Reitz had a future in the NFL, it was on the
offensive line.
"About a week in, they told me to start eating, to start working on my blocking," Reitz recalls.
Gaining weight was never a problem. In college, he'd run three miles a day in the summers to keep his weight down for basketball.
"So putting weight on for me wasn't as hard as some people might have figured," he says.
But progress was slow. He spent two years on the Ravens’ practice squad, adding 70 pounds to his frame, living in the film room,
heeding advice from veterans.
Reitz spent a third training camp with the team, in 2010, before being cut. Miami claimed him, then cut him three days later to make
room for a kick-return specialist.
With his NFL dreams hanging by a thread, Reitz planned to return to Baltimore, where he’d battle for a spot on the practice squad. But
there was no guarantee how long that would last.
Sitting in the Miami airport, he texted Hawkins.
“Coach,” he wrote, “I don’t know what I’m going to do.”
But before he boarded his flight, his phone buzzed. The Colts wanted him at practice the next day.
Reitz called his dad. “You’re never going to believe this ...” he began.
Said Dave Reitz, “By the end of our conversation, I had tears in my eyes. To get a chance to play, and play for your hometown team ...
it was just the neatest two-minute phone call ever.”
Reitz spent 2010 on the Colts’ practice squad before earning a starting spot at tackle for last season’s opener. He remained with the
starting unit for nine games before injuries hampered the rest of his rookie year.
Healthy and revived for a new season, he figures to play an important role as a young offense meshes with its rookie quarterback. He's
currently listed as a back-up at left guard to Jeff Linkenbach but has spent most of this week practicing with the first unit at training
camp in Anderson.
He’s a full-time football player now, content even if his journey ends tomorrow.
“I guess in a way I’ve been able to live out both my dreams,” Reitz said. “I got to play basketball for four years. Now I get to play
football for a living.”
Said Jill: “I always believed something better would come along. I just never thought it would be this.”
Luck-to-Manning comparisons inevitable, but eerily correct- so far
By Pete Prisco
CBSSports.com
August 6, 2012
ANDERSON, Ind. -- It hit me like a spiral between the eyes. I had been here before at Indianapolis Colts training camp, in the very
same spot almost, talking passing game and quarterbacking only two years earlier, only with a different guy getting peppered with my
questions.
Then, it was Peyton Manning in the spot, gracious, informative, a football junkie filling up a notebook.
This time, it was Andrew Luck, the man who will try to fill Manning's enormous shoes in Indianapolis. Like Manning, Luck was
informative, easygoing, a pro's pro, acting far older than his years and nothing like a wide-eyed rookie.
The No. 18 jerseys that have been so prominent in these parts are now being replaced by No. 12, Luck's number, one that likely will
grow to be special just like the quarterback before him.
It's eerie, really, how much Luck and Manning seem alike. Both are big, cerebral, smart, quarterbacks with former NFL passers as
dads who seem to be made for the position.
Colts first-year coach Chuck Pagano, who came over from the Baltimore Ravens, sees the similarities as well. It hit him on the
practice field last week.
"I was standing behind him [Luck], watching him," Pagano said. "His body language looked just like Peyton. He came to the line,
gave the defense a false cadence, tried to get the defense to show its hand, which it did. He changed the protection. He talked to the
wideouts, trying to get them in motion. He pointed out the hot sight adjusts and knew how much time was on the play clock. He took
the snap from center, and, boom, went to the right spot. It was like watching Peyton orchestrate the whole thing."
Those comparisons are going to come. It's natural. This is a case of a potential can't-miss kid replacing the one who didn't.
Luck said he doesn't really think much about replacing Manning. It's there. But it's not important to him. Winning games. Getting
better. That's the priority, not thinking about his predecessor all the time.
Problem is, we bring it up.
"As far as Peyton stuff goes, I don't pay too much attention to it," Luck said. "I would ask the question, too, if I were a bystander or a
football fan. I completely understand it. I don't get personally vested in it. It's never one person's team."
Maybe not, but the Colts were close to that because of Manning. It can be argued that he saved the team in Indianapolis. Along the
way, he won a Super Bowl and helped build a fancy new stadium, which attracted a Super Bowl to the city.
That's a tough act to follow. But the Colts have the right kid to try it.
Like Manning, Luck loves the game. Lives it. Breathes it. Watching his father Oliver helped prepare him for this moment. I joked with
Andrew that he has been readying for this his entire life, being the son of a quarterback.
"I don't think I was thinking what I was doing in the backyard back then would one day help me with training camp," he said with a
laugh.
But, much like Manning, he has been conditioned to be an NFL passer for a long time. It's in the genes. That doesn't mean there are
shortcuts. Manning's work ethic is legendary. Luck is cut from the same cloth.
When asked about being a rookie leader, he gave a long, thought-out answer, something Manning also would do.
"The locker room has been very receptive, which is great as a young player to come into, I think, where you don't feel you have to
force things and say certain things," he said. "I think, you know, everyone's very comfortable acting within their own personality, and
that's something I try and never do, is force a speech or something outside of your personality or force being quiet or force yelling if
you're a quiet guy, whatever that may be. As a quarterback, you know you're talking every play in the huddle, so you naturally assume
some air of leadership, but it's a process. You've just got to build the trust, build the confidence."
It killed Luck that he couldn't take part in a lot of the Colts offseason work because his class at Stanford didn't graduate until later than
most. NFL guidelines kept him away, but he put his nose in the playbook as much as he could and he went to Miami to work with
veteran receiver Reggie Wayne on his own.
That's another Manning-like move. So what about the comparison, Reggie?
"You know, it's kind of hard for me to answer that question," he said. "I mean, Andrew's going to be good, he's going to be really
good. He's really smart, he knows what's going on around him, he understands the concept, he understands the terminology. But I can't
compare the two, that won't be fair. Like I said earlier, you've just got to sit back and see what happens."
There is no stopping it, though. And to see Luck work on the practice field only strengthens the argument that he is a lot like the man
he is replacing. He sees it fast, has a nice release, throws a good, catchable ball and seems to have a real command of the offense.
Rookies aren't supposed to look like this. Only the special ones do, and the Colts seem to have another.
How lucky can one franchise get? They get one of the all-time greats for 14 years, and then when he's on his way out they happen to
land the next great thing?
I won't say Luck is a can't-miss -- he doesn't like that much, by the way -- but I will say my initial reaction after talking to him and
seeing him live is that he's darn close.
Indianapolis coach getting accustomed to new job
Associated Press
Mlive.com
August 4, 2012
ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) — Colts coach Chuck Pagano is just trying to be himself.
He's resisting the urge to flip his baseball hat backward and sneak over to the defensive position drills as he's done for more than two
decades.
This year he's handing off duties to assistant coaches, spending more time with the offense and the media, less at positional drills and
tugging at the bill of his cap over his forehead. It's a big change for the 51-year-old who is finally running his own team.
"The hardest part is administrative. You're delegating, you're trying to get guys in practice in the right spots, make sure everything is
working from an organizational standpoint," Pagano said. "At the same time, you want to get hands on. That's the biggest thing is you
got to stay involved, and you want to stay close to coaching and teaching as best you can."
Of course, there will be times Pagano can get back to those basics.
On Friday, when safeties coach Roy Anderson left training camp at Anderson University because of a death in the family, it was
Pagano who filled in as the position coach.
The Colorado native knows that cannot be the norm if he's going to make a successful transition from longtime assistant to first-time
head coach. Some have made the jump seamlessly, and others excelled when given enough time. But the league is littered with
assistants who have failed to make that jump, especially on their first attempt.
Pagano may wind up being one of the lucky ones.
Team owner Jim Irsay has spent much of the offseason pleading with fans for patience after presiding over the franchise's biggest
housecleaning project in more than a decade. Besides hiring Pagano, Irsay brought in a first-time general manager (Ryan Grigson),
oversaw the release of Peyton Manning, the hiring of new offensive and defensive coordinators, adding a new franchise quarterback
and changing at least seven offensive starters.
That's the predicament Pagano walked into in Indy.
The longtime defensive guru is already attempting to put his stamp on the Colts (No. 32 in the AP Pro32) by bringing more balance to
the offense and more aggressiveness to the defense.
Tony Dungy, who turned Tampa Bay from one of the league's worst franchises into a Super Bowl contender, believes Pagano is on the
right path because he's sticking to his principles.
"(The key) really is probably just being resolute more than anything else," Dungy said after visiting Colts camp last weekend at Irsay's
invitation. "You think it's going to go well, you believe you've got the answers, you really believe in what you're doing. I thought that
too, and we started out 1-8 (at Tampa Bay). So whether you start out 8-1, or 1-8, you know what you want to get done. I just sense that
from Coach Pagano; that he has a plan and he's not going to deviate from it."
Pagano understands.
His father, Sam, won 164 career games and three state titles as the head football coach at Fairview High School in Colorado. His
brother, John, is now the San Diego Chargers defensive coordinator.
And growing up in a coaching family came with some hard lessons.
"It was a special deal, kind of like me when I was growing up watching him run the show for so long and all the things you learned
along the way," Pagano said after his father watched Saturday's afternoon practice. "I had an opportunity, growing up, around what I
think is the greatest team sport in the world."
Dad's advice: "Don't mess it up."
By all accounts, Chuck Pagano is a player's coach.
Defensive lineman Cory Redding said when he and Pagano were in Baltimore, Pagano listened to the players' concerns and addressed
any of them. It was one of the reasons Redding, defensive tackle Brandon McKinney and safety Tom Zbikowski left one of the
league's top defenses to help rebuild the Colts.
So far, they've seen the same, old guy.
"I've seen him step back and let the coaches do their jobs," Redding said. "Every once in a while, you'll see him grab a ball, roll up his
sleeves, put his hat on backwards and run some drills."
Those with longer ties to Pagano have detected a difference.
When receiver Reggie Wayne arrived at the University of Miami in the late 1990s, Pagano, the secondary and special teams coach,
was loud, direct and demanding. While those traits still exist, Wayne said Pagano has a found a way to send messages a little less
vocally to pro players.
"He's toned down totally. This is a different Chuck Pagano than the college days. At the same time he's still fun, he still loves the
game, still loves to teach, still gets a kick out of guys improving and getting better each day," Wayne said. "That's always good. As
long as he keeps that edge I'll take any Chuck Pagano any day."
Pagano's unassuming personality and folksy comments seem to be a perfect fit in Indy, too.
Irsay likes something else — player reaction.
Defensive players have embraced Pagano's motivational techniques and earthy approach to the game. Offensive players like seeing all
those defensive looks, which is giving rookies such as Andrew Luck an opportunity to learn the ropes of NFL defenses before next
weekend's preseason opener.
Irsay knows it's a combination that can work.
"I think that our players were always with Tony. Their great respect for him automatically gave him a lot of capital and a lot of
credibility when he addressed things with them," Irsay said. "It's the same thing with Chuck. You talk to those guys in Baltimore, Ray
Lewis and Ed Reed and those guys, the trust and the admiration that they have in Chuck was tremendous. That's something that they
both have and bring into the room when they get with the players because a leader is followed a lot of the times from the heart and
from the deep belief."
Pagano insists that part and his desire to win won't change.
What will? How he runs the team.
"I try to get around and show my presence, have my presence at all the individual drills," he said. "I'm going to gravitate to the
defensive side just naturally. I've got to watch myself in that regard because that's my background, that's what I've done my whole life,
my whole coaching career."
Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri takes ‘big game’ literally
By Mike Chappell
Indianapolis Star Tribune
August 4, 2012
In the den of his home in Carmel, Adam Vinatieri is surrounded by antelope, a musk ox and a menacing grizzly bear on its haunches.
A warthog's head pokes out of a wall. The rugs? They came from a black bear and zebra.
To the Indianapolis Colts kicker, "big game" isn't just what happens on a football field. It relates to his passion: hunting, often in
exotic global destinations, always with family and friends.
Vinatieri has hunted in Alaska, Africa, Argentina, Costa Rica, Canada's Northwest Territory and the Arctic tundra, not to mention
prime sites in this country.
The animals that fill his den are taxidermal trophies, sure. But they're also memories, snapshots of a family tradition instilled in him as
a child in South Dakota.
Most came from hunting trips Vinatieri took with his father Paul, brothers Chad and Beau, and brother-in-law Tony Erickson.
"Every one of them has a story or an experience behind it,'' Vinatieri said. "I remember who I was with, where I was. ... Each one of
them has a special memory. It's kind of cool."
Vinatieri, 39, is entering his 17th NFL season, his seventh with the Colts. To football fans, he's known for his Super Bowl-winning
field goals with the New England Patriots and as an instrumental part of the Colts' 2006 Super Bowl championship season.
But seeing Vinatieri in his den, it's clear how much he values his non-football trophies -- the African gazelle, the bison, the animals
with less unfamiliar names: klipspringer, springbok, nilgai. One animal in particular carries special significance. It is a bushbuck, an
African antelope, and Vinatieri can't even count it as one of his own kills. His cousin, Tony, bagged it along with four others several
years ago.
But before the five animals arrived in the United States, Tony Vinatieri and his wife died in a plane crash. He and his family took one
bushbuck each.
"When I look at mine," Vinatieri said, "I'm reminded of (Tony)."
Nilgai steaks
Vinatieri understands there are those who turn an angry eye at his collection and attraction to big-game hunting.
"I know there are people that think it's rude or crude or whatever,'' he said, slowly nodding his head. "But anything I can bring back,
we eat."
Whenever the Vinatieris cook on the grill, including when neighbors visit, it's not your normal backyard menu.
"We've learned to like venison a lot -- one of our favorites,'' said Valerie, Adam's wife. "He just brought home nilgai."
That's an antelope indigenous to India that also can be found in Texas.
"We grilled up four nice nilgai steaks the other night,'' Adam said. "They were awesome."
Valerie agreed, but has her limits.
"I'll try anything once,'' she said, "but I'm a little skeptical of some of the stuff."
When it's not possible for Vinatieri to bring the meat home, it's given to the local base camps in southern Africa, Argentina or
wherever that offseason's hunting took him.
He notes that big-game hunting boosts local economies. Kolobe Safaris services South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe
and offers packages that range from $2,050 (blesbuck, impala and warthog) to $75,700 (male lion, female lion, buffalo bull, hippo bull
and sable).
"Everything has a price tag and a lot of people don't understand how that money goes right back into the economy there," Vinatieri
said. "And we don't take the meat home ... it goes right back to the villagers. Nothing is wasted.
"I know people say, 'Oh, how can you (kill big-game animals)?' It's much more humane than stockyards and places like that. It's all
organic and free-range stuff, and damn good eating."
It's also the Vinatieri way.
Paul introduced Adam, Chad and Beau to hunting, as his father had done with him. Paul once told The Indianapolis Star, "As soon as
they were out of diapers, they were going hunting with my father and me."
"I'm a South Dakota kid," said Adam, born in Yankton. "I was born with a shotgun in my hand, chasing pheasant through the
cornfields. My dad probably started taking me out when I was 4, 5 or 6 years old.
"I remember being so covered up with clothing, sitting in a duck blind, trying not to freeze my butt off. But I was out there with my
dad. It doesn't get any better than that, trust me."
Family tradition
Now it's Adam's turn to pass along the love of the outdoors and hunting.
Nine-year-old son A.J. already has four or five trophies, ones he shot, in his bedroom. On a recent father-son trip to Lake Okeechobee
in south Florida, A.J. used a crossbow to kill an 11-foot alligator.
"I had never done that,'' Adam said, shaking his head.
The gator is being processed and soon will find its final resting place on a floor in the Vinatieri household.
"That's an experience I'll remember all of my life and A.J. and I will talk about all of our lives,'' Adam said. "I can't wait till my
youngest is old enough to go with us."
Gabriel, 2, is running around the house using a stick as a gun.
"Pow, pow, pow!'' Adam said, mimicking Gabriel. "He's getting the hang of it."
Six-year old daughter Allison recently recorded her first kill.
"She's not in love with hunting,'' Valerie said. "She likes the idea of wanting to be, but she's just a girlie girl."
Of herself, Valerie said, "I'm not a hunter. I didn't grow up in a family of hunters."
But she embraces Adam's need to be outdoors as much as his NFL career allows. Every big-game hunter has a "bucket list'' that
consists of a big five: elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, lion and leopard.
"I know I'm going to shoot a buffalo," Adam said. "I know I'm going to shoot a leopard."
He also wants to add to his collection a Lord Derby eland, the world's largest antelope, which roams the plains of central Africa.
"Eighty percent of the reason I love hunting is I get to spend time with the people I love,'' Adam said. "It's not so much, 'Hey, that's a
pretty animal on the wall.' It's that it brings me back to a memory of a fun time I had with family and friends.
"It's a 3D postcard."
Redding brings ‘big’ leadership to Colts
By Reggie Hayes
Ft. Wayne News Sentinel
August 3, 2012
ANDERSON – Indianapolis Colts coach Chuck Pagano got right to the point with free agent Cory Redding.
“Cory,” Pagano said, “I need you.”
Simple words. Straightforward. Redding, who had spent two seasons playing for then defensive-coordinator Pagano with the
Baltimore Ravens, recalls those words clearly many weeks later. It wasn't just the phrase, but the tone in Pagano's voice.
“When I heard that voice coming from him, and the sincerity in his voice, that made me (say), 'Forget all the others, I'm going with
you Chuck,” Redding said Thursday. “I know how important it is to you, and it's important to me and I want to be part of that
change.”
There's a good chance those words – “Cory, I need you” – might have been the most important ones uttered by Pagano during the
offseason.
Redding could be the most important player on the Colts' defense, and perhaps in the locker room, during training camp at Anderson
University and into the 2012 season.
When Pagano called Redding, he not only hired a defensive end/tackle, he hired a man who understands the 3-4 defense and who
exudes leadership in all facets of the game.
Redding would not fit the category of quiet leader.
His persona is one of volume, and the perfect fit for a Colts defense, and team, seeking to crank up the intensity.
“Guys know who are the leaders in this league,” Redding said. “When I walked in the locker room, it was understood. It wasn't like I
was walking in, cracking a whip and saying this is who I am. They accepted me because of who I am.
“People can fake it to a certain point, but after that, they can't do it,” Redding continued. “This is me all day, uncut, raw, I'm never
going to change. Accept who I am or get behind me.”
Pagano helped recruit Redding, along with safety Tom Zbikowski and defensive tackle Brandon McKinney, because he needed an
experience, confident leader for his defense.
Pagano knew he was inheriting some valuable defensive players in pass rushers Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis, linebacker Pat
Angerer and defensive backs Antoine Bethea and Jerraud Powers. But the transition from a 4-3 scheme with the “Cover-2” emphasis
to a 3-4 with more man-to-man secondary responsibilities will be a transition.
Redding is a big man up front (6-foot-4, 315 pounds), and has the potential to be a huge influence in the locker room.
“He's just an individual, a big man that's playing a big game,” Colts defensive coordinator Greg Manusky said. “And he's a big leader
amongst the guys on the defense because he's been in the system, he knows what it is and he's pulling them all together.”
Redding is loud and “on” all the time. He contributed some heavy vocals during 11-on-11 situations in full pads Thursday, and the
intensity kicked up a notch. There were even two slight fights. Redding wasn't directly involved, but he's bringing some Ravens style
defensive swagger.
“I'm all about team and that's what this thing is all about,” Redding said. “That's what I'm preaching about Chuck to these guys. It's all
about team. No one person is biger than the other.”
Asked what the defense might end up looking like, Redding rattled off the answer with what one reporter thought was an evangelist's
fervor.
“What you see out there every day – running around, flying to the rock, hitting guys, challenging every ball in the air, not letting the
offense get a blade in the grass,” Redding said. “That's our mindset.
“…The canvas is not complete,” he said. “There's still a lot of room to grow. We're painting that brush every day.”
Redding said he can't stress enough the importance of being a good run defense first, then adding that pass rush to the mix.
“Pudding is pudding,” he said. “You can mix it up and put everything else in there – vanilla wafers, banana pudding – but it is what it
is. It's stil pudding. That's the basis of this defense. You can't do anything unless you stop the run.”
If the Colts are going to grow into a defensive-oriented team, quite a swing from the past, then Pagano made a good call: Redding
might be just what they needed.
Colts rookie QB Chandler Harnish anything but irrelevant to hometown
Phil Richards
IndyStar.com
July 28, 2012
BLUFFTON, Ind. -- So how did your Indianapolis Colts rookie quarterback spend his final summer evenings before reporting to
training camp?
In an Indiana cornfield with his girlfriend and family, picking 300 dozen ears of sweet corn in the steamy dark to earn a few extra
bucks to see him through.
"My dad taught me everything I know," Chandler Harnish said, "especially hard work."
Harnish is the "other" quarterback. The Colts took Andrew Luck with the first pick of the draft. They harvested Harnish with the last;
he's No. 253, "Mr. Irrelevant."
He's as Hoosier as they come.
"Harnish Homestead, 1868" proclaims the sign on the big white barn behind the family home. The barn's concrete floor has a glassy
finish, the better to complement the basketball goal that hangs above it.
The Harnish's mailing address is Bluffton, pop. 9,929, but the family more closely identifies with Markle, Ossian, Craigville and the
country folk scattered across the vast, flat farm fields southeast of Fort Wayne. That's how it is with outliers.
Harnish sits on the deck out back. A .22 caliber pump rifle rests at ready on the table before him. Cornfields wall in the homestead on
three sides, and the Harnishes don't suffer varmints in them gladly.
Harnish had just returned from the 37th annual "Irrelevant Week," an exercise in lighthearted irreverence in Newport Beach, Calif. He
was showered with gifts and honored with a parade, a visit to Disneyland and a banquet at which he was roasted and awarded the
Lowsman Trophy, a clear play at contrast with the Heisman Trophy.
The Lowsman is a bronze football player fumbling a football.
The event got extensive coverage in the Bluffton News-Banner. Residents are still beaming. That was evident at the Wells County
Courthouse, whose tall stone clock tower dominates downtown Bluffton.
"I think he'll probably give Luck a run for his money," gushed Geof Gilbert, a visitor to the courthouse who plays pickup basketball
with Harnish's older brother, Mitch, 26, at the city gym down the street.
It was evident in a parking lot a mile up Main Street, where Harnish's sister, Carlee, 17, sold the sweet corn picked by the family the
night before out of the back of a pickup truck.
"I'll be watching this fall," Ronda Thornton said as she handed Carlee $4 for a dozen ears. "I just know he's a great player."
Harnish is fully confident and fiercely competitive, but he has no illusions. He knows Luck is the man. Harnish wore No. 12 through
high school and college. So who's going to get the number with the Colts, the first draft pick or the 253rd? Luck, of course.
Harnish is working to make the Colts' 53-man roster, to make Luck better. The eight-man practice squad is not an unlikely destination
for him. Still, he is enjoying the ride.
"That's probably been the best part of the whole thing so far," he said, "the community excitement, family and friends kind of growing
closer, being so close to home and being able to spend some time at home.
"It's a smaller community. It's tightknit. Everybody knows everybody. I'm so proud to represent these people every day I put the
uniform on."
When the Colts drafted Peyton Manning in 1998, Harnish was 10. He had to look no farther for a hero. He painted his bedroom walls
Colts colors and papered them with Manning posters. While Manning was quarterbacking the Colts to the world championship during
the 2006 season, Harnish was quarterbacking the Norwell High School Knights to a Class 3A state runner-up finish.
Harnish always has been underestimated. Ball State didn't recruit him. Indiana and Purdue looked but didn't offer. Harnish signed with
Northern Illinois. He took the Huskies to four bowl games and as a senior last season was triggerman on their first Mid-American
Conference title team in 28 years.
Only eight players exceeded Harnish's 328.2-yard total offense average in 2011. No quarterback topped his 106.3-yard rushing
average and he was a 61.7 percent passer with 28 touchdowns and six interceptions.
Harnish earned his business degree with a 3.68 grade-point average and as a fifth-year senior completed half of his MBA
requirements. He was one of 16 honored as National Football Foundation scholars and he won the foundation's mental toughness
award.
The Colts know. Coach Chuck Pagano pronounced Harnish out for two to three weeks after he suffered a knee injury during organized
team activities. Harnish missed a single practice.
"That shows his toughness, his perseverance, his resiliency," Pagano said. "He's a really tough kid."
He was a hungry 23-year-old kid as he sat alongside Tanya Rachan, his girlfriend of 3 1/2 years, at a table in The Corner Depot, a
Bluffton eatery, one day last week, waiting for lunch.
"We struggled for a while with our relationship because Chandler didn't know what to put first: football, school or family," said
Rachan, from Lowell, Ind., a four-year varsity gymnast at NIU who will start dental school at Southern Illinois this fall.
Rachan grinned at Harnish.
"It's roses now," he said, smiling back.
How else to explain a Sunday night date in a dark cornfield? Rachan drove the Bobcat. Chandler, Carlee, younger brother Piercen, 16,
and their dad, Ron, a former Little All-American defensive tackle at Manchester College, heaped the Bobcat's front-end bucket full of
sweet corn.
Back at The Corner Depot, lunch was served. Harnish inhaled a couple of chicken breasts. He finished Tanya's salad. He pushed away
his plate. Time to go.
Carlee was down the street, still selling corn out of the pickup, now in blazing afternoon heat. It was Chandler's turn; time to relieve
her.
Bob Kravitz gets Andrew Luck to open up on the beard, his Go phone and what he thinks of Indy
By Bob Kravitz
Indy Star
June 26, 2012
So far, Andrew Luck has answered all the normal, boring questions:
How long will it take you to perfect your knowledge of the playbook?
How does it feel to be stepping into the shoes of Peyton Manning?
How much pressure do you feel as the No. 1 overall pick?
Blah blah blah.
Truth is, we don’t know much about Luck beyond the fact he was a model student athlete and a heck of a football player and wore a
regrettable neck beard for stretches of his college career. I’m here to rectify that.
With help from my Twitter followers, who helped produce questions they’ve always wanted to ask Luck, I sat down with the Colts’
new franchise quarterback and peppered him with all kinds of nonsensical questions whose answers might help you get to know him a
bit better:
OK, what’s the deal with the beard, which has grown back since the Stanford commencement in all its straggly, unkempt
splendor?
“I realize it’s not a good look,’’ he said, laughing. “I know it’s not. It’s just laziness. People tell me to shave it all the time. A lot.
Which is their right. I don’t mind. I’m actually going to shave the whole thing (Monday night), totally unrelated to this.’’
Will he have it when the season begins?
“Everything is subject to change, but I think I’ll have a couple of days’ growth before the first game,’’ he said. “You know, chafing,
razor burn.’’
What was going on in the Stanford graduation photo? Based on what you were wearing under the gown – a sleeveless orange
shirt – you looked like you were on your way to a NASCAR race. At least you shaved.
"I should give you a snippet on that,’’ he said. “We have a tradition at Stanford called the Wacky Walk where we dress up in costumes
under our gown, so I had that shirt on with no sleeves. It was pretty tame compared to other costumes out there. I hope nobody got the
impression I was disrespecting commencement. Then we get dressed up for graduation in our programs."
Now about that flip phone ... You realize everybody’s got a Smart Phone now. What’s an upwardly mobile person with Silicon
Valley roots doing with a Samsung flip phone?
Before answering, he showed it to me. It’s a beauty.
“I paid $10 for it,’’ he said.
“I had a history growing up of sort of breaking them or losing them, so in my mind it was logical not to get a nice phone because I’d
break it or spill water on it. If you really want to go deep, I think subconsciously it’s a way of getting away from the internet, social
media and email. It’s a `go’ phone. You pay as you go, but I have a plan. I’m sophisticated enough to do that having been around
Silicon Valley.’’
You don’t tweet. You don’t do anything with your Facebook page. Didn’t you go to school in the epicenter of social media?
“I’ve never really gotten into it,’’ he said. “I don’t know why. I wouldn’t call myself a Luddite; going to school there, I have a deep
appreciation for technology, but I just choose to have a regular phone.’’
(A brief aside: It took 30 years in the business before I heard an athlete not only use the term “Luddite,’’ but use it correctly).
“I do have an iPad, though,’’ he said. “It’s the best travel companion you can have besides a person.’’
What’s on the iPad, besides the Colts playbook?
“The Kindle app, that’s my favorite,’’ he said. “Flipboard, that’s how I’ve started to consume my news. I have `Risk,’ the old board
game. The usual banking apps so I can see my accounts. I have the MLS soccer app because my dad (Oliver) used to work for them.
That’s one of the best sports apps I’ve come across.’’
What’s the quality you admire most in a person?
Very interesting question. Honesty. Definitely honesty.
And the one you most dislike, dishonesty?
I’d say that’s true.
What would you do if you could do anything for a free weekend?
"I couldn’t because the flight’s so long, but I’d love to go to Germany and watch a soccer game,’’ he said. “I haven’t been there for a
long time (Luck spent some of his formative years in Germany). Or I’d go see my folks in Morgantown, West Virginia."
You’ve only been here a few weeks, but you’ve spent a lot of time with the other rookies learning the city. Any first
impressions?
"Incredibly friendly people," he said. "Just sort of that Midwestern culture of friendliness. The city is clean, beautiful, and it’s easy to
get around, which I appreciate after living in the Bay Area. Downtown is nice, lots of nice neighborhoods. I’m excited to learn more
about it."
(An aside: He’s found a place he wants to live, but chose not to share that information – which is understandable).
A lot was written about your old Honda Accord you shared with your sister at Stanford. I know you haven’t signed a contract
yet, but have you upgraded?
"I’m close. Maybe in the next few days. Either a Ford or a Chevy. I’m thinking a small SUV."
What’s on your iPod?
“Music,’’ he said.
Funny guy.
"Classic rock," he said. "(Bruce) Springsteen is my favorite. The Boss is number one in my mind. The Stones, U2, I’ve gotten into
some alternative rock. Some country, some hip hop, but they’re not in my top 25 of most-played songs. I do have a lot of
Springsteen."
You must answer this question correctly -- best Springsteen album.
“Well, I like 'Nebraska' because I like the song “Johnny 99,’" he said. "I think your generation, you grew up buying and listening to
entire albums. Mine, we grew up with iTunes, so we like individual songs."
(For the record, the answer is "Darkness On The Edge of Town." I will not listen to any arguments to the contrary. I will also be
buying Luck the CD so he knows what an epic album sounds like. Kids these days.)
Favorite books?
“I loved 'Papillon,' reading that when I was growing up,’’ Luck said. “I just read Steve Jobs biography; that was really interesting. I’d
say historical fiction is my favorite genre. Bernard Cornwell, he’s written several books about King Arthur and the Holy Grail, the
Saxons, the Viking invasion, the Napoleonic Wars. They’re about real events with made-up protagonists. Right now, though, I don’t
have much time for reading.’’
What’s the best piece of life advice you’ve received?
The best was from my dad, to respect people and more often than not, they’ll return it in some form of fashion.
How comfortable are you with fame? At Stanford, you stood out, but that’s a school of high achievers where a football player
isn’t that big a deal. How do you handle it now?
“It’s like a lot of things in life, you have to learn how to handle it, how your personality handles it. It’s something I struggled with my
first few years at Stanford, and it wasn’t like a Big 12-, Big 10-, SEC- type of atmosphere. But the last few years I got a fair amount of
it. I’ve come to realize it’s part of the game. And I wouldn’t trade my situation for anything. I won’t complain about it at all. If you
can make a fan’s day, especially a child’s day, by signing something, that’s a good thing.’’
Who’s your favorite architect?
"A Japanese guy named Tadaeo Ando. (He used a) lot of concrete, simple lines, but very powerful. But I find myself drawn to stadium
and arena architecture."
Have you thought about the mark you want to make philanthropically?
"I don’t think that’s something that’s an overnight thing, but I’ve always loved doing camps for kids,’’ he said. “And architecture.
Habit for Humanity, Architecture for Humanity. Those are the things that immediately come to mind."
Can you act?
"No," he said with a laugh.
So we’ll never see you on 'Saturday Night Live'?
I would never say never, but I know I wouln’t be as good as Peyton and Eli.
What’s your most annoying personal habit?
"I’ve been told that sitting in car or in a lecture hall I like to spread my legs very wide and move them around, that seems to annoy
people."
That’s the worst you can come up with?
"No," he said, smiling, "there are worse, but that’s the one I’m going to go with."
Favorite movies...
Again, I like historical fiction. 'Saving Private Ryan,' 'Gladiator,' great sort of war dramas. I just got around to seeing 'Legends of the
Fall'; that was excellent. And I enjoy the comedies -- 'The Hangover', 'Animal House.'"
Favorite actors...
Russell Crowe and Tom Hanks. Especially Tom Hanks. He can do everything.
Favorite chick flick...
"You know what’s really good?" he said without hesitation. "'Love Actually.' I liked that a lot."
You’ve spent the last week or so exploring the city. Where have you been?
“We went to St. Elmo’s,’’ he said. “The shrimp cocktail is spicy, but they said it was kind of mild. The day we went, they said at this
time of year, the radishes get mild. I’ve driven through downtown, walked around. Mostly, I’ve gotten to know West 56th Street.’’
Can you walk around downtown without being besieged?
“Yeah, I can,’’ he said. “It depends. Sometimes I can go a whole day and nobody will come up to me and other days, people will say
hello. But they do it very discreetly, tell me `good luck,’ or, sort of under their breath, `You better live up to the hype. You have big
shoes to fill.’” He laughed. “People have actually been very nice, very cool. They say it half jokingly; of course, there’s some truth
behind it. But they’ve been very receptive, very kind. They’ve given me a lot of space to go around and discover the city on my own.’’
So there you have it, in all its disjointed and nonsensical glory. Stuff you now know about Andrew Luck. We’ll learn more these next
15 years or so.
Frankly, he had me at Springsteen.
Andrew Luck fits perfectly into Colts’ new team-first culture
By Albert Breer
NFL.com
June 15, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS -- Hundreds of fans, many already wearing the No. 12 jerseys that hit stores in late April, were waiting for
autographs about 20 feet away. High above were the video boards that had shown his every move through a 150-minute practice. Near
that hung the banners from two Super Bowl trips directed by the man Luck's succeeding, Peyton Manning.
You can't be a bigger star without taking a snap than Andrew Luck is right now.
The scrutiny couldn't be more intense. The spotlight couldn't be brighter. The stakes couldn't be higher.
And yet, easy as it can be to forget, Luck is a rookie. And if you think that's lost on him, ask him how he feels about being the most
famous guy on the Indianapolis Colts roster, even though he doesn't turn 23 until September.
"We've still got Dwight Freeney and Reggie Wayne -- those are some pretty high-profile players," Luck said, carefully navigating a
loaded question on carrying the team's highest profile. "I realize there's a certain notoriety that comes with playing the quarterback
position, but that's all for naught if you can't produce on the field. So I approach every day like I'm fighting for a job, trying to get
better and hopefully it all takes care of itself that way."
If they had a test for these things, Luck aced it with that answer, as if he was going through a checklist:
• Pay homage to teammates.
• Chalk fame up to outside forces.
• Emphasize how it doesn't matter if you don't perform.
And now you get an idea why GM Ryan Grigson and coach Chuck Pagano feel so comfortable putting their professional futures on
the broad shoulders of the ex-Stanford star.
Ultimately, replacing Manning will boil down to just how good a player Luck becomes. Everyone knows that. But how he gets there
will involve his ability to handle all the ancillary elements that go with being considered the best quarterback prospect in a generation,
replacing the last guy to carry that tag (and one who delivered on all that promise), and serving as front man for a major organizational
overhaul.
Nothing tangible has been accomplished in Indianapolis yet. But one thing Grigson does feel like he and Pagano have done is instill
what the GM calls a "Team -- Small Me" culture that emphasizes the group over individual. And though it had been a fait accompli
that Luck would wind up being the first overall pick, the Colts brass saw it as a pretty nice bonus that the obvious pick just so
happened to embody their new ideals.
"Let's just say this: He is the genuine article," Grigson told NFL.com. "He's strong when he needs to be strong. He listens when he
needs to listen. He's just a natural. Nothing's forced with him. He's not afraid to take charge of the huddle. But also, if a college free
agent from who-knows-where asks him a question, I believe he'll take the time with that guy to explain it to him in a non-demeaning
or condescending way, because he's Andrew Luck. He epitomizes the word 'team' to me."
That also means Luck knows his place now. On Tuesday, in his first full day with the vets, his new No. 1 receiver, Reggie Wayne,
stared down the assembled media en route to practice and belted out, "Everybody's here to see my new quarterback!" Moments later,
massive defensive lineman Cory Redding pointed at the press and yelled across the field to Luck, "Hey 12, they're all here, homes!"
But when work started, the laughter quieted. Luck can already make adjustments and checks at the line, and he spent considerable
time attached to Wayne's hip on both days. He's well aware he's got a ways to go. Pro-ready as he is, as much as any quarterback has
been since Manning, offensive coordinator Bruce Arians speaks a different football language than Luck did at Stanford. Terminology
will be key, as will learning hot reads and sight adjustments, which he and rookie receiver Griff Whalen emphasized at Stanford the
past five weeks, as both finished their degrees.
"I know it's terribly cliché, but (I have to improve) everywhere," Luck told NFL.com. "I always try to get better in all aspects and then
just learning the offense and getting reps. Getting reps is so important and trying to get as many game-speed reps is sort of my main
focus."
Luck has time. He'll be with the other rookies at the Colts facility the next two weeks, playing catch-up after missing all but six days
of the offseason program. He did get to see counterpart Robert Griffin III on TV, working with the Washington Redskins while he was
unable to do the same with Colts.
"I'm happy for him that he got to be there," Luck said of Griffin. "It was frustrating in general not to be with the team. But I wasn't
looking at it, 'Oh, this guy gets to be here and that guy gets to be there, why don't I get to be there?' I knew the situation I was in."
Opening Day is still almost three months away. And yet the Colts can already see the return on their investment coming. The fresh,
proletariat ethos on 56th Street in Indianapolis has its standard-bearer. Because much as he might be anything but just another rookie,
Luck certainly is doing his best to play the part of one.
"He fits like a glove because he is not a 'me' guy," Grigson said. "He is all about the team. You can go back to Stanford, his early days
just starting and being a young guy there. You're not going to see a difference here. That's who he is. He's not trying to be someone
he's not. He's out here to win and to improve every day. He has things to learn, he hasn't seen a different color jersey yet. But he
understands it as well. He knows Rome wasn't built in a day."
After Wednesday's practice at the stadium, Freeney, now the third-most tenured Colt, laughed when it was posed to him that the
quarterback wouldn't be getting special treatment from the vets when the time comes for rookies to stand on tables and sing songs.
"Exactly," Freeney said. "It'll be me doing it to him."
But there's another, more serious message Freeney will send his new teammate, too, after spending the past decade as part of
Indianapolis' Manning Show.
"You know what? We're gonna let him know, he doesn't have to do anything extra," Freeney said. "It's going to be hard, because
everybody has all these expectations for him. As long as you go out there and do your job and control the huddle, that's all that you
can do. And if things happen to progress and take off from there, so be it. But it has to start somewhere. 'Don't feel like you have to
take on the world.' "
It's easy to see that Luck's employing that approach already. Ready to take on the world? Maybe not. But judging by his early days in
Indy, Luck's uniquely prepared for just about anything it throws at him.
Colts general manager Ryan Grigson keeps digging for talent
By Phil Richards
Indy Star
June 12, 2012
General manager Ryan Grigson faced a daunting challenge this offseason. Nearly one-third of the Indianapolis Colts salary cap is tied
up in "dead" money, prorated bonuses not yet counted against the cap but paid to players such as Peyton Manning, Dallas Clark, Gary
Brackett and Joseph Addai who are no longer with the team.
Grigson couldn't go about rebuilding the Colts by spending. He had to go about it by digging.
"I feel like digging is one of my strong suits, digging and not caring what anybody else thinks or what the perception is," said Grigson,
whose team this morning begins a three-day minicamp in which quarterback Andrew Luck will participate, whether or not he is
signed.
Grigson desperately needed a right tackle, a cheap one. He dug up Winston Justice, a Philadelphia Eagles spare part, but one Grigson
knew; as the Eagles' director of college scouting, he drafted Justice in 2006.
Grigson operates with what he calls "eye confidence." He believes he knows what he's looking at and he trusts what he sees.
Videotape is truth. He stuck in tape of the lone game Justice started last season, against Washington.
"From the very first pass set, for what's out there, for what I had to spend, for what I'm going to actually get, I see a big, long,
monstrous guy that has rare athletic ability and he's busting his butt," Grigson said.
Grigson got Justice (6-6, 317), a 47-game starter, along with the Eagles' pick in the sixth round of the draft, for the Colts' No. 2
selection in the same round.
A few days later, Denver traded quarterback Tim Tebow to the New York Jets. That made Drew Stanton, the Jets backup, expendable.
Grigson was watching. He needed a backup. He got Stanton and the Jets' seventh-round pick for the sixth-round pick the Colts had
received from the Eagles.
The Colts didn't even have to pay Stanton the $500,000 signing bonus his contract dictated. The Jets paid it for them.
By trading down 30 spots from their original sixth-round position, the Colts had acquired a starting right tackle, a veteran backup
quarterback and kept their draft pick. Grigson used it on draft day to grab Tim Fugger, an outside linebacker who backs up Dwight
Freeney.
If you want an early take on Grigson, 40, and a first-time GM, it's this: He doesn't sit still, and he has a feel for a deal. When he's not
digging, he's not idling.
"You troll," he said. "It's like casting a thousand times. Finally, you get a little bite and you set the hook."
The Colts are desperately in need of help at cornerback. Grigson knew the Denver Broncos were awash in them because it's his job to
know. The Broncos had Champ Bailey and signed free agents Tracy Porter and Drayton Florence. They also had Cassius Vaughn,
Chris Harris, Syd'Quan Thompson and draftee Omar Bolden.
So Grigson baited up and trolled. The Broncos bit. They got Chris Gronkowski, a tough, competent fullback the Colts didn't need. The
position doesn't figure in Bruce Arians' offense; Ryan Mahaffey, the only other fullback on the roster, was cut a few days later.
The Colts got Vaughn for nothing. He figures to be in the mix at corner, on special teams and in the return game.
No wonder owner Jim Irsay tweeted: "GM Grigs still tweaking roster, he's a deal maker who looks 4 hidden gems."
They have yet to prove gem-quality, but Grigson also snatched a pair of inexpensive free agents.
Wide receiver Donnie Avery has been one of the bright spots of the Colts' offseason program and organized team activities. He brings
exceptional speed.
Guard Mike McGlynn has moved into the right guard slot in the lineup and into the leadership void left by the departure of free agent
center Jeff Saturday in the O-line meeting room.
Both Avery and McGlynn will make veterans minimum this season. They represent little risk and the potential for considerable
reward. "I figured I'd just grind and grind and grind and out-scout people," Grigson shrugged. "That's what you have to do when
you're strapped."
There's another area in which Grigson has made a quick impact on the cheap. They say speed kills. What they mean in the NFL is
speed wins.
Avery is a flyer. So are receivers T.Y. Hilton and LaVon Brazill, Colts picks in the third and sixth rounds. Second-round pick Coby
Fleener has elite tight end speed. Vaughn and free agent signee Justin King, another cornerback, are bullet fast.
"Speed is an extreme priority," Grigson said. "You either have it or you don't and the guys that don't usually wash out unless they do
something exceptionally well. . . .
"At the end of the day you want people to be fast but also to play fast, and those guys play fast."
The Colts are rebuilding. They're coming off a 2-14 season burdened by the oppressive heft of all that dead money. No matter; the guy
in charge isn't sitting still.
It will be interesting to see what he does next year, when ESPN projects he will have some real wherewithal, $43 million in cap space,
the most in the NFL.
Unearthing players
Primary Colts player acquisitions and re-signings under general manager Ryan Grigson (Does not include unsigned draft picks, QB
Andrew Luck, first round; TE Coby Fleener, second round; TE Dwayne Allen, third round. UFA=unrestricted free agent):
June 8: CB Justin King signed/UFA, undisclosed contract.
May 31: WR T.Y. Hilton signed/third-round draft choice, four years.
May 23: CB Cassius Vaughn trade for FB Chris Gronkowski, signed, one year.
May 22: NT Josh Chapman signed/fifth-round draft choice, four years.
May 19: T Justin Anderson signed/seventh-round draft choice, four years.
May 16: QB Chandler Harnish signed/seventh-round draft choice, four years; LB Tim Fugger signed/seventh-round draft choice, four
years; WR LaVon Brazill signed/sixth-round draft choice, four years; RB Vick Ballard signed/fifth-round draft choice, four years.
April 4: NT Brandon McKinney signed/UFA, two years.
March 23: QB Drew Stanton trade with sixth-round pick in 2012 for seventh-round pick in 2012, signed, two years; WR Donnie
Avery signed/UFA, one year.
March 21: C Samson Satele signed/UFA, three years.
March 19: G/C Mike McGlynn signed/UFA, two years
March 17: S Tom Zbikowski signed/UFA, three years.
March 14: T Winston Justice trade for 6th-round pick in 2012, signed, one year; DE Cory Redding signed/UFA, three years.
March 13: WR Reggie Wayne re-signed/UFA, three years.
March 5: LB Robert Mathis (LB) designated franchise player; Mathis re-signed, four-year extension.
Freeney all-in despite uncertain future
By Alex Marvez
FoxSports.com
May 6, 2012
Indianapolis Colts outside linebacker Dwight Freeney says he’s more Magic Johnson than LeBron James.
But whether one of the NFL’s top all-time pass rushers gets to finish his football career with the same team that drafted him is hardly a
slam dunk.
After 10 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts, Freeney has no interest in taking his athletic talents elsewhere, as James did when he
bolted the Cleveland Cavaliers to sign with the Miami Heat. Freeney, though, knows his days in Indianapolis may be numbered.
The Colts are adopting a new defensive system, and Freeney’s lucrative contract expires at the end of the 2012 season. This raises the
possibility of a trade, even though team management has stuck with Freeney during the early stages of retooling the roster.
Asked about his Colts future during a Tuesday night interview with me and co-host Bill Polian on Sirius XM NFL Radio, Freeney
said: “I’m kind of old-school when it comes to that thought. I’m not LeBron trying to leave the team. I’m more like the era of Magic
and (New York Giants linebacker) Lawrence Taylor, who stayed with that same team for their entire careers win, lose or draw. They
were married to the city they were drafted in. You go through the tough times and great times with them, and that’s it. That’s what I’m
looking forward to.
“You don’t know what’s going to happen. I can get traded. They may want to go in a different direction. Maybe I can’t handle the
(defensive) scheme. You have all those possibilities. But, personally, I would love to stay.”
The Colts’ decision to keep Freeney is somewhat surprising considering the change in defense and how many other veterans the club
released this offseason. The bloodletting included plenty of Freeney’s contemporaries, including quarterback Peyton Manning. The
32-year-old Freeney also is due to collect a $14 million base salary in the final year of his contract.
Freeney said he still hasn’t adjusted to all the new faces the Colts have added.
“I feel like I’m in a whole other dimension,” a laughing Freeney said. “I’m used to walking in the locker room and there’s Peyton’s
locker to the right and all these other guys who were there. Now, it’s like everything has shifted around.
“I got lost in the locker room today. They built a locker right where I always walk to get my laundry clothes. I almost walked into the
locker. It’s completely different. But I do understand what this game is. Things have to change eventually. It’s never the same team
(annually), regardless of whether it’s four or five guys or 20. That’s the nature of the beast, especially when you don’t win.”
A 2-14 record in 2011 was the impetus for a massive Colts overhaul that included the firing of Polian as team president and Jim
Caldwell as head coach. Caldwell’s replacement, Chuck Pagano, is installing the same style of 3-4 scheme that he ran last season as
the Baltimore Ravens' defensive coordinator. Freeney and Robert Mathis will shift from being traditional 4-3 defensive ends to
outside linebackers aligned in various spots, with occasional coverage responsibilities.
Freeney is in the early stages of that transition with the Colts having opened their offseason program last month.
“For me, it’s just getting familiar with all those nuances,” said Freeney, whose 102.5 career sacks rank behind only Atlanta’s John
Abraham (112) and Minnesota’s Jared Allen (105) among active players. “My line of sight, walking around (pre-snap), dropping into
coverage — I’m doing those things. It’s going to take a little time at the beginning to get used to and as comfortable as I have been
having my hand in the ground (at end) and being in one position.”
Freeney hopes those efforts ultimately pay dividends by making it more difficult for opposing offenses to game plan against him.
Polian said Freeney and Mathis were recipients of double-teams on 83 percent of the Colts’ offensive snaps over the past couple of
seasons.
“This is probably going to benefit me because I’m not in a ‘blackboard position’ where (offenses) know exactly where I am and what
we’re going to do,” said Freeney, who was selected by Polian as a 2002 first-round draft choice because he fit the profile of an ideal
speed rusher in a “Tampa-two” defense.
“We’re going to be coming with various blitzes from different sides. I’ll be moving around, so I’ll be harder to find.”
Freeney won’t be stealth when it comes to helping the Colts compensate for the leadership lost when Manning was released. Pagano
told FOXSports.com in March that he considers Freeney, Mathis and 12-year wide receiver Reggie Wayne the “three pillars” of the
team’s locker room.
“It’s, obviously, very tough to fill in all the things that Peyton did,” Freeney said. “We all know the on-the-field, but there was a lot of
leadership stuff off the field. Just making sure everybody was on the same page and being a presence in the offseason to make sure
you’re around and the younger guys see that you’re working hard and it’s OK to do that.
“Those are the intangibles that people don’t know that Peyton was great at. Those were some of the things we loved him for.
Obviously, with him leaving, it creates that void. It’s really going to take all of us (veterans) to fill that void and try to groom these
young guys so they understand what Colt ball is all about.”
Helping the Colts get back on track is another one of Freeney’s biggest goals — even if he might not still be there by the time that
foundation is done being laid.
“Yeah, we lost a lot of guys, but we’re not laying down for anybody,” he said. “Everybody likes to throw around this ‘rebuilding.’ For
us, we’re going out like it’s 2005, ’06, ’07 and ’08. We’re going to give everybody our best. That’s what we do.”
Antoine Bethea returns to where it all started at Denbigh
By Norm Wood
Daily Press
May 6, 2012
NEWPORT NEWS – Nothing seemed out of place to Antoine Bethea as he walked the same halls at Denbigh High he used to cruise
a decade ago, and ran around on the same practice field he and his teammates used to refer to as "the pit."
He's now a two-time Pro Bowl safety in the National Football League with the Indianapolis Colts, and the owner of a Super Bowl
ring, but on Saturday, Bethea had the opportunity to give a little of his time to about 215 kids at his second annual football camp at
Denbigh.
"I was walking around the school reminiscing a little bit," said Bethea, who during his rookie season in 2006 was a member of the
Super Bowl-winning Colts, and who made it to the Pro Bowl in the '07 and '09 seasons. "It's all fun, but it just makes me think about
how I was a lot like these kids back then."
Bethea worked with the 8-to-14-year-old kids on fundamentals and drills, and spoke to them about the importance of getting an
education. He was joined by several camp counselors that included Darryl Blackstock, a former Heritage High standout and Virginia
linebacker who now plays for the Oakland Raiders.
"The kids and even the parents will walk away from this camp with smiles on their faces," Bethea said. "Maybe they won't remember
the camp, but hopefully the ones that do remember the camp will remember…what I talked about – hard work and dedication. I know
they'll get something out of it."
Though he signed a four-year contract extension in '10 with the Colts worth $27 million, Bethea isn't the kind to take it for granted.
Perhaps his attitude has something to do with the unlikely path he took to the NFL.
"I'm trying to conserve that money as much as possible," Bethea said. "Life after football is going to be a lot longer than the time I'm
playing in the league."
Coming out of Denbigh, he wasn't an elite recruit, spurning opportunities to play at Norfolk State, Christopher Newport or RandolphMacon to accept a football scholarship to Howard.
He was good enough at Howard to draw attention from some NFL teams, but again, he wasn't seen as a hot commodity.
Indianapolis drafted him in the sixth round. It didn't take him long to make an impression. He started 14 games as a rookie, and has
been a regular starter every since, collecting 595 career tackles and 12 interceptions.
"I still think I have a lot to prove," Bethea said. "I still consider myself the underdog. When people talk about the best safeties, I want
them to mention my name. All the time, that doesn't happen, so that still means I have some learning to do, some growing to do."
When he gets back on the field this season with Indianapolis, which tied for the worst record in NFL last season at 2-14, it'll be with a
much different team that will be led by first-year coach Chuck Pagano. The most obvious change will be at quarterback without No.
18.
After 13 years as Indianapolis' starter, including 11 Pro Bowl seasons, neck surgery kept Peyton Manning off the field last season. He
was released in March and signed with the Denver Broncos. Now, Indianapolis heads into this fall with No. 1 overall draft pick
Andrew Luck as its quarterback.
"It's going to be different (without Manning)," Bethea said. "It's a change I don't think anybody expected at the start of last season.
Then again, it just goes to show you the business side of it. Sometimes change is good. We've yet to see that, but I believe with the
new regime we have around the facility, there's a very good spirit.
"I'm not going to say it's refreshing, because a lot of the people that brought me in are gone. It's not a good thing to see, and a lot of
my boys are gone, but we have new coaches that are going to teach us new things. That's going to make me a better player."
Andrew Luck – like father, like son
By Elizabeth Merrill
ESPN.com
April 26, 2012
WHEELING, W.Va. -- On the last Interstate 70 stop before West Virginia mountains give way to Ohio green, a tall man with
perfectly swept hair works the White Palace ballroom. He is charming, almost presidential, which is good because this is a heavyhitter crowd. The governor of the great state of West Virginia is here, as well as a roomful of bankers, lawyers and schmoozers. A
prayer is said before their supper of sautéed chicken and green beans, and cocktails are poured in plastic cups.
They have gathered on this late-April night to see Oliver Luck, a man whose bio in the Wheeling Chamber of Commerce dinner
program fills an entire single-spaced page. Luck is all over the West Virginia map these days, dining with Boy Scouts and rubbing
elbows with Rotarians, because this is what the athletic director for West Virginia University does in the springtime.
He does not rattle off his résumé, which sounds as if it could be a "world's most interesting man" script. Former NFL quarterback.
Rhodes Scholar finalist. World traveler. Former president and CEO of NFL Europe. Ran a Major League Soccer team that won a
couple of championships. Oh, and he has a law degree, which he picked up taking night classes while in the NFL. But Luck taught his
kids to be humble, which is why you'll hear very little about any of this tonight.
He steps to the center of the stage to give his speech about West Virginia athletics, and breaks code a bit, probably to break the ice.
"You know," Luck says as he grabs the microphone, "there's a whole page here dedicated to my bio. And if you go on Wikipedia right
now, what you'll see under my name is simply, 'Andrew's dad.'"
The crowd laughs.
"That's who I've become, and I'm very proud of it."
On Thursday night in New York City, in one of the most anticlimactic starts to an NFL draft, the Indianapolis Colts will select
Andrew Luck as the No. 1 pick. And the professional career of the most hyped quarterback since Peyton Manning will begin. What
can you say about this 22-year-old? That Oliver Luck's oldest boy has seemingly zero flaws, that he is so polished he would've been
No. 1 in the 2011 draft, that he is so good his arrival has jolted the quarterback landscape in three NFL cities?
Oliver can wax on about the Big 12, coal mining and West Virginia's economy, but generally, he holds off on saying much about his
son. Hyperbole is not the Lucks' thing. He will recognize that this is a big deal. The Lucks are about to become just the seventh known
father-son quarterback combination in the NFL, following a distinguished group that includes the Manning family. For years, analysts
have broken down the genetic success of Archie, Peyton and Eli, comparing arms, speed and size. But most of the time, a father's
influence goes way deeper than any kind of metrics.
Oliver Luck's influence is somewhat intangible. It's there in the huddle where, no matter the situation, Andrew is seemingly
unflappable. It's the reason Oliver's son, an All-American at Stanford who is about to get his degree in architectural design, is so wellprepared and grounded.
The elder Luck, of course, wants nothing to do with any chip-off-the-old-block conversations. Talk to his mother, Luck says, because
Kathy plays just as big of a role in the making of Andrew Luck.
A few days after the grip-and-grin in Wheeling, as Oliver is driving to Charleston, W.Va., he says he's talked to Kathy -- and sorry,
she has politely declined to be interviewed. She likes being in the background.
"Have you ever heard of the book 'Freakonomics'?" Oliver says. "So there's these two economics professors, and they're really
interesting guys, and they wrote these books. And it's really all about sort of false thinking. They try to go in and look at a number of
different phenomenon. Does A really cause B? You know, causation.
"They wrote a chapter in the book about major league baseball players. What characteristics at what age would be an indicator that the
kid is really going to make it to the major leagues? Is it when they were born? … Is it size?"
At the end of the chapter, he says, the authors tell the reader that none of these factors comes close to the only important one, which is
having a father who also played major league baseball. So maybe it's just in the genes.
Luck is a voracious reader, by the way. He has no problem talking about that. Oliver is currently tackling a book on the history of
Spain. He's read it before. In the hundreds of interviews Andrew has done since arriving at Stanford, he is occasionally asked about his
favorite thing to do besides football. His answer is usually the same.
Reading, he says.
The origins of Andrew
Andrew Austen Luck was born Sept. 12, 1989, in Washington D.C., the first of many addresses for a son born to two lawyers. There
was a "Monday Night Football" game on the night father, mother and soon-to-be son were in the hospital, and Oliver recalls at some
point looking up to catch the score. He says he's fairly certain that former West Virginia quarterback Jeff Hostetler was playing that
night, but you'd have to check to make sure. Of course he's right.
The couple went on to have four kids -- their daughter, Mary Ellen, plays volleyball for Stanford -- so it's fuzzy as to who first put a
football in Andrew's hands. It didn't really matter.
"My wife and I didn't raise our kids to be anything except what each one ultimately wants to do," Oliver says. "I can't imagine raising
a child with a goal of that child being a baseball player or a lawyer or whatever. Odds are, they'll be something else. In this world,
there are a lot of opportunities."
Oliver Luck did not possess the physical gifts of his 6-foot-4, 234-pound son. He was a tall and skinny quarterback from St. Ignatius
High School in Cleveland who went to West Virginia because he fell in love with the school and community. The scouting report on
Luck went something like this: smart, talented, good arm, not-so-good runner. But tough. If Luck threw an interception -- he didn't
throw many -- he didn't float backward and get out of the way. He went after the guy running with the ball.
His first two years with the Mountaineers yielded back-to-back losing seasons. It wasn't for lack of effort. Luck stayed in Morgantown
every summer, training with his teammates while working eight hours a day doing odd jobs at a coal mine.
In 1980, the Mountaineers' fortunes changed when Don Nehlen took over as head coach. Nehlen was not overwhelmed with
confidence when he met Ollie Luck.
"When I first looked at him," Nehlen says, "he had that big Adam's apple and that big nose and skinny shoulders. And I'm saying, 'Oh
my gosh.' I told my wife, 'Don't unpack.'
"But Ollie had it all. He gave us the ability to be a pretty good football team. Believe it or not, we won six games that first year and
nine the second. If we don't have Oliver Luck, we don't win. He's one of those guys the kids really rally around. He made the other 10
better than they really were. And all the great quarterbacks do that."
Oliver Luck's draft day was far less heralded than his son's. He was selected in the second round by the Houston Oilers, after Art
Schlichter and Jim McMahon. He did not play his rookie year, then was inserted as a starter during a disastrous 2-14 campaign in
1983. Luck threw eight touchdowns and 13 interceptions that year. And the following season, the Oilers signed Warren Moon from
the Canadian Football League.
Luck spent the better part of the next three seasons carrying a clipboard behind a future Hall of Famer. But Luck was still competitive
while helping Moon in whatever way he could.
"He always had a smile on his face," Moon says. "He was one of the smarter guys that I've been around at quarterback. He was so
well-rounded. He knew different languages. Some guys come off as smug because they're intelligent and think they're more intelligent
than everybody else. But he was never that way. The guy had such an easygoing personality that you would never know that side of
him unless you really got into an in-depth conversation with him."
After his fifth season, Luck sized up his situation, realized he wasn't going to play much, and decided to call it quits. He was 26 years
old. It was different back then, he says. The desire to hang on wasn't necessarily there. Luck could walk into a law firm and make
nearly as much as he did as an NFL backup.
Most important, he could still walk. Asked if he regrets leaving the game so early, he says "no" three times in rapid-fire succession.
His kids wouldn't get the chance to see him play, but that didn't matter. Luck had a lot to do.
The cultural influence
There was the failed bid for Congress in 1990, when Andrew was just a baby, and a job in Germany as general manager of the
Frankfurt Galaxy in the fledgling World League of American Football. Luck dabbled in just about everything, and he spent more than
a decade overseas running football teams and eventually becoming president and CEO of NFL Europe.
The jobs were nice, but the Lucks loved the opportunity to pile their kids in a car and take them from Frankfurt to the Eiffel Tower in
five hours. They'd ride on the autobahn and be fluent in German, English and whatever else they wanted.
"There's a whole body of literature on the culture of kids," Luck says, "kids who grew up outside of their home culture. I don't want to
necessarily summarize all the literature, but ultimately, I think [those] kids are a little bit more tolerant because they can see there are
different ways of living.
"I think they're a little more inquisitive. And they get exposure to some things that make them think a little more about different
places, different cultures and different languages."
The exposure has helped Andrew Luck in many ways. For starters, he played soccer as a boy, which no doubt helped his footwork. He
saw beautiful stadiums and wanted to become an architect. When the world became smaller for young Andrew, nothing seemed too
big.
"He walked on campus different," says David Shaw, his college coach at Stanford. "A lot of times, even our best players and our best
students still have a transitional period. And there was never a transitional period for Andrew.
"Being as well-traveled as he is, he doesn't just have his immediate surroundings as his only context to life. He doesn't approach the
world with blinders on. He doesn't get fazed. He's seen a lot, and he's been through a lot."
Learning the game
Oliver Luck jokes that his long list of titles just means that he was never able to hold on to a job for very long. The family moved back
to the U.S. in 2001, when he was named CEO of the Houston Sports Authority. It was a chance to get back to Texas, and an
opportunity for his son to test his chops in the biggest football state in the country.
Much like his dad, young Andrew did not wow anyone at first sight. "He was a 14-year-old kid," says Stratford High coach Eliot
Allen. "He wasn't the guy you see now. But I think you saw then the kind of person he was."
The younger Luck was smart and polite and made 10 guys look better. His father did not show up at practice, Allen says. He didn't
talk X's and O's with his son. He wanted him to learn and grow from his coaches.
So Andrew did, and threw for 7,139 yards and 53 touchdowns at Stratford. He was co-valedictorian for the Class of '08. Oliver taught
Andrew about leadership and being mentally strong, Allen says.
"And don't forget his mother," Allen says. "She's pretty influential, too. We'll never hear about her because she's behind the scenes.
But she has her law degree."
Kathy, according to John Hardesty, one of Oliver's close friends, is a quiet, strong and smart woman. She holds the family together.
When Oliver took the West Virginia athletic director job in 2010, he was living in a small condo in Morgantown while his family
finished business in Houston. He'd catch red-eye flights to Houston and Stanford to watch Andrew play.
They made sacrifices but have rarely had regrets. One Saturday last year, when West Virginia had a late game and Andrew was
playing on the West Coast, Oliver sat in his office, in the dark, trying to find the game on the Internet.
"Here's a guy, his son's the Heisman Trophy candidate, and he and I are watching the game, 11:30 at night on the computer in his
office," says John Garcia, an old college teammate of Oliver's. "Here we are watching it in the dark because he can't get to the game.
"People don't know the commitment that he's made. I think that says something about him."
The expectations
There is significance to Oliver Luck's stop in Wheeling the week before the draft. Because it is right off the interstate, on the way to
Indianapolis, he'll be driving by it a lot. He tells the crowd that he plans to buzz by here during the fall for the next 15 years. He
believes his kid could have that kind of staying power.
Colts owner Jim Irsay must believe it, too.
Andrew will shrug and say that it does not put any extra pressure on him, and pops will reaffirm that. Every player on an NFL roster is
under pressure, Oliver says. He can probably substantiate that with the help of some book he's read.
So no, Oliver Luck is not worried about his son living up to these rare expectations. He will celebrate with him in New York, then go
back to work in West Virginia. He knows Andrew will be fine, and that his football dream will last longer than his dad's. In the
offseason, in sort of a full circle moment, Warren Moon worked with Andrew.
"The kid doesn't have any weaknesses," Moon said.
It reminded Moon, in many ways, of Oliver.
Maturity, background will help Luck
By Bob Glauber
New York Daily News
April 23, 2012
Living up to the legacy of Peyton Manning would be difficult enough for most quarterbacks, but Andrew Luck just might be different.
After all, he already has emerged from the shadow of a big-time quarterback: his own father.
Growing up as the son of former West Virginia star and Oilers backup Oliver Luck presented its own set of challenges, but Andrew
had no problem developing into a star in his own right. His background surely will come in handy now that he's ready to handle an
even more daunting task: replacing future Hall of Famer Manning, who was released last month to set the stage for Luck's arrival.
"Peyton was my hero growing up. He was my football hero," said Luck, who is expected to be taken by the Colts with the first overall
pick in Thursday's draft. "That's who I modeled myself after in high school, middle school, whatever it was. You never truly replace a
guy like that."
Maybe not, but Colts fans will surely expect a lot from their next quarterback. Especially after Manning delivered so many memorable
moments during a 14-year run in Indianapolis that ended after last season because of continued neck problems. The Colts parted ways
with Manning in early March, and he signed with the Broncos.
Not to worry, says Luck.
"I set fairly high expectations for myself," said Luck, the Heisman Trophy runner-up the last two seasons. "I don't really get involved
in what other people set for me, aside from my parents, family, people I truly care about."
But if there was ever a quarterback made to weather the difficulties that lie ahead in a city used to quarterback brilliance, it's Luck.
Growing up in a family in which football was always a primary pursuit, Luck has flourished at every level by maintaining his focus,
carefully building the skills required for excellence, and transforming himself into an elite quarterback who appears ready for
greatness in the NFL.
"[Luck] is a great player," said Colts general manager Ryan Grigson, who said last week that the team has settled on its pick, although
he declined to say Luck was the choice. "The last guy in the last row of any stadium can tell you that he's a heck of a quarterback, a
heck of a person, intelligent kid. He's got a lot to offer."
This will not be an easy transformation, though. Just as Manning had to mature during his rookie season, when the Colts went 3-13,
Luck will have his work cut out. He joins a team that not long ago was of championship caliber but has been taken apart piece by
piece by injuries and salary-cap concerns. Two days after the Colts announced Manning's release, they said goodbye to four other
longtime stars: tight end Dallas Clark, running back Joseph Addai, linebacker Gary Brackett and safety Melvin Bullitt.
But growing up in Oliver Luck's house and playing for former NFL quarterback Jim Harbaugh at Stanford should go a long way
toward helping Luck lead the Colts back to the playoffs before long.
"He's got all the qualities, mentally and physically," said Harbaugh, the 49ers' coach. "He's as prepared as anybody that you're going to
find. He's really good. He's got a lot of talent."
Harbaugh thinks Luck is uniquely suited to face the comparisons to Manning.
"Fair or unfair, it's the nature of the business," Harbaugh said. "But he's very equipped to deal with it. He's one of the finest football
players I've ever been around and an even better person."
And perhaps the greatest compliment of all from Harbaugh: "I'm not going to like playing against him. I'm not looking forward to
that."
At least the 49ers don't have to face him this season. Then again, by the time Luck does face his former coach, he'll be that much more
comfortable in his new uniform, the one he'll put on Thursday.
New Colts coach Chuck Pagano seemed destined for the job, his family says
By Phillip B. Wilson
Indy Star
January 27, 2012
In one of the proudest moments of his life, Sam Pagano had a flashback from four decades ago, when his 9-year-old son, Chuck,
scurried around a football sideline and squirted water in the faces of the Fairview High School Knights.
The father, who coached teams in Boulder, Colo., to three state titles, knew then his son's destiny.
"He is football. He loves it," Pagano said via phone about Chuck, now 51 and introduced Thursday as the new Indianapolis Colts head
coach in a news conference at the team's Northwestside complex.
Chuck Pagano stood at the lectern and conceded almost immediately that this opportunity was a dream job come true.
"Now I'm at the top of the pinnacle," he said. "I've spent 28 years of my life in coaching waiting for this opportunity."
It's been quite the January for the Pagano family. Sam's younger son, John, became the San Diego Chargers' defensive coordinator
Jan. 5.
"We've had so much good news this month," said Sam, 73, who is retired from coaching. "God, we're so excited for Chuck. He's
worked so hard for this."
The passion was to be expected from the sons. They saw football take their father around the world. In the 1990s, Sam coached in
France, Italy and Germany. Even now, the sons come home each summer to help out at the father's Mile High Football Camp.
John, 42, also grew up idolizing his brother. He had a premonition Chuck would land the Colts job if given an interview. He told
family and friends the Baltimore Ravens soon would be losing a defensive coordinator.
John was scouting a Senior Bowl practice in Mobile, Ala., when his older brother called with the good news. "I wanted to start
crying," John said.
The Paganos are more about toughness than tears -- Chuck was once a hard-hitting safety who played college ball at Wyoming. But
there is humility, too. And a lot of emotion.
Pagano's wife, Tina, and two of their three daughters made the trip for the announcement. The girls confided afterward that their dad
has a softer side.
"He's tough, and that shows through his coaching," said Taylor, 21. "He gets up there (at the lectern) and does that like it's a breeze.
But he's not like that at home.
"I think him being around us girls, there's a lot of estrogen in the house. It's worn off on him. He's emotional -- that's just how he is.
We all are."
Tori, 17, described him as "a loving father."
Chuck Pagano's players learn from his old-school discipline and demanding nature. Imagine what these big, strong NFL guys would
think if they saw how their coach interacts with his girls.
"He's not afraid to braid their hair," Tina said. "He does more braids than I do. When they were little, he braided their hair a lot."
His family taught Pagano the importance of building relationships. Sam said Chuck's work ethic came from his mother, Diana, and the
coaching from him.
It's the same with John. If the Pagano name sounds familiar to Colts fans, it should. John was on Jim Mora's Colts staff as a defensive
assistant from 1998 to 2001. Mora met the Paganos while coaching at the University of Colorado.
"It's a great family," Mora said. "I've known them for a long time. It's a fabulous opportunity, and they got themselves a good man.
That football background, that's good training for a guy. I think Chuck will do a great job. He's 100 percent football."
If there's one thing that gets John going, it's talking with Chuck about the game.
"He's been my number one guy, my number one best friend," John said. "There's only one person I truly talk X's and O's with, and
that's him. Our relationship is so special. You guys have got yourself a winner there."
Colts guard Joe Reitz, who spent 2008-09 on the Ravens practice squad, is excited about the hiring.
"He would always go out of his way to say hello to me even though I was a lowly guy on the practice squad," said Reitz, a local fan
favorite from his days as a Hamilton Southeastern High basketball star.
"He really cares about all of his players. A couple of my best friends in Baltimore, they're defensive backs, they would rave about him,
how they loved to play for him."
Pagano was the Ravens' secondary coach for three years before being named defensive coordinator in 2011.
"I know the guys in Baltimore would talk about how he would instill confidence in them, how they could just go out and play with
that confidence," Reitz said. "The guys love playing for a guy like that."
When reviewing Pagano's resume, one might question the Colts hiring a man who has never been a head coach and had only one year
as an NFL defensive coordinator.
"He's got a lot of work to do, but I'm sure he'll do it with vigor, enthusiasm and great spirit," Sam Pagano said. "People may look at
that (lack of head coaching experience), but believe me, he's ready."
Those closest to Chuck Pagano know the former water boy has worked an entire life to earn this opportunity.
"It's what he was born to do," Tina said.
New intensity: Colts get their man
By Mike Chappell
Indy Star
January 26, 2012
Reggie Wayne is no stranger to Chuck Pagano, named Wednesday the 11th head or interim head coach in the Colts' Indianapolis era.
"Great dude," Wayne said. "Great dude."
Wayne developed into a standout receiver at the University of Miami from 1997-2000 during which time Pagano handled the
Hurricanes' secondary and special teams.
"Chuck's an intense guy, loves the game of football," Wayne said.
Don't take his word for it.
"(Ravens safety) Ed Reed says (Pagano) is ready," Wayne said, "and that's good enough for me. He's a great hire and I believe he'll
bring excitement to the team."
Pagano, 51, is the latest cornerstone set in place in the Colts' major restoration project. He replaces Jim Caldwell, fired Jan. 17, three
weeks after the team closed the 2011 season with a 2-14 record.
A news conference is scheduled for 3 p.m. today.
"It's difficult to leave the Ravens, but I couldn't pass up on this great opportunity,'' Pagano said in a statement released by the Ravens.
"I'm just thrilled and so excited."
Owner Jim Irsay and general manager Ryan Grigson settled on Pagano following a search that was extensive but spanned only nine
days.
Irsay's enthusiasm was evident on his Twitter account: "Indy,we got one hell of a football coach with fire in his eyes! When I
said,coach,r u ready 2b The Colts head coach,he said, 'Let's hunt.' "
The Colts' gain is the Ravens' loss. Pagano had been with Baltimore the past four seasons, and in 2011 was the coordinator of an
aggressive defense that ranked No. 3 in the NFL in fewest yards and points allowed and was tied for third with 48 sacks.
"They're getting a great coach and we're losing one," Ravens veteran outside linebacker Jarret Johnson said. "That sucks for us, but
good for them.
"I don't have enough good things to say about Chuck. From a personality standpoint, the guys over there are going to love him. He's
got a fiery personality, but he's really funny. He can be defined as a players' coach, but he knows football."
Safety Chris Carr played for Pagano at Oakland before joining him in Baltimore in 2009. Like Johnson, he hates that he's losing his
coach but glad Pagano is taking that next step.
"Great football IQ," Carr said. "(The Colts) are getting a coach who's 51 years old, but he seems a lot younger. He's a guy who can
relate to players with different personalities.
"This isn't an older guy who is out of touch with the world."
Pagano is the fourth former Ravens defensive coordinator to be named an NFL head coach, joining Marvin Lewis (Cincinnati
Bengals), Mike Nolan (San Francisco 49ers) and Rex Ryan (New York Jets).
The Ravens' foundation is an aggressive, disruptive defense. They're a 3-4 bunch -- three down linemen, four linebackers -- that's
always in attack mode.
The Colts, meanwhile, have been an offense-driven team behind quarterback Peyton Manning and have followed a more passive
defensive scheme. The defense ranked No. 25 in the league during an injury-ravaged 2011 and has ranked among the top 10 only
twice since 2002.
Pagano's hiring was embraced by a few Colts defenders.
"I like it," perennial Pro Bowl end Robert Mathis wrote on his Twitter account.
And this tweet from safety Antoine Bethea: "New Head Coach in town!! Hope he brings that Raven style of defense with him!!"
That remains to be seen. In Baltimore, Pagano leaned on a Pro Bowl-saturated lineup that included Reed, linebackers Ray Lewis,
Terrell Suggs and Johnson, and tackle Haloti Ngata.
Bethea is a former Pro Bowler, but the Colts' only true difference-makers on defense are Mathis and end Dwight Freeney. It's
debatable if they have the required talent in the front seven to play a 3-4.
"What Chuck's going to do is look at the players in the room and fit the defense he runs around the talent he has," Johnson said.
"People say we were a straight 3-4, but we really were a hybrid. We play a little bit of everything."
Pagano inherits a team coming off its worst season in two decades and must help Irsay decide whether Manning is part of the
comprehensive rebuilding that's taking place. Manning still is rehabilitating from Sept. 8 neck surgery that forced him to miss the
2011 season. He is due a $28 million option bonus by March 8 that, if unpaid, makes him an unrestricted free agent.
Also, the Colts hold the first overall pick in the April draft that likely will deliver Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck. Other
significant personnel decisions loom.
Speculation in Baltimore has Pagano perhaps bringing with him defensive line coach Clarence Brooks and linebackers coach Dean
Pees from the Ravens staff, although Pees might be in position to succeed Pagano as coordinator. He also might consider Butch Davis,
with whom he has a long relationship.
Rookie offensive tackle Anthony Castonzo is taking a wait-and-see approach, with a caveat.
"My first reaction, I know he's an Italian guy," Castonzo said. "His last name ends with an 'o,' and my last name ends with an 'o.'
Beyond that, I don't know anything about him."

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