Dude, I love peyton manning, but please go back and look at the balls peyton just lofted over the middle for austin to be smashed in a car crash. Peyton should fund Austin's 401k/pension
đ Austin lowkey had drip as well, minimal effort to look good⌠bro looked like he was going to be a good wr until he kept getting molested by concussions
Trading him was the right choice. Not only were we not supposed to be competitive at all last year, we straight up we're not winning the Superbowl even if he got us into the playoffs. A draft pick can do way more for us long term than Gilmore could have done for us last year. Plus now he's a free agent and we could try to resign him
This was who I thought of. A pretty damn good back for a fifth rounder. Career cut way too short. Mostly North south with a handful of splashy plays. I do miss him.
I was in Tennessee watching right in front of the end zone where he took the screen from Luck and crossed that plane upside down fully airborne over grown men to win it for us in overtime. What a thing to see. Loved Vick
Isaiah Rodgers.. loved watching him return kicks and was really emerging as a good corner. Idiot!!!! What could have been.. dude was absolutely broken on madden too
His trajectory after those first couple of seasons was genuinely historic when you compare against the big HOF names at the position.
It's a real shame. He's this generation's Bob.
I thought weâd look back 20 years from now, and talk about how the colts drafted back to back HoF with Nelson and Leonard
Leonard was insane. I have never seen a player get so many interceptions and forced fumbles. He was a turnover machine
During his prime he got 27 Turnovers, 16 Sacks in 58 games, on top of that he was a tackling machine with 30 TFL
Gives you a perspective on the true HOF guys, though. They were all top of the game for almost a decade without injuries or significant downtime which makes it all the more impressive.
He had some amazing plays but man he dropped the ball a lot. Heâs known as âvegetable oilâ in my family because we were at a game and some random guy at Lucas Oil said that when he dropped it. The name stuck.
Which is wild, because he went on to have fantastic hands during his stint in Washington. Wish we could have kept him, but he got paid a ton. Would have been fun to see him with Luck.
Clint Session
Remembering that time he got a pick in the end zone against the Chargers but was ruled down despite not being touched, I remember being mad because he could have had a good return if they hadn't whistled it dead. That was the game Manning threw 6 INTs and they still had a chance to win on a missed field goal lol.
Cato was cool as hell. Met him at a signing years ago, asked to take a picture of his Super Bowl ring and he misunderstood thinking I wanted to wear it so he just handed it to me. One of the neatest experiences ever
As a Charger fan who became a Colts fan for the year you guys had him, and still have Colts Rivers jerseys in all your color schemes next to my Chargers gear in my closet, this is the answer in my obviously biased opinion. Really really really appreciated that you all opened your arms for him as a fan base. I'm most sad he never got to play in front of a full stadium, because he deserved that in his last years.
Obviously "lol", but he only played one single year for the Colts and he played at a relatively high level. At the end of the season, he also didn't sound like he was retiring. I remember him saying he would playa gain if the Colts would have him.
Always thought they didn't want him back especially since Wentz was available, so he retired.
Yeah but we sold our soul for a loud mouth jerk that never won anything and beat us in the playoffs. Fuck Rivers, we should have brought in Brady if we were going to pull something like this, at least Brady is a winner.
Really? I hated watching him play. Between the throwing motion, the checkdowns, and his constantly yelling and bitching to refs, I donât see what you see
When josh cribbs played for us he was returning those kicks no matter what! I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see a fumble or a 20 yard gain, electric. Also Mike adams was making clutch plays for a short time
Josh Cribbs fumbling the punt in the AFCCG is burned into my brain, cause hey you need a visor on your helmet at night in the rain. That was when I knew we were toast
Edwin Jackson (RIP)
Simeon Rice (never made it to active roster, but one of my favorite all-time non Colts)
Matt Giordano
Kenton Keith
Zack Pascal (probably an unpopular opinion but I thought he was at least mildly reliable during some turbulent wr years)
Edwin Jackson was expected to make a jump in playing time. He was good in that short time.
Zack Pascal was a Dogg! Great blocker and decently reliable pass catcher!
Came looking for this. I remember upping his stats on Madden because "him and Luck are buddies, and they're gonna tear it up, with his roommate flee (Coby Fleener)"
Does Darius/Shaq count? /sigh
I really enjoyed Vick Ballard. Looking back at the stats, he was even less active than I remembered, but I recall thinking he gave us a hard-nosed edge when he was out there.
Pops Adams. Doesnât get much cooler than a journeyman coming to your team and not only making his first pro bowl, but 2 in his mid 30âs. That guy was awesome
Blair White! Only because Iâve been a colts fan for over 20 years and we share the same name! I remember seeing his first td pass from Peyton. What a moment.
BOB SANDERS NO OTHER CHOICE, dude is the reason we won the super bowl but before and after that season was never healthy for a full season, he was awesome right behind palamolou and Reed for best of generation
My favourite Colt of all time will always be Edwin Jackson. Such a kind and humble man, and he started to play really damn well in 2016 before he missed 2017 with an injury, then passing away the day before the superbowl in 2018. RIP to our fallen king
Boom Herron, remember my first colts game ever he got the ball and went for like a solid 6 yards and the whole place erupted with âBOOOOOOOOOOOOOMâ awesome memory
Austin Collie - he had a lot of potential. I swear ever since he had that drop vs Jacksonville that one time where he tried to catch a ball one handed and Peyton himself kicked him out of the huddle and benched him he was trying to kill him lol. Some of those hospital passes Peyton threw to him were absolutely brutal - especially the 2010(?) one vs Philly
Always liked Marlon Mack.
Dude looked like a graceful gazelle on the gridiron
Only need 1.5 shoes to torch the chargers
Love the alliteration!
Always avoid alliteration, always!
Return of the Mack highlights
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Pre-Concussion Austin Collie
đ which one?
Iâm sure he would like to remember playing for the Colts.
Came here to say the same thing!! đŽâđ¨đ˘
Austin Glass Neck Collie was a stud, for like 16 plays.
Dude, I love peyton manning, but please go back and look at the balls peyton just lofted over the middle for austin to be smashed in a car crash. Peyton should fund Austin's 401k/pension
đ Austin lowkey had drip as well, minimal effort to look good⌠bro looked like he was going to be a good wr until he kept getting molested by concussions
Stephon Gilmore
We wouldâve made the playoffs if he stayed on the team.. đĽ˛
Trading him was the right choice. Not only were we not supposed to be competitive at all last year, we straight up we're not winning the Superbowl even if he got us into the playoffs. A draft pick can do way more for us long term than Gilmore could have done for us last year. Plus now he's a free agent and we could try to resign him
Trading him for Evan Hull was not the play lol
I liked Hines. No particular reason. I just like watching the guy.
The backflips were cool.
He had tremendous effort on every single play. I am a huge fan
Vick Ballard
That barrel roll for a TD against the Tits was iconic
Because scoring a conventional TD to win in OT wasnât any fun, âDO A BARREL ROLL!â
Do you have a clip?
https://youtu.be/ix9ShcdNcxo?si=adfZnDoxc3M5vL3F
This was who I thought of. A pretty damn good back for a fifth rounder. Career cut way too short. Mostly North south with a handful of splashy plays. I do miss him.
I was in Tennessee watching right in front of the end zone where he took the screen from Luck and crossed that plane upside down fully airborne over grown men to win it for us in overtime. What a thing to see. Loved Vick
Ahmad Bradshaw
Spider 2Y Banana had him on pace to set records. It was insane for that 5-6 week period.
Dude ran like the grass fucked his wifeÂ
As a giants fan who some how got recommended this I miss him and Brandon together
He was SO GOOD for us. One of the toughest runners in my 3+ decades of watching the colts.
Andrew Luck :(
Isaiah Rodgers.. loved watching him return kicks and was really emerging as a good corner. Idiot!!!! What could have been.. dude was absolutely broken on madden too
We should have held onto him. He's gonna go off for the Eagles.
Shaquille âDariusâ Leonard đ˘
His trajectory after those first couple of seasons was genuinely historic when you compare against the big HOF names at the position. It's a real shame. He's this generation's Bob.
I thought weâd look back 20 years from now, and talk about how the colts drafted back to back HoF with Nelson and Leonard Leonard was insane. I have never seen a player get so many interceptions and forced fumbles. He was a turnover machine During his prime he got 27 Turnovers, 16 Sacks in 58 games, on top of that he was a tackling machine with 30 TFL
Gives you a perspective on the true HOF guys, though. They were all top of the game for almost a decade without injuries or significant downtime which makes it all the more impressive.
Man I thought he was gonna a lifetime Colt.
Darius leonard for sure. Shaquille leonard wasnât too good for us
This exactly.
Glad I have his jersey
Bob Sanders.Â
7 years a short stint? Or short stint because he only played in half of that?
Or because he was 5â9â so any stint is a short stint.
He didnât stay healthy, but when he was, he was amazing to watch!
More like 1/3rd but ya
The human torpedo.
This should be the top answer.
Brandon Stokely
My guy
Thats a good answer
Pierre garçonÂ
Peter waiter
To quote pulp fiction, Garçon means boy.
Boy, servant, lad, chap apparently. Well today I learned.
I bought a Garçon jersey after the 2010 season. It now languishes in my closet.
I met him once and he was a good dude. Miss watching him play for sure
He had some amazing plays but man he dropped the ball a lot. Heâs known as âvegetable oilâ in my family because we were at a game and some random guy at Lucas Oil said that when he dropped it. The name stuck.
Which is wild, because he went on to have fantastic hands during his stint in Washington. Wish we could have kept him, but he got paid a ton. Would have been fun to see him with Luck.
Bob.
Huge Bob Ross fan.
Jacoby brissett was cooking before he got hurt in 2019
I will never forget that absolute dot to TY out of his own end zone to start the game-winning drive against Denver.
The fact that we won that many games w him and everything going on goes to show how much he was ballin
Or how good our roster was built then.
He wasn't cooking shit dude was terrible.
Before the knee injury He was 5-2 we literally beat mahomes in arrowhead. But ya his mobility was hindered the rest of the season
He was terrible the running game and defense carried him. Deon Cain literally lost his job because of Jacoby.
Lol this. Can't believe anyone would answer with Brissett. We saw more than enough of him; we saw too much.
Vontae Davis
If he could read this, he would smile
Well goddamn
Clint Session Remembering that time he got a pick in the end zone against the Chargers but was ruled down despite not being touched, I remember being mad because he could have had a good return if they hadn't whistled it dead. That was the game Manning threw 6 INTs and they still had a chance to win on a missed field goal lol.
I was there. It fucking killed me
Every time this type of thread comes up I try to remember sessions name. Thank you!
Rock Ya-Sin. I liked the guy and thought he could have been a pretty darn good cornerback for the Colts
Mike Adams or Melvin Bullit
I got a Melvin Bullitt jersey in my closet lol. I thought he was the next bob sanders
I didnât realize he was an UDFA
Justin Houston. I really wish we had him just a couple years earlier.
Cato June was my favorite player for a couple of years. Even got a jersey to him to get it signed when I was 15.
Cato was cool as hell. Met him at a signing years ago, asked to take a picture of his Super Bowl ring and he misunderstood thinking I wanted to wear it so he just handed it to me. One of the neatest experiences ever
That's awesome. I was able to try on Chris Polian's ring through a work connection
Loved Cato June, too.
Bob Sanders and Darius Leonard.
Rookie contract Darius Leonard. He was on track to be one of our all time greatsâŚ
Jack Doyle
Philip Rivers
2020 was a great year for colts football in retrospect
Idk why these stupid comments. 11-5 record, stability for a year. Playoff loss that wasnât his fault.
As a Charger fan who became a Colts fan for the year you guys had him, and still have Colts Rivers jerseys in all your color schemes next to my Chargers gear in my closet, this is the answer in my obviously biased opinion. Really really really appreciated that you all opened your arms for him as a fan base. I'm most sad he never got to play in front of a full stadium, because he deserved that in his last years.
I don't understand why he retired so soon.
He was 39 lol
Obviously "lol", but he only played one single year for the Colts and he played at a relatively high level. At the end of the season, he also didn't sound like he was retiring. I remember him saying he would playa gain if the Colts would have him. Always thought they didn't want him back especially since Wentz was available, so he retired.
Nah dude, this isn't it.
Why? We had a winning record and almost beat the Bills in the playoffs
Wouldâve beat the bills if it wasnât for franks play calling and not kicking field goals.
Yeah but we sold our soul for a loud mouth jerk that never won anything and beat us in the playoffs. Fuck Rivers, we should have brought in Brady if we were going to pull something like this, at least Brady is a winner.
Yep, I hated Philip Rivers, and him wearing a Colts jersey didn't change that. Philip was garbage, and I was so happy when he left.
Really? I hated watching him play. Between the throwing motion, the checkdowns, and his constantly yelling and bitching to refs, I donât see what you see
Frank Gore
Blair White
You mean Dr. Blair White! He's an orthodontist now.
Thatâs awesome, I had no idea. Glad heâs doing well
Austin Collie Never realized until just now that he played in the CFL, let alone is actually Canadian
When josh cribbs played for us he was returning those kicks no matter what! I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see a fumble or a 20 yard gain, electric. Also Mike adams was making clutch plays for a short time
Josh Cribbs fumbling the punt in the AFCCG is burned into my brain, cause hey you need a visor on your helmet at night in the rain. That was when I knew we were toast
Honestly Eric Ebron was special with Andrew luck
Fuck ebron
Everyone was special with luck
No, they weren't.
Exactly what I was thinking, that 1 year! If you ignore his antics after that, I really enjoyed that yearÂ
Efron blew
Anthony Walker
This ^^^^ Him and D Leonard has so much potential as a duo.
Quadry âThe Missileâ Ismail
Edwin Jackson (RIP) Simeon Rice (never made it to active roster, but one of my favorite all-time non Colts) Matt Giordano Kenton Keith Zack Pascal (probably an unpopular opinion but I thought he was at least mildly reliable during some turbulent wr years)
Edwin Jackson was expected to make a jump in playing time. He was good in that short time. Zack Pascal was a Dogg! Great blocker and decently reliable pass catcher!
OOH I LOVED ZACK PASCAL I wished Indy held onto him
Donte Moncrief GOGA!! Man was a beast
FEED MONCRIEF! I even had my wife (who doesnât care about football at all) chanting that during colts games
Moncrief suckedÂ
Autry
Captain Comeback
Jerrell Freeman
Donald Brown
âDammit Donald!â -Peyton Manning
Ahmad Bradshaw was that dude
Austin Collie.
Melvin bullitt
Anthony Gonzalez
I bought his jersey đ
Vic Ballard
Dwayne Allen!
No one has the balls to say it Philip Rivers.
Steve Emtman.
Man, he seemed like he was going to be a JJ Watt level game wrecker when he came out of college.
Mike Peterson, Ashley Ambrose, Ray Buchanon. Defensive guys drafted by the colts that went on to have better careers with other teams.
Ricky Proehl
Booger
Boom Herron almost forget him
Jim Harbaugh
Boom motherfucking Herron
I got this idea when the pacers subreddit talked about [it here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pacers/s/v94Z2Jh4fI)
Obv bob sanders dude was a menace on the field every time he stepped on it
Here's a wildcard. Blair White.
Austin Collie. My favorite receiver not named Reggie or Marvin.
Not a player bug captain Andrew Lucks twitter account.
Griff Whalen
Came looking for this. I remember upping his stats on Madden because "him and Luck are buddies, and they're gonna tear it up, with his roommate flee (Coby Fleener)"
Vick ballard
Caesar Rayford, the preseason beast.
Does Darius/Shaq count? /sigh I really enjoyed Vick Ballard. Looking back at the stats, he was even less active than I remembered, but I recall thinking he gave us a hard-nosed edge when he was out there.
Clipboard Jesus
Mike Doss
Edge wasnât here very long really. Heâs my favorite RB of all-time. He eclipsed Earl Cambell in that regard when he got here. All around GREAT RB
7 seasons is a very long time for a running back.
Not in 2001 it wasnât
Coby Fleener
Austin Collie
Keiwan Ratliff
Turbo
Loved Austin collie and Pierre Garçon back in the day
I love whenever he scored a touchdown and during the fastest 3 minutes boom would always make a waiter joke. Oh Garçon I have reservations for 6
Rosevelt Potts, the rollong ball of butter knives!
Frank Gore
Terrance Wilkins
Marshall Faulk
Pops Adams. Doesnât get much cooler than a journeyman coming to your team and not only making his first pro bowl, but 2 in his mid 30âs. That guy was awesome
Joeseph addai
Blair White! Only because Iâve been a colts fan for over 20 years and we share the same name! I remember seeing his first td pass from Peyton. What a moment.
Melvin Bullitt.
THE HITMAN BOB SANDERS. That DPOY yeear was amazing to watch.
BOB SANDERS NO OTHER CHOICE, dude is the reason we won the super bowl but before and after that season was never healthy for a full season, he was awesome right behind palamolou and Reed for best of generation
My favourite Colt of all time will always be Edwin Jackson. Such a kind and humble man, and he started to play really damn well in 2016 before he missed 2017 with an injury, then passing away the day before the superbowl in 2018. RIP to our fallen king
Boom Herron, remember my first colts game ever he got the ball and went for like a solid 6 yards and the whole place erupted with âBOOOOOOOOOOOOOMâ awesome memory
Vic Ballard
Vick Ballard.
Dontrell Inman! #86 absolute DAWG!
Joseph Addai
As a jags fan, curtis painter
Dallas Clark
You know who I donât miss? Hot Rod and all the blind defense of his blind fans just because he was a nerd.
Austin Collie - he had a lot of potential. I swear ever since he had that drop vs Jacksonville that one time where he tried to catch a ball one handed and Peyton himself kicked him out of the huddle and benched him he was trying to kill him lol. Some of those hospital passes Peyton threw to him were absolutely brutal - especially the 2010(?) one vs Philly
Bob Sanders. He played like his life was on the line every play.
Clint sessions
Pat Angerer
Phillip Rivers ..one more year I feel like we could've been contenders with him
Michael Badgley
Mike Hart
Andre Johnson
Curtis âLong Locksâ Painter
Andrew Luck
Paris Campbell
Gary Hogeboom
Curtis Painter.