Colts sign Olympic Sprinter

[TKnight24]

 

 

[RockThatBlue]

That's what you call a fast signing.

[NannyMcafee]

Meh. Most people can run. 

[The Peytonator]

Andrew to Marvin bout to break Peyton to Marvin's record. 

[MB-ColtsFan]

The next Bob Hayes?? 

[Smonroe]

He's about the same size as TY and played in high school.  Redshirted with FSU.  

 

I think he tried out out with the Panthers but I couldn't get the story to load.  

[TKnight24]

 

 

 

[TheRustonRifle#7]

58 minutes ago, RockThatBlue said:

That's what you call a fast signing.

 

[MTC]

This is a very Grigson-esque signing.

[Indyfan4life]

Honestly he's probably just a camp body and a WR/KR for pre-season games. I'd be more than surprised if he actually made the team. 

[will426]

I'm more interested in his agility than top speed

[ColtsBlitz]

Like some famous coach probably once said, "I'd rather have a football player"

[CR91]

probably to push bray for KR. ballard loves competition 

[ProblChld32]

2 hours ago, TKnight24 said:

 

 

Competition, compete compete compete

[indyagent17]

Camp body with a low chance of making the team....meh

[SteelCityColt]

5 hours ago, MTC said:

This is a very Grigson-esque signing.

 

To be fair I think most teams do the bottom end churning of the roster, especially now. The problem with Grigson was that there was no top end.

[Farns01]

Maybe they are evaluating for the future.  With closed practices and they see potential they might hide him on the practice squad.  It worked for Swoope.

[jimmy g]

13 hours ago, TKnight24 said:

 

 

I thought we already had Dorsett to be fast?  Can he get open, and/or catch???

[csmopar]

3 hours ago, jimmy g said:

I thought we already had Dorsett to be fast?  Can he get open, and/or catch???

this guy is faster.  Could be brought in to help test the D against a super speedster considering we play the Rams week 1.

[HarryTheCat]

Could be the next Cliff Branch, who carved out a nice career for himself by being super fast. More likely, however, the next "Skeets" Nehemiah. 

[Luck 4 president]

I haven't seen anything on here about the signing but we signed WR Marvin Bracy who was an Olympic sprinter and 3 time national champ at 60 meters. He's not just a sprinter. He was an all-american football player and played for Florida State as a freshman before deciding to become a professional sprinter. I say he's the fastest I'm the NFL because a Tennessee sprinter who has almost identical times in the 60 meter sprint ran a 4.12 40 so it makes sense that Bracy can run something similar. What are the chances he makes the team?

[UKColt13]

Extremely slim with the depth we have. Practice squad candidate probably.

 

Nice to see Ballard taking chances on guys like this though.

[IndyD4U]

 

[Valpo2004]

On 8/8/2017 at 1:28 AM, SteelCityColt said:

 

To be fair I think most teams do the bottom end churning of the roster, especially now. The problem with Grigson was that there was no top end.

 

It's not that.  Grigson had a thing for fast WR's.  

 

Question. . . what is the 40 time of the slowest wide receiver that Ryan Grigson drafted??

 

Answer: Donte Moncrief - 4.40 

 

Grigson never drafted a big body WR.  Instead he always seemed to prefer pure speed.  At least in the draft.  

[SteelCityColt]

16 minutes ago, Valpo2004 said:

 

It's not that.  Grigson had a thing for fast WR's.  

 

Question. . . what is the 40 time of the slowest wide receiver that Ryan Grigson drafted??

 

Answer: Donte Moncrief - 4.40 

 

Grigson never drafted a big body WR.  Instead he always seemed to prefer pure speed.  At least in the draft.  

 

Kinda talking about different things here, I was talking more about low end roster churn without being position specific and not really about drafting guys. 

 

I do agree though that he loved physical measurables (Adongo!) over proven talent. However he's not exactly the only GM guilty of this.