After drafting Luck, the Colts picked tight end Coby Fleener, his Stanford teammate, in the second round. They got another tight end in Clemson’s Dwayne Allen and speedy receiver T.Y. Hilton to go with Reggie Wayne.
Still, there were a lot of player moves, too.
The Colts released Manning on March 7 rather than paying him $28 million. Two days later, Indy cut defensive captains Gary Brackett and Melvin Bullitt and former Pro Bowlers Dallas Clark and Joseph Addai. They lost longtime center Jeff Saturday and emerging receiver Pierre Garcon in free agency and dipped into free-agency to improve a leaky defense and an unproven offensive line.
The biggest challenge in 2012, like it was in 1998, will be breaking in a new quarterback.
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