Shutdown Corner Offseason Blueprints: Indianapolis Colts (Shutdown Corner)

After the Seattle Seahawks won Super Bowl XLVIII, all 32 teams officially entered the offseason and started plotting how they could position themselves for a shot at Super Bowl XLIX. Shutdown Corner will look at the offseason blueprint for each of the 32 NFL teams, presenting one team a day (using the 2014 draft order, starting with the Houston Texans and finishing with the Seahawks), leading you right up to the start of free agency on March 11. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS 2013 record: 11-5 Projected current salary-cap space ( according to OverTheCap.com ): $40.9 million under the cap [Be sure to check out Shutdown Corner's NFL free-agent rankings. Click here for the list of offensive players , and click here for the list of defensive and special teams players ] Key free agents: S Antoine Bethea, PK Adam Vinatieri, P Pat McAfee, WR Darrius Heyward-Bey, CB Vontae Davis, RB Donald Brown, RB Ahmad Bradshaw, OG Mike McGlynn. Possible salary-cap casualties: CB Greg Toler, C Samson Satele. Draft situation: The Colts traded the 26th pick in the first round to the Cleveland Browns in the Trent Richardson trade. The Colts traded their fourth-round pick to the Browns for their 2013 fifth-round pick. The Colts have the Baltimore Ravens’ seventh-round pick from the A.Q. Shipley trade. The Colts traded their original seventh-round pick to the St. Louis Rams for Josh Gordy. Revisiting 2013: The Colts were pretty steady winners in 2013, never losing back-to-back games but also never stringing together more than three victories in a row. But looking back, it was a bizarre season when you peel back the onion a bit. The team earned statement victories over the Seattle Seahawks, Denver Broncos and (in the playoffs) Kansas City Chiefs at home, plus big road victories over the San Francisco 49ers and Chiefs. No other team in football can claim to have beaten three of the four eventual conference championship teams, plus twice beating an 11-win club in Kansas City. But they also suffered losses to three non-playoff teams (including a 30-point destruction in Indy to the Rams), and four of their five losses were by double digits. Andrew Luck was terrific in his second season, leading the team to the divisional round of the playoffs, but injuries — especially to skill-position players, including Reggie Wayne — stripped him of key playmakers.



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