Come. On. When will the Indianapolis Colts get ONE WEEK undeterred by awful news? It can’t even happen when they’re winning.
On Sunday against the Houston Texans, Indy expectedly came out hot and took the lead in the first quarter. They took a 10-3 advantage into the half as well. Not exactly the best when playing a severely inferior opponent, but this team will take any sort of positivity at this juncture.
The one touchdown came on a bomb from Carson Wentz to Parris Campbell that went for 51 yards. Like we’ve said countless times before, this is the kind of stuff we’ve been waiting to see from the oft-injured wide receiver, who was widely believed to make this offense more dynamic.
For a moment, it appeared that way.
Carson Wentz DELIVERED this ball to Parris Campbell 🤩
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) October 17, 2021
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The Colts’ highlight of the first half was soon negated by bad news.
Then a moment later, it was all taken away. The Colts had ruled Campbell out for the game with a foot injury, yet another ailment to add to his laundry list of issues since being drafted in 2019.
He surprisingly missed Week 2 with an abdomen injury and will essentially miss all of this one. He’s now played in just 14 games out of a possible 38 since making his NFL debut and by now you’d think Colts fans would be used to it.
However, TY Hilton made his return to the field in Week 6, which many assumed would give fans and the coaching staff a look at this fully healthy wide receiving corps with a playmaking quarterback such as Wentz.
Colts WR Parris Campbell (foot injury) out for the game.
— Zak Keefer (@zkeefer) October 17, 2021
Instead, we’ll just have a revolving door of wideouts in Indy, which is now the new story/problem after the team had spent way too long to supplement that area of the roster in order to help Andrew Luck, Jacoby Brissett and Philip Rivers.
We’re back to missing one of the guys who was supposed to make this unit complete, and it’s Campbell, who’s consistently been absent, which has deprived fans of seeing what this offense is truly capable of.
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