While a report surfaced Friday morning that Colts starting cornerback Jerraud Powers had surgery to repair an “internal fixation” in his left foot three weeks ago, defensive end Dwight Freeney’s status has obviously been the top injury-related story of Super Bowl week.
On Friday, Colts coach Jim Caldwell sounded upbeat about Freeney’s availability for the big game.
“He’s trending in the right direction,” Caldwell said. ”He’s getting better, but we’ll see. It’s still a day-to-day situation.”
Caldwell believes that Powers will play against New Orleans, though he may be limited in the game with Jacob Lacey continuing to start.
Freeney, according to Mike Lombardi of the National Football Post, will only play on obvious passing downs if active. The Colts will probably use Raheem Brock at weak-side end on early downs with Robert Mathis staying on the left. When Freeney enters, Mathis will stay on the strong side and Brock will move inside to tackle.
In other words, Brock will have to step up big time as an every-down lineman.
He’s going to play. One way I know is that florio didn’t write this article. If Freeney was not going to play, florio would be all over this personally to try and stir things up and get colts fans worried.
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