USA Today talks about the Colts run game failures and the arrival of Don Brown.
It was a glaring example of a season-long shortcoming. Indianapolis ranked next-to-last in the NFL in rushing, leading general manager Bill Polian to select Brown 27th overall. Addai, who finished with 544 yards on the ground after opening his career with consecutive 1,000-yard efforts, never saw what was coming.
“I’m human, so I was shocked,” he says. “I kind of calmed myself down and said, ‘OK, everybody is going to a two-back situation and it could help my career as far as longevity.’ You’ve got to take the positive side of it and work from that.”
While the 5-11, 214-pound Addai missed four games with injuries, he points to a series of hurts in explaining his relative lack of production.
He says he was never completely healthy after the opener: “If it wasn’t my knee, it was my hamstring. If it wasn’t my hamstring, it was my shoulder.”
He is resigned to sharing the load with Brown, but yearns for the days when he knew his number was almost always going to be called.
“Everybody wants to be the guy in any profession you’re in,” he says.
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