Rookies take time

Hughes is slow starting. Tip to Kuharsky

Fortunately, the Colts have seen this script play out before with defensive linemen. “It happened to me when I was a rookie” Pro Bowl defensive end Dwight Freeney said Monday. “But you have to be ready because all it takes is an injury and then you’re in there. I was basically a third-down guy until the eighth or ninth game of the year (as a rookie), and then there was an injury and I went in.”

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