For all the injuries at CB the Colts used surprisingly few players here (probably thanks to Francisco and Silva being competent dimebacks in a pinch). Only 6 CBs played in the Colts D last year, with just 4 playing more than 150 snaps. Jacob Lacey was the UDFA steal, winning a position quickly and managing to stay healthy long enough to take 1,005 snaps. The other rookie, Jerraud Powers played 874 defensive downs, while the supposed #1 corner Kelvin Hayden struggled with a nagging hamstring injury in the first year of his new deal, playing 680 snaps. Whipping boy Tim Jennings played an excruciating 580 snaps, with Marlin Jackson playing 147 and T.J. Rushing chipping in 23 snaps in bits and pieces all year.
At safety we have the iron man of the Colts D. Antoine Bethea played 1,237 snaps last season, playing every down of 15 of 19 games with the 4 remaining the Rams and Seahawks blowouts, along with weeks 16 and 17. Antoine Bethea played every meaningful defensive snap for the Colts last year. Very happy that the Colts are hammering out an extension with him. In a secondary that was crippled by injury, Bethea was the rock. Melvin Bullitt rounds out the 1,000 snap club with 1,081. Chipping in at DB were Francisco with 163, Silva with 113, Sanders with 75 in the two games he played before injuring his biceps, and DeVon Hall appearing twice on the D, both times in week 11.
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