INDIANAPOLIS — Faith, family and football are the guiding principles of many players, coaches and team officials across the National Football League.
And that's certainly no different for Chris Ballard.
Hired in January 2017 to be the Indianapolis Colts' general manager, Ballard has spent much of the past 460-plus days doing what he can to get a proud franchsie back to its winning ways. But, off the field, Ballard has a completely different team of his own: five kids and a wife, Kristin (but she's in charge at home, Ballard insists).
And while Ballard of late has found himself fielding tons of questions about his professional life — the Colts just wrapped up a modern-era record 11-player 2018 NFL Draft class, and head into a critical 2018 season with a franchise quarterback, Andrew Luck, set to return after missing the entire 2017 season — it's the off-the-field stuff that just doesn't come up all that often.