The Indianapolis Colts are looking for better balance on offense heading into this Sunday's game versus the New York Jets. Clark Wade/IndyStar, Clark Wade/IndyStar
INDIANAPOLIS — Years ago, early in his NFL career, Matt Slauson told his wife, Cami, there were only three types of injuries that would make him stop, think, and seriously weigh his football future: His head, his neck, or his back.
Now that it's become his reality, he can’t stop dwelling on how much worse it could have been.
It was six days ago in Gillette Stadium, amidst the Colts’ 38-24 loss to the Patriots, that Slauson broke two vertebrae in his spine early in the third quarter.