How bad did it get last season? Let’s put it this way: So drained was the depth chart by Week 10 that if one more Indianapolis Colts offensive lineman fell victim to injury that afternoon in Cleveland, the next man up was Jack Doyle.
Problem was: Jack Doyle is a tight end.
Thankfully, for the sake of Andrew Luck’s posterity, it never came to that. The Colts cobbled together a solution, tossing a center in at guard, a guard in at tackle, and escaped with a 25-24 triumph — only after T.Y. Hilton swiped a fourth quarter touchdown wearing one shoe.