INDIANAPOLIS — Ryan Kelly couldn’t believe his eyes.
“I didn’t even know it was him,” he said. “It didn’t even register in my mind. It didn’t compute, and I looked down there and I was like, ‘There’s no way.’”
Kelly, the Indianapolis Colts’ seventh-year center, wasn’t talking about a specific rush package or protection. Instead the two-time Pro Bowler was talking about a touchdown the Colts scored in Thursday night’s primetime blow out of the New York Jets. But it wasn’t just any regular trip to the end zone.
In a game which somehow contained multiple double passes, end arounds, an everyone-but-the-center false start, a shovel pass touchdown and ended in scorigami -- the 45-30 final having never happened before in NFL history -- one play stood out above all.