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Erik Swoope on verge of being next basketball player-turned-NFL tight end for Colts

INDIANAPOLIS – Erik Swoope arrived to the Indianapolis Colts in May 2014 as a giant lump of clay that had to be molded into a football player.

Swoope spent the first 22 years of his life playing every sport but football. He had never played at any level, not even Pop Warner football. He attended the University of Miami on a basketball scholarship.