With the team’s longtime outside linebacker Robert Mathis retiring, significant change at the Indianapolis Colts linebacker position shouldn’t stop there this offseason.
It should signify just the beginning of an overdue ‘changing of the guard’.
Specifically, the front office should look to nearly completely overhaul the defense’s linebacker corps which currently features aging veterans such as Trent Cole (34), D’Qwell Jackson (33), and Erik Walden (31) playing prominent roles.
While Cole and Walden are both set to become free agents–with the former highly unlikely to re-sign with the Colts, Jackson is owed a $5.