With training camp a little more than a month away, Indy Football Report Editor John Oehser will spend the final weeks of the off-season examining 21 questions about the Indianapolis Colts entering 2010 . . .
No. 5: Can TE Dallas Clark improve?
We move today to the fifth part of this series examining 21 questions around the 2010 Indianapolis Colts asking what almost certainly will be a topic come training camp :Can TE Dallas Clark improve this season?
The answer is he can.
And that might not necessarily mean a big jump in numbers. Actually, it may not mean a jump in numbers at all.
Clark, a first-round selection in the 2003 NFL Draft by the Colts, has improved steadily since then, taking a huge jump during the post-season following the 2006 season, and making noticeable strides regularly since.
Clark, who caught 58 passes for 616 yards and 11 touchdowns in 2007, followed that with 77 receptions for 848 yards and six touchdowns in 2009. This past season, he caught 100 passes for 1,106 yards and 10 touchdowns, with the receptions the second-highest single-season total for a tight end in NFL history.
The result? The most-decorated season of Clark's career:
*AFC Pro Bowl Team Starter.
*NFL Alumni Tight End-of-the-Year.
*The Sporting News NFL All-Pro Team.
*Associated Press NFL All-Pro Team.
*PFW/PFWA NFL All-NFL Team.
*PFW/PFWA NFL All-AFC Team.
It was, by any measure a career season, and when Clark was asked during the team's recent organized team activities how he would measure improvement, he admitted that statistics may not be a way to do that anymore. At least not in the sense of seeing statistics get markedly better than the season before.
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