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Colts Head Coach Jim Caldwell (AP Photo)
The Indianapolis Colts this weekend held their first rookie minicamp under first-year head coach Jim Caldwell.
The idea of the weekend is to acclimate the Colts' eight draft selections from this past weekendand 13 collegiate free agents to the Colts' system, and Caldwell said following the first day he liked what he saw.
"We had an opportunity to take the young guys through their paces," said Caldwell, who succeeded Tony Dungy in the position in January. "It's a very important time for us, primarily because the teaching and information we try and dispense at this time is important for them to be able to grasp and at some point in time regurgitate.”
Among the eight draft selections participating in the minicamp: Donald Brown, a running back from the University of Connecticut and the team's first-round selection in the 2009 NFL Draft. Brown rushed for more than 2,000 yards this past season, the only player in college football to do so.
“We were not disappointed,” Caldwell said, “It's very, very difficult to evaluate anyone on one day for a two-hour period. A lot more goes into it than that, but he certainly did well today.”
The rookie camp is the first of four opportunities rookies will have to hear the Colts' system installed, Caldwell said.
“They'll hear it one other time prior to starting our OTAs may 19,” he said. “They'll hear it again just before training camp. We bring them in a couple of days early – and then obviously the training camp itself. They have an opportunity to hear it taught, get a feel for it, then put it to action. It's a very important time and they started out very well.”
Caldwell said the Colts have three primary objectives this weekend:
* Get the players acclimated to philosophy, techniques and fundamentals.
* Teach the players how the Colts do things.
* Teach the players' the pace at which the Colts operate.
“You could tell it's a very attentive group,” Caldwell said. “It's a group that learns quickly. They were pretty efficient for the first time going out and operating within our system. We take it slow – as we can, as slow as you can go in this league. We try to make certain that teaching is the most important thing. The instruction, we'll slow it down if we have to in terms of our install if we find they're not grasping the material. . . .But we think we have a smart group here.”
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