2:48 PM ET
Stephen HolderESPN
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Colts person an interim caput manager who has ne'er coached supra the precocious schoolhouse level, and present they person a playcaller who has ne'er antecedently performed his caller role.
Passing crippled specialist/assistant quarterbacks manager Parks Frazier volition presume playcalling duties for the squad nether interim caput manager Jeff Saturday, aggregate sources confirmed to ESPN connected Tuesday. The quality was archetypal reported by NFL Network.
Saturday said during a quality league connected Monday that helium had been interviewing existent unit members passim the time to find who mightiness beryllium the champion acceptable to beryllium the play caller. The relation was antecedently held by erstwhile caput manager Frank Reich, who was fired by the squad connected Monday.
The squad besides considered quarterbacks manager Scott Milanovich arsenic a campaigner to grip the play-calling duties, according to a source, earlier yet turning to Frazier. Milanovich has been a play caller successful the Canadian Football League and was the play caller for the Jacksonville Jaguars portion serving arsenic their interim play caller during the last 5 weeks of the 2018 season.
Frazier is adjacent to Reich, an ordained curate who officiated Frazier's wedding. Reich leaned heavy connected Frazier portion helium was the adjunct to the caput manager successful 2018-19 earlier promoting him to prime power manager successful 2020 and adjunct quarterbacks manager successful 2021.
Frazier has an undergraduate grade successful machine subject and is considered among the leaders connected the unit successful the usage of exertion and data. He besides has worked intimately down the scenes the past year-plus with Sam Ehlinger, who volition proceed to beryllium the starting quarterback. A erstwhile backmost astatine Murray State, the 30-year-old Frazier brings acquisition astatine the position.
The Colts sojourn the Las Vegas Raiders connected Sunday.
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