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Colts Injury Update: Safety Julian Blackmon Participating in On-Field DB Drills at OTAs

Indianapolis Colts safety Julian Blackmon continues to make encouraging progress in his recovery from a season-ending torn Achilles suffered last season—as he’s now participating in on-field defensive backs drills at OTAs:

He’s so far looked very smooth and fluid in drills, with the ability to immediately stop-and-go off that surgically repaired Achilles.

It comes just a week after Colts head coach Frank Reich indicated that Blackmon was ‘ahead of schedule’ in his offseason rehabilitation—and it safely appears that Reich wasn’t just using ‘coach speak’ and was telling the truth.