Erik Swoope Returns To The Practice Field For Colts

INDIANAPOLIS — It’s impossible to really comprehend all the hard work that went into Erik Swoope’s rise up the depth chart at tight end for the Indianapolis Colts.

His story has been told many times: a college basketball player at the University of Miami, the Colts believed Swoope had the makeup to complete the rare transition over to football, a sport he had never played growing up.

Leaning on the advice of another Miami basketball player-turned-tight end Jimmy Graham, Swoope signed with the Colts in May 2014 and immersed himself in every aspect of the game — big or small. He began working his way up from the depths of the practice squad, where he was stashed for his first two years, to the…