INDIANAPOLIS — It didn’t take long for Jerraud Powers to make an impact on his teammates early into his rookie season with the Indianapolis Colts.
Just a few months after being selected by the team in the third round of the NFL Draft, Powers, then 22, was immediately thrusted into a starting role in the Indy secondary, and by Week 3, he had already earned a nickname.
“A lot of the guys call me ‘Old Man,’” Powers told The Indianapolis Star’s Phil Richards. “They call me an old rookie.”
Powers was one of several rookies counted on to make immediate impacts for that 2009 Colts team, which would eventually make it all the way to Super Bowl XLIV, where Indy would fall to the New Orleans Saints.