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Kenny Moore's brilliance, importance illustrate Colts' need to find better backup nickel

INDIANAPOLIS — The play started off perfectly enough. Another highlight clip for Kenny Moore’s lengthy, growing reel.

There was Moore, all 5-9, 190 pounds of him, lined up at the line of scrimmage like a 3-4 outside linebacker. At the snap he attacked, darting three yards up the field to take on the Titans’ 6-0, 233-pound fullback, Khari Blasingame.

A guy Moore’s size should never win that matchup.

But he does an awful lot of the time, and he did on this play, stoning Blasingame in the backfield, working to the inside and reaching out for the NFL’s monstrous leading rusher, latching onto the 6-3, 250-pound Derrick Henry and hanging on long enough for the rest of the Colts defense to come flying in, dropping Henry for a loss of one.