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Syracuse Football: Path for Zaire Franklin, Steve Ishmael won’t be easy

We’ve got good news and bad news.

The good news is two former Syracuse football teammates (Steve Ishmael and Zaire Franklin) were reunited on the Indianapolis Colts in 2018 and are both still on the roster in 2019.

The bad news according to Colts second-year head coach Frank Reich is it won’t be easy to stay on this team:

“Everyone knows this team is going to be much harder to make than it was last year.”

Telling quote from Frank Reich, which hints at the depth GM Chris Ballard has added to the roster thru the draft and free agency: "Everyone knows this team is going to be much harder to make than it was last year.