Reggie Wayne idea evolving

Reggie Wayne reflection keeps evolving.

Once as the best complimentary telephonist to Marvin Harrison, Wayne has carved out his own rightful state among the NFL’s best.

His total has increased in each of seven NFL seasons, and Wayne is set for the hardest part - refining those all over again in 2008 after a career-best year in which he caught 104 passes and produced a league-high 1,510 unloading.

It’s a challenge that Wayne, as predictable, .

“It’s definitely standard to be exacting,” he said Saturday as the Colts held their following day of binding mini-camp. “I feel like I must be able to do that, that I have a duty to be able to take advantage of it.”

Wayne emerged last season as Peyton Manning’s chosen target when Harrison went down with a left knee damage.

At times, he was Manning’s only reliable option.

Harrison missed 11 regular-season games, key-round flow pick Anthony Gonzalez was hobbled by injuries throughout the season and Manning even lost tricky end Dallas Clark for one game in November.

That’s when Wayne excelled.

Forced to play against a petitions of coverages to slow him down, an occasion usually taken for Harrison - the Colts’ career groundbreaker in every single main receiving classification, Wayne unremitting catching passes and turned into full-fledged believers.

“It was shutting up the ,” Wayne said. “They were always talking on the order of could I do it, could I do it. They always said it was because Marvin was there, which is true. But I was still able to do it when he wasn’t there.”

Still, Wayne knows it be enhanced for Indianapolis to work in tandem.

The eight-time Pro Bowler is two bad knees, and finds himself part of an inquiry into an purported firing incident in his of Philadelphia. Harrison has been interviewed by police but has not been exciting with any illegality.

Agent Tom Condon Harrison was concerned, and Colts officials have declined to comment exactly until they receive more credible report.

The Colts better disquiet is construction sure Harrison is healthy. He had surgery on his in shape knee following Indy’s playoff loss to San Diego and has been rehabilitating an swollen capsule in his left knee, the wrong that kept him out a career-high 11 games last year.

Coach Tony Dungy said Harrison is in town for camp but is not running out this week because of his treatment. Mini-camp ends Sunday.

“We’ll see where it (the search goes). I’m not indeed up on all the ,” Dungy said Saturday. “The doctors are adage he (Harrison) should be fine. Last season, he had a skillful opening day and was on the way to having the type of year we count on from Marvin. So we ruminate he’ll be OK.”

Wayne, who may be the closest to Harrison, said he’s not concerned of the order of the recce, only Harrison’s vigor.

And he can’t to get him back. In fact, Harrison can’t wait to get back on the field.

“You can tell it’s undeniably sad him not consciousness out there,” Wayne said. “That’s where I got a lot of my practice help from, because he never takes plays off so when Peyton’s out there, I don’t take off. We feed off each other and I’d much satisfactorily have him out there because the more we’re laid-back, the in good health off we’ll be.”

But getting Harrison back also could power Wayne’s stats.

Of course, that’s not how Wayne sees it. In an era where many receivers are regularly defendant of spirit selfish, Wayne points out that with the two Pro Bowl , the Colts won a Super Bowl. With Harrison at less than full force they were in the local round of the .

“I like it that way because that way they can’t key on me,” Wayne said.

Besides, Wayne has by this time established , put up the colorful numbers and won a Super Bowl ring.

All he truthfully wants now is some more locket, and that’s what Dungy likes to hear.

“He’s gotten restored every year since we got here, manufacture . He made a ton of big plays for us last year,” Dungy said. “That’s in fact not a complete lot unusual than what he did from the aforementioned three years, and that’s what we’d like to see over this year.”

(daymlb.com)