INDIANAPOLIS — The Colts could get safety Bob Sanders and running back Joseph Addai back in the lineup Thursday night.
Then again, maybe not.
Coach Tony Dungy told reporters Tuesday he thought both would play against the Jaguars and both were listed as full participants in Tuesday’s practice.
But after practice, team president Bill Polian offered a different assessment.
“Joseph is questionable, and Bob, I think, is, too,” Polian told NFL Network. “I would say Bob’s chances are probably 51-49 of playing.”
Addai sat out Sunday’s game, a 31-21 victory over Detroit, with a right shoulder injury. Sanders has missed four of the last five games with swelling in his right knee, the same knee on which he had surgery while missing five games this season with a high ankle sprain.
The Colts will be without middle linebacker Gary Brackett. The defensive captain has missed the last two games after cracking a bone in his lower right leg.
Vick could be on move
NORFOLK, Va. — Former NFL star Michael Vick could be out of federal prison and in a Virginia halfway house by Jan. 20, one of his attorneys told a federal bankruptcy judge.
Vick is serving a 23-month prison term in Leavenworth, Kan., for bankrolling a dogfighting conspiracy and is scheduled to be released from federal custody around July 20. Last month, he pleaded guilty to a state dogfighting charge, avoiding more prison time. The case’s resolution also cleared the way for his early release from prison and possible transition into a halfway house.
Vick’s long-distance absence has complicated his bankruptcy proceedings in Virginia, said bankruptcy attorney Michael Blumenthal.
Conversely, the bankruptcy case might complicate plans for Vick’s transfer.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Frank Santoro ordered Vick’s appearance at a bankruptcy hearing set for Jan. 30 in Newport News, Va.
Vick, once the NFL’s highest-paid player, is earning 12 cents an hour at the federal penitentiary. He filed for federal bankruptcy protection in July, claiming assets of $16 million and liabilities of $20.4 million.
Footnotes.
Browns tight end Steve Heiden has torn ligaments in his right knee and will miss the rest of the season.
• The Jaguars placed receiver Jerry Porter (hamstring) on injured reserve and signed former Broncos defensive back Calvin Lowry.
The Associated Press
