Chris Polian, the vice president and general manager — actually was in charge of the Colts’ draft room.
Bill Polian told Mike Chappell of the Indianapolis Star, “The dynamic has changed, there is no two ways about that.” When asked if it would it be wrong to say, ‘Chris, this is your first draft?’
“That’s not wrong,” Bill Polian said. “Chris set the parameters. He did the study that gave us the road map as to where we needed to go. We stayed with that.”
Chris Polian though said, “It’s hokey, but it’s a collaborative process.”
Consider it the latest step in a gradual transition aimed at Chris Polian, 39, succeeding his father and, basically, running the Colts’ football operations.