"Tamme Time" is the headline on a feature story on Colts.com about ex-UK tight end Jacob Tamme, who turned some heads by making five catches for 57 yards and two touchdowns in Indianapolis 23-20 loss at Carolina over the weekend.
Some story highlights:
- “Any time the lights are on, you want to make a good impression,” Tamme said. “It was one of those nights where you got an opportunity to make some plays and the balls were right there. Fortunately, I made them.”
- “He played really well,” Colts starting tight end Dallas Clark said. “The opportunities he had, he took advantage of them. He played awesome and made some big-time plays out there against some good defenders. It’s definitely a confidence-builder for him. Slowly, it will all come together.”
- Tamme caught a nine-yard touchdown pass on 3rd-and-7 to cap a seven-play 65-yard drive and pull the Colts to within seven, 17-10.
- Two possessions later, Tamme caught four passes for 48 yards on a seven-play, 54-yard drive that ended when Jared Lorenzen found Tamme open in the right corner of the end zone for a 14-yard touchdown pass that cut the Panthers’ lead to three, 20-17.
- “Jared put the balls right there – all I had to do was catch them,” Tamme said. “It was a good night in that respect. As a rookie, you can’t ask for anything more than to get a chance to make some touchdown catches. I just try to get in there and do my job. It’s a one-day-at-a-time type of thing. This happened to be a day where I got a chance to get out and make some plays.”
And this from a Canadian Press story:
- "He's done a lot of the things we saw him doing in college, he's doing the things we've seen him do in practice and he's done it all well," coach Tony Dungy said after Monday morning's practice at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Lorenzen threw some real nice balls and looked good as well.