WESTFIELD, Ind. – For the first two weeks of training camp, Zaire Franklin was on his own. While the rest of the Colts defense was warming up together, he'd be on the other field doing his own rehab exercises. When his teammates gathered on the field for individual drills and team periods, he'd be standing on the sidelines, watching.

He was surrounded by players, coaches and trainers all the time; he wasn't literally alone. But there's a big difference between running alongside your teammates to celebrate on the football field and waiting to give them a high five when they reach the sideline.

On Saturday, Franklin finally got his first taste of training camp, suiting up for the first time since his offseason ankle surgery that sidelined the linebacker through all of OTAs and minicamp.

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