When head coach Shane Steichen sent kicker Spencer Shrader out to make a 60-yard field goal at the end of the Colts' game against the Denver Broncos, he did so with the utmost confidence.

He didn't necessarily want to put the second-year kicker in a situation like that, but with the way the previous few plays had turned out – running plays that yielded very little yardage – and with three seconds left on the clock, that was the only way the Colts were going to have a chance win the game.

And Shrader had proven he could make it from that distance before.

"He made multiple 60-plus yard field goals in pregame," special teams coordinator Brian Mason said Tuesday. "The furthest one that he attempted was from 63, I think he had three to four yards to spare on that. So that's where we ended up

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