Reggie Wayne

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And this is what pulled him back, after four years of phone calls from Frank Reich, the Colts head coach who long sought to add Wayne, the franchise’s all-time leader in games played, to his staff. “No,” Wayne had told Reich, over and over, never feeling enough of an urge to jump into coaching full-time.

“We’re all gonna be horizontal at some point,” Wayne explained. “My expiration date is gonna come, and I feel like what’s the purpose if I’m deceased and I ain’t give anyone my knowledge?”

He knew the phone calls would stop at some point, that Reich would move on and find someone else to lead his wide receivers. So this time, Wayne listened. The first call came in early February, after the Colts’ receivers coach the last two seasons, Mike Groh, left for the same post with the Giants.

Reich tossed out the idea: what would it take to get you back to Indianapolis?

This time, instead of a quick “No,” Wayne mulled it over. And the more he did, the more he realized the time was right.

His three kids are older, and the beach, as he put it, “ain’t going anywhere.”