As we go from Year One of the Andrew Luck Experience in Indy to Year Two, the club is changing offensive coordinators, which has proven to be a detriment to other young passers around the league. As it relates to Luck and the Colts, however, things should be copacetic: the new OC is Pep Hamilton, who was Luck’s OC his final season at Stanford. And apparently, one thing we should see in 2013 is an extension of the vertical passing attack. Which players will be the biggest beneficiaries of this alteration?

According to what Dan Pompei of National Football Post has learned, we can expect to see former Raiders first-round pick Darrius Heyward-Bey heavily involved in this area: “The Colts believe they have the resources to be one of the better teams in the league at stretching the field. Part of their enthusiasm has to do with the acquisition of Darrius Heyward-Bey. Indy coaches see him as a potentially explosive playmaker who can get behind coverage. The Colts will be trying to get Heyward-Bey more opportunities than he ever had in Oakland. And they also want to use second year tight end Coby Fleener more as a vertical threat down the seam. With his speed and size, Fleener should be able to take advantage of man to man matchups as well as zone coverages.”

That all sounds great, but the reality of DHB’s career has not come close to matching expectations thus far.