Article: Injuries can't corral Colts Riddled team still winning; COLTS INJURIES Indianapolis Colts who have missed at least one game this season, listing position, player, number of exhibition or regular-season games out, reason, and replacement for regular-season game if player was a starter: RB Marshall Faulk (2 regular season), dislocated toe, replaced by Lamont Warren. DE Tony Bennett (2 regular season), sprained knee, replaced by Richard Dent and Steve Martin. LB Trev Alberts (4 exhibition season, 4 regular season), dislocated shoulder, various replacements. DE Ellis Johnson (1 exhibition season, 4 regular season), concussion, replaced by Bernard Whittington. LB Stephen Grant (1 regular season), strained groin, replaced by Elijah Alexander. OL Jay Leeuwenberg (1 regular season), sprained ankle, replaced by Eric Mahlum. OT Kipp Vickers (2 regular season), sprained knee, replaced by Troy Auzenne. DB Derrick Frazier (2 exhibition season, 2 regular season), knee, broken forearm, replaced by Eugene Daniel. OL Eric Mahlum (3 exhibition season, 1 regular season), sore left knee, replaced by Jay Leeuwenberg. DT Tony Siragusa (3 exhibition season), thumb. DB Derwin Gray (2 exhibition season, 1 regular season), ankle sprain. DB Damon Watts (1 exhibition season, 2 regular season), fractured thumb. FB Clif Groce (1 regular season), hamstring. LB Elijah Alexander (3 exhibition season, 1 regular season), hamstring. DB Eugene Daniel (4 exhibition season), shoulder. LB Quentin Coryatt (3 exhibition season), shoulder. DB Ray Buchanan (1 exhibition season), hip. DB Jason Belser (2 exhibition season), ankle. TE Ken Dilger (3 exhibition season), fractured finger. OT Troy Auzenne (3 exhibition season), knee. DL Tony McCoy (1 exhibition season), groin. WR Mark Stock (1 exhibition season), ankle. OL Jason Mathews (1 exhibition season), knee. OT Derek West, foot, physically unable to perform list. FB Roosevelt Potts, suspended for year by National Football League for substance abuse, replaced by Zack Crockett.

The victories are piling up almost as quickly as the injuries for the Indianapolis Colts.

What a great time for a bye, which the Colts are enjoying this weekend as they ponder a 4-0 record and a queue outside their training room that seems long enough to stretch around the RCA Dome.

"You go in our locker room and it looks like a hospital emergency room with all the bandages, ice packs and braces," said defensive back David Tate. "I can't say enough about how some of these guys have played." Twenty-three of the 53 players on the Colts roster have missed at least one exhibition or regular-season game because of injuries. Three of them haven't played a down during the regular season, ...

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