Back in January, on the sideline of Houston’s NRG Stadium, with the Colts’ wild-card playoff win over the Texans already clinched, Eric Ebron turned to the coach who’d recruited him to Indianapolis and offered his gratitude.



“Thank you for bringing me here,” he told Frank Reich.



“We’re here because of you,” Reich told him.



A week later, in between a steady stream of tears, Ebron addressed his teammates inside the locker room in Kansas City, the wounds of the Colts’ lopsided divisional playoff loss to the Chiefs still fresh in his mind.



“I appreciate y’all,” he told them. “I love every one of y’all. We know this shit ain’t gonna be the same next year.”



How prescient those words are, 11 months later, weighing Ebron’s sizzling 2018 season — 14 touchdowns and a Pro Bowl nod — with a 2019 campaign that ended abruptly Monday morning...