INDIANAPOLIS – The transformation of the Colts’ front office is nearly complete.

The hiring of General Manager Chris Ballard in January was always expected to be followed by additional changes, and now they’re just about complete.

The Colts are expected to soon announce the hiring of esteemed Seattle personnel executive Ed Dodds, a trusted assistant of Seahawks general manager John Schneider, Jets senior director of college scouting Rex Hogan and veteran NFL personnel man Morocco Brown.

Each is a familiar face for Ballard, who is tapping into existing relationships to assemble his staff. More on that in a minute.

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Dodds and Hogan reportedly will share the title of Co-Vice Presidents of Player Personnel, one rung below Ballard in the personnel department. Brown, according to two sources, likely will assume a role overseeing college scouting.

The team is expected to wait until all moves are complete before making a hiring announcement.

Why the shakeup?

For one, this is standard operating procedure when a new GM comes aboard, the new guy generally wanting to hire his own personnel. The process generally commences after the draft, when scouting personnel’s “season” effectively comes to an end. (The contracts of front-office personnel generally expire then, too.)

Then there’s this fact: You want people with common thought processes and methods. To that end, Ballard said this week during an interview on WFNI-AM (1070) that his new hires will be “like-minded” individuals.

Ballard knows this about these men because he’s worked alongside each of them before. Dodds and Ballard go back to the early 2000s at Texas A&M-Kingsville, where Ballard was a position coach and Dodds was a student coach. Hogan and Brown spent time with the Bears in the 2000s while Ballard was a scout and, later, a personnel executive for the team.

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The Colts are also bringing aboard former Army Green Beret Brian Decker to be player personnel strategist, according to ESPN. Decker previously worked for the Cleveland Browns doing psychological assessments of draft prospects, and is expected to perform a similar role in Indianapolis.

The Colts’ openings were created when the team recently dismissed Vice President of Football Operations Jimmy Raye, director of college scouting T.J. McCreight and scouts Brandon Brown and Ahmad Russell.

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