Pursuing a professional basketball career overseas no longer seemed appealing to Erik Swoope after the University of Miami forward had an end-of-the-year meeting with his head coach last month. Almost ...

Most NFL prospects first donned shoulder pads and a helmet while playing for a local youth league team or for their high school. Erik Swoope's first football practice will be at a slightly higher ...

Indianapolis Colts tight end Erik Swoope breaks a tackle attempted by Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Marquis Flowers. Swoope is the second NFL tight end in the last decade the University of Miami’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oakland Raiders continued to add offensive pieces to Jon Gruden's roster puzzle by signing tight end Erik Swoope on Wednesday.

The Indianapolis Colts created minor waves when they traded Dwayne Allen to the New England Patriots on March 9, a year after he signed a four-year extension. Allen caught 35 passes for 406 yards and ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Erik Swoope arrived to the Indianapolis Colts in May 2014 as a giant lump of clay that had to be molded into a football player. Swoope spent the first 22 years of his life playing every ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Signing with an NFL team was a shock. Making the practice squad for a couple years was a stunner. But what Erik Swoope accomplished in 2016 topped it all. That’s when this Indianapolis ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Colts hope they've found the next Antonio Gates or Jimmy Graham. The Colts on Sunday signed Erik Swoope, a former four-year basketball player at the University of Miami, to play ...

At first all he could do was laugh. Football? Come on. Get serious. Erik Swoope hadn’t played a down in his life. Not Pop Warner. Not flag football. Not junior high football. Not high school football.