Posted by ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- We like neat and tidy position battles with clear winners and losers.

My sense is the fight for the No. 3 receiver job with the Colts isn't going to work that way.

	AP Photo/Michael Conroy
	Second-year receiver Pierre Garcon says he's much more comfortable in the offense this year.

The buzz around the Colts is that Pierre Garcon has looked very good, and from what I've seen I concur. He looks smooth and fast and confident. At the same time, word is rookie Austin Collie is working hard as a slot guy and showing a lot of promise.

So the Colts' No. 3 receiver position could end up being split between two guys: Garcon lining up outside with Reggie Wayne or Anthony Gonzalez moving inside, or Collie inside with Wayne and Gonzalez remaining outside.

In Caldwell's talk with the media someone joked that the team is making it very difficult for us to stereotype the receivers because of how they are being moved around.

"Yeah, well that gives a defense fits as well because they can't anticipate or take it for granted that they are going to be lined up in the same spot every single spot of the ball," he said, happily.

Wayne said it's easier to get doubled outside and he likes the idea of moving around.

"[Outside] you're going the entire game with them knowing exactly where you are going to be, so that makes it that much harder," he said. "So hopefully we'll be a little creative, razzle and dazzle them a bit and get going."

Wednesday morning's practice was a light one, a jog-through where the quarterbacks didn't even throw the ball most of the time as people proved they knew their assignments.

Well after the session was over, one player remained on the field, working on steps and routes. And when Collie looked to be finished, working his way to a watercooler under the goal posts, he drank, peeled off his jersey and turned back, returning to the field for more solo labor. A nice sign.

Garcon, a sixth-rounder out of Mount Union last year, talked Tuesday about how much more comfortable he is.

"It's totally different," he said, laughing. "When they are calling out plays, I know what I am doing."

One thing that is making things easier for him is a better sense of the game's geography. He has a truer feel for where he is, so he's not checking landmarks, looking down for hashmarks or numbers. That allows him to better get in and out of breaks while reading and setting up defenders.

"A lot more quickness, getting lower, getting your balance, finding your center of gravity," he said. "And then looking at the defender instead of looking down and stuff like that. Before I was looking down, trying to get your depth, proper technique and all of that. More repetition to get used to certain routes and you don't have to look down, you can look at the defender and that kind of throws them off."

Two guys for what we want to call one role that really amounts to two different positions because of the candidates. It's a formula the Colts are surely comfortable with and hoping sticks. Multiple options are what every team wants.