Indianapolis Colts
According to PFF, Indianapolis Colts pending 2026 free agent Alec Pierce is the player that the Horseshoe can’t afford to lose—which isn’t all that surprising to be fair:
Indianapolis Colts: WR Alec Pierce
The Colts’ 2025 campaign was truly a tale of two halves. The team went from possible Super Bowl contenders to finishing third in the AFC South. Compounding the situation is that Indianapolis doesn’t have its first-round pick, plus has several contributors on expiring contracts. The most valuable of those names is certainly Pierce.
Pierce found his groove this past year, blossoming...
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According to PFF, Indianapolis Colts center Tanor Bortolini was their most improved player at his position league-wide during the 2025 campaign:
Center: Tanor Bortolini, Indianapolis Colts
The Colts are the NFL’s offensive lineman factory. Their ability to churn out NFL starters at every position across the offensive line is unparalleled. Lost a key starter? Not a problem, it steps the next man up to play sound football.
The player to fill that role for the Colts in 2025 was Tanor Bortolini (82.6 grade; 3rd), the team’s fourth-round pick in 2024. Bortolini spot-started in...
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According to NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo, the Philadelphia Eagles requested to interview Indianapolis Colts current offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter for their same coaching role this early offseason for both teams:
Under head coach Shane Steichen, the 41-year-old Cooter has served as the Colts offensive coordinator since 2023—having previously served as a passing coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars (2022) and an offensive consultant for the Eagles (2021) among his other prior pro football coaching roles.
One of Cooter’s first coaching stops in the NFL was actually as an offensive assistant with the Colts back from 2009-2011, so there may be...
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Indianapolis, IN — There’s much to be said about Colts general manager Chris Ballard’s hit rate, or lack thereof, of drafting defensive ends. Often opting for potential over production, he’s reversed course over the past couple of draft cycles, selecting Laiatu Latu and J.T. Tuimoloau in back-to-back drafts.
Tuimoloau was drafted in the second round of the 2025 NFL Draft (45th overall), serving as the seventh installment of first and second-round defensive ends drafted under this regime.
This article, which focuses on Tuimoloau, is the second entry to a new article series that’ll cover each Colts rookie from the 2025-26...
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On Friday, the Indianapolis Colts announced that the team’s training camp will be moved from Grand Park in Westfield, Indiana, to franchise headquarters at its W. 56th street, Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center beginning in the 2027 offseason.
This offseason will mark the team’s final training camp at Grand Park, at least as it stands.
As the team announcement notes, the Colts will join the NFL’s 26 other teams who host their team training camp at their own practice facilities—meaning there will be five or fewer clubs who have their training camps off-site in 2027.
Outside of a few aberration...
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Indianapolis Colts rookie tight end Tyler Warren capped off his sensational debut season with an invitation to the 2026 Pro Bowl Games in San Francisco.
For a Colts offense that was in desperate need of a pass catcher who could provide consistent stability and allow the offense to sustain more drives, Warren blossomed into a franchise cornerstone.
Selected with the No. 14 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, Warren started all 17 games for Indianapolis and set franchise rookie records with 76 catches for 817 receiving yards. Warren also scored five total touchdowns in his rookie campaign. His 817...
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The NFL divisional round is about to start this weekend. Not to downplay the Wild Card round, but this is when things start getting serious. The stakes are simply higher after some of the not so serious teams have been eliminated. We are left with the big dogs. The Indianapolis Colts aren’t one of those teams this year, but they have been there before and as a franchise, know what it takes to hoist a Lombardi. There is another team that is facing incredibly high stakes, but they have never been here before. They haven’t even been close, but they...
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Indianapolis, IN — The Indianapolis Colts are fresh off another disappointing season, but of course, it wasn’t all bad. There were some individual breakout performances from established players, headlined by wide receiver Alec Pierce, while the Colts’ 2025 draft class provided both production for the season and promise for the future.
This article kicks off a short but sweet series that will recap each of the Colts’ eight 2025 draftees, beginning with their first draft selection, tight end Tyler Warren. We will go through the list in its original order with three phases in mind: post-draft expectations, rookie season results,...
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I have never really seen anything like it. Given that it has been thirty years since a team started 8-2 and missed the playoffs and I am thirty-seven, it stands to reason why. That is a long time ago, and seven-year-old me wasn’t watching much football. We all know the story at this point, but what are the “why’s” we can point to in order for us to properly digest the massive fall from grace the Indianapolis Colts experienced in the second half? Here are a few thoughts.
One of the most obvious reasons is that the competition stiffened: Chiefs,...
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While it is still early to tell who will hit the open market in Free Agency, there are plenty of teams that need to focus on gaining cap space before the League New Year in March. 10 such teams are anywhere from $5.4 million over the cap to to $58.1 million over their allotted cap room. As such, they are the most likely teams to lose their upcoming Free Agents to the open market, as they need to focus their energy on cap manipulation (restructures, extensions on current contracts, cuts/trades) to even entertain retaining players.
Most of the Free Agents...
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