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• Camp · Sep 3, 2026Sep 3, 2026

  Colts Camp — Sep 3: Ballard Backs Allen After Arrest

  Two things our last episode did not carry lead this one: Keenan Allen was arrested on misdemeanor drunk-driving charges hours after his Colts debut, and Chris Ballard on Tuesday backed him and said he is expected to play against Baltimore; and Cam Taylor-Britt is suspended for the opener, which is why Indianapolis spent its one waiver claim on a cornerback, Philadelphia's Kapena Gushiken, at the cost of its ninth offensive lineman. Blake Grupe went to the Jets, Colby Wooden to the Saints. Daniel Jones' tendon is still the story, and Ballard put a number on the camp it got.

• Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

  Colts Camp — Aug 31: Jones Held Out, Three Quarterbacks Kept

  Daniel Jones will open the season against the Ravens without a single game snap since his December Achilles tear — the Colts held him out of the preseason finale a day before it, reversing the stated plan. The 53 kept all three quarterbacks with no backup named, Spencer Shrader won the kicking job with a 5-for-5 preseason, and cutdown day brought a trade for a Buffalo center after Indianapolis moved on from every other reserve in the room.

• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Colts Camp — Aug 23: Jones Didn't Miss Against Atlanta

  Daniel Jones threw no incompletions in Wednesday's joint practice against the Falcons, per the team's own notebook, eight months removed from his Achilles tear. The Colts also signed Keenan Allen, watched their backups lose 34-6 to Atlanta with almost every starter resting, and pointed at the next test: Steichen says starters play the finale against Detroit, which would be Jones' first game snaps since the injury.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 16, 2026

  Indianapolis Colts Camp Update — August 16: Jones Beat the Patriots, Then Sat Out

  The joint practice in Foxborough was the real test, and Jones passed it — a first-team two-minute touchdown drive against Drake Maye's defense in his first live-rush environment since the Achilles. Then the Colts sat him for the game entirely, tied the Patriots 13-13 with backups, and got DeForest Buckner back in team work without ever announcing it.

• Camp · Aug 9, 2026Aug 10, 2026

  Indianapolis Colts Camp Update — August 9: Daniel Jones Hasn't Missed a First-Team Snap

  The market spent all summer pricing a tendon. The tendon has taken every first-team rep since the first practice, scrambled on purpose, and told reporters he feels good — while Jonathan Taylor signed his third contract mid-camp. The bounce case didn't just hold. It got receipts.

• 2026 PreviewJul 6, 2026

  Indianapolis Colts 2026 Season Preview — The Market Is Pricing a Tendon

  Indianapolis had the division's best offense, football's best rushing touchdown engine, and the cleanest bounce-back profile in the AFC South — and a win total that keeps falling anyway, because everything rides on one December Achilles.

• Season ReviewMay 11, 2026

  Colts 2025 Season in Review

  8-9 regular season

• Draft RecapMay 11, 2026

  Colts — 2026 Draft Recap

  8 picks in the 2026 NFL Draft

• Week 3Sep 28, 2026

  Colts 19, Texans 17 — Week 3: Three Giveaways, Four Field Goals

  Indianapolis beat Houston 19-17 at home on Spencer Shrader's fourth field goal, a 53-yarder with 21 seconds left, after a defense that allowed 509 and 523 yards in Weeks 1 and 2 held the Texans to 223, the fewest of the 28 teams to play so far in Week 3, while the offense lost 3 turnovers.

• Week 2Sep 21, 2026

  Colts 30, Chiefs 33 — Week 2: Thirty Points Was Not Enough

  Indianapolis lost 33-30 in overtime at Kansas City on Sunday night, scoring on six of ten drives with no three-and-outs while its defense allowed 534 yards, the most of the 30 teams that have played in Week 2, a week after allowing 529.

• Week 1Sep 13, 2026

  Colts 23, Ravens 41 — Week 1: Eighty-Eight Passing Yards in the First Half

  Indianapolis scored on its opening drive at home and then produced eighty-eight yards on nineteen first-half pass plays while Baltimore scored the next twenty-eight points. The Ravens ran for two hundred five yards and four touchdowns; the Colts' passing game lost fifteen expected points on thirty-three pass plays, the second-worst figure per pass play of the sixteen teams in Sunday's early games. Jonathan Taylor scored twice.

• Week 3 · What RepeatsSep 30, 2026

  Colts, Week 3 — What Repeats: The Colts Loaded the Box

  Indianapolis put seven or more in the box on 17 of Houston's 20 designed runs, the fewest light boxes it has shown this season, and held them to 3.1 yards a run after allowing 5.4 and 5.0 in the first two weeks, while sending five or more rushers on only 16 percent of dropbacks and forcing contested balls on 44 percent of C.J. Stroud's throws, the highest share any defense forced in Week 3.

• Week 2 · What RepeatsSep 24, 2026

  Colts, Week 2 — What Repeats: Play-Action Went 25th to 2nd

  Indianapolis used play-action on 16 of 33 dropbacks in Kansas City, second-highest of 32 teams after ranking 25th in Week 1, while Daniel Jones's contested-throw rate held at 29 percent for a second straight game and the defense sent five or more rushers less often than all but one team.

• Week 1 · What RepeatsSep 16, 2026

  Colts, Week 1 — What Repeats: Half the Light Boxes, 167 Yards

  Indianapolis showed a light box on 9 of Baltimore's 31 designed runs — 29 percent, about half the 56.8 percent this defense showed across all of 2025 — and those runs still went for 167 yards; on the other side Daniel Jones put 24 of 31 throws in a catchable spot, eighth-highest in the league in Week 1, with three of them dropped and Baltimore using play-action on 10 of 29 dropbacks.