{"id":183588,"date":"2025-10-01T22:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/183588\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T22:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:41:08","slug":"colts-cb-xavien-howard-retires-from-nfl-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/183588\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts CB Xavien Howard retires from NFL; what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/indianapolis-colts\/338\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Colts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Colts<\/a> cornerback Xavien Howard has decided to retire from the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Indianapolis placed the 32-year-old on the reserve\/retired list, days after Howard struggled in a loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Rams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Rams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, after bad performances against Denver and Los Angeles, Howard decided it was time to end his career.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/colts\/2025\/10\/01\/xavien-howard-retires-colts-nfl\/86465711007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Xavien Howard retires from Colts, NFL;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Xavien Howard retires from Colts, NFL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Veteran Colts cornerback Xavien Howard has decided to retire from the NFL. Indianapolis placed the 32-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,3897,934,481,1263,593,85,117448,117447],"class_list":{"0":"post-183588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-indianapolis","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-rams","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-veteran-colts","17":"tag-xavien-howard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}