{"id":321235,"date":"2025-12-01T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321235\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:21:09","slug":"colts-say-sauce-gardners-achilles-ok-ir-move-not-being-mulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321235\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts say Sauce Gardner’s Achilles OK, IR move not being mulled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Indianapolis Colts<\/a> cornerback Sauce Gardner<\/a> did not damage his Achilles on Sunday, but his calf injury will sideline him for an undetermined length of time, coach Shane Steichen said Monday.<\/p>\n

The Colts, however, are not considering placing Gardner on injured reserve at the moment, Steichen said.<\/p>\n

“His Achilles is good,” Steichen said, discussing the test results on Gardner’s injury.<\/p>\n

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He sustained his injury in Sunday’s 20-16 loss to the Houston Texans<\/a>. He was in coverage away from the action on the Texans’ second play from scrimmage when he went down with his injury, which occurred on a noncontact play.<\/p>\n

Gardner, the No. 4 pick in the 2022 draft and a two-time first-team All-Pro selection, was acquired by Indianapolis from the New York Jets<\/a> at the trade deadline for two first-round draft picks.<\/p>\n

Sunday was Gardner’s third game with the Colts since the trade.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Stephen Holder contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Indianapolis Colts cornerback Sauce Gardner did not damage his Achilles on Sunday, but his calf injury will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-321235","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-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321235","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=321235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}