{"id":702849,"date":"2026-05-29T19:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702849\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:49:14","slug":"53-man-roster-cutdown-deadline-for-colts-rest-of-nfl-changed-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702849\/","title":{"rendered":"53-man roster cutdown deadline for Colts, rest of NFL changed for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

There will be a change for the Indianapolis Colts<\/a> and the rest of the NFL when it comes to the roster cutdown period in late August.<\/p>\n

The NFL reportedly informed<\/a> teams this week that the roster cutdown deadline to the final 53 will be earlier this year, taking place on Sunday, Aug. 30th at 6:00 PM ET.<\/p>\n

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Typically, roster cutdown day is the following Tuesday.<\/p>\n

This also means that the corresponding waiver claims will be earlier as well. That deadline is now 1:00 PM ET on Monday, Aug. 31.<\/p>\n

For the Colts<\/a> and the rest of the NFL, this means that there will be less time to make those final roster decisions. On the flip side, if a player is claimed on waivers, there will be an additional few days for that player to get acclimated to the new playbook prior to Week 1 arriving.<\/p>\n

For an overview of the Colts’ full 90-man roster, you can find the positional breakdown for the offense here<\/a> and the defense here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 2026 NFL season kicks off on Sept. 9.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Colts Wire: How roster cutdown deadline shake up impacts Colts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be a change for the Indianapolis Colts and the rest of the NFL when it comes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,288445,1246,593,85],"class_list":["post-702849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cutdown-day","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702849","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=702849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}