{"id":77639,"date":"2025-08-18T14:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77639\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:52:07","slug":"agent-colts-signing-4-time-pro-bowl-cb-xavien-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77639\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent &#8211; Colts signing 4-time Pro Bowl CB Xavien Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time Pro Bowl cornerback <a data-player-guid=\"cd9827b0-3e04-dabc-452b-85c3b8aea454\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2978935\/xavien-howard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xavien Howard<\/a> is signing with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"582d14eb-da61-e505-cc40-d972a1b60ed1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indianapolis-colts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a>, his agent announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>David Canter announced the news in a post to X.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reunited and it feels so good. Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aurasportsgroup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@aurasportsgroup<\/a> client <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Iamxavienhoward?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Iamxavienhoward<\/a> on signing with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Colts?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Colts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xDg9wAPaGE\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xDg9wAPaGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Canter (@davidcanter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidcanter\/status\/1957447631241658684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 18, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Howard, 32, did not play last season after he was released last year by the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"af33088b-1e19-d27d-dbc0-354fd7151703\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-dolphins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Dolphins<\/a>, the team for which he starred for during eight seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of Howard comes as the Colts have been beset a series of four key cornerback injuries that have significantly depleted their depth. Howard also has a history with Colts defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo, who was the Dolphins&#8217; defensive backs coach during Howard&#8217;s first two NFL seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Miami&#8217;s second-round pick out of Baylor in 2016, Howard also is a former first-team All-Pro &#8212; in 2020 when he led the NFL with 10 interceptions and 20 passes defended.<\/p>\n<p>Howard has 29 interceptions, and 95 passes defended in his career.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Stephen Holder contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time Pro Bowl cornerback Xavien Howard is signing with the Indianapolis Colts, his agent announced Monday. David Canter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-77639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77639","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=77639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}