when a defender does the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n(a) grabs the runner with one or both hands or wraps the runner with both arms; and (b) unweights himself by swiveling and dropping his hips and\/or lower body, landing on and\/or trapping the runner\u2019s leg(s) at or below the knee.”<\/p>\n
Steichen described the tackle that injured Ahmed as a hip-drop tackle and said that Washington was “down in the dumps” because of the injury.<\/p>\n
“Never want to see that happen,” Steichen told reporters, per ESPN. “I know we don’t encourage hip-drop tackles.<\/p>\n
“I know Trey’s down in the dumps, and I don’t think he’s trying to do that. We’re just trying to create an edge. … Those [backups] are going to have to tackle come preseason.”<\/p>\n
Ahmed, 26, is approaching his fifth NFL season. He played his first four seasons with the Miami Dolphins as a backup who averaged 4.3 yards per carry and tallied 867 yards from scrimmage and six touchdowns in 38 appearances.<\/p>\n
Ahmed signed with the Colts this offseason on a one-year, $1.17 million contract with no guaranteed money. Washington signed with the Colts this offseason after four years as a starter at Mississippi.<\/p>\n
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Veteran Colts linebacker Zaire Franklin offered his support to both Washington and Ahmed in comments to The Athletic after Sunday’s injury to Ahmed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYoung Trey, he\u2019s competing for a job, straight up,\u201d Franklin said. \u201cSo, he\u2019s out here trying to compete and trying to be better. We\u2019re warriors on that field. When we step on the field, we understand what the possibilities are.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, we\u2019re a team. We\u2019re not trying to hurt each other, but at the same time, we\u2019re competing. These guys are trying to feed their families. It\u2019s a part of the game, but definitely a tough break for Salvon and definitely praying for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indianapolis Colts running back Salvon Ahmed’s NFL season is in jeopardy. And it’s due to a reported hip-drop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,1732,733,1720,514,30679,30681,82,30682,30680,30683],"class_list":["post-43325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-leg-injury","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-nfl","tag-salvon-ahmed","tag-shane-steichen","tag-sports","tag-tackle","tag-trey-washington","tag-zaire-franklin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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