{"id":86241,"date":"2025-08-21T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86241\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:55:07","slug":"xavien-howard-ive-been-talking-to-colts-for-a-while-im-ready-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86241\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavien Howard: I’ve been talking to Colts for a while, I’m ready to go"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a while since cornerback Xavien Howard has played an NFL game, but the Colts aren\u2019t wasting any time making plans for him in their defense. <\/p>\n

Howard signed with the team earlier this week and is already listed as a starter alongside Charvarius Ward and Kenny Moore III in the team\u2019s secondary. That may seem like too much too soon for a player who was out of the league in 2024, but Howard has a history with defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo and he said on Wednesday that he\u2019s been in communication with him about his new team. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been talking to Lou for a little minute<\/a>, so I already knew who was Week 1, and I\u2019ve been preparing for it this offseason,\u201d Howard said, via the team\u2019s website. \u201cAnd I\u2019m ready to go. . . . Me and coach Lou got a great relationship, my first two years in the league he worked with me at the Miami Dolphins, so I\u2019ve been in contact with him, and when I got the call I was ready to come. I\u2019m familiar with him, he\u2019s familiar with me, he know my game and I can expect what he\u2019s gonna call. So I was just excited for the opportunity, just ready to come play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Howard was one of the league\u2019s top corners at his peak and performing close to that level would make his presence a big plus to a Colts defense that has had its need to improve overshadowed by the team\u2019s quarterback competition. They settled that by choosing Daniel Jones as their starter and making sure they are up to snuff on both sides will be central to their final preparations for the regular season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a while since cornerback Xavien Howard has played an NFL game, but the Colts aren\u2019t wasting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-86241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86241","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=86241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}