The Colts on Friday ruled out cornerback Sauce Gardner (calf) and tight end Will Mallory (lung) for their Week 18 game against the Houston Texans, head coach Shane Steichen said.<\/p>\n
Gardner exited the Colts’ Week 17 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars with a calf injury, that the Colts later said was tightness in the same calf Gardner had injured in Week 13. Gardner missed Weeks 14-16 due to that injury, and Steichen said they elected to hold the All-Pro cornerback out of most of the second half of Week 17 out of precaution so Gardner didn’t further re-aggravate the injury.<\/p>\n
Gardner did not participate in any Week 18 practices.<\/p>\n
Mallory, who was active for just his second game of the season against the Jaguars, did not practice this week due to a lung injury.<\/p>\n
Steichen said center Tanor Bortolini, who missed Week 17 due to a concussion, has cleared concussion protocol.<\/p>\n
As a reminder, last Saturday the Colts placed tight end Drew Ogletree, wide receiver Anthony Gould and defensive tackle DeForest Buckner on injured reserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colts on Friday ruled out cornerback Sauce Gardner (calf) and tight end Will Mallory (lung) for their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[589,41709,54198,116,118,117,41707,41708],"class_list":["post-104623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-featured","tag-featured-news","tag-indianapolis-colts-at-houston-texans-2025-reg-18","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-whos-in","tag-whos-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}