{"id":304278,"date":"2026-10-11T07:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304278\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T07:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:18:36","slug":"colts-make-roster-moves-ahead-of-sundays-game-against-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304278\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts make roster moves ahead of Sunday\u2019s game against Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Indianapolis Colts announced a handful of roster moves ahead of Sunday\u2019s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, particularly at the wideout position<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Recent veteran pickup Darius Slayton (knee) was downgraded to out, while fellow veteran Nick Westbrook-Ikhine was upgraded from the practice squad to the 53-man active roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Westbrook-Ikine has appeared in 2 games for the Colts so far this season, participating in 12 offensive plays, and 54% of their total special teams snaps during that same span.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Having been signed as a deep threat replacement after lead wideout Alec Pierce reinjured his heel in Week 2, Slayton has yet to appear in an NFL game for the Colts yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Colts also announced that they placed starting veteran defensive end Arden Key (hamstring) on injured reserve, meaning he\u2019ll miss at least the team\u2019s next four games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jaylahn Tuimoloau will be the projected starter at defensive end opposite Laiatu Latu, while the rookie edge pair of Caden Curry and George Gumbs Jr. should see more rotational reps behind him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indianapolis Colts announced a handful of roster moves ahead of Sunday\u2019s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, particularly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[125042,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-304278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-indianapolis-colts-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}