{"id":628767,"date":"2026-05-07T11:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628767\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:34:10","slug":"josh-downs-looking-forward-to-head-to-head-matchup-with-younger-brother-caleb-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628767\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Downs looking forward to &#8220;head-to-head&#8221; matchup with younger brother Caleb this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colts wide receiver Josh Downs will be looking for the date of one game in particular when the 2026 schedule is released later this month. <\/p>\n<p>The Colts will be hosting the Cowboys at some point during the regular season and that means that Downs will have a chance to play against his brother. Safety Caleb Downs was the 11th overall pick of this year\u2019s draft and his early intel about the Cowboys\u2019 plans for him suggest the two brothers will be seeing a lot of each other. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RomeovilleKid\/status\/2052084805903196328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">me if he goes<\/a> to the Cowboys, he\u2019s playing nickel,\u201d Josh Downs said, via James Boyd of TheAthletic.com. \u201cSo, that\u2019s like head-to-head all game. I was like, \u2018that\u2019s interesting.\u2019 So then he got drafted, I was like \u2018you know we play next year\u2019 and he got all hyped. It\u2019s all fun and games, but you know I gotta let him know he\u2019s the little brother in the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys will be in Rio to play the Ravens in Week 3 and Week 18 is reserved for divisional games, but the matchup of the Downs brothers could take place at any other point in the regular season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colts wide receiver Josh Downs will be looking for the date of one game in particular when the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-628767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}