{"id":833277,"date":"2026-09-01T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/833277\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:06:08","slug":"colts-gm-chris-ballard-on-keenan-allen-give-him-some-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/833277\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts GM Chris Ballard on Keenan Allen: Give him some grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wide receiver Keenan Allen remains a member of the Colts <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/keenan-allen-was-released-from-jail-on-sunday-afternoon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">after being arrested<\/a> for operating a vehicle while intoxicated over the weekend and it doesn\u2019t appear that\u2019s going to change in the coming days. <\/p>\n<p>General Manager Chris Ballard said at a Tuesday press conference that Allen will be in the team\u2019s lineup for their Week 1 game against the Ravens. He also said Allen\u2019s history in the NFL shows no sign of this being an issue that changes how the team feels about him. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to comment on what happened,\u201d Ballard said. \u201cWhat I\u2019m gonna tell you is good people make mistakes. He\u2019s a tremendous human being, give him some grace and he\u2019ll work through the process of the legal system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ballard said that any discipline from the team will be handled in-house. Allen will also be subject to league discipline under the Personal Conduct Policy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wide receiver Keenan Allen remains a member of the Colts after being arrested for operating a vehicle while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-833277","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\/833277","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=833277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}