The Colts have their entire draft class under contract.
They signed the final two of their eight picks on Tuesday, with offensive guard Jalen Farmer and linebacker Bryce Boettcher.
The Colts selected Farmer in the fourth round (No. 113 overall). He appeared in 28 career games with 24 starts at Kentucky (2024-25) and Florida (2022-23).
In 2024 and 2025, Farmer started all 24 games at right guard. While at Florida, he appeared in four games with the Gators from 2022-23.
The Colts selected Boettcher in the fourth round (No. 135 overall). He played in 55 career games with 30 starts at Oregon (2022-25) and recorded 269 tackles, 16 tackles for loss, four sacks, 11 passes defensed, two interceptions, four forced fumbles and one fumble recovery.
In 2025, Boettcher started all 15 games and registered 136 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, one sack, six passes defensed, one interception and two forced fumbles. He also registered a rushing touchdown. Boettcher led the Big Ten in tackles, which was the most by a Duck since 1979.
He was a second-team All-Big Ten choice.
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Colts quarterback Daniel Jones took another step toward returning to the team’s lineup at Monday’s OTA practice.
Jones was cleared to take part in 7-on-7 work for the first time since tearing his Achilles last season. Jones had been doing individual work throughout the team’s offseason program and head coach Shane Steichen said the team will move him back into full team drills once they get to training camp this summer.
“It’s just making those strides each and every week and to get him out there at seven-on-seven was huge. . . . We always want to be smart,” Steichen said, via the team’s website. “It’s spring, we don’t play for a while, so we got to be smart with his injury. But he’s making great progress.”
Jones said last week that he expects to be ready to play in Week 1 against the Ravens and hitting another milestone in the process this week is a good sign that he’ll be able to take on a full workload in camp. If that’s the case, there’s little reason to think he won’t be taking snaps on September 13.
The Colts added another quarterback to the roster on Monday.
They announced the signing of Easton Stick and he will join Daniel Jones, Anthony Richardson, and Riley Leonard on the depth chart in Indianapolis. Stick spent last season with the Falcons and did not play in any regular season games. He started four games for the Chargers in 2023 and spent five years as a backup in Los Angeles overall.
Stick will take the place of Seth Henigan, who was waived in a corresponding move.
The Colts also signed center Josh Kreutz and cornerback Jai’Onte’ McMillan. Both players went undrafted earlier this year.
Cornerback Wyett Ekeler and guard LaDarius Henderson were waived to round out all of the day’s moves.
The Colts have announced that Hall of Fame receiver Raymond Berry, who won two NFL titles with the Colts and later coached the Patriots to their first Super Bowl appearance, has died. He was 93.
In 13 NFL seasons after arriving in Baltimore as a 20th-round draft pick in 1954, Berry caught 631 passes for 9,275 yards and 68 touchdowns in 154 regular-season games. He was named to the NFL’s All-Decade Team of the 1950s, the NFL’s 75th Anniversary All-Time Team, and the NFL 100 All-Time Team.
The Colts won the NFL championship in 1958 and 1959. In the epic 1958 title game (known as the Greatest Game Ever Played), Berry caught 12 passes for 148 yards and a touchdown in a 23-17 overtime victory against the Giants.
Berry was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1973.
Immediately after his playing career ended, Berry went into coaching. After serving as a receivers coach with the Cowboys (1968-69), the University of Arkansas (1970-72), the Lions (1973-75), the Browns (1976-77), and the Patriots (1978-81), he returned to New England as the head coach in 1984.
In his second season, the Patriots advanced to Super Bowl XX against the Bears.
Berry coached the Patriots through 1989, generating a record of 51-41. He worked as quarterbacks coach for the Lions in 1991 and the Broncos in 1992.
Berry is a member of the Baltimore Ravens’ Ring of Honor, along with seven other Baltimore Colts players. His No. 82 was retired by the Colts.
We extend our condolences to Berry’s family, friends, and colleagues.
Quarterback Anthony Richardson asked for a trade away from the Colts this offseason, but no deal came and Richardson is now taking part in the team’s offseason workouts.
Richardson is competing for the No. 2 quarterback job with Riley Leonard and he was asked on Wednesday whether it feels awkward to be practicing with the team after spending the offseason in search of a new home.
“No, I don’t think so. I signed a contract,” Richardson said. “I was still on this team before the trade stuff. I’ve got an obligation to this team to come out here and play and perform, be ready to play if they need me. I don’t think it’s weird or awkward.”
Richardson said he just wanted to get back to work after missing most of last season with an eye injury and declined to say if he’s still hoping for a trade.
“I’m not really focused on that right now,” Richardson said. “I’m here right now. I’m just trying to make sure I’m staying healthy and keeping everything up there in the mind.”
Richardson’s three years in the NFL have featured a mix of injuries and underwhelming play, which helps to explain why trade interest has not materialized. That may leave winning the backup job to Daniel Jones as his best path to seeing the field in 2026.
A veteran receiver is hanging up his cleats.
The Cowboys placed Parris Campbell on the reserve/retired list on Wednesday, according to the league’s daily transaction wire.
Campbell, 28, was a Colts second-round pick in 2019. But he had a lot of trouble staying healthy in his first few years before playing all 17 games in 2022. That was his best season, as he caught 63 passes for 623 yards with three touchdowns.
Since then, Campbell has bounced around the NFC East. He played 12 games for the Giants in 2023 before winning Super Bowl LIX with the Eagles, appearing in all three postseason games for the club.
Campbell spent last season on Dallas’ practice squad, appearing in just one game.
In his seven seasons, Campbell caught a total of 123 passes for 1,117 yards with six TDs.
Colts quarterback Daniel Jones was not able to participate in 7-on-7 or 11-on-11 drills during Wednesday’s OTA practice open to media.
But Jones was able to take part in individual drills, representing a positive step as he continues his rehab process after suffering a torn Achilles in December.
Jones told reporters after Wednesday’s session that he “absolutely” is still expecting to start the Colts’ Week 1 matchup against the Ravens.
“Definitely still work to be done and progress to be made,” Jones said, via James Boyd of TheAthletic.com. “So, I think it’s just continuing to get stronger, continuing to run faster, cut harder, and progress, kind of, according to the program.
“But it’s been good. I think we’ve hit all our marks so far, and we’ll continue to do that.”
Jones added that he’s feeling good and that it’s helpful to be able to come out and be a part of things with his teammates.
Before his injury last season, Jones completed 68 percent of his passes for 3,101 yards with 19 touchdowns and eight interceptions in 13 games.
There’s some positive news on the injury front when it comes to the Colts and their starting quarterback.
According to multiple reporters on the scene, Daniel Jones participated in individual drills during Indianapolis’ Wednesday OTA practice.
Jones suffered a torn Achilles tendon in early December. But the stated goal from both the team and the quarterback himself has been for him to be able to play Week 1.
Jones, however, did not participate in 7-on-7 or 11-on-11 drills on Wednesday.
Once the Colts reached that point in practice, Anthony Richardson took over as QB1.
Richardson was — and presumably still could be — on the trading block. But after Indianapolis was unable to find a trade partner earlier in the offseason, the QB reported to the Colts’ building and has been a part of the offseason program.
Riley Leonard and Seth Henigan are also on Indianapolis’ roster at QB.
Colts cornerback Charvarius Ward considered retiring from the NFL at the end of the 2025 season, but he opted to go the other way and returned for a second season with the club.
Ward only played in seven games during his first season in Indianapolis as three concussions caused him to miss significant time. Ward also dealt with the death of his daughter in 2024 and said on Wednesday that “his heart was super heavy” because of that loss. He said it “got to the point in training camp where it had got real hard for me” to keep going through the associated mental and emotional challenges.
Ward said that he feels in a better place on those fronts and that his offseason workouts showed him that he was still capable of playing at a high level.
“I just feel good,’ Ward said. “I’ve just been working on myself, and I didn’t want to finish my career like I finished last season. A lot of stuff happened out of my control. Emotionally, I wasn’t ready like I thought I was going to be ready. Getting my fam out here with me this season, they’re going to be close with me this year, and I think that’s going to help me out a lot. Just being whole and happy.”
The Colts traded for Sauce Gardner during the 2025 season, but he missed time with a calf injury and the duo didn’t get to play together after the deal. Changing that would be a step in the right direction for Ward and the Colts.
The news that Aaron Rodgers is officially back with the Steelers for his 22nd NFL season means he’ll continue to add to one of the most impressive statistical résumés any quarterback has ever assembled.
Of particular note is that Rodgers is likely to move ahead of Peyton Manning for the third-most touchdown passes in NFL history. Rodgers has thrown 527 touchdown passes in his NFL career, while Manning retired with 539, so Rodgers needs just 13 touchdown passes to move ahead of Manning. As long as Rodgers stays healthy, he should eclipse Manning’s career total early in the season.
Rodgers would likely need to play two more seasons to move into second place, which is currently occupied by Drew Brees, with 571 career touchdown passes. And Tom Brady’s all-time record of 649 career touchdown passes appears insurmountable.
Rodgers could also lose, a couple of of the career records he currently holds, however. At the moment, Rodgers is tied for the highest career passer rating in NFL history: Rodgers and Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson both have a passer rating of 102.2. But last year Jackson’s passer rating was 103.8 and Rodgers’ was 94.8, so if they both play at the same level in 2026, Jackson will take first place in the record books all to himself.
Rodgers could also fall behind Joe Burrow (101.1) and Patrick Mahomes (100.8), who are currently third and fourth in NFL history in career passer rating. The best career passer rating is a record Rodgers likely won’t hold by the end of the season.
Another career record Rodgers could lose is the all-time lowest interception percentage. Rodgers has thrown 123 interceptions in 8,743 career passes, a career interception rate of 1.41 percent. Rodgers is just barely ahead of Cardinals quarterback Jacoby Brissett, who has a career interception rate of 1.42 percent, and not far ahead of Justin Herbert at 1.7 percent and Burrow and Mahomes at 1.8 percent.
Ultimately, the numbers Rodgers puts up this season, when he’ll turn 43 years old, won’t matter a lot to his legacy. He’s an all-time great regardless of what he does this season. But his career numbers will change, and perhaps not entirely for the better.
