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Colts activate former starting CB off IR for depleted secondary ahead of Steelers game

On Saturday, the Indianapolis Colts announced that they have activated cornerback Jaylon Jones off injured reserve and signed fellow cornerback Cameron Mitchell from the practice squad to the 53-man active roster.

The Colts also announced that they elevated defensive end Durell Nchami and wide receiver Laquon Treadwell from the practice squad to the active roster.

Indianapolis also waived linebacker Chad Muma and safety Trey Washington in corresponding roster moves.

Regarding Jones, he should be a welcome addition to the Colts secondary at outside cornerback—even if he finds himself on an initial pitch count against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Originally a 2023 7th round pick of the Colts, the 6’2”, 203 pound Jones has blossomed into a solid starting outside cornerback, who’s made 27 career starts in his first two seasons. Jones appeared in 1 game this season before re-aggravating his hamstring injury which limited him throughout this past training camp and preseason.

During all 17 starts for the Colts last season, Jones recorded 100 tackles (66 solo), 12 passes defensed, 2 interceptions, and a forced fumble. Per PFF, he earned a +67.4 overall grade.

Otherwise, Mitchell has appeared in 3 games for the Colts this season, recording 3 tackles.

Lastly, Nchami appeared in last weekend’s home blowout against the Tennessee Titans, recording 2 tackles (1 solo), while veteran wideout Laquon Treadwell appeared in 1 game during Week 7 against the Los Angeles Chargers previously. The former Minnesota Vikings first round pick has appeared in 3 games during two seasons in Indy.

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Colts Reacts Survey Results: Week 9 at Pittsburgh Steelers

The Indianapolis Colts (7-1) are one of the hottest teams in all of football, sitting atop the entire AFC.

However, they’ll face arguably one of their toughest tasks yet when they travel to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers (4-3) this weekend.

The Steelers are by no means a great team these days, but the Indianapolis Colts as a franchise are 1-13 all-time at Pittsburgh during the regular season. The Colts sole and last win at Pittsburgh was on November 9, 2008, when Indianapolis narrowly won 24-20.

Right now, 97% of Colts fans believe that the franchise is headed in the right direction, which is pretty remarkable given that such a percentage sat at 44% to begin this year’s surprising regular season:

A big reason why has been the monstrous rushing campaign of star workhorse Jonathan Taylor, who currently leads the league in carries (143), rushing yards (850), and a whopping 12 rushing touchdowns, as the NFL’s ‘Triple Crown rushing king.’

91% 0f Colts fans believe that Taylor, who’s on pace to be an NFL First-Team All-Pro again for the second time in his Hall of Fame career, will be this year’s NFL Offensive Player of the Year:

It would be a nice story for Taylor, who missed out on NFL Offensive Player of the Year honors back in 2021 because of the prolific receiving season of then Los Angeles Rams wideout Cooper Kupp.

However, Colts fans are less optimistic that Taylor will ultimately win NFL MVP honors (only at 34%), which is typically reserved for elite league quarterbacks in more modern seasons historically:

However, the fact that Taylor is even a legitimate MVP candidate these days speaks to his dominant season.

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Week 9 Colts vs. Steelers Game Thread

The Indianapolis Colts are on the road to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers in week 0 of the 2025 season, kickoff is at 1:00 p.m. EST.

Once again the 2025 Indianapolis Colts won last weekends game by multiple scores. The final score was Colts 38, Titans 14. But the final score doesn’t tell the whole story, it never does. What might seem obvious: the Tennessee Titans are seemingly, desperately vying for the number one overall pick in the 2026 NFL draft. In the salary cap era this has only been accomplished four times, the Cincinnati Bengals (‘94-’95), the Browns (‘99-’00), the Browns again (‘17-’18) and the Jacksonville Jaguars (‘21-’22). Right now the Titans are battling with the New Orleans Saints and New York Jets for the honor of being so bad at football that they get to overdraft a quarterback they will jettison off their roster in four years time.

What about the unobvious? It’s hard to poke holes in a three score victory (assuming all three 2-point attempts were successful) but the fact of the matter is the league’s best offense came out flat. On the other side of the ball Cam Ward and his ragtag band of misfits couldn’t capitalize on the gift they had been given. Eventually Daniel Indiana Jones righted the ship and the offense got their act together, but for a team who seemingly starts every game red hot, this was a departure.

The Colts won’t be able to rely on poor quarterback play from their opponent. Aaron Rodgers isn’t what he once was, and being just a few years behind the future hall of famer, I get it. That said, what Rodgers is doing this year, after the disaster that was 2024, is nothing short of incredible. He isn’t a special player anymore but mentally, he’s all there. My concern this week is that there may not be a quarterback left on the Colts schedule that could make the Indy defense pay for their mistakes quite like Rodgers can this weekend.

Defensively, I don’t believe the Steelers have the juice to slow down the Indy offense, but I don’t believe anyone does. If someone were to say that the 2025 Indianapolis Colts had the best gridiron football offense in the known universe, I wouldn’t disagree. This Steelers defense is old and injured, it’s just not good. With that said if the Indy offense comes out flat like they did a week ago, this defense has the experience to capitalize and Aaron Rodgers still has the ability to make them pay.

I haven’t felt this apprehensive for a Colts game since week one, but that was before Daniel Jones became “Indiana”.

Prediction:

Steelers: 31

Colts: 34

As always, go Colts.

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This is your week nine open thread so hang out here, chat, celebrate, commiserate, and argue in the comments! Go wild (within reason)!

Go Colts!

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