{"id":245364,"date":"2025-07-29T12:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/245364\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:54:12","slug":"colts-sign-t-bernhard-raimann-to-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/245364\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts sign T Bernhard Raimann to contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WESTFIELD, Ind. \u2013 The Colts on Tuesday signed left tackle Bernhard Raimann to a contract extension, keeping a sturdy piece of their offensive line in Indianapolis for the long term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bernhard has worked extremely hard, and this contract extension is a testament to his character, dedication and persistence,&#8221; general manager Chris Ballard said. &#8220;He exemplifies each of our team&#8217;s four pillars and is a leader in our locker room. I&#8217;m excited for him and his family on this well-deserved contract extension.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the Colts as a third-round draft pick (No. 77 overall) in 2022, Raimann has steadily developed into one of the NFL&#8217;s best tackles. He&#8217;s started 40 games over the last three seasons, and he fought through some early-career &#8220;welcome to the NFL&#8221; moments to become a fixture on the left side of the Colts&#8217; offensive line.<\/p>\n<p>Combined between 2023 and 2024, Raimann earned an 85.2 Pro Football Focus pass block grade, 10th-highest among tackles with at least 750 snaps. His 82.1 PFF run blocking grade was also 10th; he&#8217;s one of four tackles with a top-10 PFF pass block and run block grade in the last two seasons (Philadelphia&#8217;s Jordan Mailata, San Francisco&#8217;s Trent Williams and Miami&#8217;s Terron Armstead are the other three).<\/p>\n<p>Raimann is a native of Vienna, Austria, and began playing American football (as it&#8217;s known in Europe) as a teenager in Austria. He spent a year in high school <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colts.com\/news\/bernhard-raimann-austria-foreign-exchange-delton-michigan-rollie-tyden-ferris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">studying abroad in Delton, Michigan<\/a>, where he played football and drew interest from a handful of college programs not as an offensive lineman, but as a tight end.<\/p>\n<p>Raimann began his college career at Central Michigan as a tight end, then converted to offensive line in 2020, where he started 18 games before being drafted by the Colts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESTFIELD, Ind. \u2013 The Colts on Tuesday signed left tackle Bernhard Raimann to a contract extension, keeping a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[4990,2005,198,697,7,2004,392,2381,6,5314],"class_list":{"0":"post-245364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-bernhard-raimann","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-indianapolis","14":"tag-indianapolis-colts","15":"tag-indianapoliscolts","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-roster-moves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114936628239762795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}