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Indianapolis Colts<\/a> running back Salvon Ahmed<\/a>\u00a0suffered what is described as a severe lower right leg injury when hit by an illegal hip-drop tackle during Sunday’s practice. Medical personnel carted Ahmed off the field and took him to a local hospital for X-rays, according to ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n During a developmental period of Sunday’s morning practice where tackling is permitted, Ahmed received the ball on a hand-off and got free before being run down from behind by undrafted safety Trey Washington<\/a>. The NFL<\/a> banned hip-drop tackles banned during the 2024 season<\/a> due to several injuries occurring as a result of the play. The veteran running back was reportedly in intense pain before trainers arrived.<\/p>\n “Never want to see that happen,” Colts coach Shane Steichen said regarding the injury, per ESPN’s Stephen Holder<\/a>. “I know we don’t encourage hip-drop tackles. I know Trey’s down in the dumps, and I don’t think he’s trying to do that. We’re just trying to create an edge. … Those [backups] are going to have to tackle come preseason.”<\/p>\n Indianapolis only completed a few live portions of practice since Steichen became the team’s coach prior to the 2024 season. Steichen recently revealed that he wanted a more active and intense training camp that included tackling.<\/p>\n “I think training camp is where you want to create the edge and the toughness and the identity of your football team, so you have live periods,” Steichen said.<\/p>\n Ahmed signed to the Colts’ practice squad in October 2024 and ultimately inked a reserve\/futures contract with the franchise in January. He previously spent four seasons with the Miami Dolphins<\/a> and racked up 593 rushing yards and five touchdowns in 38 career games.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ahmed is in a fight for one of the team’s backup running back spots behind Jonathan Taylor<\/a>. Fifth-round rookie\u00a0DJ Giddens<\/a>, Khalil Herbert<\/a>\u00a0and Tyler Goodson<\/a> are also in the mix for that conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagn Images Indianapolis Colts running back Salvon Ahmed\u00a0suffered what is described as a severe lower right leg injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,392,51064,1753,6,4656,10154,13948,51062,51298],"class_list":{"0":"post-260676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-indianapolis-colts","10":"tag-indianapolis-colts-rb","11":"tag-jonathan-taylor","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-preseason","14":"tag-nfl-training-camp","15":"tag-salvon-ahmed","16":"tag-salvon-ahmed-injury","17":"tag-trey-washington-hit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114969670018813015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260676","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=260676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}