{"id":288693,"date":"2025-08-14T23:52:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/288693\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T23:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:52:52","slug":"colts-de-samson-ebukam-exits-joint-practice-vs-packers-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/288693\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts&#8217; DE Samson Ebukam exits joint practice vs. Packers with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Indianapolis Colts&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Indianapolis Colts&#8217;<\/a> defensive end Samson Ebukam left Thursday&#8217;s joint practice against the Green Bay Packers with an injury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/colts\/2025\/08\/14\/colts-injury-update-wr-josh-downs-hamstring-de-samson-ebukam-back\/85667530007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Shane Steichen said afterward;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Shane Steichen said afterward<\/a> that it is a back injury that Ebukam was working through. No other updates have been provided at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Ebukam, wide receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/colts-wr-josh-downs-exits-211403880.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Josh Downs also left with an injury;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Downs also left with an injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ebukam returned to practice early on in training camp for the first time since sustaining an Achilles injury during last summer.<\/p>\n<p>In his first season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/indianapolis-colts\/338\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Colts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Colts<\/a> in 2023, Ebukam recorded 48 pressures and a team-high 9.5 sacks. During the offseason,<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/chris-ballard-colts-missed-samson-152006036.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u00a0GM Chris Ballard said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0GM Chris Ballard said<\/a>\u00a0that the defense missed Ebukam&#8217;s physicality.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the defensive end position, the Colts have been without Kwity Paye recently, who is dealing with a groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Colts Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/colts\/2025\/08\/14\/colts-samson-ebukam-exits-joint-practice-packers-injury\/85668068007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Colts training camp: DE Samson Ebukam exits joint practice with injury;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Colts training camp: DE Samson Ebukam exits joint practice with injury<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indianapolis Colts&#8217; defensive end Samson Ebukam left Thursday&#8217;s joint practice against the Green Bay Packers with an injury.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[24804,5422,2005,7,345,2004,392,2381,1509,4996,6,4993,4975],"class_list":{"0":"post-288693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-achilles-injury","9":"tag-chris-ballard","10":"tag-colts","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-green-bay-packers","13":"tag-indianapolis","14":"tag-indianapolis-colts","15":"tag-indianapoliscolts","16":"tag-josh-downs","17":"tag-kwity-paye","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-samson-ebukam","20":"tag-shane-steichen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115029816596424208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288693","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=288693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}