The Colts on Monday signed cornerback Xavien Howard, adding veteran experience to a cornerback room hit by several injuries during training camp.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old Howard did not play in 2024 and spent the previous eight seasons (2016-2023) with the Miami Dolphins, where he totaled 29 interceptions and earned four trips to the Pro Bowl (2018, 2020-2022). Howard led the NFL with seven interceptions in 2018, and again led the NFL with 10 interceptions in 2020. He was named a first-team AP All-Pro in 2020, in which he also led the NFL in passes defensed (20).<\/p>\n
Over 100 career games, Howard totaled 95 passes defensed (29 interceptions, 66 pass break-ups) with two pick-sixes, four forced fumbles, two sacks, eight tackles for a loss and 331 total tackles.<\/p>\n
Howard was a second-round pick of the Dolphins in 2016, and he spent the first two years of his career with Lou Anarumo \u2013 now the Colts’ defensive coordinator \u2013 as his position coach (Anarumo was the Dolphins’ defensive backs coach from 2012-2017).<\/p>\n
The Colts have had several cornerbacks sustain injuries over the last few weeks. 2025 third-round pick Justin Walley tore his ACL in the Colts’ joint practice withe Baltimore Ravens and will miss the entire season; JuJu Brents and Jaylon Jones both have missed time with hamstring injuries; Kenny Moore II has missed the last week or so with a knee injury; and 2025 undrafted free agent Johnathan Edwards exited Saturday’s preseason game with a concussion.<\/p>\n
The Colts on Monday also signed linebackers Jake Chaney and Joseph Vaughn and placed tackle Blake Freeland, linebacker Jacob Phillips and safety Hunter Wohler on injured reserve. Freeland sustained a fractured leg in Saturday’s preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, while Phillips left with a bicep injury and Wohler exited with a foot injury. Freeland, Phillips and Wohler are now out for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colts on Monday signed cornerback Xavien Howard, adding veteran experience to a cornerback room hit by several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[198,697,7,6,5314],"class_list":{"0":"post-298897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-featured","9":"tag-featured-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-roster-moves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298897","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=298897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}