Sauce Gardner was a full participant in his first practice as a Colts cornerback on Wednesday, but still remains in concussion protocol. He must be fully cleared in order to make his Colts debut against the Atlanta Falcons this weekend in Berlin.<\/p>\n
Gardner sustained a concussion during the New York Jets’ Week 7 game against the Carolina Panthers and did not play in their Week 8 game against the Cincinnati Bengals. The Jets were on a bye in Week 9, so when the Colts acquired Gardner on Tuesday, he had not yet had a chance to clear the protocol.<\/p>\n
“He’s in the protocol right now, so hopefully he’ll clear that soon,” Shane Steichen said Wednesday. “And obviously we’ll see how he picks up the playbook and we’ll go from there.”<\/p>\n
If Gardner clears the protocol, he is expected to start alongside Kenny Moore II and Jaylon Jones against the Falcons. Charvarius Ward Sr. (concussion) remains on injured reserve; the earliest he can return is Week 12.<\/p>\n
Anthony Gould (knee), Tyquan Lewis (groin) and Samson Ebukam (knee) were among players who did not participate in Wednesday’s practice; Ebukam and Lewis have missed two consecutive games due to their injuries and Gould did not play in Week 9.<\/p>\n
Wednesday’s practice report:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sauce Gardner was a full participant in his first practice as a Colts cornerback on Wednesday, but still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,73328,2554,224,198,697,7,6,58030,7536],"class_list":{"0":"post-502763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons-at-indianapolis-colts-2025-reg-10","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-featured","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-practice-notebook","18":"tag-sauce-gardner"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115499112183039177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502763","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=502763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}