{"id":572276,"date":"2025-12-03T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/572276\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:15:19","slug":"colts-sign-kicker-blake-grupe-to-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/572276\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts sign Kicker Blake Grupe to Practice Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 3rd search for a Colts Kicker in 2025 is over, and a new leg is in town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Blake Grupe is a 3rd year Kicker who spent 2023-2025 with the Saints. He went 75\/94 in his time in New Orleans with the following distance splits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Don\u2019t mistake the 5\u20197 156 lb kicker for lacking power, with his career long being 57 yards and hitting a 54+ yarder every year of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Grupe was released by the Saints last week following a 1\/3 Kicking performance against the Falcons where he missed kicks in the 30s and 40s distance ranges. The former Notre Dame Fighting Irishman has had a rough 2025 season with a career low 69.2% Field Goal % after going 81.1% in 2023 and 87.1% in 2024. He reunites with his former coach Brian Mason, who is the Colts special teams coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Grupe potentially will be elevated a few times off of the practice squad before the Colts decide whether to sign him to the active roster full time. A player can be activated off of Practice squad 3 times before requiring to be signed to the active roster. Time will tell if he takes advantage of this opportunity and earns a full time job with the Colts for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 3rd search for a Colts Kicker in 2025 is over, and a new leg is in town.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,7711,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-572276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts-roster","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115654644492080976","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572276","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=572276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}