{"id":650596,"date":"2026-01-03T11:59:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/650596\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:59:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:59:30","slug":"4-indianapolis-colts-players-ruled-out-of-week-18-game-vs-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/650596\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Indianapolis Colts players ruled out of Week 18 game vs. Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indianapolis Colts<\/a> have ruled out four players for Sunday’s Week 18 game against the Houston Texans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cornerback Sauce Gardner (calf) will not play. Gardner suffered the injury last week against the Colts<\/a>. That was his first game back after being sidelined for three weeks with a calf injury.<\/p>\n

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For more on Gardner, you can find that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tight end Will Mallory (lung) is out as well. Shane Steichen said the injury is “hard to explain.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Without Mallory and with Drew Ogletree on injured reserve, the Colts have only Tyler Warren and Mo Alie-Cox healthy at tight end on the 53-man roster.<\/p>\n

Also ruled out are quarterback Anthony Richardson (eye) and safety Daniel Scott (knee). Both will remain on injured reserve.<\/p>\n

Steichen ruled Richardson out<\/a> of this game early in the week.<\/p>\n

Tanor Bortolini (concussion), Dalton Tucker (shoulder), and JT Tuimoloau (oblique) will all be available for Sunday’s game after not playing against Indianapolis in Week 17.<\/p>\n

(Please note that this article will be updated.)<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Colts Wire: Colts injury news: Latest Week 18 practice status updates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indianapolis Colts have ruled out four players for Sunday’s Week 18 game against the Houston Texans. Cornerback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[1504,47726,2005,4988,9037,4981,7,253,2004,392,2381,1711,298,11966,6,7536,4975,2788,589,5008],"class_list":["post-650596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-indianapolis-colts","tag-anthony-richardson","tag-calf","tag-colts","tag-dalton-tucker","tag-daniel-scott","tag-drew-ogletree","tag-football","tag-houston-texans","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-indianapoliscolts","tag-injured-reserve","tag-jt-tuimoloau","tag-mo-alie-cox","tag-nfl","tag-sauce-gardner","tag-shane-steichen","tag-tanor-bortolini","tag-tyler-warren","tag-will-mallory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115831056969402869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650596","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=650596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}