{"id":652561,"date":"2026-01-04T06:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/652561\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T06:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:12:17","slug":"qb-seth-hanigan-added-to-week-18-game-day-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/652561\/","title":{"rendered":"QB Seth Hanigan added to Week 18 game day roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indianapolis Colts elevated two players to their Week 18 game day roster, including a quarterback.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">we have elevated QB Seth Henigan and TE Sean McKeon to the active roster from the practice squad for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvsHOU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#INDvsHOU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Colts\/status\/2007497859638407572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a> have made two practice squad elevations for their Week 18 matchup with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\" data-autotag=\"4fdb1a06-1d90-42ff-b7f7-5268ecaf7955\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Texans<\/a>, which includes adding a quarterback to the game-day roster.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/indianapolis-colts\/338\" data-autotag=\"d3fda36a-3eb5-4700-8763-caba831c06ae\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colts<\/a> announced on Saturday that they are elevating quarterback Seth Hanigan and tight end Sean McKeon from the practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Shane Steichen had already announced on Friday that Hanigan will be backing up Riley Leonard.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip Rivers will be the third quarterback, although it remains to be seen whether or not he will be active.<\/p>\n<p>Hanigan was signed to the practice squad earlier in the week and has been tasked with learning the Colts&#8217; offense on the fly.<\/p>\n<p>Henigan went undrafted this past April out of Memphis. He originally signed with Jacksonville and was on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jaguars<\/a>\u2019 practice squad for a portion of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>At Memphis, Henigan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/seth-henigan-1.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">completed 64%<\/a>\u00a0of his passes at 7.9 yards per attempt with 104 touchdowns to 31 interceptions over 50 career games.<\/p>\n<p>McKeon will provide needed tight end depth with the Colts shorthanded at this position. Drew Ogletree is on injured reserve, while Will Mallory has been ruled out of this week&#8217;s game with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>From 2020 through 2023 with the Dallas Cowboys, MeKeon appeared in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/McKeSe01.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> 45 games<\/a>, which included making three starts. He&#8217;s caught six passes for 38 yards with a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>During that same span, McKeon has played 570 special teams snaps as well.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indianapolis Colts elevated two players to their Week 18 game day roster, including a quarterback. we have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[247,265,1603,2005,7,221,253,20842,2004,392,2381,212,125,213,30014,94771,246,88,6,35196,245,264,3686,27974,1602,1610,9,266,222,1124,5008,1604],"class_list":["post-652561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-indianapolis-colts","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-breaking","tag-colts","tag-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-hub","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-indianapoliscolts","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jaguars","tag-mallory","tag-mckeon","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-sean","tag-sean-mckeon","tag-smg","tag-smg-breaking-wire","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-texans","tag-will","tag-will-mallory","tag-wire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115835355493190746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652561","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=652561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}