{"id":660886,"date":"2026-01-07T10:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/660886\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:42:12","slug":"colts-claim-lb-john-bullock-off-waivers-from-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/660886\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts claim LB John Bullock off waivers from Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the offseason underway, the Indianapolis Colts made an addition at linebacker.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">we have claimed LB John Bullock off waivers (from tampa bay).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Colts\/status\/2008293840336392282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a> announced an addition at linebacker on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The team has claimed John Bullock off waivers from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/362\" data-autotag=\"0975654b-7314-4c6a-8b1d-0052f65c0335\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This move comes after the team signed linebacker Austin Ajiake to an extension, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/colts\/2026\/01\/05\/indianapolis-colts-announce-17-roster-moves-shortly-after-season-ends\/88031179007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signing 16 players<\/a> to reserve\/future contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Bullock was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/transactions\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> waived <\/a>by Tampa Bay on Jan. 2nd.<\/p>\n<p>Bullock went undrafted this past April out of Nebraska and signed with the Bucs as a UDFA.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in two games this season defensively, playing six snaps. Bullock was, however, a core special teams contributor, playing 252 snaps across four different phases.<\/p>\n<p>Linebacker is one of a few positions that 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> will have to address over the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>(Please note that this article will be updated.)<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the offseason underway, the Indianapolis Colts made an addition at linebacker. we have claimed LB John Bullock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[25070,247,265,9819,23243,210,211,2005,7,20842,2004,392,246,88,6,35196,245,264,9,266,209,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":["post-660886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-ajiake","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-austin","tag-austin-ajiake","tag-bay","tag-buccaneers","tag-colts","tag-football","tag-hub","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaybuccaneers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115853403513075776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660886","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=660886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}