{"id":663136,"date":"2026-01-08T06:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/663136\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:37:17","slug":"which-colts-players-have-the-largest-salary-cap-hits-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/663136\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Colts players have the largest salary cap hits in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"

These 10 Indianapolis Colts players are set to have the 10 largest salary cap hits on the team in 2026.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to the 2026 offseason, which Indianapolis Colts<\/a> players are set to have the highest salary cap hits next season?<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Over the Cap<\/a>, the\u00a0Colts\u00a0have $45.77 million in available cap space. Compared to the rest of the NFL, this is the ninth-most in football currently.<\/p>\n

For a closer look at the Colts’ salary cap situation, you can find that information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With help from Over the Cap<\/a>, here are the Colts’ largest scheduled cap hits for 2026.<\/p>\n

WR Michael Pittman Jr.: $29.0 millionDT DeForest Buckner: $26.6 millionLG Quenton Nelson: $24.2 millionCB Charvarius Ward: $20.15 millionLT Bernhard Raimann: $17.51 millionRB Jonathan Taylor: $15.56 millionS Cam Bynum: $15.01 millionDT Grover Stewart: $14.25 millionCB Kenny Moore: $13.2 millionQB Anthony Richardson: $10.81 million<\/p>\n

Now, there are ways for GM Chris Ballard to potentially lower some of these salary cap hits.<\/p>\n

Taylor and Nelson could be contract extension candidates with 2026 being the final year of their current deals.<\/p>\n

Ward’s future with the team remains unknown as he contemplates stepping away<\/a> from football after sustaining three concussions this season.<\/p>\n

Pittman Jr. is a cut candidate<\/a>, and Richardson could be traded<\/a> if Daniel Jones returns.<\/p>\n

After Ballard took a more aggressive approach last offseason, it sounds like he could do the same<\/a> in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These 10 Indianapolis Colts players are set to have the 10 largest salary cap hits on the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[247,265,6265,1504,5611,5610,1673,5612,4991,2005,4143,2772,7,9727,4987,20842,2512,2004,392,2381,1979,1753,1702,1070,97,10175,6126,11808,3564,248,267,5180,246,88,6,35196,245,264,6266,23113,4982,9278,818,817,829,9,266,819,2359,2355,776,5134],"class_list":["post-663136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indianapolis-colts","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-anthony","tag-anthony-richardson","tag-bynum","tag-camryn","tag-camryn-bynum","tag-charvarius","tag-charvarius-ward","tag-colts","tag-daniel","tag-daniel-jones","tag-football","tag-grover","tag-grover-stewart","tag-hub","tag-ii","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-indianapoliscolts","tag-jonathan","tag-jonathan-taylor","tag-jones","tag-jr","tag-kenny","tag-kenny-moore-ii","tag-michael","tag-michael-pittman-jr","tag-moore","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nelson","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-pittman","tag-quenton","tag-quenton-nelson","tag-richardson","tag-scores","tag-sport","tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-statistics","tag-stewart","tag-taylor","tag-u0026","tag-ward"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663136","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=663136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}