{"id":730498,"date":"2026-02-05T05:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/730498\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:09:23","slug":"colts-wide-receiver-michael-pittman-jr-indy-is-my-home-indianapolis-news-indiana-weather-indiana-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/730498\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr.: &#8216;Indy is my home&#8217; &#8211; Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (WISH) \u2014 Colts wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr. has been in Indianapolis for all six seasons of his career.<\/p>\n<p>This is an important offseason for Pittman and the Colts though. He enters the final season of a three-year, $70 million contract. <\/p>\n<p>There is a potential out in the contract this offseason. Pittman is owed a base salary of $22 million for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>With the offseason looming, Pittman voiced his love for Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndy is my home,\u201d Pittman said. \u201cI love everything about it. I love the people there. I love this team and I just really want to do everything that I can to bring this team back to where we should be and where we were in the past, like the Peyton Manning, Reggie Wayne, Marvin Harrison days. I would love to be a part of that, but part of it is not in my control. I know the nature of football. It\u2019s a business, so we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pittman had 80 catches for 784 yards in 2025. It was the fewest yards he\u2019s had in a season since his rookie year in 2020. However, he set a career high in touchdowns with seven.<\/p>\n<p>After leading the Colts in receiving yards in three straight years from 2021-2023, Alec Pierce has led the Colts in receiving yards for the past two seasons. Pierce is set to be an unrestricted free agent this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Pittman has totaled 485 catches for 5,254 yards and 25 touchdowns in his six seasons in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (WISH) \u2014 Colts wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr. has been in Indianapolis for all six seasons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-730498","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-indianapoliscolts","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116016301390850034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730498","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=730498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}