{"id":738579,"date":"2026-02-08T18:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/738579\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T18:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:25:14","slug":"daniel-jones-contract-expectations-after-achilles-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/738579\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Jones contract expectations after Achilles injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indianapolis Colts<\/a> had a disappointing 2025 season. Indianapolis kept Shane Steichen and Chris Ballard<\/a> despite the team’s terrible late-season collapse. Now the Colts have plenty of tough questions to answer about their future, headlined by the quarterback position.<\/p>\n

NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero gave an update<\/a> on the Colts’ quarterback plans ahead of the 2026 offseason. Indy plans to keep Daniel Jones<\/a> around after his impressive 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet’s talk a little bit about the Colts and their quarterback plans,\u201d Pelissero said on The Insiders on Sunday. \u201cMy understanding is the Colts plan to open talks soon with Daniel Jones on a multi-year deal to keep him in Indianapolis. Jones got to Indy last year on a one-year contract. Was playing his best football the first half of the season until he suffered injuries, including a torn Achilles that he is rehabbing right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is easy to forget that Jones was in the MVP conversation<\/a> back in October. The Colts were 8-2 heading into their bye week and seemed in control of their own destiny.<\/p>\n

However, Jones suffered multiple injuries during the back half of the season, including his season-ending Achilles injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pelissero added that both sides are open to a long-term partnership. But that does not mean that contracts talks will go swimmingly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am told Jones wants to be in Indianapolis [and] the Colts want to work out a deal,\u201d Pelissero added. \u201cIf they can’t, the franchise tag would be an option. But either way, the plan is Jones stays in Indy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indianapolis enters the offseason with $35.60 million in cap space<\/a>. They also have $179.23 million of cap space for the 2027 offseason, which puts them in a good position to sign Jones to a long-term contract.<\/p>\n

The Colts are in a tricky situation, though. Indy spent two first-round picks on Sauce Gardner<\/a> at the trade deadline. That leaves them without a first-round pick both this spring and in the 2027 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

Jones and the Colts seemed tied at the hip for the next few seasons.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, fans still have to wait and see whether he’ll get a long-term extension this offseason or simply a franchise tag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indianapolis Colts had a disappointing 2025 season. Indianapolis kept Shane Steichen and Chris Ballard despite the team’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,2772,7,2004,392,2381,6,30382,832],"class_list":{"0":"post-738579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-daniel-jones","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indianapolis","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-injury","16":"tag-nfl-rumors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116036417918471704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738579","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=738579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}