Feb. 12, 2026, 1:16 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
The Indianapolis Colts<\/a> could experience a relatively high amount of turnover on the defensive side of the football this offseason.<\/p>\n ESPN’s Mike Clay<\/a> recently shared a chart that displayed what percentage of each team’s defensive snaps from the 2025 season are still under contract in 2026.<\/p>\n When it comes to the Colts, only 63% of their defensive snaps from this past season are from players still under contract heading into the upcoming offseason. This is the seventh-lowest mark in football.<\/p>\n Notable Indianapolis Colts<\/a> unrestricted free agents on defense in 2026DE Samson EbukamDE Tyquan LewisDE Kwity PayeLB Germaine PrattIDL Neville GallimoreS Nick CrossExpert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n There are other free agents on defense, but these are the big contributors and highlight the needs that the Colts have to address.<\/p>\n The defensive end position alongside of Liatu Latu has to be reshaped.<\/p>\n A starting safety next to Cam Bynum and a starting linebacker next to Zaire Franklin have to be found.<\/p>\n Bolstering the defensive tackle depth once again will have to be a priority.<\/p>\n This certainly could end up being a defensive-centric offseason for the Colts.<\/p>\n Salary-cap-wise, the Colts are positioned well<\/a> to make some moves in free agency. In the draft, they are without a first-round pick and have seven selections in total<\/a>, including compensatory picks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 12, 2026, 1:16 p.m. ET The Indianapolis Colts could experience a relatively high amount of turnover on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[95878,2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,49915,95900,95882,95938,95892,95903,95895,95937,95899,97372,95883,98101,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-748576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indianapolis","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcolts","16":"tag-sstsncolts","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcamryn-bynum","19":"tag-tagespn-inc","20":"tag-tagindianapolis-colts","21":"tag-tagnfl-hub","22":"tag-tagnick-cross","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagsamson-ebukam","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-tagzaire-franklin","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116061768473563103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748576","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=748576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}