Feb. 15, 2026, 7:20 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
If the\u00a0Indianapolis Colts<\/a>\u00a0are going to address the tight end position in free agency, who are the best available options?<\/p>\n With Tyler Warren leading this position group, tight end is far from a pressing need this offseason for GM Chris Ballard. However, it is still a need.<\/p>\n Mo Alie-Cox and Drew Ogletree are both free agents — although with Ogletree being a restricted free agent, he likely returns.<\/p>\n But in addition to building out the depth of this position, Shane Steichen uses his fair share of two tight end sets, so having a capable blocking presence to pair with Warren will be quite valuable for this Colts offense.<\/p>\n Ogletree can provide that, and perhaps the Colts bring back Alie-Cox on another short-term deal to help shoulder those blocking duties.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n That said, because the Colts have Warren, I wouldn’t expect Ballard to invest heavily in this position from a salary-cap standpoint during free agency.<\/p>\n But if the Colts want to get younger or go a different direction as they build out the tight end room behind Warren, here are the best available free agent options, with help from PFF’s big board<\/a>.<\/p>\n 12 Best available free agent tight ends for Indianapolis Colts<\/a>Kyle Pitts, FalconsDallas Goedert, EaglesIsaiah Likely, RavensDavid Njoku, BrownsChigoziem Okonkwo, TitansCharlie Kolar, RavensAustin Hooper, PatriotsCade Otton, BucsMarcedes Lewis,\u00a0Broncos<\/a>Chris Manhertz, GiantsMo Alie-Cox, ColtsTyler Higbee,\u00a0Rams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 15, 2026, 7:20 p.m. ET If the\u00a0Indianapolis Colts\u00a0are going to address the tight end position in free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[95878,2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,49915,95900,95882,106860,95903,102302,97155,95895,95906,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-755109","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-tagcharlie-kolar","19":"tag-tagindianapolis-colts","20":"tag-tagisaiah-likely","21":"tag-tagkyle-pitts","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-positive","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116077957176715475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755109","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=755109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}