{"id":803424,"date":"2026-03-10T01:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/803424\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T01:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:29:15","slug":"raiders-sign-colts-de-kwity-paye-in-nfl-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/803424\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders sign Colts DE Kwity Paye in NFL free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Raiders continued a strong start to free agency by adding much-needed pass rush.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source with knowledge of the situation, the club as agreed to terms with\u00a0Colts defensive end Kwity Paye on a three-year deal worth $48 million, including $32 million guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38726023\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-1772799233.jpg\" alt=\"Indianapolis Colts defensive end Kwity Paye wearing a white jersey with the number 51.\" class=\"wp-image-38726023\"  \/>Defensive end Kwity Paye is heading west to the Raiders. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>A first-round pick of the Colts in 2021, the 27-year-old Paye has 209 tackles and 30.5 sacks in 74 NFL starts. In 2023 and 2024 he combined for 16.5 sacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders traded long-time defensive end\u00a0Maxx Crosby to the Ravens over the weekend and could lose fellow\u00a0starter Malcolm Koonce in free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raiders continued a strong start to free agency by adding much-needed pass rush. According to a source&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[1443,2005,7,2004,392,2381,393,6,89225,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-803424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indianapolis","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-free-agency-2026","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116202293886760453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803424","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=803424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}