{"id":807445,"date":"2026-03-12T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/807445\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:00:22","slug":"colts-add-chiefs-free-agent-dt-derrick-nnadi-to-boost-interior-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/807445\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts add Chiefs free agent DT Derrick Nnadi to boost interior depth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per his representation at SportsTrust advisors, the Indianapolis Colts have signed Kansas City Chiefs veteran free agent defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Originally a 2018 3rd round pick of the Chiefs, the 6\u20191\u201d, 317 pound Nnadi has appeared in 130 career games, making 98 career starts. The 29-year-old veteran defensive tackle is fresh off a 2025 campaign for the Chiefs, in which he recorded 16 tackles during 15 games (11 starts). He\u2019s a 3x Super Bowl Champion with Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per PFF, this past season, Nnadi earned a +43.6 overall grade, which was the 118th best among 134 qualifying interior defenders. He had a +46.0 run defense grade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While the Colts recently added former Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Colby Wooden in the Zaire Franklin trade over this past weekend, it looks like Nnadi will be the 1T \u2018run defense\u2019 replacement for departed veteran defensive tackle Neville Gallimore behind entrenched veteran run-stopping starting nose tackle Grover Stewart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Per his representation at SportsTrust advisors, the Indianapolis Colts have signed Kansas City Chiefs veteran free agent defensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,6523,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-807445","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-indianapolis-colts-free-agency","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116213974788688368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807445","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=807445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}