{"id":818029,"date":"2026-03-17T23:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/818029\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:23:36","slug":"indianapolis-colts-sign-basketball-player-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/818029\/","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis Colts Sign Basketball Player on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTowt, a college basketball player, is transitioning to the NFL with the Colts despite no prior football experience.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTowt believes his physical attributes and playstyle from basketball will translate well to the physical demands of football.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTowt has always had an interest in football but didn’t pursue it until the end of his college basketball career.<\/p>\n

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INDIANAPOLIS\u2013The Indianapolis Colts signed someone on Tuesday who has never played football before. His name is Carson Towt and he played basketball collegiately.<\/p>\n

From 2020 to 2025 he was with Northern Arizona before concluding his final season with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it\u2019s been quite the journey. We kind of knew \u2013 maybe beginning of my basketball season that we were going to explore this, but we were trying to figure out the right way to go about it, in the most fruitful way to do it. So, it\u2019s been a cool journey. I was out at the combine a couple weeks ago with my agents, Jack Bechta and Jack Tabb. Not doing workouts because I was in the middle of basketball season with Notre Dame, but just for meetings with teams and meeting some of these guys out here. So, it\u2019s been quite the journey so far. And man, it\u2019s just getting started. So, I\u2019m excited to see where we can all go,\u201d said Towt when speaking to reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Even though he\u2019s never played football before, he thinks his physical gifts he has shown on the basketball court will translate to the NFL.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think this sport honors those gifts in the things that got me to Notre Dame and carried me through my career and the things I pride myself on. I think this sport honors those things. And my frame, how I developed, how I developed as a player, kind of like my play style and what I pride myself on \u2013 rebounding. A couple years ago, leading the country in rebounding, and this year, leading the ACC in offensive rebounding. I pride myself on dirty work and rebounding and being physical. So, I think football almost honors those a little bit better than basketball does. So, that\u2019s why we\u2019re here today,\u201d said Towt.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s had the itch to play football all through college and growing up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn high school, I was real small though. I didn\u2019t hit growth spurts until late. I didn\u2019t have armpit hair until late in high school. So, I was kind of a late bloomer in that way. So, I never really thought about it too much, gave it too much thought and attention until my freshman year of college, when I kind of started bulking up and realized, \u2018Okay, this is probably my max height and I got a good frame on me, and I take care of my body well.\u2019 So, kind of started thinking about it then, and thought about dual sporting a lot every year, but it never really made sense in college because my basketball career \u2013 I kept climbing, and I\u2019m getting better there so I wanted to give my focus and attention to that. And then it just kind of worked out where my basketball career has come to an end in college, and it\u2019s perfect timing to kind of segue into this transition, and it\u2019s what we\u2019re doing,\u201d said Towt.<\/p>\n

As a freshman, Towt averaged 5.6 points and 4.6 rebounds per game. He improved those numbers to 8.4 points and 8.8 rebounds per game as a sophomore. As a junior, Towt averaged 10.1 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. He sat out the 2023-24 season with an injury before averaging 13.3 points and a nation-leading 12.4 rebounds per game as a senior. Towt recorded 20 double-doubles, tied for sixth nationally. He was named to the Second Team All-Big Sky as well as the All-Defensive Team. Following the season he transferred to Notre Dame, taking advantage of an additional year of eligibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Towt, a college basketball player, is transitioning to the NFL with the Colts despite no prior football experience.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,2381,47542,6,47543,47544,47545,47546,47547,47548],"class_list":{"0":"post-818029","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-indianapoliscolts","13":"tag-local-news-sports","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sentiment-anger","16":"tag-sentiment-concern","17":"tag-sentiment-informed","18":"tag-sentiment-joyful-happy","19":"tag-sentiment-sadness","20":"tag-sentiment-shocked"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116247096710026965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818029","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=818029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}