{"id":923634,"date":"2026-06-20T03:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/923634\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T03:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:12:32","slug":"what-is-indianapolis-colts-star-sauce-gardners-real-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/923634\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Indianapolis Colts Star Sauce Gardner&#8217;s Real Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24079590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Sauce-Gardner.jpg\" alt=\"Sauce Gardner Indianapolis Colts\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Robert Goddin-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jun 10, 2026; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Indianapolis Colts cornerback Sauce Gardner (1) looks on during minicamp at Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s not all\u00a0that\u00a0uncommon to see age controversies in sports such as baseball and soccer, where players are coming from all over the world, it\u2019s not often you see one in the\u00a0NFL.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I\u2019m not sure that we\u2019ve\u00a0ever\u00a0seen one in the NFL\u2026until now.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week,\u00a0Indianapolis Colts\u00a0star cornerback\u00a0Ahmad \u201cSauce\u201d Gardner\u00a0revealed that everyone has been wrong about his age for a number of years, and he\u2019s not sure why.<\/p>\n<p>Sauce Gardner Is Actually One Year Younger Than Everyone Thought<\/p>\n<p>Up until the correction, Gardner\u2019s birthdate was listed publicly on everything from the Colts\u2019 website, ESPN, and event Madden as Aug. 31, 2000, which would make him 25 years old.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s just one problem. That\u2019s not Gardner\u2019s birthday. At least, not according to the former first-round pick and two-time All-Pro.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sauce Gardner reveals his real age after a conspiracy theory went viral \ud83d\ude2d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YiKU27U60D\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/YiKU27U60D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brgridiron\/status\/2067718125462909170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m 24,\u201d Gardner said, via James Boyd of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7367046\/2026\/06\/18\/sauce-gardner-colts-age-birthdate-mystery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Athletic<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy that I\u2019m even being asked this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s wrong in Madden, too?\u201d Gardner then asked. \u201cThat\u2019s crazy because I never checked. Because when it comes to the paperwork and everything I\u2019ve signed, it all says \u201901. So I don\u2019t know where or how it got messed up unless people just get it straight from Google.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the situation seems funny enough, and it largely is, it could have significant financial ramifications for Gardner moving forward if the entire league believed he was one year older than he actually is.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner is set to begin the first of a four-year, $120 million contract this season, and if he\u2019s actually 24, not 25, it means he\u2019ll hit free agency again at 28, not 29.<\/p>\n<p>That may seem like a small difference, but given the steep age curve in the NFL, it could be a key negotiating factor for Gardner come time for his next contract talks.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Goddin-Imagn Images Jun 10, 2026; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Indianapolis Colts cornerback Sauce Gardner (1) looks on during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,7536],"class_list":["post-923634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indianapolis-colts","tag-colts","tag-football","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-indianapoliscolts","tag-nfl","tag-sauce-gardner"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116780252797149195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923634","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=923634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}