Colts Open Practice Window for Backup Tight End

Indianapolis opened a practice window for backup tight end Drew Ogletree on Tuesday, a quiet transaction that lands in a noisy week. With Pierce on injured reserve, Allen listed as Questionable, and the wide receiver depth chart running thin, the Colts have been leaning harder on Tyler Warren in the passing game — and protecting that position group matters more now than it did a month ago.

Warren has been a reliable outlet all season, and Ogletree returning to practice gives Daniel Jones at least one more body to work with underneath. It is a modest development. The Colts are not fixing their receiving room with a backup tight end; they are patching around the edges of a room that has lost its two biggest pieces.

My read is that this is worth watching less for what Ogletree adds and more for what it signals — that the front office is actively working the injury report rather than waiting. Whether he clears the window and gets activated is the next question.