COACH SHANE STEICHEN: https://www.colts.com/video/shane-steichen-week-6-final-update
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NFL GAME CAPSULE: TENNESSEE 0-5 AT INDIANAPOLIS 2-3
Regular Season: IND leads series, 41-21 (IND won past 6)
Last reg. season meeting: 10/26/25: TEN 14 at IND 38
TITANS NOTES:
QB CAM WARD aims for his 5th start in row with 170+ pass yards. Has TD pass in 6 of his past 7 road starts. Passed for 259 yards & TD in last meeting. • RB TONY POLLARD aims for his 5th in row with 50+ scrimmage yards. Since 2021, has 70 games with 50+ scrimmage yards, tied-most in NFL (Derrick Henry). Has 4 rush TDs in his 5 career games vs. Ind. • RB TYJAE SPEARS had career-high 9 receptions last week. Has 65+ scrimmage yards in 4 of his 5 career games vs. Ind. Aims for his 3rd in row overall vs. Ind. & 4th in row at Ind. with rush TD. • WR CARNELL TATE leads all rookies with 23 receptions & ranks 2nd with 274 rec. yards. Has 6+ catches & 50+ rec. yards in each of his 1st 2 career road games. • WR CALVIN RIDLEY aims for his 3rd in row at Ind. with 75+ rec. yards & rec. TD. • WR WAN’DALE ROBINSON had 6 catches for team-high 53 rec. yards last week. Had 5 catches for 71 yards & TD in his only career game vs. Ind. (12/29/24 w/ NYG). Since 2024, is 1 of 6 WRs with 5+ catches in 25+ games (26). • LB ANTHONY HILL ranks 2nd among rookies with 47 tackles in 2026 & aims for his 6th in row with 5+ tackles. • LB CODY BARTON had TFL & PD in last meeting. Aims for his 4th in row with 5+ tackles. • LB CEDRIC GRAY has 5+ tackles in 9 of his past 10 on road. • DE JACOB MARTIN had 29th career sack last week. Aims for his 3rd in row with 0.5+ sacks. • DL JOHN FRANKLIN-MYERS aims for his 3rd in row on road with TFL. Has 0.5+ sacks in 2 of his past 3 vs. Ind. • DT JEFFERY SIMMONS is 1 of 2 DL (Deone Walker) with 4 TFL & 3 PD in 2026. Leads all DL with 28 tackles this season. Had 9 tackles & sack in his last game at Ind. (12/22/24). • S TONY ADAMS led team with 9 tackles last week. • S TERRELL BURGESS had 8 tackles & 5th-career PD in Week 5.
COLTS NOTES:
QB DANIEL JONES passed for season-high 267 yards last week. Has 17 TDs (13 pass, 4 rush) vs. 3 INTs for 102.9 rating in 8 career starts at Lucas Oil Stadium, with TD pass in each start. Passed for 272 yards & 3 TDs vs. 0 INTs for 136 rating in last meeting. Aims for his 4th in row vs. Ten. with 100+ rating. • RB JONATHAN TAYLOR is 1 of 2 AFC RBs (Derrick Henry) with 6+ rush TDs (6) in 2026. Has 510 scrimmage yards (170 per game) & 9 TDs (8 rush, 1 rec.) in his past 3 vs. Ten., with 3 scrimmage TDs in each game. Can become 4th player ever under age 28 with 20 games of 2+ rush TDs. Has 42 scrimmage TDs (40 rush, 2 rec.) in 44 career games at Lucas Oil Stadium. Needs 4 rush yards to reach 8,000 for his career. • TE TYLER WARREN led team with 7 receptions for season-high 83 yards & had his 2nd career rush TD in Week 5. Leads all AFC TEs with 30 catches in 2026. • WR JOSH DOWNS has rec. TD in 3 of his past 4 vs. Ten. & aims for his 3rd in row at home vs. Ten. with TD catch. • WR KEENAN ALLEN aims for his 3rd in row with 5+ catches. • DT DEFOREST BUCKNER had sack last week. Is 1 of 2 in AFC (Will Anderson) with TFL in 4 straight games entering Week 6. Had sack in last meeting. Since 2016, is 1 of 4 DL (Aaron Donald, Danielle Hunter & Chris Jones) with 75+ sacks (75.5) & 100+ TFL (101). • DE LAIATU LATU had career-high 2 PD last week. • LB AKEEM DAVIS-GAITHER is 1 of 2 in AFC (Alex Singleton) with 7+ tackles in each of 1st 5 weeks. • CB SAUCE GARDNER has 4 PD in his past 4. • CB JUSTIN WALLEY had 1st-career FF last week. • CB CHARVARIUS WARD aims for his 3rd in row vs. Ten. with PD. • S AJ HAULCY (rookie) aims for his 3rd in row with PD.
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(COLTS RELEASE)
Jonathan Taylor hasn’t rushed for over 100 yards in 12 consecutive games. That’s headline No. 1 for the Colts heading into Week 6.
The second headline is the Colts have averaged 160.7 rushing yards per game over their six-game winning streak against the Tennessee Titans. Taylor, in his last three meetings with the Titans, has rushed for 218, 102 and 153 yards with nine total touchdowns.
One streak will end on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium. The Colts certainly expect it’ll be Taylor’s dozen-game 100-yard drought.
“If he’s got space and he gets through there, that’s when he gets to the second and third level and makes some guys miss in those situations,” head coach Shane Steichen said. “That’s where the big ones come from for sure. And then just breaking arm tackles and so on, and so forth. But obviously, if it’s in the hole and you’re going through the line of scrimmage and there’s bodies in there, you got to get what you can and fall forward.”
Taylor enters Week 6 averaging just 3.9 yards per carry, well below his career clip of 4.8 yards per attempt.
The Colts don’t see that singular stat as an indication the 27-year-old Taylor’s play has dipped. It’s more about the ways opposing defenses are scheming to stop Taylor both from gaining efficient yardage and from turning a 10-yard rush into a field-flipping, 30-plus-yard gain.
“The NFL run game is an 11-man run game. Everybody on the field is important,” offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter said. “Obviously, JT has been so valuable for us over the years, but we’re all pushing to improve our level of play, improve our level of coaching. That’s the best way to have good results is to focus on the process, focus on what we need to do each day to get a little bit better, and as we do that, results come along with it.”
Per NGS, Taylor has been hit at or behind the line of scrimmage on 47.5 percent of his rushing attempts, the seventh-highest rate in the NFL. He’s proven adept at still grinding out yards – he’s been stopped for zero or fewer yards on 17.8 percent of his runs, which is a tick lower than his career average – but hasn’t been able to turn those into anything more than a couple of yards on most of those carries.
Again, the Colts don’t see this as a Taylor problem.
Opposing defenses have certainly made taking Taylor away an emphasis over the last few years, certainly since his breakout 2021 season. There are ebbs and flows to exactly how that looks – the Colts in 2025 faced stacked boxes (8+ defenders) at the ninth-lowest rate in the NFL (20.4 percent); this year, they’re facing stacked boxes at the ninth-highest rate in the NFL (27.7 percent).
And no team in 2026 has seen a lower rate of light boxes (six or fewer defenders) on rushing plays than the Colts (20.4 percent).
“Schematically, every week we look at those things and being able to adjust when teams are playing different fronts will be big for us moving forward,” head coach Shane Steichen said. “We get the fronts and the looks we want, execution’s got to be at a premium. He sees it right, hits it right, will be good. Obviously, the chunk plays like we saw last year, we haven’t had those in the run game, and it’d be great to get back to that and get those explosives going forward.”
The Titans’ defense has different personnel and different coaching this year, with head coach Robert Saleh and ex-Colts defensive coordinator Gus Bradley leading the charge on that side of the ball. But for whatever reason, Tennessee has been fruitful ground for Taylor to get going.
Facing a 2-3 record and a difficult upcoming stretch, with road games against the 5-0 Minnesota Vikings and 4-1 Jacksonville Jaguars looming, there’s no time like the present for Taylor to break his 100-yard drought and go into those tough weekends with some momentum.
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The Indianapolis Colts today released wide receiver Darius Slayton.
Slayton, 6-1, 198 pounds, was signed by Indianapolis as a free agent on September 22, 2026. He has played in 106 career games (78 starts) in his time with the Colts (2026) and New York Giants (2019-25). Slayton has compiled 296 receptions for 4,435 yards (15.0 avg.) and 22 touchdowns.
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