The Colts announced six inactive players for their Week 2 game against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, trimming the roster for a road trip that now features Anthony Gould after a Saturday elevation from the practice squad.
Gould is the name that makes the day’s moves harder to read than a simple inactive list. He was elevated to the active roster and will play Sunday, yet he was also placed on injured reserve on Saturday in a separate roster move that sits uneasily beside the weekend’s other updates.
The rest of the availability picture was shaped across the week. Dulin was ruled out on Friday after missing practice last week with an ankle injury, while Giddens was listed as questionable because of a knee injury. The Colts also ruled out Sauce Gardner, Anthony Gould and Braden Smith on Friday, then said Sunday that Bernhard Raimann had been downgraded to out.
That sequence matters because the inactive list is not just paperwork before kickoff. It is the final cut of who can help against the Kansas City Chiefs, and it comes after a run of injury decisions that also included DeForest Buckner, Drew Ogletree and Anthony Gould being placed on injured reserve on Saturday, plus earlier injury rulings on Samson Ebukam and Tyquan Lewis.
Some of the names in the team’s weekend updates are repeated in different status notes rather than in one clean list, which leaves the six inactive players for Week 2 tied to a broader injury log instead of a single neat announcement. The Colts had already ruled out Josh Downs, Ashton Dulin and Tyler Goodson for Week 7, a reminder that the roster strain has been building for more than one game.
For Shane Steichen, the immediate question is less about the label attached to each move than about who is actually available when the Colts line up Sunday. The answer on paper is six inactive players, but the weekend’s roster paperwork shows a team still sorting through who is healthy enough to dress and who is not.
