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Colts depth gets exposed in preseason blowout loss to Falcons

Colts depth gets exposed in preseason blowout loss to Falcons

First seen Aug 22, 2026 · 9:09 PM UTC

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This is a non-story for fantasy purposes. The article describes Indianapolis's second-team offense struggling in a meaningless preseason game — no specific skill-position players are named, and the vast majority of preseason snaps go to players who won't factor into fantasy rosters (camp bodies, deep-depth-chart backups, and players fighting for practice-squad spots). Poor second-unit performance in August tells you almost nothing about the Colts' actual starting offense (Anthony Richardson/whoever is under center, Jonathan Taylor, Michael Pittman Jr., etc.), who typically play limited or no snaps in these games specifically to avoid this kind of exposure.

No fantasy action needed — ignore for redraft and dynasty purposes Monitor beat reports for which specific backups struggled if in a deep dynasty league tracking RB3/WR4 depth Do not adjust rankings for any Colts starters based on this game

For Indianapolis, the numbers were ugly from virtually every angle. The Colts committed eight penalties, were forced to punt seven times, started 0-for-9 on third down and collected only 91 total yards of offense with their second unit.

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