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| HT/WT: 6-1, 212 lbs |
| Birthplace: Junction City, KS |
| Age: 23 |
| School: Kansas State |
| Experience: 2 |
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1:32Texans at Colts: Which Coach Faces More Pressure?
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0:42Confidence or Concern For 0-2 Teams: Colts
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8:41Confidence or Concern For 0-2 Teams
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1:54Is It Time to Bury the 0-2 Colts?
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1:44Breaking Down the Colts' Week 2 OT Loss to Chiefs
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1:58How Play Action Makes Chiefs Much More Dangerous
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1:59How Kenneth Walker Transforms The Chiefs' Offense
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0:48Feel Good Moments: Derrick Henry Chasing All-Time NFL Rushing History
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1:05NFL Week 2: Colts at Chiefs Predictions
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0:54What's Next: Colts at Chiefs Matchup Preview
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1:56Caleb Williams Flawless as Bears Drop 59 Points
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1:47Watch Out for Declan Doyle and the Ravens Offense
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0:39'Welcome to the Lamar Jackson experience!' Ravens QB pulls off a STUNNING escape vs. Colts
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0:55Expectations for Ravens Defense Under Jesse Minter
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Top DJ Giddens News
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Colts' DJ Giddens: Ready for Week 3
Giddens (knee) was a full participant in Wednesday's practice.
Giddens has yet to participate in a regular-season game this season. The running back missed the Colts' Week 1 loss to the Ravens as a healthy scratch before missing the Week 2 overtime loss to the Chiefs with a knee injury. The No. 3 back is now healthy and should be available for the Week 3 game against the Texans.
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Colts' DJ Giddens: Unavailable for Week 2
Giddens (knee) is inactive for Sunday night's matchup with the Chiefs.
Giddens was inactive Week 1 as a healthy scratch, and he will now be forced to miss the team's second contest of the year as he nurses an apparent knee injury. In Giddens' absence, Seth McGowan will operate as the team's primary reserve option behind starting running back Jonathan Taylor versus Kansas City.
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Colts' DJ Giddens: Questionable versus Baltimore
Giddens (knee) is listed as questionable for Sunday's game against the Chiefs.
Giddens was a healthy scratch for the 41-23 loss to the Ravens in Week 1. He's now dealing with a knee injury, though he was able to practice in full Friday. With that in mind, even if Giddens is healthy, there's a chance he will be inactive. Conversely, if he is active, he's still not a candidate to see much action from scrimmage.
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Colts' DJ Giddens: Dealing with knee issue
Giddens (knee) did not participate at practice Thursday.
Giddens was a healthy scratch in Week 1, so it seems he may have hurt his knee during practice Wednesday. He'll probably have to return to practice Friday to give himself a chance at suiting up Sunday at Kansas City.
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Colts' DJ Giddens: Healthy inactive for Week 1
Giddens (coach's decision) is inactive for Sunday's game against the Ravens.
Giddens missed a big chunk of training camp and the preseason due to a hamstring injury, and he was passed on the depth chart by rookie Seth McGowan as the RB2 behind workhorse back Jonathan Taylor.
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Colts' DJ Giddens: Finds end zone to close out preseason
Giddens carried the ball twice for eight yards and a touchdown and caught his only target for eight yards in Saturday's 25-16 preseason loss to the Lions.
The second-year back scored the Colts' only TD of the afternoon on a six-yard run in the second quarter, bouncing the ball outside the tackle and plowing through a couple defenders to hit paydirt. Giddens didn't make much of an impact as a rookie after being selected in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft out of Kansas State, but Indy seems content to let him continue his development behind Jonathan Taylor. Seth McGowan got the start in Saturday's preseason finale, however, and may have claimed the No. 2 spot on the depth chart.
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Colts' DJ Giddens: Set to practice this week
Giddens (hamstring) will practice this week, Mike Chappell of Fox 59 News Indianapolis reports.
Giddens had been hampered by a hamstring issue for a good chunk of the preseason. He did not play in Indianapolis' most recent preseason game, either. Coach Shane Steichen provided an update on him Tuesday, indicating that Giddens will be back in the mix at practice as the team prepares to wrap up preseason. Still, time is running out for Giddens to establish himself on the depth chart behind Jonathan Taylor.
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Colts' DJ Giddens: Back on practice field Wednesday
Giddens (hamstring) participated in Wednesday's practice, Nathan Brown of The Indianapolis Star reports.
Giddens was seeing some work with the first-team offense early in camp, but he's been battling a hamstring injury for a couple weeks now, and it's unclear how active he was in Wednesday's session despite being back in full pads and a helmet. Sixth-round rookie Seth McGowan has been a strong performer in practice this summer and is pushing Giddens in a big way for the RB2 job behind Jonathan Taylor. Giddens needs to get in some action over the final two preseason games.
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Colts' DJ Giddens: Nursing hamstring injury
Giddens did not participate in Sunday's training camp practice due to a hamstring injury, Kevin Bowen of 107.5 The Fan reports.
It's unclear when Giddens tweaked his hamstring, but it jeopardizes his chances of participating in Tuesday's joint practice with the Patriots on Tuesday, as well as Thursday's preseason opener against New England. The 2025 fifth-rounder entered training camp as the RB2 behind Jonathan Taylor, so an extended absence for Giddens would free up reps for rookie sixth-rounder Seth McGowan and Ulysses Bentley.
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Colts' DJ Giddens: Logs added reps Friday
With Jonathan Taylor being rested, Giddens took more first-team reps at Friday's practice, James Boyd of The Athletic reports.
Giddens is no threat to Taylor's status as the Colts' top back, but the 2025 fifth-rounder is competing with Seth McGowan for the No. 2 role. With that in mind, Boyd noted that Giddens has struggled a bit to catch the ball out of the backfield in team drills, but it's early on in training camp, and the Kansas State product has some time to clean that aspect of his game up. Whoever ends up being Taylor's top backup will hold minimal fantasy lineup appeal as long as he's healthy but would be a must-add should Taylor miss time for any reason.
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Colts' DJ Giddens: Competing for backup role
After a quiet rookie season, Giddens will compete against Seth McGowan for the backup running back role behind Jonathan Taylor for the 2026 season, Paul Pretl of USA Today reports.
Giddens was a fifth-round selection of the Colts in the 2025 NFL Draft. He finished his rookie year with 26 carries for 96 yards across nine regular-season games, though 20 of those touches came in Weeks 1 and 18. Per Bretl, Colts head coach Shane Steichen told reporters in early June that Giddens' growth and knowledge of the team's offensive scheme puts the latter ahead of McGowan for the RB2 job heading into training camp.
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Colts' DJ Giddens: Concludes quiet rookie season
Giddens rushed eight times for 30 yards in Sunday's 38-30 loss to the Texans. He finished the season with 26 rushes for 96 yards in nine appearances.
Giddens's eight carries Sunday were his most in a contest since Week 1. The rookie running back barely saw the field in his first season in the NFL, as he was buried on the depth chart behind Jonathan Taylor, Ameer Abdullah and Tyler Goodson. Taylor handled the vast majority of the work out of the backfield, leaving very few opportunities for the backups in Indianapolis. The 25-year-old Goodson should continue to improve and get acclimated to the Colts' offense heading into his second season, and it's possible he could take on a bigger role as a backup behind Taylor with Abdullah and Goodson entering free agency this offseason.
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