{"id":25981,"date":"2025-08-18T10:49:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/colts-sign-xavien-howard-luxury-reinforcement-for-the-defense\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:49:27","slug":"colts-sign-xavien-howard-luxury-reinforcement-for-the-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/colts-sign-xavien-howard-luxury-reinforcement-for-the-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts Sign Xavien Howard: Luxury Reinforcement for the Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"Four-time Pro Bowl cornerback Xavien Howard has signed with the Indianapolis Colts, his agent announced on Monday.\n\nDavid Canter made the announcement via a post on X.\n\n\n\n\nHoward, 32, did not play last season after being released by the Miami Dolphins the previous year, a team with which he shone for eight seasons.\n\nThe arrival of Howard comes at a time when the Colts have suffered a series of key injuries at the cornerback position, which has significantly diminished their depth.\n\nAdditionally, Howard has a history with Colts defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo, who was the Dolphins&#8217; defensive backs coach during Howard&#8217;s first two seasons in the NFL.\n\nSelected in the second round by Miami in 2016, Howard was also All-Pro in 2020, a season in which he led the NFL with 10 interceptions and 20 passes defended.\n\nIn his career, Howard has 29 interceptions and 95 passes defended.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time Pro Bowl cornerback Xavien Howard has signed with the Indianapolis Colts, his agent announced on Monday. David Canter made the announcement via a post on X. Howard, 32, did not play last season after being released by the Miami Dolphins the previous year, a team with which he shone for eight seasons. The arrival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[295,2777,64,7447],"class_list":{"0":"post-25981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-cornerback","9":"tag-indianapolis-colts","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-xavien-howard"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}