A Colts player fighting for a roster spot in training camp suffered a gruesome injury that led him to be carted off the field

Colts RB Salvon Ahmed appears to have suffered a severe leg injury during training camp

The Colts signed Ahmed to their practice squad in the middle of last October. After spending the rest of the season with the team, he secured a future contract, allowing him to compete in training camp for a spot on the Colts' 2025 53-man roster. Before joining the Colts, Ahmed spent the first four years of his NFL career with the Miami Dolphins. There, he appeared in 38 games and recorded 593 yards and five touchdowns. The best year of his career came in his first season, 2020, when he started in four of the six games he appeared in and set his career high for rushing yards (319) and rushing touchdowns (3).

His chances of making the Colts roster seemed slim, but to see his season and training camp come to an end in this fashion is truly heartbreaking. Especially knowing the situation was avoidable, with UDFA safety Trey Washington pulling Ahmed down from behind in what many who were present for the injury are calling a hip-drop tackle, a tackle form that has been made illegal in the NFL in recent years. If his injury is as bad as it sounds, his season will be over, and he will be placed on the IR. And with his play production on the field regressing each season, there is certainly a world where a significant injury could end his NFL career altogether. In the case that he is placed on IR, the Colts would have an open roster spot that they could use to either add another RB or use it to add depth elsewhere on the roster.