The Colts have re-signed tight end Drew Ogletree, the team announced Friday, ensuring a return of one of the team’s rotational figures behind rookie Tyler Warren, as well as one of its best blockers outside the offensive line. Ogletree’s new deal with the Colts is for one year, a league source told IndyStar.
Ogletree saw a decreased role in the Colts’ offense in 2025, seeing just 226 snaps (24%), though his presence on special teams took a notable uptick, where he logged 294 snaps — 75% of the special teams units action. In his fourth season, Ogletree caught a career-low four balls on six targets for 27 yards. After not seeing the field as a rookie, Ogletree had 21 targets and caught nine passes in Year 2 and matched that catch number on just 14 targets in Year 2. Overall, he has four career touchdowns on 22 catches for 283 yards.
One of those catches in 2025, though, proved to be one of the team’s best of the year. The former sixth-round pick went in motion to the right on second and goal from the 4-yard-line early in the second quarter of the Colts’ Week 12 game in Kansas City; he sprinted for the right back corner of the endzone before heading for the goalpost. He managed to catch the ball from Daniel Jones and only barely got toes of both feet down inside the endzone for the touchdown that gave the Colts a 14-3 lead.
The fourth-year tight end appeared in 15 games in 2025, including five starts, but outside the Week 13 score, his most memorable — and unfortunate — moment came in team warmups. Hours ahead of the Colts’ Week 6 home game against the Cardinals, Ogletree was running routes on the Lucas Oil Stadium field when he collided with Colts All-Pro cornerback Charvarius Ward, who was also going through his warmup process. The hit knocked Ward out briefly and left him with a black eye, and he would soon be placed on IR with a concussion that would keep him out until Week 12. Ward would later tell reporters he struggled with nausea, headaches, blurry vision and dizziness for more than a month following the run-in with Ogletree.
“It was a crazy moment. I’m going for the ball, and the next moment, I’m knocked out, laying on my back and getting carted off the field in a wheelchair It was crazy,” Ward told reporters in November of his run-in with the Colts’ 6-foot-5, 260-pound tight end. “That’s a big boy, ‘Tree. I ain’t see him coming.”
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