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Colts’ Tyler Warren could see bigger role after Downs, Allen trades

The Indianapolis Colts traded two of their busiest pass catchers Tuesday.

Along that line of thought, Tyler Warren could be the player Daniel Jones turns to more often in their absence.

Indianapolis sent Josh Downs to Kansas City and Keenan Allen to San Francisco before the trade deadline. The receivers combined for 73 catches, 705 yards and two touchdowns on 115 targets this season.

Those departures give Warren an obvious way forward to more work in an offense that suddenly has far fewer receiving pieces.

The second-year tight end has 38 catches for 275 yards and two touchdowns in seven games. He caught four passes for 44 yards in Sunday’s loss to Dallas, following a four-catch, 18-yard outing against Jacksonville.

Warren has experience handling a larger workload, notably when he finished his rookie season with 76 catches for 817 yards and four touchdowns.

The Colts’ updated unofficial depth chart lists Laquon Treadwell, Anthony Gould and Ashton Dulin atop the receiver spots. Indianapolis also signed Nick Westbrook-Ikhine from the practice squad and has Deion Burks as an option as well.

The vacant targets won’t all go to Warren since the remaining receivers will need to absorb some of that work, and defenses can devote more attention to the tight end.

Nevertheless, getting Warren more involved would give Jones a target he's hit many times as Indianapolis sorts through its thin receiving group.

Sunday’s game against Miami will provide the first look at how the Colts divide those passes.

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