Ayanna Taylor says the Colts’ latest moves have her thinking the way plenty of NFL families do when the phone starts buzzing and the roster keeps changing.
After Indianapolis traded perennial Pro Bowl guard Quenton Nelson, Jonathan Taylor’s wife posted from a car and said she was “spiraling.” She also described what that kind of news can feel like on the home front.
“It kind of feels like rookie year all over again,” she said. “So naturally my mind is spiraling.
Is this the start of the trading frenzy? What does this mean for my husband and I?
Do I need to start packing our bags? Are we even going to be spending our daughter's first Halloween together?
Do we make it to game day, or was last week the last time my husband will be putting on a Colts jersey.”
The reaction comes as the 27-year-old running back heads into his seventh season and could be in position to bring the Colts significant draft capital before the Nov. 10 trade deadline.
“Here's the thing: In the NFL, your life can literally change with one phone call or, apparently, one post. Sometimes you find out when you're running errands on a random Tuesday.”
Taylor also said the steady circle of women she had grown close to has been shrinking after the offseason trades of Zaire Franklin and Michael Pittman Jr., along with other roster moves.
“I think the thing that people may not realize about the NFL is, yes, you understand that changes come with it,” she said. “For years, I've been surrounded by the same women.
Our husbands work together. We build friendships and we've just grown up in the league together.”
And she wrapped it up with the question many around the team are probably asking: “Is literally anybody safe on this team?”
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