Colts sign Notre Dame basketball player Carson Towt despite no high school or college football experience

The Indianapolis Colts bolstered their choky extremity country with an unconventional signing connected Tuesday.

The Colts announced they signed Notre Dame hoops guardant Carson Towt to their roster with the thought of converting him to a choky end.

Towt, 24, did not play shot successful either precocious schoolhouse oregon assemblage and precocious played guardant for Notre Dame hoops successful 2025. Towt spent six seasons with Northern Arizona earlier transferring to Notre Dame for his last season.

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Carson Towt (33) of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish dribbles during the crippled against the Virginia Cavaliers astatine Purcell Pavilion successful South Bend, Indiana, connected Jan. 27, 2026. (Michael Hickey/Getty Images)

Towt, 6-foot-8 and 250 pounds, acceptable the Big Sky Conference single-season grounds with 423 rebounds during the 2024 season, which led the country. He besides recorded 20 double-doubles that season.

With Notre Dame, Towt averaged 5.9 points, 9 rebounds and 1.7 assists per crippled successful 31 games.

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Notre Dame Fighting Irish guardant Carson Towt (33) dunks against the NC State Wolfpack during the archetypal fractional astatine Purcell Pavilion astatine the Joyce Center successful South Bend, Indiana, connected Feb. 28, 2026. (Michael Caterina/Imagn Images)

The Colts person had occurrence successful the past with converting assemblage hoops players into choky ends. Mo Alie-Cox played assemblage hoops astatine VCU and signed with the Colts arsenic an undrafted escaped cause successful 2017.

In Cox’s eight-season career, helium has caught 127 passes for 1,550 yards and 16 touchdowns portion being an effectual blocker. The Colts re-signed Cox to a one-year woody connected Monday.

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Notre Dame Fighting Irish guardant Carson Towt (33) drives to the handbasket arsenic Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defender Akai Fleming (0) defends during the archetypal fractional astatine Purcell Pavilion astatine the Joyce Center successful South Bend, Indiana, connected Feb. 14, 2026. (Michael Caterina/Imagn Images)

Towt volition slot successful down Cox and Tyler Warren connected the extent chart. Warren, a first-round enactment of the Colts successful the 2025 NFL Draft, had a beardown rookie season. The erstwhile Penn State prima caught 76 passes for 817 yards and 4 touchdowns.

The Colts brought backmost back Daniel Jones and wide receiver Alec Pierce successful escaped bureau but traded distant wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr., perchance leaving much targets for choky ends.

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