{"id":929,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/929","headline":"Colts may call Peyton Manning after firing GM Chris Ballard","dek":"Radio host Dan Patrick says Indianapolis is weighing Manning for a GM role that could include part ownership.","body":"The Colts fired general manager Chris Ballard, and the first name being floated to replace him is a familiar one: Peyton Manning.\n\nDan Patrick said on the Monday edition of his show that the Colts' first call will be, or already has been, to their Hall of Fame former quarterback. According to Patrick, the conversation would go beyond asking Manning for names and suggestions. The team would gauge whether Manning himself wants the general manager job, with an arrangement that could include an ownership stake in the Colts.\n\nIt would not be the first time Indianapolis has turned to a franchise legend to fill a void. When the Colts last fired a head coach, they handed the job to former center Jeff Saturday. Now the thinking is that Manning could step into the front office, with the added twist of picking his own quarterback as the man running the show.\n\nNothing has been finalized, and Manning's interest in the role remains unknown. For now it is speculation tied to Patrick's reporting, but it has quickly become the dominant storyline around the Colts franchise.","published_at":"2026-10-20T17:48:59.889835+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Dan Patrick: Colts will explore hiring Peyton Manning as G.M.","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/dan-patrick-colts-explore-hiring-192538609.html"},{"outlet":"Pro Football Talk","publisher":"NBC Sports","title":"Dan Patrick: Colts will explore hiring Peyton Manning as G.M.","url":"https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/dan-patrick-colts-will-explore-hiring-peyton-manning-as-g-m"},{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Colts ‘first call’ is to Peyton Manning after Chris Ballard firing","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/19/sports/colts-first-call-is-to-peyton-manning-after-gm-firing/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Dan Patrick says Colts will discuss GM, ownership stake with Peyton Manning","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/dan-patrick-says-colts-discuss-163054154.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"‘Would Further Set Back This Organization,’ ‘Stop Living in the Past’ — Colts Fans Reject Rumors of Peyton Manning Potentially Becoming New GM","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/further-set-back-organization-stop-035818399.html"},{"outlet":"Awful Announcing","publisher":"Awful Announcing","title":"Could Eli Manning be ESPN’s ‘Monday Night Football’ wild card?","url":"https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/eli-manning-monday-night-football-wild-card.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Could Eli Manning be ESPN’s ‘Monday Night Football’ wild card?","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/could-eli-manning-espn-monday-150039552.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/71a1655aba61d9c6ef6f71b8e5f156be92d5bc20455801f84832c778e7fd0cd3/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w1200_h675%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fprofootballtalk.nbcsports.com%2F5d871162426de6cc771a1e68469cd1d3.jpg","credit":"Yahoo Sports","width":1200},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}