The Colts have cut Vontae Davis, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com (on Twitter). The defensive back will be subject to waivers since the league’s trade deadline has passed. 
It has been a perplexing couple of weeks for Davis. First, Davis was withheld from Sunday’s game against the Texans for reasons that were not exactly clear. The Colts swore up and down that Davis’ absence was not injury-related. Afterwards, there were conflicting reports. Some indicated that the Colts were covering up Davis’ previously unreported groin injury. There was also talk that Davis had been demoted from the starting lineup and was not taking the news well. Then, on Wednesday night, we learned that Davis’ season is likely over thanks to the aforementioned groin issue.
Given everything going on with the 29-year-old, we’re not expecting another team to claim him and the final year of his four-year, $36MM contract. Once he passes through waivers, Davis will still have to determine whether he wants to go through with season-ending surgery and teams will have to figure out whether it’s worthwhile to bring him into the locker room after things deteriorated so quickly in Indianapolis.
If he doesn’t get the surgery, the Bills might be one team to keep in mind for Davis. Buffalo showed interest in acquiring the veteran before the trade deadline, according to NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero (on Twitter).
Although Davis’ entire body of work has been impressive, he has looked like a shell of himself over the last season-and-a-half. He currently rates as the NFL’s No. 94 cornerback out of 117 qualifiers, according to Pro Football Focus. Last year, PFF had Davis as one of the ten worst qualified corners in the league. It’s a major drop for a player who earned an excellent 95.1 overall score in 2014 and followed it up with a strong 81.9 mark in ’15.
Drain the swamp! Pagano has to go.
If he goes to the pats, idk whether to laugh or cry
We’ll all be crying
He’s injured all the time and he’s going to be free agent at end of year. His best years are behind him.
I would not at all be surprised if the union files a lawsuit on behalf of Davis after this mess. There’s something really strange about this sequence of events and the way this was handled.
Packers did same thing to Martellus Bennett.
I do think Pagano will be fired but I don’t see how anyone blames this mess on him…Luck hasn’t played this year, every year they don’t improve the team around him, the defense sucks and the O Line sucks and luck is always rushed and yet somehow they expect Luck to work miracles and Pagano to be some sort of super coach and coach them to the playoffs with a terrible team.