It appears the Indianapolis Colts are changing their tune when it comes to Jonathan Taylor. 

The team has given the star running back permission to seek a trade out of Indianapolis, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

The change in posture comes less than a month after Taylor requested a trade and Colts owner Jim Irsay said he would not honor the request. 

Teams are now deciding whether or not to make an offer to the Colts for Taylor, who had been the NFL’s leading rusher in 2021.

In three seasons with the Colts, he’s rushed for 3,841 yards and 33 touchdowns.

NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that Taylor’s agent, Malki Kawa, had already begun reaching out to teams and indicated that there was interest. 

Taylor and the Colts had been at an impasse in terms of his contract, which was going into the final year of his rookie deal.

The running back had hoped to negotiate an extension but Indianapolis never seemed interested in engaging in talks. 

Finally, Taylor requested the trade, and Irsay flatout told reporters that he wouldn’t make such a move. 

“We will not trade Jonathan Taylor,” Irsay said, according to ESPN. “That is a certainty. Not now or not in October.”

However, all of that seems to have changed with the reports he is now able to try and find a trade with another team.

Taylor had stepped away from the team’s training camp, first to rehab his ankle at an outside facility and then after returning early last week he again left for what the team described as a “personal matter.” 

Taylor has been on the physically unable to perform list at the start of camp and hasn’t been on the field since December as he dealt with an ankle injury, which he had surgery for in January.