Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri puts $2.25 million Carmel home on market

Jim Ayello

Indianapolis Star

Future hall-of-fame kicker Adam Vinatieri has put his $2.25 million Carmel estate up for sale.

The 12,285 square foot home, located at 11595 Ditch Road, sits on 14.58 acres in West Carmel and features six bedrooms, eight bathrooms an indoor pool, exercise room, sauna, home theater, five-car garage, greenhouse and woods outside.

According toreal estate website Zillow,the house hit the market on Wednesday.

Vinatieri purchased the house, originally built in 1978, in 2012 for $1.3 million.

Vinatieri spent the past 14 of his 24 NFL seasons kicking for the Indianapolis Colts. The 47-year-old does not, however, have a contract with the Colts or any team, for the upcoming season.

Vinatieri is coming off the worst campaign of his professional career. The NFL's all-time leading points scorer missed a league-leading 14 kicks — six extra points (22-of-28) and eight field goals (17-of-25) — before going on injured reserve Dec. 9 with a left knee injury.

The Colts brought in rookie Chase McLaughlin to replace him, who went on to connect on all 11 of his extra points and 5-of-6 field goals in four games. The performance earned him a one-year contract extension.

Following the NFL draft, the Colts also signed rookie free agent Rodrigo Blankenship out of Georgia. Blankenship kicked four seasons for the Bulldogs, connecting on 80 of his 97 field goal attempts (81.8%) and all 200 of his extra points.

Indianapolis Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri has a love for hunting, big game hunting. His office in his Carmel home is decorated wall to wall with his hunting trophies.

Vinatieri told FOX59's Mike Chappell at the end of April thathe'd like to continue his careerbut does know whether it will be with the Colts.

According to Vinatieri, Colts general manager Chris Ballard reached out to him during the draft, but he was turkey-hunting with his son and didn't speak with Ballard.

Vinatieri has spent the offseason rehabbing his knee post-surgery. However, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, that progress has slowed a bit. He hasn't been able to work with Colts personnel and fit in as much rehab as he would have liked.

“Before all of this, my thought was get back and get healthy and if I can kick well, shoot, I figured I could earn a job," Vinatieri told Chappell. “I knew with a six-month, June (timetable), it was going to be tight anyway. If anything, this is going to prolong my recovery.’’

Adam Vinatieri's Carmel home is for sale for $2.25 million

Vinatieri said that his hope is upon full recovery, he'd be able to win the job with the Colts. However, he appears amenable to kicking for another team.

"Hopefully, I can get a little bit more rehab and progress a little bit faster," he told Boston-area radio station WEEI."It might be I'm just ready to go at the beginning of the season. Maybe I'm ready to go a couple of weeks in it. If somebody needs me give me a call. I'm still very optimistic that I can and I'm still working toward that. We'll see. Hopefully."

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