The Indianapolis Colts really like keeping their players' injury concerns to themselves, if not at times slightly misleading. For instance, how many fans knew that wide receiver Alec Pierce had an ankle injury last season? If fans had known that, there might have been more pushback to Pierce being re-signed at such a large amount.
It wasn't until after Pierce was re-signed for four years and as much as $116 million that the receiver had surgery to hopefully correct the problem. Maybe the player and team knew that by having the surgery, Pierce wouldn't be back for months. Fans didn't know it.
Now, what no one appears to know is exactly when the newly cemented WR1 will come back. Initially, the team hoped he would return by training camp, and then a couple of weeks into training camp, and now? Well, it will be at least two more weeks.
The timeline for Alec Pierce returning to the Indianapolis Colts is obviously unclear
The team continues to say all the meaningless jibberish about when the receiver will return. Things such as "his rehab is going well" or "Pierce is upbeat" are bandied about. The words mean nothing, though.
It is almost as if the team is trying to sell fans on the fact that all will be fine with the Colts ' top receiver while at the same time pushing back the timeline for when he returns. What the Colts seem to miss is that if the team told fans that Pierce won't return until Week 6, people would understand.
The fact that they say one thing only to change that later and act as if they never said the first part is just, well...weird. Those kinds of statements also make it seem to people who pay for tickets and buy merchandise that the team simply has no clue about when to expect Alec Pierce to be back on the field.
Maybe the seeming fear comes from the Indianapolis Colts re-signing Pierce to a deal that pays him nearly $30 million annually, but the team would assume the pushback for doing so would be so great that people won't buy tickets. That is silly, though. Fans are going to fan. Instead, the team looks worse for likely overpaying for a wideout who hasn't had 50 catches in a season and was injured.
What fans likely only care about is that Alec Pierce is back somewhat soon. If that's Week 3, then fine, as long as he is healthy enough to produce at a higher level than he has previously. He gets paid to be a WR1 and needs to be statistically worthy of that.
There is no fallback with Pierce out. Josh Downs and Tyler Warren can't carry the passing attack alone. General manager Chris Ballard didn't worry about that this offseason.
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