{"id":139016,"date":"2025-06-18T07:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/139016\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T07:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:13:14","slug":"a-closer-look-at-te-mo-alie-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/139016\/","title":{"rendered":"A closer look at TE Mo Alie-Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s take a closer look at this Indianapolis Colts team as we go player-by-player through the roster. Up next is TE Mo Alie-Cox.<\/p>\n

With offseason programs now behind us, we will be getting a jump start on our training camp preview by going player-by-player through the\u00a0Indianapolis Colts’<\/a>\u00a091-man roster.<\/p>\n

Going alphabetically, up next is tight end Mo Alie-Cox.<\/p>\n

Mo Alie-Cox’s profileHeight: 6-5Weight: 267Age: 31NFL experience: 7 seasonsCollege: Virginia CommonwealthNo. 812024 Snap countsOffense: 475Special teams: 1102024 PFF gradesOffense: 64.5Special teams: 55.32024 Season Review for Mo Alie-Cox<\/p>\n

As he has for many years, Alie-Cox continued to be utilized heavily as a blocking presence in the Colts<\/a>‘ offense at the tight end position, with about two-thirds of his total offensive snaps coming in that capacity.<\/p>\n

For what it’s worth, among eligible tight ends, Alie-Cox ranked 15th in PFF’s run-blocking grade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the passing game, Alie-Cox totaled just 12 receptions for 147 yards with one touchdown. Of course, you’d certainly like more production, but again, going back to what Alie-Cox was asked to do in this offense, he’s a blocker first.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to the 2025 season<\/p>\n

Alie-Cox’s role as a block-first tight end won’t change. But with the addition of Tyler Warren, who brings a well-rounded skill set to the position, Alie-Cox’s opportunities could be reduced.<\/p>\n

The Colts under Shane Steichen use a heavy dose of two tight end sets, so Alie-Cox could still carve out a role in those more run-heavy situations as the second tight end on the field with Warren.<\/p>\n

However, also competing for playing time in those run-first situations will be Drew Ogletree, and how the playing time between he and Alie-Cox breaks down remains to be seen. Will Mallory, meanwhile, could potentially be the second tight end next to Warren in the more obvious passing situations.<\/p>\n

While Alie-Cox has been a key member of this Colts’ offense for a while, his current deal, which he signed this offseason as a free agent, doesn’t make him a roster lock either. According to Over the Cap<\/a>, releasing Alie-Cox leaves behind a dead cap hit of $1.167 million, which is relatively easy to absorb.<\/p>\n

Now, at this time, I expect Alie-Cox to be on the team, but if a younger, higher-upside player from the back end of the depth chart emerges this summer, the Colts do have the cap flexibility to make that move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let’s take a closer look at this Indianapolis Colts team as we go player-by-player through the roster. Up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[32554,247,265,2005,7,2004,392,2381,30014,22388,11966,246,88,6,245,264,818,817,829,9,266,819,776,1124,5008],"class_list":{"0":"post-139016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-alie-cox","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-colts","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-indianapolis","14":"tag-indianapolis-colts","15":"tag-indianapoliscolts","16":"tag-mallory","17":"tag-mo","18":"tag-mo-alie-cox","19":"tag-neutral","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-overall","23":"tag-overall-neutral","24":"tag-scores","25":"tag-sport","26":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-sports-news","29":"tag-statistics","30":"tag-u0026","31":"tag-will","32":"tag-will-mallory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114703132960394004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}