Entering the final year of this rookie deal, Colts’ WR Alec Pierce provided a contract status update on Saturday.<\/p>\n
#Colts<\/a> WR Alec Piece on a potential contract extension:<\/p>\n \u201cI haven’t even really like thought about it too much in terms of myself. I know my agents might\u2019ve want to talk with them a while back, but I feel like \u2026 it’s going to be a play the season out (kind of thing).\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 James Boyd (@RomeovilleKid) July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n Entering the final season of his rookie deal, Indianapolis Colts’<\/a> wide receiver Alec Pierce appears to be in wait-and-see mode, prepared to play out the last year of his contract.<\/p>\n \u201cI haven’t even really like thought about it too much in terms of myself,” Pierce said of his contract status via The Athletic’s James Boyd.<\/a> “I know my agents might\u2019ve want to talk with them a while back, but I feel like \u2026 it’s going to be a play the season out (kind of thing).\u201d<\/p>\n Pierce would put together a breakout season in 2024, emerging as one of the NFL’s most productive deep threats, totaling 824 yards at a league-best<\/a> 22.3 yards per catch.<\/p>\n Looking ahead to the 2025 season, Pierce will still provide the Colts<\/a> with a vertical presence, but a major point of emphasis for him this offseason has been on expanding his route tree so that he can impact other levels of the field–and do so in different ways–more regularly.<\/p>\n “This time, especially right now and into training camp, you try different things with him,”\u00a0Shane Steichen said during OTAs<\/a>.\u00a0“Obviously, things he wants to get better and improve at, certain routes to keep getting better at and keep working those things so he can improve in that and we can add that to his game as well.”<\/p>\n “I think he just keeps doing this,” Steichen said as he motioned upward.” I really do. Obviously, the deep ball threat is there, but he’s done a great job at transitioning in and out of breaks on certain routes that we’re working on.”<\/p>\n The wide receiver market continues to explode. New England’s Stefon Diggs will be the NFL’s 20th highest-paid wideout in 2025 by average annual value, earning $21.16 million per year, according to Spotrac<\/a>. Courtland Sutton is earning $15.2 million per year, which ranks 25th in the NFL.<\/p>\n