{"id":736618,"date":"2026-02-07T22:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/736618\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:20:14","slug":"nfl-insider-indicates-colts-franchise-tagging-alec-pierce-remains-an-outside-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/736618\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Insider indicates Colts franchise tagging Alec Pierce remains an outside possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cSpeaking of the Colts, my sense is their priority will be Daniel Jones, followed by receiver Alec Pierce as a 1B option,\u201d writes Fowler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe Colts should turn up the heat on Jones closer to the combine. Though the franchise and transition tags for wide receivers are steep &#8212; $25 million to $28 million based on projections &#8212; the Colts tagged Michael Pittman Jr. two years ago as a way to facilitate a long-term deal. I\u2019m not taking it totally off the table for Pierce for that reason.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSpeaking of the Colts, my sense is their priority will be Daniel Jones, followed by receiver Alec Pierce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,3562,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-736618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts-news","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116031679795685545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736618","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=736618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}