For what it\u2019s worth, the NFL\u2019s official free agency signing period begins this Wednesday, March 11th, at 4 PM EST.<\/p>\n
With the Colts electing to place the transition tag on fellow soon-to-be free agent, starting quarterback Daniel Jones, instead, Pierce is surprisingly hitting the free agency market untagged as an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n
That means any other NFL team is free to sign Pierce without any restrictions, or extra protections for the Colts.<\/p>\n
The former 2022 2nd round pick of the Colts, at 25-years-old, just had a breakout 2025 campaign. He caught 47 receptions for 1,003 total receiving yards and 6 touchdown receptions during 15 games (14 starts) in 2025.<\/p>\n
His 21.3 yards per reception average led the league, which Pierce has done now two seasons in a row.<\/p>\n
It raises the question of whether the Colts, and specifically longtime general manager Chris Ballard, may have performed a major miscalculation regarding Pierce\u2019s clearly \u2018looming and booming\u2019 free agency status.<\/p>\n
Instead of locking up Jones to save the tag for Pierce, or agreeing to an earlier contract extension with Pierce all together, the Colts may be poised now to lose their best and reigning lead wideout set to enter the prime of his football playing career.<\/p>\n
Pierce has an elite and unique receiving skill-set with his ability to separate vertically and win downfield too, as one of the Colts offense\u2019s top playmakers and explosive threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For what it\u2019s worth, the NFL\u2019s official free agency signing period begins this Wednesday, March 11th, at 4…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,6523,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-798836","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-free-agency","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116189076937634162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798836","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=798836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}