{"id":915471,"date":"2026-06-10T22:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/915471\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T22:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:03:25","slug":"alec-pierce-colts-wr-faces-weeks-of-recovery-from-ankle-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/915471\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Pierce, Colts WR, faces weeks of recovery from ankle surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cincinnati<\/a><\/p>\n

Dave Clark, Cincinnati Enquirer<\/p>\n

Wed, June 10, 2026 at 7:07 PM UTC<\/p>\n

Indianapolis Colts receiver Alec Pierce, who played college football for the University of Cincinnati Bearcats<\/a>, said on June 10 that he still faces many weeks of recovery from left ankle surgery he underwent in March, per ESPN’s Stephen Holder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The return timeline could keep Pierce out well into training camp and past the NFL preseason, Holder said.<\/p>\n

The Cincinnati Bengals are scheduled<\/a> to face the Colts in Indianapolis during the 2026 season but not until Week 16.<\/p>\n

In March, Pierce agreed<\/a> to a four-year, $114-million contract extension with Indianapolis. Days earlier, Colts defensive back Sauce Gardner, Pierce’s UC teammate from 2019 to 2021, lobbied for the Colts to re-sign<\/a> Pierce.<\/p>\n

Pierce has played his first four NFL seasons for the Colts and had a career-best 47 catches for 1,003 receiving yards in 2025.<\/p>\n

\"Receiver<\/p>\n

Receiver Alec Pierce has 2,934 receiving yards over four seasons with the Indianapolis Colts.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Alec Pierce, Colts WR, faces weeks of recovery from ankle surgery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Clark, Cincinnati Enquirer Wed, June 10, 2026 at 7:07 PM UTC Indianapolis Colts receiver Alec Pierce, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[4994,256,2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,4881],"class_list":["post-915471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indianapolis-colts","tag-alec-pierce","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-colts","tag-football","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-indianapoliscolts","tag-nfl","tag-stephen-holder"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116728077229910896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915471","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=915471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}