Alec Pierce

[Don Wassall]

As I wrote in the Week One thread, Pierce was the victim of a headhunting DB on his second target after dropping his first target in the endzone, and as a result he now has a concussion:

Colts head coach Frank Reich said WR Alec Pierce is in the league's concussion protocol.​

Reich said Pierce developed concussion-like symptoms after the team's Week 1 game against the Texans. Pierce ran a pass route on 66 percent of Matt Ryan's drop backs against Houston and dropped a touchdown on one of his two targets. It was altogether a disastrous debut for the rookie speedster. Ashton Dulin, who was targeted on an incredible six of his 14 routes in Week 1, could become a sneaky PPR option in deeper fantasy leagues if Pierce miss Indy's Week 2 game against Jacksonville.

 

[Carolina Speed]

As I wrote in the Week One thread, Pierce was the victim of a headhunting DB on his second target after dropping his first target in the endzone, and as a result he now has a concussion:

Colts head coach Frank Reich said WR Alec Pierce is in the league's concussion protocol.​

Reich said Pierce developed concussion-like symptoms after the team's Week 1 game against the Texans. Pierce ran a pass route on 66 percent of Matt Ryan's drop backs against Houston and dropped a touchdown on one of his two targets. It was altogether a disastrous debut for the rookie speedster. Ashton Dulin, who was targeted on an incredible six of his 14 routes in Week 1, could become a sneaky PPR option in deeper fantasy leagues if Pierce miss Indy's Week 2 game against Jacksonville.

Thanks for that Don. Was at the Panther game Sunday. I didn't look through all the week 1 posts, obviously.

 

[white lightning]

As I wrote in the Week One thread, Pierce was the victim of a headhunting DB on his second target after dropping his first target in the endzone, and as a result he now has a concussion:

Colts head coach Frank Reich said WR Alec Pierce is in the league's concussion protocol.​

Reich said Pierce developed concussion-like symptoms after the team's Week 1 game against the Texans. Pierce ran a pass route on 66 percent of Matt Ryan's drop backs against Houston and dropped a touchdown on one of his two targets. It was altogether a disastrous debut for the rookie speedster. Ashton Dulin, who was targeted on an incredible six of his 14 routes in Week 1, could become a sneaky PPR option in deeper fantasy leagues if Pierce miss Indy's Week 2 game against Jacksonville.

I didn't see the game but did they at least flag the defensive player? It not it wouldn't suprise me. We have seen this type of thing
way too many times from players wih a certain melanin type.

 

[Don Wassall]

Thanks for that Don. Was at the Panther game Sunday. I didn't look through all the week 1 posts, obviously.

Understood. It was a rough first game for Alec, but I'm not the least bit concerned. From everything I've read the Colts have been very high on him all through training camp and he can only have better games from here. I try to not draw conclusions from a single game, especially the first game of the season and even more so when it involves a rookie. Pittman is going to be the main target on the Colts this season, and Parris Campbell (if he actually stays healthy for once) and Nyheim Hines will also be involved, among others. If Pierce gets 600 or 700 receiving yards his first season that will be a fine result, and anything more than that is just gravy.

 

[booth]

The hit on Pierce is early in the video. it's a tough hit.

 

[booth]

Pierce was inactive yesterday due to a concussion he received last week.

 

[freedom1]

Pierce was 3 or 61 with a long of 30 against the Chiefs.

 

[freedom1]

Alec Pierce 8/81 against the Broncos last night on Thur nite football. They are starting to utilize him

 

[Don Wassall]

After having no receptions in the Colts' first two games, Alec Pierce has gone 3/61, 4/80 and 8/81 in Weeks 3, 4 and 5. That's 15/222, which is well over 1,000 yards if extrapolated over a full season. And that's while playing just 45%, 44% and 59% of the snaps during those same three games. So he's now off to a very good start in his rookie season.

It's also a positive that Matt Ryan kept looking to Pierce last night on short routes as he rarely had time to look downfield, so Alec was definitely his go-to target in the game instead of Michael Pittman, who was supposed to be the team's target hog, or the bum Parris Campbell.

On the negative side, the Colts' heralded o-line is unexpectedly struggling. They need to improve if Pierce is to develop into a potent downfield weapon this season as Ryan is no scrambler esp. at this stage of his career.

 

[Don Wassall]

Pierce finished his rookie season with 41 catches for 593 yards and 2 TDs, averaging 14.5 yards per catch which is good for today's dink and dunk NFL. All in all he had a pretty good rookie year considering the disaster that was the Colts offense. Of course we'd love to see him take the next step and become a thousand yard receiver in '23.

 

[Leonardfan]

Colts new head coach comes from the Eagles. Pierce has that working against him too. He had a very solid rookie year all things considered.

 

[white lightning]

Colts new head coach comes from the Eagles. Pierce has that working against him too. He had a very solid rookie year all things considered.

Pierce is very similar to Jordy Nelson. We can only hope he devolops into that level of star for Indy. They will have to believe in him
and move him up the depth chart. He needs to be out there as much as possible as with his talent the numbers will come!