Wide Receiver · Indianapolis Colts

Alec Pierce

No. 14 · 5th season

Alec Pierce starts training camp on the wrong side of the roster list

There is a list you do not want your name on when camp opens. Alec Pierce's name is on it.

Pierce is a wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts who has been working toward a bigger role in the offense. The physically-unable-to-perform list is where players land when they are not cleared to practice — it means the first days of camp happen without them, and whatever momentum they were building has to wait.

The Colts placed Pierce on that list heading into the first day of training camp, which means he will not be on the field when his teammates begin the work of a new season. The nature of the injury keeping him out was not detailed in the available reporting.

Missing the start of camp is not the end of anything — players return from this list, get their reps, and get back into the conversation. But every day of practice is a chance to make something happen, and Pierce is watching those days go by from the sideline.

The question now is how long the wait is, and whether the ground he loses is ground he can get back.

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