“They’re never going to be throwing around money” Ian Rapoport explains why the Indianapolis Colts have been so gun-shy in free agency
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The Indianapolis Colts have a decent amount of work to do this offseason. While they definitely should’ve been a playoff team in 2021, a late-season collapse saw them miss the playoffs, further emphasizing how poor a year it had been.
It was around this time last year that the Indianapolis Colts decided to trade a 3rd rounder and a conditional 1st rounder to the Eagles for Carson Wentz. The condition of that pick was that the Eagles would get it if Wentz played 75% of snaps with the Colts. He ended up meeting that criteria in December.
Recently, the Colts elected to move on from Wentz after just one year of him being the starter. They now have to try and find a quarterback and some offensive weapons to build a team that can make it back to the playoffs. That becomes a much tougher task without their first-round pick for this year.
Given that, it would make sense for the Indianapolis Colts to go big in free agency but they are yet to do so. Ian Rapoport gives a possible explanation as to why it hasn’t happened yet.
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Ian Rapoport breaks down why the Indianapolis Colts haven’t attacked free agency
Appearing on ‘The Pat McAfee Show’ Ian Rapoport was asked about the lackluster spending by the Indianapolis Colts to which he responded “Chris Ballard(Indianapolis Colts GM) was in the market for a pass rusher. I think he was interested in Randy Gregory. But they’re never gonna be throwing around money like that. He has money and he has space but that’s just never gonna be him.”
Rapoport further added “I think he likes to draft and sign his own guys. At the end of all this, keeping that first-rounder would’ve been the best thing for them but Carson wanted to play so what can you do?”
That lack of a first-rounder now does loom over the Colts and they’ll really wish they had it. Still, they do have the cap space to make some important signings. Of course, as Rapoport mentioned, it’s not really in their nature to do so but they may have to change ways this offseason if they want to be competitive in 2022.
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