Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - COLTS SQUAD SHOW: Colts KEEN on Keenan | Could the Chargers Veteran Help Solve the Colts' WR Depth?

Episode Date: June 25, 2026

The Colts never really pursued a veteran replacement for Michael Pittman, Jr. - could they take a late flier on Keenan Allen to fill out their depth chart? The Squad convenes to talk about the possibility of the 13-year veteran re-uniting with Shane Steichen, whether or not the Colts can get by with what they have at wide receiver, Quenton Nelson cracking the Top 100, and the weirdly entertaining conversation around Sauce Gardner's age. Find and follow Locked On Colts on your favorite podcast platforms:  🎧 https://lockedonpodcasts.com/podcasts/locked-on-colts/  📺YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLdpxJspi1hMh5HL7ExpWOQ Give the squad a follow on X/Twitter @Schultz975, @JakeArthurNFL, @ZachHicks2, @allenpinkett, @LockedOnColts, and @ColtsOn_SI, as well on TikTok and Instagram! Locked On NFL League-Wide: Every Team, Fantasy, Draft & More  🎧 https://lockedonpodcasts.com/podcasts/lockedoncolts Everydayer Club  If you never miss an episode, it’s time to make it official. Join the Locked On Everydayer Club and get ad-free audio, access to our members-only Discord, and more — all built for our most loyal fans. Click here to learn more and join your team’s community: https://lockedonpodcasts.com/everydayerclub Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! FanDuel Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. From the opening whistle to the final kick, Let There Be Goals on FanDuel. Visit https://FANDUEL.COM to get started now. Indeed Listeners of this show get a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to help give your job the premium placement it deserves at http://Indeed.com/podcast. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to the Colts Squad Show. I'm Derek Schultz, and I apologize in advance for the hat, for the folks watching in Indiana at least. And I'm Zach Hicks, and I want to say, welcome back to Indianapolis, Braden Smith. The Colts, or the Indianapolis fan base only didn't have Braden Smith for like a few minutes there. I'm Jake Arthur, and Derek Schultz love of the Knicks disgusts me. And I'm Alan Pinkett, former Euler. And tonight we talk about Alan, but it's not me. Colts Nation rise up. It's the Colt Squad, everything Indianapolis Colts every week. Covering all the big hits and game-changing plays from the Circle City,

the way only the locked on podcast network can. It's time to squad up. The Colt Squad Joe starts now. Welcome to the Colts Squad Show. Today's episode brought you by Fandul. The biggest stage in world soccer is here. Let there be goals on fan. and dual visit phandul.com to get started now.

I'm Derek Schultz, long-time indie sports talker and sports columnist for the Indianapolis Business Journal. I'm joined by a Notre Dame legend who needs no introduction, even though we insist on introducing him on every single show. He's longtime NFL running back Alan Pinkett, along with our locked on Colts daily duo, Jake Arthur and Zach Hicks, your first listen every day. We know the Colts left wide receiver pretty much on address in the wake of trading Michael Pittman Jr.

Yes, they brought in Dionne Brooks as a seventh round pick, but didn't really go out of their way to get a veteran. Could they turn to an even older veteran to replace some of that production? In segment one tonight, we'll kick things off with the Colts' possible pursuit of Keenan Allen. It came from a report from our friend James Boyd of the athletic about him expecting maybe some interest there. So we'll dive into that in segment number one, maybe a reunification between Keenan Allen and his former OC with the Chargers. and Stuyken. How Indianapolis can survive without a true fill-in for Michael Pittman, Jr. I know Zach has touched on this on previous shows.

You know, some people thinking that the Colts need to add there. Some people thinking, hey, you know what, they'll be okay as long as they're healthy. We'll discuss that in segment number two. In segment three, the NFL top 100 is doing its slow role. I think they announced like two players every like three days for the next three months. That's the way that they do it. But hey, look, we're talking about it, right? this is what they want. Quentin Nelson cracked that top 100 list.

What other Colts will we expect to make it? We'll talk about that in segment number three. And then we're going to start something new. And it just popped into my head. I don't know if I'm just dehydrated. I was just loopy today. And I was thinking, what can we do just kind of like a final rap segment? Squad squibs, I don't know, rolls off the tongue, right?

So we'll hit a couple of kind of quick hits, news and notesy type thing. Did the NFL make the right call with Brendan Sorsby? They slammed the door completely. I'm not trying to be shatting for a guy, but it is kind of funny. see the door just gets shut in his face. Sauce's age, which was a fun little controversy, if we want to call it that. We'll talk about that and more to end the show tonight.

But as I mentioned, guys, our friend James Boyd at the Athletic had mentioned his belief that the Colts could consider the veteran in Keenan Allen for their wide receiver vacancy. 13-year veteran, six-time pro bowler. His last 1,000-yard season, he's three years removed, two seasons, I should say, removed from that. that happened in 2023 with the chargers. But, but Zach, he spent seven season with Shane Steichen, seven with Phillip Rivers.

We know what the people in the building feel about those two. Obviously, Stuyken being the head coach and the respect level for Rivers, could this potentially be a possibility where the Colts would kick the tires? Yeah, I think it makes a lot of sense for the Colts as long as you're not expecting a thousand yard receiver, Keenan Allen, right? If you're setting the bar where it should be, which is, you know, a good, just like guy who can get a bucket every now and then, kind of the unc on the team, right, is, so to speak. And just the guy who can kind of operate in this system at a decent level.

As long as you're having that expectation for him, though, instead of like, okay, come in here and fix this wide receiver room, I think it can be a perfectly fine signing. You know, I'm on record saying it a bunch of times that I can be talked into any one-year contract in the NFL because you can always get out of the contract after the year, right? So with the Colts having the cap space that they have, I think it makes sense. Throw a one-year contract at him, put some incentives in there. And we look at the overall role that he potentially have to replace with Michael Pittman, Jr. It wasn't this like role where he has to be this super diverse route tree and go win

isolation routes and go beat guys in man coverage. It's really just a zone beating route like route tree that's going to run more slants and dig routes, occasional dig routes, drag routes over the middle, you know, a little curl routes there finding the space in zone coverage. It's not that this is unimportant stuff. It's just that you're not asking him to go out there and win on an island like Alec Pierce is going to be doing on Sunday. So I think that this is perfectly fine.

I hope the Colts do explore this because it adds a little bit more stability in that receiver room. It defines the room a little bit better. It has Ashton Doolin being, you know, a high-end wide receiver four that can still play some special teams, but also can still get some early down work as a guy who can space out the offense, who can also come in and run block a little bit. And then when you need to actually get a conversion on third down, you can get Keenan out there along with Josh Downs and Alec Pierce and have a guy who can actually, you know, a little bit more consistency and a little bit more

of a pedigree in catching the football and finding space against zone defense. So I like it. I think it would make sense for the Colts. I think it would make sense for where the team is at organizationally, and I don't think it would hurt them too much because, like I said, a one-year contract, even if everything goes awful, you're out of the contract after the year, too. So I think it makes a lot of sense for this Colts team. It would add a lot more competition to the bottom of the roster. It would put the position in more in doubt for like Dionne Burks and Lequon Treadwell and a couple of those guys. But if it upgrades the room in a season that you need to win games, I think it makes a lot of sense for this team. So I'm all on board with Keenan Allen.

I know he's not the fastest or the most explosive receiver anymore, but he is a guy who, again, knows the system and can fill that zone beating role, especially on third downs when you go to more 11 personnel in this offense. So I'd be down with it. I think it makes sense for the Colts. Yeah, Zach and I discussed this the other day. You know, you get a guy like this who's 34 years old, I believe, and you see a clear path from to just have a specialized role,

which allows the limited reps he's going to take. to have more quality to them rather than having him play 60 snaps a game. You know, just like Zach said, if you bring him in like third down, obvious passing downs, things like that, where you can still have Ashton Dooland do the dirty work of the blocking and some of the gadgety stuff they like to do or just some of the early down work in general, just having a receiver out there 12 and 13 personnel.

When you're running the ball, you want to have Doolin out there rather than Keenan Allen. So it makes a lot of sense. He may cost a little more, money just because of, you know, who he is at this point. But, you know, it's, it's one year. You're not counting on a guy that age to have this enormous role. You're just having them out there to move the chains and convert and know what he's doing, show some of these younger guys, you know, show them the ropes a little bit. I mean, normally this might be a little far-fetched, but

we know that Chris Ballard will kind of feed these guys. these free agents who have connections to the coaching staff with the Colts, they will just keep going and going and going. I mean, how many guys has Lou Anirumo gotten over this last year and a half? Like, Lou's been here just a little over a year, and it would take me probably a while to come up with all the guys he's been given. So Shane getting a guy that he already knows, like Keenan Allen,

very close with him, very good relationship. Makes all the sense in the world. I mean, I think you have to really weigh the importance of Ashton Dool in special teams. I know a lot of people might roll their eyes at that or think it's a silly thing to worry about, but they have a bona fide all-pro special team or one of the best in the league. And, I mean, the guy helps return kicks. He's the gunner on your punt team. He is everything Brian Mason wants to do on special teams.

It is very, very important. So you don't want to completely take him away from that. And if you have him playing 40 or so snaps a game on offense, you're not going to want to use him as much on special teams. And the fact of the matter is you also just don't have anyone that can fill Doolin's shoes on special teams. So there's a pretty big balance there. I don't think the Colts want to completely pull the rug out from Doolin

when it comes to this offensive role that he's being given the opportunity to compete for. but it would also help to bring in somebody else who also knows what they're doing. So I like the potential move for two reasons. Financially, it makes sense. Zach, you touched on it. He's not going to cost that much, and it would just be a one-year contract. I think what he made $3 million last year. So there's enough room under the cap for them to still go get a pass rusher

if they brought in Keenan Allen. Secondly, I like it. What did you say he could be the uncle on the team? Yeah, I just, I think about he would be a fabulous mentor to some of the young guys. A guy who has been in the league for 13 years, you know, comes in with a little more knowledge. I think he would do a great job of teaching the other guys how to be a professional. And, you know, I know this could possibly be an opportunity for Ashton Doolin, but Ashton Doolin hadn't made six Pro Bowls.

And, you know, this guy is a bona fide receiver. My question would be, why are they waiting so long to make the move? You know, because don't you want him to come in and get acquainted with the quarterback? and, you know, for the quarterback to learn his idiosyncrasies and vice versa, it makes all the sense in the world. And I don't see him being a drop-off from Michael Pittman. I guess Michael Pitman was a little taller. But this guy, I guess, knows the offense well enough that he could come in.

But I just, to have that type of knowledge, in a receiver that still knows how to run routes, a receiver that's seen every defense that they could ever throw at you. And, you know, I guess we'd do essentially the same thing Michael Pittman did, but Michael Pittman was going to cost, what, $29 million to do it, where this guy is going to maybe cost, what, a third or a fourth of that? Yeah. So it makes all the sense in the world. And sometimes as an older vet, you know, when you know it might be your last go-round, you know, you really tend to focus a little bit more. You take care of your body a little bit more. Because you know it's your last time potentially going out there. So you want to go out with a bang. So it makes all the sense in the world to me for this. them to bring them in.

And I guess my question is, why doesn't L.A. want him anymore? Older, just because he's older. I mean, it's a young band's game. Yeah, they're going with new blood. They've drafted guys. They've got younger guys. They want to move forward with it.

And as Shane says in the comments here, someone said that all other receivers combined last year at his age put together. They got 200 total yards receiving. So it is tough at that age. And I'm not saying Keenan Allen come in here and be a, a 1,000-yard receiver. Don't even come in here and be a 500-yard receiver, right? Like, I don't expect that.

I fully expect the Colts wide receiver room or just their passing offense to run through Pierce, Warren, and downs. That's where almost all of their yardage is going to come from. And heck, I even think a guy like Doolin would outperform Keenan Allen in terms of yardage and snaps next season. But I think just having a guy like Keen and Allen just makes it a little bit cleaner in terms of depth and in terms of having like that fail-safe option, right? where a player like Dionne Burks or a player like Westbrook-Akeena who fell out of rotation last year in Miami

when Miami didn't really have much at wide receiver. I know they had Hill and Waddle, but Hill was banged up last year. You know, I do think that just having a guy who has that familiarity could just add a little bit stability. And one thing I did want to answer that you mentioned there, Alan, it's like why he hasn't been signed yet. One thing I've noticed with older players in my time covering the league and around the league is mandatory minicamp is not something that's really high on their priority list when they get around this. So they like this little six-week stretch to be like where they can sign because, okay, I'll show up for training camp.

Don't worry. But the mandatory minicamp, like, come on, I don't want to do that at 34 years old. So, yeah, I do think that that's kind of what they're waiting on there. But, yeah, I mean, look, I think that the total yardage would be like 200, 300, yards if he were to be signed. Like, I'm not going to put this huge expectation on him because I do expect to jump from downs and a huge jump in targets for Alec Pierce. But, you know, I think just having a guy that you can play in some 11 personnel

sets when you've got to have it moments, I think that could be a little bit more, like more upside there, I guess, or at least more of a steady floor than what like an Ashton Doolin could bring where Doolin's way more vital for those early downs and 12 personnel looks. You're just coming and beat Dantrell-inman essentially. Yeah, you mentioned inman. You mentioned inman, Jake, and not that this is necessarily relevant to 20, But the Colts haven't exactly had the best history of bringing in veteran wide receivers,

at least from what I remember. I mean, some of the names Hakeem Nix, Darius Hayward Bay. You know, Donnie Avery, I guess, had that game in Detroit, right? We'll always have the Donnie Avery play there. Right, but they were expected to be, like, starters, weren't they? Like, they were expected, like, key role. Grigsson signed a new wide receiver two every year that needed to be a three or a four. Right.

I would call Keenan Allen, like, wide receiver three and a half if they signed them. like he would and target like four and a half you know him and duel it would be a timeshare between him and dueling i think that like if a keem nix was a depth receiver for for indy when the colt signed him it would have been like whatever like perfectly fine but because you need him to be the the other guy alongside ty wyilton it was a mess you know and i think that's where you get into these issues with these older receivers as long as you don't expect them to be superstars or even like above average players i think you can be perfectly fine i think it would be a great complimentary peace. Yeah, and as long as the expectations are there, I think that he could be successful.

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Thanks so much for being here. Former NFLer Alan Pinkett is here. So it's the Locked on Colts Daily Duo of Jake Arthur and Zach Hicks. And Wednesday nights for at least until the start of training camp, is when you can find us. We're going down to a once-a-week cadence over the next six weeks, the quote-unquote dead period, even though it's never really dead as far as the NFL is concerned.

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Ashton Dillon, Dionne Burks. I mean, if we're digging a little bit more, LeQuon Treadwell, Anthony Gould, they've got some others that are on there. I mean, we're really kind of reaching down into the bin there. And Alan has been more productive than anybody else on the Colts depth chart even last year at a reduced capacity outside of Pierce. Now, he did get a lot of targets last year. He was a, you know, a guy that I think would probably have seen the ball more last year than he did this year. But could the Colts, Zach, if they did nothing, if they just move forward with Birx and let's say, you know, Treadwell or some of these other guys make the team, they adjust dualins roll a little bit, are you of the belief that they could just kind of get by

with what they have assuming health, which I know is always a big caveat when we're talking about the Colts or really any NFL team. Yeah, I think it certainly is passable at the wide receiver room. I mean, I truly believe that Alec Pierce is a wide receiver one in this league. He's shown it the last two years. His development in the intermediate game, obviously he's been one of the best deep threats in football the last few seasons, but he has become a very, very good intermediate player as well. One of the best intermediate receivers in football last year, like top five across the board

and a lot of metrics there. The big thing is just targeting him more underneath, which I, I think he's perfectly capable to do with his athleticism and with his ability to beat press coverage. So I think he can be a true number one wide receiver that can take on 130 targets, 140 targets and look really good doing so. The big question is just Josh Downs. Can he survive in a bigger role? Can he play a little bit more outside? And can the Colts find ways to get him the ball more than just in the short game, right?

Because that's kind of where his bread and butter has been. And it's kind of really funny with Josh Downs is like, when you look at wide receivers and you kind of talk about target share and how to get them the football, usually it's like you have to earn the right to get the high leverage targets at wide receiver. Like, okay, if you can perform on the early downs when it's not the high leverage moments, then you'll start getting more of the third down targets. But the thing for Josh down is since day one, he has always been the high leverage guy. It's like, okay, we don't like first and second down, we're going to go to Pittman.

We'll maybe take a deep shot to Pierce, get it to a tight end. But when it comes to third down, we're going to isolate Josh. downs and get him the football. You know, we're going to find a way to get the ball in his hands, let him separate against a slot corner, get him in motion, get him hiding in the bunch and find a way to get him the ball in space. Now, the whole big question is just can we get him the ball more on those earlier downs? Can we, like, incorporate some of what we were doing with Michael Pittman Jr.

With Josh Downs, who is a little bit more agile, a little bit quicker, a little bit more fluid, and can he create with the ball in his hands? So I think he's fully capable of doing it. Now it's not going to be as powerful and as strong after the catch like Pitman was in his career with the Colts because he's just not that level of receiver. But it adds a little bit more finesse. It adds a little bit more creation and just creativity at the wide receiver position. So I think he's fully capable, especially if you're talking like the Z wide receiver role, you're not going to face as much press coverage. And if you do take on press coverage, you have that little buffer of space to where you can kind of work some two way goes and work around it.

the Colts will be creative with getting him in motion and making sure that he's not facing like true press at any time. So I think it can work. I think there's a lot of good things with Josh Downs' game. And I'd love to see him getting just more targets overall in the offense and more scheme looks on those early downs because he's already pretty money on third down. It's just getting him more involved on, even if it's like more curls, more in routes, more drag routes, like get him the ball more and just let him do his thing.

Now, he needs to stay healthy. And I know there were a couple key drops last year that popped up that he needs to clean up. But he's a very good wide receiver. I feel good with those two players. And I think Doolin's a perfect compliment to those guys, a little, a guy who can just do it all. And then on the couple targets and touches he does get, he can perform in those roles too. So I don't think it's like the best wide receiver room in football, but I think you have a true wide receiver one. You have a stud at tight end.

You have a guy who compliments them who can just win on an island. And then you have just your dirty work guy in Ashton Doolin. Now, the depth's a little bit, a little bit flimsy, but I do really like this wide receiver room. So I don't think it's like bad. I don't think it's a huge step back either. I think it's, you know, an above average wide receiver room with a lot of good pieces. And as long as Jones is healthy, I think it can be very good out there. Yeah, I don't have any big concerns with the passing game in general, at least the past catchers.

I think something that probably gets glossed over a little bit is like the Colts just spent a first round pick on Tyler Warren last year. Like the runway is there for him to shoot to the moon in terms of his involvement in the passing game. I mean, they didn't, they didn't just draft him for last year to be his ceiling of what his role could be. So already 112 targets as a rookie last season. Yeah. They fed him the football. And you got to expect like Scotty saying in the comments here, like up to 130 targets this year. I think that's on the table for Ward for sure.

Yeah. I mean, he's going to be used a lot. I think they're going to broaden. what they do with him as well. Like we saw him do so many different things at Penn State. Nicold's dabbled in that a bit last year, but I think there's even more they want to do with him that we'll still see. So I certainly think Tyler Warren is going to absorb a lot of the attention.

But again, we know Alec Pierce, again, $114 million deal. Like the targets are going to go up. Like I think it's going to work well. You just, I don't want to call him in a little. elite receiver, but what more can a guy do when given the ball? He comes down with it. He makes the catch. He makes spectacular catches. He makes 50-50 catches. He beats the best corners in the league. I mean, we saw him beat Patrick Stringley. He beats Derek Stingley every time they play. Like, the guy can win against any corner in the league. He makes the big catches. He is fast.

We just got to see what it's going to look like when he's asked to, you know, separate and close quarters a little more and have a little more wiggle to his room. We'll see what it, what it looks like. But like in general, we know this guy is already an effective receiver and it's only going to grow there. Downs, I'm excited to see more in a bigger role, a higher volume of targets. He's kind of, he's kind of had seasons of his career so far. You know, there's been quarterbacks that look his way constantly. Like I think it was Joe Flacco that just targeted the health out of him when he got into the lineup a couple years ago and largely he's delivered we've seen parts of his game earlier in his career that haven't really been exploited as much later on like

i feel like he was a downfield threat much more often in his first couple years than he was you know more recently uh so downs i think is capable of showing more and then the rest of the cast of characters that, you know, will sort itself out, whoever makes the roster. We know Doolin will, but we don't know who else. Really everybody but Laquan Treadwell is someone who can stretch the field. I mean, Treadwell is a big-bodied guy who can kind of win some contested stuff, some tight windows, but like Westbrook Aquina, Barks, Doolin, these are all guys, Gould, these are all guys that can stretch a defense downfield a bit.

So I'm perfectly fine with what the people. pass catching group looks like. Really want to see Tyler Warren, though. I just want to see if, I mean, we know Alex Pierce got this enormous contract, but does Tyler Warren ascend to being the top guy over on the passing game? It already started to trend that way last year. I mean, at least early in the air it did. So I would be fine if they did nothing else with this receiver room.

You guys have already touted the ability of all the different receivers. But, you know, my thing is, do we play this game to be fine? You know, I thought the goal was to go and win a Super Bowl. And if you're going to go win a Super Bowl, you're always trying to improve the room. So, yes, I think if they did nothing, they would be fine. I expect Tyler Warren to take off this year. Really excited about Alec Pierce. Maybe, maybe teams will try to double him.

But I just like the fact that if you have an opportunity to add a six-time pro bowler to the roster, how that will increase the competition, it'll make Ashton Doolin better. It'll make all the receivers better. better. And, you know, I like the fact that there's, there's so much diversity in that wide receiver room now that you really can't key on somebody. Of course, they will now because dude getting $114 million. Yeah, he's going to get the ball. But I just, I'm not satisfied with the room being fine. I think that the more better players, have on a team, the better you're going to make your team. Yeah. And one thing I want to just

also add is like when you said like if teams want to double Alec Pierce or you want to just bracket Alec Pierce, right, I'm fine with the team trying to bracket your X wide receiver. The guy who's going to be facing pressman coverage. He's going to be on the backside of three by ones. Please roll your coverage to the backside of a three by one so I can give my bunch coverage look more like fewer defenders on that side of the field and more opportunities to sneak downs and opportune like leverage situations to get open. So I think Downs is just a great compliment to what Pierce does. You're where Pierce is so dominant on the vertical plane,

so good at beating press coverage, so good in 50-50 stuff where Josh Downs is your isolation guy, the guy that you can sneak around. You know, again, you have these cheap motion stuff. You can do them in the little loops in the back field that they do sometimes at those motions. And you can just get him in opportunities where like,

hey, when he gets to the five yard mark, right, this is what they do all the time with him. He gets to five yards. He's reading the leverage of the defender that he's facing and he's breaking in or out based off the leverage there. He is just so good at finding that space and getting open. And I just think that's such a great pairing with Alec Pierce. So I think the Colts made the great choice of picking these two players as the two wide receivers they're moving forward with. They complement each other well. And yeah, I dare teams to roll coverage over to Pierce because then again, we'll just hide downs in the traffic on the three wide receiver side and find opportunities to get him the football. So that's why I think these guys just pair really well together and why I'm not

concerned about the wide receiver room with these two guys leading the way. I want to start talking about Alec Pierce more emphatically and less like almost like apologetically. Like it just feels like, you know, Jake, you kind of mentioned it. Like what else does this guy have to do to earn the respect of everybody that he's a big time receiver? I mean, I'm not asking people to say that Alex Pierce is the best receiver in the league or a top five receiver in the league. But if people just don't see what we see, then I, you know, it's almost like you mentioned it sometimes on Twitter where you put her asses around it like wild gestures, uh, gestures wildly, right?

To like what's around you. Like that's how I feel like we don't even need to really say anymore what Alec Pierce is. You just kind of go like this with your arms. Like if you're not watching, then you're just kind of missing how, how good of a receiver that he's grown into. And I still think that there's more tears for him to climb. Uh, when we come back here on the locked on cold squad show, the NFL top 100 list is being slow rolled. And for the first time in several years, a cult is on it.

We'll tell you who when we come back next. Welcome back, Locked on Colts Squad Show. Appreciate you guys being here. Thanks so much for joining us. Summer months, right? You get these lists. You get these rankings. It's full disclaimer. It's not worth keeping up at night over anything like that and talking about disrespect or whatever else. but I did find it interesting that, you know, the NFL is rolling out their top 100 list. This is the list that it's voted on by the players across the NFL, the top 100 guys. And Quinn Nelson cracked that list because they've only released, I think, the first seven or eight so far, number 99 of 100, which might not sound like much, but so we're talking about the top 100 players in the entire NFL.

And he's made this list now four times in his career. And I do think that it's significant in the sense that the Colts didn't have a single player make the list in last season's version. And in 2024, they only had one and he's not on the team anymore in Zaire Franklin. You got to go back to 2025. The last time they had multiple players make the list, and that's when they had five, including Jonathan Taylor, I think was number five or number six off of that incredible 2021 year. But, Alan, let's actually start with you. I know we're going out of order here, but I know how much you appreciate Quentin Nelson. This is now the fourth time that he's made this list. And I would have to think that it's,

even more difficult outside of a skill position guy or like an edge guy or a corner guy. You know, the more flashy positions for an interior offensive lineman to make the list as much as he does. But the respect level across the league, I think is pretty clear and apparent with number 56 here in Indy. The dude is so bad, he doesn't even have a backup. I mean, if you look at the depth chart, there's nobody listed behind him. He just, he can't get hurt. And I think, you know, him being in the top 100 speaks volumes because, usually that's reserved for most of your skill positions.

Like you said, it's the entire league. It's not the top 100 linemen. Not the top 100 offensive players. It's the top 100 players, period, that he's in there. So, you know, much respect to him. But I think he's earned it. And I think if you think of a guard, what you want in a guard, I mean, Quentin Nelson is the embodiment of what a football player,

offensive lineman, Mahler, tactician on the offensive line is. He was even back in South Bend giving the guys some of the offensive lines some tips when they were having their spring practice. So I see that, and it makes me think that the offensive line for Notre Dame is going to be even better because O.Q was back in. town and, you know, sparsing them with some knowledge and things. But, you know, think about it. Probably all the quarterbacks make the top 100.

Every starting running back probably makes the top 100. You know, there's going to be plenty of tackles, especially left tackles, and a handful of centers. But how many guards do you think would be in that top 100? I haven't even gotten to the defense, all right? And so there's going to be a lot of players in defense. So I think it's an honor. And you said this is his fourth time being in the top 100.

So dude is that bad MF. So, hey, look, and to me, he just keeps getting better. And I can tell you two people that are happy that he's still on the offensive line. That's Daniel Jones and Jonathan Taylor. Yeah, no, for sure. Before I get into talking about Quentin Nelson, because you guys know, I love talking about Quentin Nelson. I struggle with this list every year. I just, I'm not a fan of the NFL Top 100 whatsoever.

I've seen some of the player fillouts on there and, like, they're putting like their backup behind them as like a top 10 player in the league and stuff because they just don't care about this list. And it is a little bit unfortunate because I know a lot of Colts fans are going to look at this and be like, Quentin Nelson, 99th. He's in his prime and he's a potential first ballot Hall of Famer. like he is that good of a player he's got double the all pros in his career that he has appearances on this list but him being number 99 he's going to be like one of like two to three interior offensive linemen that make this list because they don't put linemen on this list this list will have like six offensive linemen in general on like they do not put offensive linemen uh they put like 15 quarterback like you know who was one spot ahead of quit nelson on this list well two foot tall bryce young was right was right ahead of him on this list. Yeah, I did see it. Tell me Bryce Young, the better football player than Quentin. It's a really weird list.

I've never really been a fan of it because they just, they downplay offensive line play so much. And I always like whenever I see like, even like I think Pro Football Network does their version of this list. I know over here at Lockdown, we do our version of the list and I've agreed more with the locked on list for sure, not just the bias of working for locked on, obviously. But I just think that it's better than what we kind of.

of get with the NFL top 100. But all that to say, Quentin Nelson should have been in this list every single year of his career. He's been one of the best interior offensive linemen throughout his entire career. Outstanding football player will be in the Hall of Fame. There's not much more we can say about Quentin Nelson. And I mean, honestly, the real question here, Derek, is kind of your second part of this, is what other Colts will make it? I can guarantee there's going to be one other guy on this list.

The only question is, does sauce also squeak in there? you know, because I think he's been on this list quite a bit. Yeah. And he did really bounce back last year when he played. It's just he missed a lot of the second half of last season. Like he was Sauce Gardner again when he played. It's just he didn't play the whole second half of the year. So I'm curious to see if he gets in there.

I would have thought in like the 90 range. So maybe we do miss him. But Jonathan Taylor will absolutely be on the list because if you're like a top 11 running back, you're on this list because that's how they do it. Like Alan said, it's not as drastic as every starting running back and every starting quarterback, but like 35 of the spots on this list will be running backs and quarterbacks because they got to get the clicks off that. So, yeah, I'm a little salty.

The offensive linemen don't get enough love on this, but Jonathan Taylor will certainly be on here for sure. Yeah, obviously you got to have Quentin. He hasn't made it since 2002. Which was like his, that was probably his worst year in the NFL was 2022. He made it like, he made it three straight years and then not again until this year. And like you mentioned, Derek, I think Zaire was like number 100 that year. He made it a couple years ago. So it's like the Colts have been very sparsely represented on this list.

But no, I mean, Quentin is still like one of the preeminent interior linemen. You got like him and Creed Humphrey and, you know, Trey Smith. There's that guy out in Dallas, not Zach Martin anymore, but they have a good one too. Brewer had a great season last year. Aaron Brewer from the Dolph. We got a shout out Aaron Brewer from last year. Yeah. There's only a handful of like really well.

known interior lineman. And so Quentin is still at the top of his game being recognized as well. So that's good. But yeah, Jonathan Taylor, obviously, with how he played, he should be in the top 35 or so. But you never know how this list will break. I mean, Taylor was like top 10 one year. He'll be top 50, I think, at the very least. I agree with you.

He'll be in like that 35 to 40 range, I think. He should be for sure. Sauce, I think, because sauce is mad. like he's he's a shadow guy he goes up against the top receivers and those guys might really throw him some points there uh so sauce might get in there the dark horses i would think maybe alec pierce i mean if it's voted on by the players like he beats a lot of guys like a drum he's led the league in yards per catch two years in a row just coming off his first thousand yard year he might be a guy that gets in there wouldn't be shocked and then tyler warren uh he's

he is i don't think he's a shoe in but a rookie tight end drafted in the first round who lived up to expectations made the pro bowl he might have a possibility too i think jonathan's the only one who will probably be top 50 uh but it feels like we won't know until october at this point since they're only doing two guys per day that seems like an obnoxious pace i could tell you locked on will not go at that pace but have they what numbers have they released up to so far, Derek. Do you know? The first four, I think. First four, yeah, it's just 95 through 100. Okay, okay. So I think we're on Pierce watch until like 85 or so. We're on sauce watch until maybe 70. They're not in that range. I think that they won't be on the list. I think we're on Taylor watch.

I mean, I think he could be as high as top 20, but I think it'll be in like the 30 range with you. Like, I'm with you on that, Jake. So I think those are your only Colts players that probably have a chance. maybe lot, because I saw a lot to actually snuck in on another list at like number 99. But if Daniel would have played a full year, I would have thought. Right. Because I mean, Bryce Young's on the list for God's sake, right? If Rice Young is on there, there's 20 to 25 quarterbacks on the list. You took the words out of my mouth because I was going to say, how does Daniel Jones,

how does any not, how does any starting quarterback not be on this list? Yeah. Well, it's weird because it's supposed to be like the top 100 players, not by a position value or anything like that. It's the top, like the best players in the league. So if you're not, but then they value quarterback and running back above everything else because it's the fantasy football positions, right? Wide receiver also gets a lot of representation like 16, 17 guys on there. So then when you look at the list at the end of the day, it's like, okay, we got on six offensive linemen, four defensive tackles. to like 15 edge rushers, but like two linebackers.

Like it's, it's so weird how it is. So it's like, I don't know. It's kind of like the flashy and like the sexy positions make it. And like the fantasy football positions make it more. So it's why I'm not a huge fan of it. But again, Quentin Nelson even breaking into the list is impressive because they do not like offensive linemen making this list unless you have like a highlight reel on YouTube. Yeah, I mean, it's good to see a Colts presence settle.

And look, these lists are never going to get. get all the way right. And I think the issue is sort of like the top 25 poll in college sports where is the head coach really filling it out or is it some staffer and are they even watching anything outside of their own league or outside of their own region. And, you know, you have reputation stuff that gets into this too where, you know, it's not even, it's like the opposite of recency bias. It's like a past bias that that kind of comes into account where, well, this guy's been this for so many years. And it's like, well, yeah, man, but did you watch? him last year. Like, is he really still a top 100 guy? But, you know, for Nelson to crack that

list, I think, even though it's number 99, it's not something that jumps off the page. I think it says something about the respect level that he still has there. But, and it's also, I think, am I right saying guys, like a team success thing, too. I mean, the Colts have just sort of flown under the radar because when you go 899 and 8, you're flying under the radar. You're just not as prominent as some of these other teams are. Well, you look at years where they're successful. They get five or six pro bowlers. They get three, four, five guys in the top 100.

Like winning creates more attention for sure. In fact, my question is, because I don't pay attention to the top 100. Who has been the best player, like the last two or three years? Mahomes and Allen. They usually give him to Omar Jackson. Yeah. Yeah. Right. It's always the quarterback.

The big three, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it was Malhomes. I think they gave it to Miles Garrett one of the years, which I mean, it was Mahomes in 23. It was Tyreek Hill in 24. Lamar Jackson was number two. And then in 25, it was Sequin.

Oh, okay. Interesting. And then Lamar Jackson was two again in 25. It was just to give an example. Yeah, last year's list was Sequin, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Mar Chase and Pat Mahomes were the top five. Okay.

Yeah. Interesting. You know what? I'd be shot. I want to see if Garrett gets number one because he broke the sack record. I wonder he'll get one this year because it was such a, you know, huge feat. Especially, again, we don't talk enough about a guy breaking the sack record on a team that was like so dreadful. They were like out of the game by half time by every single game.

Like they're not throwing in the second half and he broke the sack record. I feel like he should be number one. But we'll see. We'll see if they give it to a quarterback or someone above him. If it was a real thing, then I guess players would use it in contract negotiations. Oh, I'm sure they do, Alan. They bring up that. They bring up PFF grade.

They bring up tweet impressions probably. They bring up everything in the contract negotiations. I just can't wait for A.J. Halsey's debut on the top 100 next year. There you go. Ashton Doolin after his breakout season, obviously. All right. Speaking into existence, what do Sauce Gardner and Blink 182 have in common? And we're going to talk about that when the cold squad show returns for a final time next.

Back for a final time. It's the locked on cold squad show. We are fully squatted up. Thanks so much for being here. I'll be honest. And sometimes this just happens with everyday life and all of that. I don't even know how this became such a thing with sauce gardener in the age. I know James Boyd again.

Another shout out James Boyd. He's dominated this show tonight. A friend of ours here had kind of the exchange with him where he's saying he's not 25. He's actually 24. and, you know, I make the reference to Blink 1282. I know Zach is a fan. I was a fan back in those days, too, and I'm of the state and what's my age again?

But as we get into our squad squibs, this is just kind of the last little sort of bullets portion of the show and some of the news and notes. Zach, what did you think of the whole? I don't know. It's not a controversy. I think we're kind of having fun with it more than anything else, but, you know, just the fact that you got to verify these things,

I guess, in today's day and age. you know, AI and everything else that we have going on. Accuracy is more important than ever. And here we are. For some reason, everybody thinks sauce is 25. And I think the man knows how old he is, right? He's actually 24, it turns out. Yeah, incredible work by James Boyd to uncover that and make it known.

And hopefully it gets changed on a lot of things. I mean, the Colts website has had it at 24 the whole time throughout this whole controversy. So the Colts have always known. They got it right. Yeah, the Jets knew. I guess it was an issue going back to Cincinnati, Cincinnati. Cincinnati had him is one year older. But really my only comment on the whole thing is like,

what a luxury of the Colts are at right now. We're like across the league, we see these players from 2025 to 226 get one year older, right? But here in Indy, we have a player who got one year younger over the offseason, right? We got younger without even realizing it. Our average age probably dropped by like a tenth of a decimal point this off season,

what this revelation here about sauce gardeners. So, I mean, all jokes aside, I mean, it doesn't really matter that much. 24 versus 25 isn't that big a difference. I mean, look, I mean, every year it does matter in the NFL, but like he's still young regardless. It's funny. I think he's like younger than some of like the guys the Colts drafted this year because of him being at 24 because all these older COVID players. Like Jonathan Edwards, a corner that we like who's undrafted free agent last year. I think he's younger than Jonathan Edwards on the team.

Bryce Becher, Seth McGowan. Betcher. Yeah, he's definitely younger than Seth McGowan. So, yeah, I mean, still a very young player with multiple all pros. You can kind of see why it took two first round picks to get him with that contract as well. But really my only big comment on it, aside from jokes, is like good work by James Boyd to really write the record. That's what reporting should be there for, right? To find the truth, even if it's something mundane, like, find the truth. And I like that it was able to get out there.

He was able to verify it, right? He went to the lengths of, like, looking at the passport and the ID. and all that stuff, but it is now verified. The Colts got one year younger at cornerback this offseason, so we're loving that here in Indy. Yeah, I mean, you cough up two first round picks for a guy. You get someone who is the same age as a lot of people entering the draft now, but he's already got a couple all pros to his name.

So that's, I mean, pretty solid, like as if the Colts needed any further reasoning for making the choice that they made. I mean, yeah, it's, it is, I mean, It's not, it doesn't change anything. I mean, it's a big deal because you have a 24 year old player who already has that much success. But I mean, it's neat. It's a little footnote, I guess. I bet you he wishes he was 25 because the difference in the insurance he's going to pay on his car is going to be drastically different when he turns 25. I'm sure he's in a hurry to get to 25 just so he can save a little bit of money. He probably should have played along with it and told the insurance company, hey, they said I was 25. I'm 25. Cut my rate, man.

I think what's interesting is you actually get a 24 and soon to be a 25-year-old, whenever his actual birthday is at the cap number that you're getting him, right? Because, you know, the Colts made this deal. And I think the contract was part of the reason why it was attracted to them to. I mean, yes, you wanted to get a shutdown corner. but you know you're going to have them under team control for a long time. And really the beginning of the contract is still very team friendly. Now it becomes progressively unteam friendly kind of coming up later on.

But that was something that struck me as well. I mean, you know, it's very rare that 24-year-olds, if everybody knew that he was 24, it looks like the Jets did, right? And the Colts did come on the market like he did, even for the price that the Colts ended up paying for him. Something else that we discussed, and we talked about this actually on. on last week's show, I think we even went around kind of the room about whether the Colts would get in the mix on Brendan Sorsby.

And we don't have to worry about that now because the NFL pretty emphatically told him, no, we're not doing the supplemental draft for you, for one dude. Essentially, you know, it was a strongly worded letter. Zach, did you see what they sent to him? I mean, it was. Yeah. I was almost like, is this, you're sending me a letter in college? You know, it was interesting. Yeah, they were scolding like him and the agent for sure, like all his representation about basically like not filing enough to really give us much reason to want you in the supplemental draft.

And per the CBA, we have the right to not hold one. And we don't see a reason to hold one right now. So yeah, it was a strongly worded letter. And I don't really think there's any legal ground for. I know Sorosby's agent said that this is like a violation of his rights and stuff. And oh, shocker, they're going to sue somebody yet again. again for all this stuff. But I don't think they have much ground to stand on here,

considering he wasn't part of the NFL, wasn't protected by the CBA. And in the CBA, the NFL has the ability not to hold a supplemental draft. Even regardless of what they tell you, they still have the option not to. And they just ultimately exercise that option. At the end of the day, though, I think this is probably better for Swordsby.

We kind of talked about it last time where I'm like, look, stay out of the NFL for like, or maybe I said it's on a radio show, but like stay out of the NFL for a year. out of football for a year. I know it's not great to take a year off, but like, there needs to be like less talk about you right now. I mean, especially when you're, a lot of your argument has been that you have this addictive personality and you're mentally just not strong enough to withstand the gambling addiction and all that. Like, take a year away, really focus on yourself, brand yourself

as this big comeback story next year and this big redemption arc, you know, be like this super soft-spoken, like, perfect redemption story they want to make like a Disney movie about and do all that kind of stuff. And people will root for you. But if you just jump right to the NFL nowadays, you're not going to have many fans. The NFL and all these big corporations associated with all this stuff are not going to want you around. So like, I just think he needs to be out of the limelight for a year.

So I think this is ultimately better for him, although he's just going to sue everybody until he can get some kind of playing. but like I was always of the opinion that I would not even touch him in the supplemental draft. Like especially like when you're talking about a raw quarterback with with some upside, but just a very, very low floor. He needs to be mentally all there and mentally all in, has this psycho personality that wants to get better and is only focused on football. And you already have those questions with him right now in terms of where his focus is going to be

and how mentally checked in he's going to be. So I wouldn't have touched that with a 10 foot pole. and I think the NFL saved a franchise from making a huge mistake by canceling the supplemental draft. So we'll see ultimately what happens next year. I think he'll probably be a UDFA after the end of next year's draft and he'll get a camp contract, probably wash out and then be a UFC fighter for a year or two and then have a popular podcast where he talks about how he got shafted by these two leagues. But that's probably his career trajectory at this point.

But yeah, I do think he needs that year away, though, to really rebrand. himself as like a redemption story rather than being like the villain of college football and the villain of everything right now. So I, the NFL might have given him a gift here by giving him a year away from the spotlight. Yeah. No one wants to bring in someone into a leadership position like quarterback who can't take accountability for things. Like dude, everyone know, everyone knows you cannot bet on the sport you're playing. When I was with the Colts riding for, the website. I wasn't even a Colt's employee. I was I was technically an independent contractor. I had to sign stuff that said I couldn't bet on the NFL. I wasn't a quarterback in the league.

Everyone knows this. It's so freaking simple. If you get caught doing it, you just go down with what happens to you. It blows my mind. It's just, it's so ignorant. And whether it's him or his agent that keeps trumpeting all this stuff of like we're getting wronged this and that like you gotta stop like Zach said you are becoming so unlikeable no one is going to want to bring you in like look at shadur Sanders and the circus of all that like look how far he fell in the draft versus where he probably would have really gone if he was just a nose to the grindstone quiet more quiet type of guy you know what I mean no one wants this type of circus from someone who you're not bringing in to, like, be a really high ceiling starter, you know, you're going to be like

the third or fourth quarterback on a roster and we're worried about you betting on games probably and embarrassing us and making us regret taking, like, you have to lay super low at this point and somehow find a way for the attention about you next year to be on your game, because right now it's on anything but what you are as a player. So, yeah, people like this just kind of drive me nuts. Like, the mistake you made is so obvious. And, like, when you get caught doing it, you just have to roll with what's given to you. And just fighting it continually is just so annoying.

And I think teams feel the same way. Well, one of the biggest about faces I've seen is with the NFL and how they, view Vegas and gambling. I mean, it was known that, yeah, you probably shouldn't do illegal drugs. You know, when we come in for the first day of camp, you know, we get the talk. And it's like, you know, you can't smoke weed until after you pee in the cup. And then, you know, try to be a good citizen and all this stuff. But they were emphatic about gambling. and not having a thing to do with gambling being associated. I knew guys that would get invited to golf tournaments in Vegas,

and the NFL would come in and say, no, you can't go, because that group is associated with gambling. Now, I know it's softened a little bit, but I guess my point is, even with the NFL softening, I mean, a strong red line is, you can't gamble. You know, and this guy is an admitted gambler. And it's like somebody that you're paying millions of dollars to,

if you can't trust them, then what are you doing? And now, the problem is you don't get better by not playing. You know, and I guess he was a marginal talent. So him taking a year off, I don't know if it's going to help him. but all you need is just one team to love you. Ask Tim Tebow. You know, you just need one to love you and one to, you know, give a chance. And I kind of look at it as, oh, God, who was the quarterback got,

quarterback that got drafted the same year as Peyton Manning? Ryan Lee. Yeah, Ryan Lee. You know, what he's doing now is much more important than, whatever he could have done on the football field. And so I'm hoping that this Sorgeby can be a case that, you know, what he did and by applying the rules from the NCAA and the NFL really does make it a deterrent. And he can go out and educate people on what gambling makes you do.

Hell no, he wasn't mentally stable to be gambling as much as he did, especially after you are told you can't gamble. So I don't know if he'll ever play it down, to be honest with you in the NFL. But like I said, all you need is one team to love you. But I don't know if he'll ever play. But I think where he can really make an impact is talk about how gambling takes you down this road that you don't want to go down and to do everything you can not to get involved and not to get caught up. Yeah. And one thing I really want to reiterate too, and KB asked this in the

comments here. It's like there are guys still playing the league who've been caught gambling on their own team. It's not zero tolerance. It's not. In the NFL, there's always room for you if you're good enough. If you are good enough, we will always give you second and third and fourth and fifth chances. Yeah. If you have the talent. The problem is when you are a marginal college talent who's trying to go to the NFL and you already have this baggage, then they're not going to touch you.

They're not going to touch you if you don't have the talent already to be playing in the NFL. And look, there's some upside with Brandon Sorthee for sure. I don't disagree with that at all. But there's a reason why he was going to Texas Tech instead of going in the NFL draft this past year is because he wasn't ready and he wasn't going to be a high draft pick, regardless of what all the insiders want to say because the agents are pushing them and sending them text every single day about what they need to say on radio.

He wasn't going to be drafted high, which is why he was going to Texas tech. So, yeah, it's not zero tolerance in the NFL if you're good with everything, with everything. We can excuse, like, Michael, who, how many people get the second chance that Michael Vic got? Michael Vic got it because he's Michael Vic. Like, you know, and he played it right. Don't get me wrong. But like, if he was Marcus Vic, he's not, I mean, gosh, Marcus Vic was a mess too. Marcus Vick didn't get any chances after that because he wasn't as good as Michael Vick.

So you always like, I'm not saying gambling like he's some horrible person. He's a terrible guy that you can have like and that you don't deserve second chances. Guys deserve second chances. Don't get wrong and show that you can learn from it. But you get those chances based off your talent. That's, I mean, that's really what it is in the NFL. It's cold. It's not the way we want to view things, but it is unfortunately the way business works.

So he just hasn't shown. it to be valuable enough to the NFL to get even a first chance right now. And I don't think he's really ever going to get his chance in the league. Real quick, Terry on Arnold, swinging in at the last minute to rescue Brendan Sorsby from the limelight. Yeah. Terry on Arnold, armed robbery and kidnapping. Felonies, not great. Could get up to life in prison is what it says here. Could get up to life in prison. So Brendan Sorsby, there is your opportunity to go lay low. Someone else. Yeah, let's just finish you here. Brandon Sorsby, I think what you did was dumb and you hurt your chances of making the NFL. As long as you, I mean, you're not doing this. I don't think you're that much,

you're that harmful as like a person or anything like that. Like, just don't do stuff like this. And I mean, I'm fine with you as a person. And we're talking purely from an NFL asset perspective here. Clearly there's much worse out there, right? Oh, yeah. So. Look, on the bright side, you're not going to jail. At least not yet. Yeah, not currently.

We'll see. We'll see. There's a fine line between Brennan Soresby and Arch Leicester. That's right. Yeah. Thanks so much for joining us on this latest edition of the Colts squad show for the next six weeks or so. Pretty much up until training camp in the preseason begins. The squad will convene on a once a week basis on Wednesday nights at 9.30 p.m. Eastern. So go ahead and set your calendars.

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