Free agent TE Brandon Williams will visit the Colts.

Williams logged 149 snaps as the Seahawks' third-string tight end last season. The Colts are looking for depth behind Jack Doyle after trading Dwayne Allen to the Patriots. The 29-year-old has caught just six passes over four NFL seasons.

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Source: Jason La Canfora on Twitter
Mar 19 - 1:00 PM

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Veteran depth @ TE would be a good thing if the money is right (cheap).

Like him as a backup. He's a high energy guy that you're glad to have on the team.

The Colts can get out of all these UFA signings next year. This tells me that Pagano is all but done. Ballard is just filling out the roster while he focuses on the draft.

They'll have a similar amount of cap space next offseason to spend more freely in UFA after the new coaches and schemes are in place.

I don't get the logic. I agree that Ballard is filling out the roster and focused on the draft but how does that mean Pagano is gone. What would Ballard be doing differently if Pagano was going to stay?

Ballard vs Grigs
 

@MyColtsAccount
Since March 9, Chris Ballard has signed 10 Free Agents for a total of $83.85M; about the same amount as Grigson gave Landry, RJF + Cherilus.

@MyColtsAccount 11h11 hours ago
(Apologies, should be 11 Free Agents: Schwenke, Turbin, Doyle, Hunt, Woods, Simon, Sheard, Mingo, Spence, Butler, Locke).

@MyColtsAccount 11h11 hours ago
Also worth noting that Chris Ballard has not guaranteed a single dollar to any of this year's Free Agents beyond 2017. Zero cap hit if cut.

@MyColtsAccount Mar 13
Colts Average Age in 2016: 26.52
(29th in NFL)Colts Average Age Today: 25.33*
(Would have ranked 3rd)
*Before adding younger draft picks.

@MyColtsAccount Mar 13
My Colts Account Retweeted Noah Rollings
Removing Vinatieri (age 44) from the current 63 players, Colts average age is 25.03, which would have been 2nd-youngest (Rams) in 2016.

Hmmmm, of course it makes us younger to remove guys like Mathis, Cole, Adams and Walden.

I think moving the average age by under 18 months is a bit to do about nothing. Yeah, we had some older players. Getting younger in its own right does not make us better, specifically. They still have to be the "right" younger players.

Cheers,

That certainly puts things into perspective.

When none of those three "high priced" free agents of Grigson's panned out, he had nothing to show for his free agency class.

A few of the guys whom Ballard signed are going to suck or not make the final 53 man roster (my money is on Mingo and Hunt). However, he might still have a "successful" free agency class because at least a couple of those other guys are going to be starters and contribute greatly in 2017.

On one hand, I can completely understand the folks who wanted "at least ONE" splash signing of a sure-fire, clear cut superior player in free agency. Doyle, Sheard or Simon are as close as we get to that and it would not surprise me if Schwenke ends up being a 16 game starter at right OG in 2017.

However, I also think that having filled many of our glaring needs with NFL "serviceable" veteran talent and still having $14m in free cap space to spend this off-season on veteran "surprise" cuts later in free agency is pretty brilliant.

While the "surprise" cuts will not be young like most of Ballard's free agents have been, many of them are still talented, can give a couple of years of stop-gap service to develop draftees and could end up doing a lot for our team.

I see both sides of the equation. I am so very interested to see what Ballard does in the draft and with the rest of free agency.

Cheers,

How is this possible when we only had 53 million or so available?