2022 off-season free agency and draft

[IndyNorm]

Originally Posted by Ironshaft

And a $20m per year cap hit. Even with that, I would have wanted him if we had a shot at him.

Cooper and Pittman on the outside with a 2nd round rookie playing this year in the slot and a free agent TE along with MAC and Granson? Yeah, that dog hunts.

However, my guess is that Ballard, if he was in the hunt, is not willing to commit big money to pass catchers until he knows who his pass thrower is going to be.

And if Cooper had a say in the matter, why would he pick to come to Indy without knowing who would throw to him versus going somewhere he knew at least had a QB?

Perhaps IND is targeting Davente Adams (whom GB cannot now pay) who will not cost any draft picks.

The Browns got Dallas' 6th round pick in return as well, so the trade is even better for them, and none of Cooper's salary go fwd is guaranteed so it should be pretty easy to rework his deal.

Would've been nice for the Colts to have gotten in on this, but as you pointed out it's probably not worth pursuing until we get the QB situation figured out.