Florio: Colts willing to trade TY Hilton

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I see the logic in the sense that this would be Ballard saying that Luck is the type of QB that can make do with lesser WR’s and that teams that pay massive amounts of resources to WR’s generally don’t win SB’s (it’s true, look it up, Denver did but their Super Bowl was hardly won due to WR’s. In fact, when they were their big contributing factor, they got walloped).

That said, this would be essentially wiping the slate clean. Hilton would be gone, and at that point you have to assume that Moncrief at the very least won’t be given an extension. Aiken has obviously done nothing to warrant an extension and Chester Rogers has apparently done nothing to warrant playing time.

With Dwayne Allen already gone, we’re talking about Luck coming back in 2018 only having previously thrown the ball to Doyle (let’s assume Gore is also gone as well). As others have said, he’d already be with a new OC/HC. Do we want COMPLETELY different skill players as well?

If you completely decimate the WR corps like that, you’re probably going to end up spending some of your resources on the position, so how much are you really gaining? I mean, do we really want this team handing out big money to Sammy Watkins and Alshon Jeffery? If we’re avoiding handing out big money, do we want a WR corps made up of free agents like Marqise Lee and Michael Floyd?

My initial gut reaction was that could be a good move to net us some assets and I do believe that building around giving a WR a huge contract was a stupid move on Grigson’s part. However, we’re a team with so few areas of strength, that decimating the WR corps would appear likely to do more harm than good, barring some massive return and/or barring some plan for the WR position that I can’t foresee.