After Trading Josh Downs and Keenan Allen, The Colts Have The Most Hilariously Bad Wide Receiver Room in Football
The Indianapolis Colts held a fire sale this trade deadline. Quenton Nelson is gone. DeForest Buckner is gone. As of yesterday, wide receivers Josh Downs and Keenan Allen are gone.
Josh Downs really pulled off one of the most successful trade requests of all time. I didn't even know he was good enough to request one. I feel like he saw Quenton Nelson get moved to Seattle a couple weeks ago and thought, "Wait a second... what if I just... request one? There's nothing stopping me, right? Could that work?"
Boy did it ever.
Alright, Josh. No need to rub it in. Just because you went from 2-7 Daniel Jones to 6-2 Patrick Mahomes... ok fine. I guess I probably would have tweeted the Vince Carter GIF too.
I'm a little more inclined to be happy for Keenan Allen. Josh Downs is only 25 years old. He's got plenty of career ahead of him. But at 34, Keenan Allen deserves to play for a contender. He shouldn't be rotting away on a franchise in the middle of a rebuild.
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Now that Downs and Allen are gone, the Colts wide receiver room is bleak. Poor Jonathan Taylor. If defenses weren't already focusing their entire game plans on him, with receivers like this, he's about to see boxes stuffed with enough men to make Bonnie Blue stretch.
My goodness. Those are certainly names of football players. We're about to watch (or do everything in our power not to watch) those 5 guys catch passes from Daniel Jones for the rest of the season. Woof.
On a brighter note, how about Laquon Treadwell putting together a nice little career? Good for him. I'll never forget watching him break his leg on the goal line at Ole Miss. It resulted in one of the most fucked up fumbles I've ever seen. He's half a yard from the end zone, about to score the biggest touchdown of the game, and you can see him literally fumble from the pain of his ankle snapping in half right before the ball crosses the goal line. Here's the play. It's not fun to watch.
Yet he managed to bounce back from that injury. He's working on a 10+ year career. Now he's a WR1 in the National Football League. It may have happened by attrition, but still… not many people can say that.
Unless, of course, Reggie Wayne, who's now the Colts' wide receivers coach, wants to come out of retirement. At 47 years old, he really might be the best current receiver on that roster. He's already pulled his cleats out of the closet.
What a shame it is that the Colts don't have a first-round pick in this upcoming draft. Motherfucking Sauce Gardner. What a preposterous waste of resources. At least the Colts made something happen at the deadline. They might not have a draft pick on day one, but they've got 12 picks total and $82M in cap space for 2027. And they should have 13 picks. They somehow managed to fuck up the Grover Stewart situation.
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Not especially inspiring for Colts fans, but I suppose they have to start somewhere. Time to tank for the 33nd pick. Awesome. Neigh.