Shane Steichen and the Colts front office are obscuring the timeline while Alec Pierce recovers from off-season ankle surgery. Coming off a campaign where he produced a 51.8-percent Air Yards Share (No. 1) and 21.3 Yards Per Reception (No. 2), a standard 4-to-6 month recovery window places his Week 1 status in doubt.

Fantasy managers drafting him as a WR3 are absorbing substantial risk until he logs actual practice reps. Pierce is falling each week in PlayerProfiler’s redaft rankings for 2026.