Wide Receiver · Indianapolis Colts

Alec Pierce

No. 14 · 5th season

Other players in this league are starting to notice Alec Pierce

Peer respect is a different kind of stamp. Fans and analysts hand out opinions freely, but when the people on the other side of the ball start putting your name in a category, it means something.

Pierce has been the go-to wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts for a while now, but this is new territory. In ESPN's yearly survey — where players vote anonymously on who they think is elite at each position — Pierce pulled votes as a top-10 wide receiver in the league. Players almost never hand out credit easily. Getting any votes is a real signal.

For Pierce, it tracks. The people who watch him prepare and the people who have to cover him are saying the same thing: he keeps getting better.

That combination — the lead receiver on the depth chart and now showing up in how his peers rank the position — is a quiet kind of milestone. The room is starting to notice. The question now is how far the recognition goes.

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