Colts re-sign Dwayne Allen, four years $29.4m [Merge]

[Lef]

Just heard on radio

[MTC]

 

 

Edited March 8, 2016 by MTC

[ricker182]

I'm quite surprised.  I'm guessing it was a cheap deal.   

 We have to keep Fleener.   

  

@ProFootballTalk: It's a four-year, $29.4M deal for Colts TE Dwayne Allen, with $12M paid out in year one, $17M through year two. He had 16 catches last year.

[Moncrief]

Good.

 

I'm not saying there is a source but just some chatter amongst the rumor pages that Fleener and the contract talks between him and the Colts are far apart.

[will426]

Well sounds like Allen truly wants to be a colt now let's see wth fleeners price will be 

[Superman]

Goodness.

[Colts_Fan12]

Hell yeah!!!!! 

[MTC]

Have to assume Coby Fleener is on his way out with that price.  

[NBColtsFanatic]

I called it!

[AKB]

I like him over fleener if he can stay healthy. But i think we overpaid.

[AKB]

Anyone know what college Jack Doyle came out of?

 

[gnet550]

That's pretty salty for my blood...7+ million

[SuperJoe33]

Happy to report that it's a four-year deal 29,400,000

[COLTS449]

7 minutes ago, Superman said:

Goodness.

 

Yeah I know. What do you think that cap hit will look like?

[ColtsLegacy]

Celebrate good times, come on!

 

This shows the front office knows they've been squandering great talent. Use him now, dammit!

[jbaron04]

I mean u have to go with the cheaper one fleener gonna get like a 4 yr 50m contract on yhe market and I can see us in 4 yrs having hindsight syndrome.  But I like the move the do it all te since or wrs gonna be the #1 options but his injury history is scary 

[AKB]

Watch Fleener sign with the Jags.

[Nesjan3]

Im p*ssed about this i sayd it before, he is better than Fleener but is constantly injured, we are going to regret this if bigtime if he cant turn around his injury issues, Fleener is obviously gone as well with that price..

[MTC]

Just now, AustinnKaine said:

Watch Fleener sign with the Jags.

 

I'm think Browns to re-unite with Pep.

[tvturner]

Dumb.

[COLTS449]

Man we gotta bring Fleener back. And that's way too much for Allen. He better ball out this year. And I'm talking 6-700 yards, 8 TD's if he's the primary TE. This upsets me.

[corgi]

Just stay healthy and I'm more than okay with this.

[RealityIsLuck]

Yikes. Basically 2m per catch (30m total / 16 catches last year) I would of prefered Fleener to be honest. 

[Jdubu]

This is ridiculous money for a guy who can't stay on the field and just isn't a game changing type of guy. We keep saying we are going to not do the same things we did in the Manning era by spending so much on the offense but here we are spending 7+ mil/yr for a mostly blocking TE that can catch but is hurt too much. So we will have a $$TE, $$ WR (or 2) a $$$$ QB $$OT and maybe a $$ C if we bring in a high profile guy. This contract just wasn't necessary IMO and money could have been used for the defense to get much better.  Let Luck make avg players play above their level. I don't like it at all. 

[MTC]

Just now, Booker23 said:

Dumb.

 

Not sure why. He was going to get paid big $ because he's arguably the best FA TE.

[AKB]

IF he stays healthy I completely agree with this move. Our Receiver core is going to be one of the best in the league next season. And Fleener simply wouldn't put up the numbers. 

 

Also, with the possibility of a new look at the OLINE, Allen can provide some blocking help witch fleener simply wasn't able to.

[GoColts00]

10 minutes ago, MTC said:

 

 

????  so he can sit on the sideline while he's injured ??  This made NO sense whatsoever to me.

[COLTS449]

We could have probably signed him for 4/24. But we give him close to 10 mill a year?

 

Edit: Never mind. Must have thought it was a 3 year deal. LOL

Edited March 8, 2016 by COLTS449

[Ryan Pelley]

Lot of money for a guy who was seldom used...

[OffensivelyPC]

The $5 mill per year folks were hopelessly optimistic.

[AKB]

Doyle is more than serviceable blocking.

 

 

 

[Superman]

3 minutes ago, COLTS449 said:

 

Yeah I know. What do you think that cap hit will look like?

 

Report says his cash is $12m in Year 1. That either means he's getting a big signing bonus and the cap hit will be kind of low this year, or he's getting a big roster bonus and the cap hit will be kind of high this year. The Colts have done contracts the second way more often than the first way, so I'm thinking his cap hit will be something like $7m this year.

[ColtsLegacy]

8 minutes ago, AustinnKaine said:

Watch Fleener sign with the Jags.

 

They just signed Julius Thomas last offseason and wasn't a big factor. How do you think Coby would compare?

 

With that said, I'd be perfect happy for him to sign a huge deal with the Jags.

[GoColts00]

I like DA but he was injured waaaaayyy to often for $$$ like that!

[Superman]

4 minutes ago, RealityIsLuck said:

Yikes. Basically 2m per catch (30m total / 16 catches last year) I would of prefered Fleener to be honest. 

 

That's really bad math.

[12isthenew18]

#cutcole

[Superman]

2 minutes ago, Ryan Pelley said:

Lot of money for a guy who was seldom used...

 

First assumption is that the days of Allen not being used are done. Second assumption is Fleener is gone. 

[COLTS449]

5 minutes ago, Superman said:

 

Report says his cash is $12m in Year 1. That either means he's getting a big signing bonus and the cap hit will be kind of low this year, or he's getting a big roster bonus and the cap hit will be kind of high this year. The Colts have done contracts the second way more often than the first way, so I'm thinking his cap hit will be something like $7m this year.

 

Supe. I don't know much about the cap. So after we re-sign our own guys do you think we'll have enough room to sign 2 impact players? For Example Jeff Allen and Janorris Jenkins?

[Superman]

4 minutes ago, COLTS449 said:

We could have probably signed him for 4/24. But we give him close to 10 mill a year?

 

7.35/year

[Hamster360]

No way. I'd take him back but not at that price. He's worth 4 years 20M max