3 surprise cuts the Colts could make this offseason

2. TE Jack Doyle

Doyle is reliably uninteresting, with a 73.1 percent career catch rate (three drops on 138 targets over the last three seasons) and a career average of 9.1 yards per catch. He’s clearly a short yardage target (6.9 yards average depth of target in 2020), and he pretty much falls down after the catch (4.0 yards after the catch last season, one broken tackle over the last three seasons). Out of 92 catches over the last three seasons, 56 have gone for first downs. Nothing wrong with any of that, and there’s a place for what Doyle does. It’s just not going to scare a defense.

The Colts may want to add a more dynamic at tight end, with Trey Burton a free agent and Mo Alie-Cox showing some promise last year. Alie-Cox is also the only other notable tight end they have under contract for 2021. A run at someone in free agency (Hunter Henry?) feels very possible.

Doyle’s $5.85 million cap hit for 2021 is not a big deal for the Colts, but in light of a likely effort to reduce his snaps it does seem pretty large. They can clear out $4.35 million of that by cutting him, and from a “bang for your buck” aspect that money can easily be shifted to better use.