Wide receiver Keenan Allen wasn\u2019t on the field for the Colts\u2019 joint practice with the Falcons on Wednesday, but thoughts of what he\u2019ll look like in the offense were on head coach Shane Steichen\u2019s mind. <\/p>\n
Steichen called Allen \u201cthe most cerebral receiver\u201d that he\u2019s worked with in the NFL \u2014 they were both with the Chargers from 2014-2020 \u2014 because he sees the game like a quarterback. Steichen thinks that is going to make Allen a perfect fit with the team\u2019s actual quarterback Daniel Jones. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be real fun<\/a>,\u201d Steichen said, via the team\u2019s website. \u201cThose conversations that those guys are going to have, just the ins and outs on how to run routes, what they\u2019re looking at through a game plan week, going into game sideline adjustments. I think that\u2019s going to be a really smooth transition with those two.\u201d<\/p>\n Jones was sharp during Wednesday\u2019s practice without Allen in the mix as reporters noted that he did not throw an incompletion during team drills, but he acknowledged the benefits of having \u201canother guy who knows how to get open and create space\u201d in an offense that\u2019s been without Alec Pierce all summer. Tight end Tyler Warren also suffered an injury<\/a> on Wednesday, which only serves to underscore the value that Allen can bring to Indianapolis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wide receiver Keenan Allen wasn\u2019t on the field for the Colts\u2019 joint practice with the Falcons on Wednesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-819681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}