What You Need to Know:

• Alie-Cox essentially matched Jack Doyle in production last year (45-24-316-4). Both guys played 17 games.
• In a low-volume pass game, Cox struggled for weekly consistency on an 8.9% target share (5th on the team).
• He saw 9 of his 45 targets coming inside the 20. 3 were converted into scores.
• MAC was largely TD or bust, as he never topped 5 targets in a game. He posted only 2 top-12 fantasy lines.
• He ranked a mid-pack 19th in yards per route run (35 qualifiers, min. 40 targets).
• The Colts added towering TE Jelani Woods in Round 3 of the draft. A raw prospect, he’s unlikely to make a major ’22 impact.
• Kylen Granson, a ’21 Round 4 pick, returns as a catch-first TE. He received praise from HC Frank Reich last year but barely saw the field behind MAC and Doyle.
• Red zone production remains the best path to production for MAC. Indy, though, remains thin at WR, even after adding Round 2 rookie Alec Pierce.
• While boasting plus size and athleticism, it’s likely we’ve seen the best of MAC to date. Turning 29 in September, he’s set to enter his 5th pro season.
• The arrival of Matt Ryan supplies some hope for a more efficient season. MAC caught only 53.3% of his targets in 2021.
• Colts TEs Kylen Granson and Jelani Woods have been "up-and-down so far, and need to stack more consistent days together," The Athletic's Zak Keefer writes. Mo Alie-Cox looks like a safe bet to open the season as Indianapolis' lead TE.

Draft Sharks Bottom Line:

The Colts are losing 43 targets with the retirement of Jack Doyle.

GM Chris Ballard even inked MAC to a 3-year deal this spring worth up to $18 million. So the team clearly values his contributions.

Though 4 seasons, though, we simply haven’t seen it translate into fantasy success. 2022 gives him his best chance yet to enter the streaming discussion. But it’d be unwise to count on him as anything other than a matchup-based starter.