Colts GM Chris Ballard operating on knife's edge entering free agency
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INDIANAPOLIS – Longtime Colts general manager Chris Ballard has his franchise walking a knife’s edge into free agency. Securing the futures of starting quarterback Daniel Jones and last season’s newly crowned No. 1 receiver Alec Pierce was never going to be easy with both ranking at (or near) the top of available options at their positions. And with just more than $33 million in cap space for 2026 as of midday Tuesday – when the combination of the annual going rate for Jones and Pierce could top $60 million – even some of the best contract structuring, cap gymnastics and painful veteran releases wasn’t going to make this an easy test for Ballard. Ballard’s use of the transition tag Tuesday...