{"id":15459,"date":"2017-03-08T17:19:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T22:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=15459"},"modified":"2017-03-08T17:19:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T22:19:48","slug":"dwayne-allen-traded-new-england-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2017\/03\/08\/dwayne-allen-traded-new-england-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Allen Traded to the New England Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tight end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/A\/AlleDw00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dwayne Allen<\/a> will be traded to the New England Patriots as reported by NFL insider Ian Rapoport. Allen spent the first five years of his career with the Indianapolis Colts after being drafted in the third round of the 2012 NFL Draft. The Colts will receive a fourth-round pick from the deal, while the Patriots receive both Allen and a sixth-round pick.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Details on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Patriots?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Patriots<\/a> trade for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Colts?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Colts<\/a> TE Dwayne Allen: A 4th rounder goes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Colts?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Colts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pats?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Pats<\/a> get Allen &amp; a 6th back.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/839595264461664272\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dwayne Allen Traded to the New England Patriots<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beginning of Dwayne Allen\u2019s career hasn\u2019t gone as planned. In 2012, Allen was considered one of the top tight end prospects after catching eight touchdown passes in his third year in college. Former teammate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/FleeCo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coby Fleener<\/a> was also drafted in that same year, out of Stanford, just one round before Allen. The two tight ends were expected to form a strong duo and perform as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/L\/LuckAn00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Luck<\/a>\u2019s safety blankets and red zone targets. The magic never sparked, Fleener left in free agency for the New Orleans Saints last year, and now the Colts have decided to trade Allen to the reigning Super Bowl champions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allen has shown some sparks of potential, catching a career-high eight touchdown passes in 2014, but hasn\u2019t built on that. After an awful 2015 season in which he played in 13 games and only managed to catch the ball 16 times, it was puzzling when the Colts signed him to a four-year, $29.4 million deal. A large portion of that deal, almost $9 million, was already paid to Allen last season, and almost all of the guaranteed $16 million is already his as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By making this trade, the New England Patriots can now officially move on from their one-year rental of tight end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BennMa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martellus Bennett<\/a> and can satisfy any doubt about who will play behind their All-Pro tight end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/G\/GronRo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rob Gronkowski<\/a>. Dwayne Allen has displayed flashes of red zone brilliance in the past and did catch another six touchdown passes last season. If there is any team that can finally get Dwayne Allen to reach a top tight end level, it is the Patriots. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although it\u2019s surprising the Colts dealt Allen to the Patriots, the trade itself isn\u2019t as shocking. The Colts re-signed four-year pro <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/D\/DoylJa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Doyle<\/a> to a three-year $19 million deal yesterday, which indicated that Dwayne Allen might be on the move. Doyle broke out last season, catching 59 passes and 584 yards, which are both better numbers than any of Allen\u2019s season totals. Doyle also caught five touchdown passes, which has the chance to go up now that Allen and his red zone presence won\u2019t be around. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/630809430\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/630809430?et=FQSuxhaiRP1LTJlIih8JmQ&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=1zVQ9bX7uNf2s2F1WS7OmQZVsHu0dGrjPLSSr_eCFgI=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five year pro Dwayne Allen will move on from the Indianapolis Colts as he joins the reigning Super Bowl champs as they re-tool for another deep playoff run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1079,"featured_media":15469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,36],"tags":[1979,61,56,38,40],"class_list":["post-15459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patriots","category-colts","category-nfl-news","tag-dwayne-allen","tag-football","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl"],"modified_by":"Al Preziosi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1079"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}