{"id":60840,"date":"2019-03-13T13:50:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=60840"},"modified":"2019-03-13T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:43:43","slug":"pierre-desir-re-signing-colts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/03\/13\/pierre-desir-re-signing-colts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Desir Re-Signing With Indianapolis Colts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cornerback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/D\/DesiPi00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Pierre Roberde Desir<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is re-signing with the Indianapolis Colts, according to NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeGarafolo\/status\/1105901429523386369\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">His new contract is for three years and worth $25 million<\/a> with him receiving $12 million in guaranteed money. Desir hit free agency after enjoying a breakout 2018 season. After bouncing around, Desir played with the Colts for the past two years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Colts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Colts<\/a> are re-signing CB Pierre Desir, per me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeGarafolo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MikeGarafolo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1105885972527566848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Indianapolis Colts to Re-Sign Pierre Desir to Multi-Year Deal<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Desir is a bit of a journeyman so his career 2018 season was a surprise. He played in all 16 games for the Colts; his previous high was 14 in 2015. He also doubled his career-high in starts, also set in 2015, making 12. Desir tallied 79 total tackles (60 solo) with eight pass break ups, two forced fumbles, one recovery, and one interception. He did not have flashy numbers, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballfocus.com\/nfl\/players\/pierre-desir\/8762\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pro Football Focus<\/a> gave him a grade of 77.7 which was his for 18th among corners.<\/p>\n<p>Standing 6\u20191\u201d, Desir has 159 total tackles (122 solo), 23 passes defended, two picks, two forced fumbles, and one recovery in his career. He only played in nine games (six starts) in 2017, his first in Indy, but he still made 32 combined stops (21 solo), defended seven passes, and picked one off. His 2015 season yielded slightly higher tackle totals but he also played in five more games that season. In five professional seasons, Desir has played in 49 out of a possible 80 games due to a mix of being inactive often early in his career and injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/nfl-teams\/browns\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> drafted Desir in the fourth round (127th overall) of the NFL Draft in 2014. He was the first player ever to be drafted out of <a href=\"https:\/\/lindenwoodlions.com\/index.aspx?path=football\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lindenwood University<\/a>. Desir won the inaugural <strong>Cliff Harris<\/strong> award in 2013 for the nation\u2019s top small school defensive back. He was also AFCA D-II All-American and was a First-Team All-MIAA selection in 2012 and 2013. Pierre finished top in MAIA history with passes defended and has the second-most interceptions in conference history with 25. A number that also places him in the top-10 in D-II history. He spent 2008-10 at <a href=\"https:\/\/wusports.com\/index.aspx?path=football\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washburn University<\/a> where he was First-Team All-MIAA in 2009 and Second-Team in 2010. Desir was born in Port Au Prince, Haiti.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"QFQruHyESSld11ZB5VxAGg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1052215396\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'QFQruHyESSld11ZB5VxAGg',sig:'OQhzsBXN5FALF9MpGpd0tGi6wWi0uXuOTj8bAl8XHtA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1052215396',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornerback Pierre Desir is re-signing with the Indianapolis Colts after a season which saw him make 12 starts and register 79 tackles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2879,"featured_media":61285,"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":[8,12,36],"tags":[4547,264,56,4935],"class_list":["post-60840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-browns","category-colts","category-nfl-news","tag-2019-nfl-season","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-pierre-desir"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60840","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\/2879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}