Reggie Wayne watched jersey price plummet

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As Reggie Wayne agreed to a deal to stay in Indianapolis as free agency was kicking off, a lot of his old teammates were on their way out.

It was a weird time, symbolically, at the front door of the team facility.

Wayne spoke about it recently on WNDE Radio.

Take us through the situation where so many veterans of the team are let go and shortly thereafter you re-sign:

“It caught me by surprise, also. From the whole free-agent situation, it started at 4 p.m. My phone was just going nuts from about 4 p.m. until about 10 p.m. To be honest with you, I didn’t hear from the Colts until probably 9:50. It was weird. By that time, I basically counted the Colts out. I didn’t think anything was going to happen, but I got that phone call and that’s all I wanted to hear. … Everybody [else] got crossed off. I will say I took a lot less money. I will say that, but this is where my heart was, this is where I wanted to be.”

On watching his jersey up for sale online during free agency:

“Right when free agency started, at that 4 p.m., I was just online messing around, and my jersey went from 50 bucks to on sale for $12.95. I didn’t know what that meant, either. I was like, ‘I guess this is a sign.’”

Wayne was fantastic on opening day in Chicago. Andrew Luck is sure to continue to find him, even when Austin Collie and/or T.Y. Hilton are added to the receiving corps after missing the first game.


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