With Colts starting quarterback Daniel Jones out for the season after tearing an Achilles tendon on Sunday, the next question becomes whether Anthony Richardson will be able to step in.<\/p>\n
Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Richardson \u2014 who suffered an orbital fracture prior to the Week 6 game against the Cardinals \u2014 has not been cleared to return. Moreover, the Colts don\u2019t know when or if he\u2019ll be cleared at any point in 2025.<\/p>\n
Richardson\u2019s injury was the result of a freak accident with an exercise band. It happened the same day that cornerback Charvarius Ward sustained a concussion during pre-game warmups.<\/p>\n
Richardon\u2019s status leaves rookie Riley Leonard as the starter. Brett Rypien is on the practice squad. On Sunday, the emergency option was tight end Tyler Warren.<\/p>\n
The fourth overall pick in 2023, Richardson started four games as a rookie and 11 in 2024. The Colts signed Jones to compete with Richardson, and Jones won the job.<\/p>\n
Richardson remains under contract through 2026. But it\u2019s up in the air, at best, as to whether he\u2019ll be able to play in any of the final four regular-season games or any postseason games.<\/p>\n
With the Colts slumping from 7-1 to 8-5 and upcoming games against the Seahawks, 49ers, Jaguars, and Texans, it\u2019s looking more and more likely that there won\u2019t be a postseason game for the Colts in 2025 \u2014 which would be their fifth straight non-playoff year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Colts starting quarterback Daniel Jones out for the season after tearing an Achilles tendon on Sunday, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-337471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}