{"id":378765,"date":"2025-12-30T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/378765\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:47:08","slug":"philip-rivers-riley-leonards-going-to-be-around-somewhere-for-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/378765\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Rivers: Riley Leonard&#8217;s going to be around somewhere for a long time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After starting Philip Rivers at quarterback for three games, the Colts are reportedly <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/report-riley-leonard-will-start-colts-season-finale-over-philip-rivers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">turning to rookie Riley Leonard<\/a> to start the last game of the season against the Texans on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The move does not come as a surprise, as Indianapolis was eliminated from postseason contention with the results of Week 17. <\/p>\n<p>Rivers got to know Leonard before the 44-year-old grandfather came out of retirement, as Leonard previously trained with Rivers during two offseasons. With Leonard starting in Week 18 a predictable development, Rivers was asked about Leonard during his postgame press conference on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRiley is a pro,\u201d Rivers said. \u201cRiley is going to work at it hard, and obviously I don\u2019t want to put a ceiling on anything that he can do, and certainly will always continue to pull for him. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I said before he ever got drafted, or even early on when he was at Notre Dame, when I got to be with him and some of his guys, I was like, \u2018He\u2019s going to be a double-digit guy in the NFL.\u2019 To what extent that is, who knows, right? Is he a starter? He\u2019s one of those guys that is talented enough throwing it, and he\u2019s obviously athletic enough to run around and he\u2019s going to work at it because he cares enough about it that he\u2019s going to be around somewhere for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard, a sixth-round pick in this year\u2019s draft, has appeared in four games so far as a rookie. He\u2019s completed 18-of-33 passes for 145 yards with no touchdowns and two interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After starting Philip Rivers at quarterback for three games, the Colts are reportedly turning to rookie Riley Leonard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-378765","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\/378765","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=378765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}