{"id":492801,"date":"2026-02-27T02:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/492801\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T02:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:47:07","slug":"kevin-oconnell-to-anthony-richardson-in-2024-youre-gonna-play-a-long-time-in-this-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/492801\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin O&#8217;Connell to Anthony Richardson in 2024: &#8220;You&#8217;re gonna play a long time in this league&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/report-vikings-anthony-richardson-have-mutual-interest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">mutual interest<\/a> between the Vikings and Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson should come as no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>After the two teams played in Week 9 of the 2024 season, Vikings coach Kevin O\u2019Connell sought out Richardson, who had been benched at the time for Joe Flacco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo me a favor and remember something,\u201d O\u2019Connell said to Richardson. \u201cYou\u2019re a bad dude. . . . And <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Colts\/comments\/1gm5iv6\/micd_up_kevin_oconnell_to_anthony_richardson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">you\u2019re gonna play a long time in this league<\/a>. . . . Go to work every day. Good things will happen for you. I still believe in you. I know these guys do, [Colts coach] Shane [Steichen] does, too. . . . And this organization loves you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fourth pick in the 2023 draft, Richardson started four games as a rookie. In 2024, he had 11 starts. In 2025, he appeared in two games before suffering a season-ending eye injury when an exercise band malfunctioned in the locker room before a Week 6 game against the Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson had lost the starting job to Daniel Jones, who had finished 2024 with the Vikings after being cut by the Giants. The Colts have granted Richardson permission to seek a trade.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson is under contract through 2026, with a compensation package of $5.385 million. A fifth-year option remains available, at a guaranteed salary in 2027 of $23.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mutual interest between the Vikings and Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson should come as no surprise. After the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-492801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492801","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=492801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}