{"id":669128,"date":"2026-05-28T01:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669128\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:08:08","slug":"anthony-richardson-im-here-right-now-i-dont-think-its-awkward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669128\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Richardson: I&#8217;m here right now, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s awkward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quarterback Anthony Richardson asked for a trade away from the Colts this offseason, but no deal came and Richardson is now taking part in the team\u2019s offseason workouts. <\/p>\n<p>Richardson is competing for the No. 2 quarterback job with Riley Leonard and he was asked on Wednesday whether it feels awkward to be practicing with the team after spending the offseason in search of a new home. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think so. I <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colts.com\/video\/anthony-richardson-talks-focusing-on-improvement-and-opportunity-to-compete-2026-offseason-media-availability-05-27-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">signed a contract<\/a>,\u201d Richardson said. \u201cI was still on this team before the trade stuff. I\u2019ve got an obligation to this team to come out here and play and perform, be ready to play if they need me. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s weird or awkward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richardson said he just wanted to get back to work after missing most of last season with an eye injury and declined to say if he\u2019s still hoping for a trade. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not really focused on that right now,\u201d Richardson said. \u201cI\u2019m here right now. I\u2019m just trying to make sure I\u2019m staying healthy and keeping everything up there in the mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richardson\u2019s three years in the NFL have featured a mix of injuries and underwhelming play, which helps to explain why trade interest has not materialized. That may leave winning the backup job to Daniel Jones as his best path to seeing the field in 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quarterback Anthony Richardson asked for a trade away from the Colts this offseason, but no deal came and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-669128","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\/669128","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=669128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}