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For all of his flaws, Anthony Richardson is very talented and athletic, and gives the team the proverbial "puncher's chance" to win any close game with a late, 4th quarter rally ...... how much more can one ask from a 3rd-string quarterback ??? In fact, that sounds like arguably the best 3rd-string quarterback in the league. And yes, we really need 3 quarterbacks in this very rough sport of tackle football, as last year's team having 44 year-old Philip Rivers desperately trying to salvage the season exhibited.
Leave well-enough alone, and don't make an issue where there isn't one by cutting him. Richardson may want to be traded, but one can't always get what they want.
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Richardson appears to be staying put, just like I hoped that he would ...... in my rat's ass of an opinion, the 2025 Colts needing to resort to bringing back Uncle Phil exhibited that you can't have too much depth at the QB position in the NFL.
Anthony Richardson Finds No Trade Market as Colts QB Set to Stay Put
(By J. Canfora)
https://www.sportsboom.us/nfl/exclus...ity-with-colts
The Colts' former top-5 draft-pick Anthony Richardson received almost no interest on the trade market, we reported weeks ago that interest was scant, with concerns about his vision following an orbital bone injury, but the sides have done well to put that drama behind them early in the offseason.
Richardson has struggled to execute as a starting quarterback and stay healthy and while his natural talent remains intriguing.
Multiple executives from teams who added quarterbacks and who evaluated Richardson said his health and his latest injury in particular, played more of a role in them pivoting to other options than did Richardson’s struggles to cement the starting job.
“Even if he was healthy I don’t think he was going to have much of a market,” one GM told
SportsBoom.
Richardson, as a high first-round pick, carries a base salary of $5.4M and a $10M salary cap hit. At a time when former first-overall QBs Kyler Murray and Tua Tagovailoa were signing for veteran minimum contracts of $1.3M, that was a factor.
“Those contracts didn’t help him,” the GM said.
There’s No Place Like Home ???
At this point, league sources indicated that Richardson has accepted that it is almost certain that he plays out this season with the Colts, and then takes his chances in free agency next year after fulfilling his rookie contracts.
Richardson requested a trade and very much wanted to move on early in the off-season after losing his job to Daniel Jones a year ago, coupled with the fact that the Colts then re-signed Jones to a 2-year extension.
Richardson has not been a distraction of any sort since reporting to Indianapolis and the reality is, with Jones a high risk for injury throughout his career, and with the Colts adding quality pieces to their offensive roster in recent years, Richardson is actually in about as good a position as he could hope for, all things considered.
There is always the possibility that Richardson shows well in the pre-season and a playoff team loses a quarterback to injury and he gets an opportunity to start elsewhere.
The 23-year-old is desperate for more playing experience, after only playing one year of big-time college football and he has just 15 starts in his NFL career.
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