{"id":163300,"date":"2025-06-27T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/163300\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:05:11","slug":"1-obvious-colts-trade-candidate-entering-2025-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/163300\/","title":{"rendered":"1 obvious Colts trade candidate entering 2025 training camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears the Indianapolis Colts have a frontrunner<\/a> for their starting quarterback position. This is true even though the man in the second chair says his health is better<\/a>. But here is one obvious Colts trade candidate entering the 2025 training camp.<\/p>\n

The Colts and Anthony Richardson<\/a> have denied the possibility of a trade. The team says it wants to give the third-year player another shot to take control of the team. But his completion percentage (59.5 as a rookie and 47.7 last year) suggests a new environment might be best for him.<\/p>\n

Colts might deal QB Anthony Richardson\"Indianapolis\u00a9 Christine Tannous\/IndyStar \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n

All it takes is one quarterback injury for another team, and the interest in Richardson would grow. He\u2019s already been tabbed as the most likely to get dealt<\/a>, according to bleacherreport.com.<\/p>\n

Gary Davenport said Richardson\u2019s high draft status has faded into the reality of what he hasn\u2019t been able to accomplish on the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, Anthony Richardson was a top-five pick in the NFL draft,\u201d Davenport wrote. \u201cYes, Richardson is built like a fullback and has arm strength to spare. To say he\u2019s wildly athletic is an understatement. Unfortunately, he\u2019s also wildly inaccurate. He\u2019s injury-prone\u2014Richardson has missed more games in two years than he has played in. His decision-making hasn\u2019t been good, either\u2014Richardson has more interceptions than touchdown passes. His passing success rate of 36.0 percent ranked dead last among qualifying quarterbacks in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s the problem with Daniel Jones looking better at the position.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that competition truly is fair and open, Jones is going to win,\u201d Davenport wrote.<\/p>\n

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Different folks debated whether Richardson can stick around and earn snaps at the NFL level. One AFC executive laid it out<\/a>, according to golongtd.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of data that would support him failing,\u201d the AFC executive said. \u201cBut the more I watched (before the \u201923 draft), this guy does too many things that nobody else can do. Sometimes when you see that much talent you\u2019ve just got to swing the bat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe minute you start being afraid to be wrong, then you\u2019re kind of not valuable. Then you\u2019re conservative and end up being 8-9 every year. People don\u2019t understand there\u2019s not a quarterback tree in the backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, one of the big issues these days is health. Colts head coach Shane Steichen said it\u2019s status quo<\/a>, according to colts.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo timetable on the return,\u201d Steichen said. \u201cBut we’re going to do his rehab, and once the doctors clear him to throw we’ll ease him back into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steichen recently said he expects Richardson to return at some point during training camp.<\/p>\n

Late late season, Steichen said the Colts were not ready to give up on Richardson, according to nfl.com. He commented about deciding to go<\/a> with Joe Flacco for the remainder of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a tough decision,\u201d Steichen said. \u201cBut I thought it was the best interest of our football team. I feel like Joe gives us the best chance to win right now. With that being said, I’m not giving up on Anthony by any means, I’m really not. He’s a young player with a ton of talent. He’ll use this time to continue to develop and grow as a professional.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears the Indianapolis Colts have a frontrunner for their starting quarterback position. This is true even though…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2059],"tags":[1504,2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,18732],"class_list":{"0":"post-163300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-anthony-richardson","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indianapolis","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-editorials"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114756893216777143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}