{"id":194337,"date":"2025-07-09T20:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/194337\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T20:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:04:11","slug":"steelers-destined-to-trade-for-colts-qb-insists-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/194337\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers ‘Destined’ To Trade for Colts QB, Insists ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steelers ‘Destined’ To Trade for Colts QB, Insists ESPN<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Is there such a thing as a trade proposal that is so odd that it ends up helping neither team?<\/p>\n

The Pittsburgh Steelers and Aaron Rodgers finally made the worst kept secret in football an official matter of business this offseason when the veteran quarterback signed with the team.<\/p>\n

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Pittsburgh had one of the more questionable quarterback situations in the AFC before the deal that now provides at least some temporary stability.<\/p>\n

And yes …<\/p>\n

“Temporary” is the key word here, because the Steelers have struggled to settle on a bona fide franchise centerpiece since Ben Roethlisberger retired after the 2021 season. … and Rogers takes the reins this time for 2025 in what will be his last rodeo.<\/p>\n

Rodgers will be gone after this season, leaving the Steelers landing right back into the same predicament.<\/p>\n

Now, a better quarterback class projected in next year’s draft could point them in the right direction.<\/p>\n

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Or …<\/p>\n

We could listen to ESPN.<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Bristol comes one analyst who believes the next franchise quarterback here may already be in the league.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Kevin Clark recently said on “NFL Live” that Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson could be in play when the Steelers are forced into another quarterback decision a year from now.<\/p>\n

Actually, he said it more emphatically than that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen anybody more destined to be in the 2026 Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback competition than Anthony Richardson,” Clark said.<\/p>\n

Clark’s belief comes under the premise that the Colts are not willing to wait on him to development, and that\u00a0Daniel Jones will prove capable for the Colts to move on Richardson.<\/p>\n

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The problems with the idea from the Indy side: Richardson was the fourth pick in his draft, is still just 23, and is playing on a cheap contract with multiple years left on it.<\/p>\n

Rarely does a team give up on that.<\/p>\n

The problem from the Steelers side? They ultimately need-long term stability under center. … and that is not Richardson. Indeed, the reason Clark thinks Indy should dump Richardson is the very reason he doesn’t solve Pittsburgh’s future issues.<\/p>\n

Related: Three Wideout Possibilities for Steelers’ New QB Aaron Rodgers<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 9, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers ‘Destined’ To Trade for Colts QB, Insists ESPN originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Is there such a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[1586,1504,6594,2005,2772,7,2004,392,2381,15710,6,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-194337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-anthony-richardson","10":"tag-ben-roethlisberger","11":"tag-colts","12":"tag-daniel-jones","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-indianapolis","15":"tag-indianapolis-colts","16":"tag-indianapoliscolts","17":"tag-kevin-clark","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194337","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=194337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}