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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson<\/a> again showed glimpses of his potential Saturday.<\/p>\n

He also demonstrated those same frustrating miscues again, too.<\/p>\n

Richardson played nearly the entire second quarter, capped the Colts\u2019 best drive of the preseason with the first touchdown of the game before the Green Bay Packers rallied late for a 23-19 victory in what could be the final chance to impress coach Shane Steichen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to have a decision here shortly,\u201d Steichen said when asked when he\u2019d decide whether Richardson or Daniel Jones would start the Sept. 7 opener against Miami. \u201cI\u2019m very close. I\u2019ll say that. I\u2019m very close.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richardson went 6 of 11 with 73 yards, no interceptions or fumbles. Tyson Goodson scored the Colts’ lone TD on a 3-yard run. Richardson also took advantage of a fumble recovery to set up the second of Spencer Shrader\u2019s four field goals and perhaps most important avoided another injury.<\/a><\/p>\n

Daniel Jones played the first two series and went 7 of 11 with 101 yards for the Colts (0-2).<\/p>\n

Each has now started \u2014 and lost \u2014 a preseason game, this time because of Sean Clifford\u2019s 11-yard TD run with 1:31 to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a great drive at the end of the game, and he was able to use his legs a little bit on some keepers and was able to get into the end zone,\u201d Packers coach Matt laFleur said, referring to Clifford.<\/p>\n

Jason Bean led the Colts to the Packers 31-yard line in the final minute, but came up short on a fourth down pass after a replay review.<\/p>\n

Green Bay (1-1) used Israel Abanikanda’s 3-yard TD run in the third quarter to get within 13-10 and Amar Johnson\u2019s 9-yard TD run tied the score at 16 because of a missed extra point.<\/p>\n

LaFleur held out 29 players, including quarterback Jordan Love<\/a> two days after the teams held a joint practice. Love had surgery to repair a ligament in his left thumb earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Malik Willis went 6 of 14 with 83 yards in place of Love. Clifford ran twice for 19 yards.<\/p>\n

LaFleur held out 29 players including quarterback Jordan Love just two days after a joint practice to close Indy\u2019s training camp. Love had surgery to repair a ligament in his left thumb earlier this week.<\/p>\n

But with Indy\u2019s quarterback competition still in play, Steichen opted to play most of his starters into the second quarter. While Jones made quick decisions and was mostly on target, Richardson sprinkled in some impressive throws and runs with some bad misses and some poor decisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecond quarter went fast, but thought I had a smooth rhythm out there,\u201d Richardson said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what I think. At the end of the day, it\u2019s up to them. I\u2019ve been trying to put my best step forward, trying to grow each and every step of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Colts lost their top two right tackles to injuries. Braden Smith, the starter, left with a groin injury in the first half. Smith\u2019s backup, Blake Freeland, was carted off the field with a fractured lower right leg in the second quarter.<\/p>\n

Abanikanda led a 159-yard rushing attack for Green Bay with 12 carries for 43 yards.<\/p>\n

While the Packers largely cleaned up the drops from last week’s preseason opener, the penalty flags continued to fly. The Packers finished with 12 penalties, and nobody had it rougher than backup right tackle Anthony Belton. The rookie was flagged five times in the first half \u2014 two illegal formations, one false start, an unnecessary roughness and a face mask.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did think he bounced back in the second half, so that\u2019s encouraging,\u201d LaFleur said. “But there’s certainly a lot to coach.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Colts finished with 11 penalties for 103 yards.<\/p>\n

Indy also lost rookie safety-linebacker Hunter Wohler with a foot injury, cornerback Johnathan Edwards with a concussion and linebacker Jacob Phillips with a bicep injury.<\/p>\n

The Packers have another joint practice this week with Seattle before closing out the preseason against the Seahawks next Saturday.<\/p>\n

Indy visits Cincinnati next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson again showed glimpses of his potential Saturday. He also demonstrated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[1504,56711,56712,56710,56713,56714,56715,56716,2772,56717,7,41,345,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-297744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-anthony-richardson","9":"tag-colts-injuries-preseason","10":"tag-colts-preseason-game","11":"tag-colts-qb-depth-chart","12":"tag-colts-quarterback-competition","13":"tag-colts-quarterback-news","14":"tag-colts-vs-packers-2025-preseason-recap","15":"tag-colts-vs-packers-preseason","16":"tag-daniel-jones","17":"tag-daniel-jones-performance-vs-packers","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-green-bay","20":"tag-green-bay-packers","21":"tag-greenbay","22":"tag-greenbaypackers","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297744","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=297744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}