{"id":312532,"date":"2025-08-24T01:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T01:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/312532\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T01:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T01:06:11","slug":"nfl-preseason-saturday-afternoon-roundup-rookie-qbs-get-their-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/312532\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL preseason Saturday afternoon roundup: Rookie QBs get their chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Indianapolis Colts quarterback Riley Leonard passes during an NFL preseason game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati.\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/X325HOZ47VCRVEXF6MVLJKEJTM.jpg\" \/>Indianapolis Colts quarterback Riley Leonard passes during an NFL preseason game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati.(AP Photo\/Jeff Dean)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MZPKY5BTAVEEFBQ77D3ZPZFPWI\">Three rookie quarterbacks with Alabama football roots played on Saturday afternoon, when 12 NFL teams concluded their preseason schedules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"F6U6EGDZIRDU3OCCYQECVSV6CE\">Former Fairhope High School standout<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/topic\/Riley%20Leonard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/topic\/Riley%20Leonard\/\"> Riley Leonard <\/a>started the Indianapolis Colts\u2019 41-14 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, who gave former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/auburnfootball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/auburnfootball\/\">Auburn<\/a> QB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/topic\/Payton%20Thorne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/topic\/Payton%20Thorne\/\">Payton Thorne<\/a> his first playing time of the preseason on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indianapolis Colts quarterback Riley Leonard passes during an NFL preseason game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Saturday, Aug.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[58571,2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,31185],"class_list":{"0":"post-312532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-0d6a0641","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indianapolis","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nflraw25"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115081064320997070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312532","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=312532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}