{"id":753532,"date":"2026-02-15T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/753532\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:00:19","slug":"where-do-colts-qbs-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/753532\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do Colts QBs land?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feb. 14, 2026, 7:28 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

The Indianapolis Colts<\/a> had three different quarterbacks start games this past season. So, where did each of them land in NFL.com’s<\/a> starting quarterback rankings?<\/p>\n

Nick Shook<\/a> recently ranked all 63 quarterbacks who made a start last season. Based on their play in the regular season and playoffs, he then listed those quarterbacks from 1 to 63, placing them in tiers.<\/p>\n

Making a big jump and landing in Tier 2 was Daniel Jones. For more on Jones’ ranking and why Shook placed him there, you can find that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But what about Phillip Rivers and Riley Leonard?<\/p>\n

Rivers came in at No. 36 and in Tier 5. A few others in this category included Kyler Murray, Joe Flacco, Spencer Rattler, and others.<\/p>\n

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“The 44-year-old proved he could still succeed with his brain; his arm, however, showed his age,” Shook wrote.<\/p>\n

In his three games, Rivers\u00a0completed 63%<\/a>\u00a0of his passes for 544 yards with four touchdowns and three interceptions.<\/p>\n

The Colts<\/a>, unfortunately, did not win any of those games, but Rivers routinely put the offense into favorable looks pre-snap and helped that unit sustain drives and hang around in games, giving Indianapolis a chance.<\/p>\n

The Colts needed stability at quarterback, and Rivers was able to provide that.<\/p>\n

Leonard, meanwhile, came in at No. 47 in these rankings and in Tier 6. Carson Wentz, Shedeur Sanders, Russell Wilson, and others were in this tier.<\/p>\n

“Riley Leonard\u00a0made one start and was shockingly effective, slinging the ball around the yard as if there was no tomorrow in a high-scoring loss to Houston,” Shook wrote.<\/p>\n

As Shook said, Leonard’s start against Houston — a very good defense — in Week 18 was quite good. He completed 21-of-34 passes for 270 yards with two touchdowns and one interception.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t perfect by any means, but Leonard always found a way to respond. Could he be the Colts’ backup quarterback in 2026?<\/p>\n

Anthony Richardson would appear in a couple of games before being placed on IR, but did not make any starts. So he did not qualify for Shook’s rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 14, 2026, 7:28 p.m. ET The Indianapolis Colts had three different quarterbacks start games this past season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[95878,2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,49915,95900,95882,98103,96015,95903,96119,96065,95896,95888,95895,95906,96373,95902,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-753532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indianapolis","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcolts","16":"tag-sstsncolts","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-taganthony-richardson","19":"tag-tagdaniel-jones","20":"tag-tagindianapolis-colts","21":"tag-tagjoe-flacco","22":"tag-tagkyler-murray","23":"tag-tagnational-sports","24":"tag-tagnfl","25":"tag-tagnfl-hub","26":"tag-tagoverall-positive","27":"tag-tagspencer-rattler","28":"tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","29":"tag-tagsports-news","30":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116073832372975791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753532","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=753532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}