According to ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter, the trade market for Indianapolis Colts quarterback Antony Richardson has so far been soft\u2014meaning longtime general manager Chris Ballard hasn\u2019t been compelled to move him quite yet:<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that those teams aren\u2019t interested, it just means that none of those teams have come forward with a meaningful offer that has compelled the Colts to move Richardson at this time.<\/p>\n
Realistically, the Colts could be looking at draft capital similar to the return that the San Francisco 49ers received for the former 3rd overall pick of the 2021 NFL Draft, Trey Lance, who was traded to the Dallas Cowboys for a 2024 4th round pick back in August of 2023.<\/p>\n
Ideally, the Colts would still like to move Richardson and obtain meaningful value in return, but Ballard won\u2019t trade him for the sake of purely trading him either\u2014particularly for pennies on the dollar.<\/p>\n
While the Colts would save $5.39M in a Richardson trade this offseason, that would be less than the current market rate to find a competent backup QB2 these days. The Colts already have 2nd-year quarterback Riley Leonard to potentially fill that QB2 role going forward, but he only has one career start under his belt.<\/p>\n
It would still be surprising if Richardson remains on the roster until Week 1 of next year, after his camp requested permission to seek a trade. However, the Colts will pursue what\u2019s best for them as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter, the trade market for Indianapolis Colts quarterback Antony Richardson has so far been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,15563,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-846570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts-rumors","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116328235347806572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846570","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=846570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}