{"id":871012,"date":"2026-04-21T05:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/871012\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:48:30","slug":"daniel-jones-daniel-jones-progressing-really-well-colts-hoping-hes-ready-for-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/871012\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Jones Daniel Jones Progressing &#8220;Really Well,&#8221; Colts Hoping he&#8217;s Ready for Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis Colts general manager Chris Ballard said that quarterback Daniel Jones (Achilles) is progressing &#8220;really well&#8221; and is throwing and moving, according to James Palmer of the NFL Network. Jones is in a &#8220;really good spot&#8221; this offseason while recovering from a torn Achilles that he suffered in Week 14 last year against the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Colts aren&#8217;t putting a specific timeline on Jones&#8217; return, but they are &#8220;shooting&#8221; for him to be ready for Week 1 in early September. After Jones completed 68% of his pass attempts for 3,101 yards, 19 touchdowns, and eight interceptions in 2025, they signed him to a two-year deal to return to the team in March. In addition to his passing numbers, Jones ran for 164 yards and five TDs before his season-ending Achilles injury. Barring a setback, the 28-year-old former sixth overall pick by the Giants in 2019 out of Duke should be ready for the start of the 2026 regular season. Jones was having a great year in Indy before his injury last year, but fantasy managers should treat him as a risk\/reward QB2 in fantasy football drafts this fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JamesPalmerTV\/status\/2046396683827937437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NFL Network &#8211; James Palmer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indianapolis Colts general manager Chris Ballard said that quarterback Daniel Jones (Achilles) is progressing &#8220;really well&#8221; and is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-871012","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-indianapoliscolts","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116441127755338891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871012","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=871012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}