Colts’ Richardson may have lost starting job to Jones

Veteran Colts gamers are as a consequence of report for coaching camp on July 22. Whereas Richardson has roughly one total month to get his arm prepared for summer time practices, staff reporter James Boyd of The Athletic recommended for a bit revealed on Monday that the Indianapolis beginning job is actually Jones’ to lose. 

“Jones has already taken a big lead in what was presupposed to be a wide-open quarterback competitors,” Boyd wrote. 

The notion exists that Richardson’s lack of ability to remain wholesome throughout his first two seasons within the league annoyed individuals inside the Colts to the purpose that at the least some need to see what Jones can do because the membership’s full-time starter. In whole, a number of damage setbacks have restricted Richardson to fifteen begins for the reason that Colts made him the fourth general choose of the 2023 draft. Moreover, Indianapolis head coach Shane Steichen benched Richardson for a pair of contests final fall after the 23-year-old eliminated himself from a recreation as a result of he was “drained.”

None of this implies Jones will ever once more play in addition to he did when he guided the 2022 New York Giants to a street playoff win. He went 3-13 over his closing 16 begins with the Giants, however the Colts appear to suppose the reset he accomplished whereas with the Minnesota Vikings late final season may assist him revive his once-promising profession. 

Jones may value himself the beginning job by enjoying poorly in the course of the preseason portion of the schedule that Indianapolis will open with a matchup on the Baltimore Ravens on Aug. 7. Nonetheless, the truth that Boyd referred to Jones as QB1 “for now” could say a lot about how Richardson is at the moment seen by the franchise that drafted him again within the spring of 2023.