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Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson has a shoulder injury that will sideline him indefinitely, coach Shane Steichen said Thursday.
Richardson aggravated a joint in his throwing shoulder, which he had season-ending surgery on in October 2023, his rookie season. The third-year quarterback reported soreness in his right shoulder during last week’s organized team activities and hasn’t practiced since.
He will miss next week’s three-day mandatory minicamp. Steichen did not clarify if Richardson will be available for training camp later this summer.
“Doctors, trainers checked it out,” Steichen said Thursday. “He’s got some aggravation in his AC joint. So we’re gonna sit him out this week. Obviously, he’ll sit out for minicamp. We’ll see when he comes back. Not gonna put a timetable for training camp on it, but when he does come back, we’ll ease him into throwing, and then we’ll go from there. The good thing is he’s not gonna need a procedure right now.”
Steichen said the injury occurred because of “stress over time.” Asked whether this kind of injury is normal for players who previously had AC joint injuries, Steichen said he was not sure.
It’s the latest roadblock for the young quarterback, whose career has been marred by injuries, inconsistency and a failure to live up to expectations.
Richardson has missed 17 games in two seasons because of injuries; he was sidelined 12 games in 2023 because of the initial AC joint sprain; he missed two games last season with back spasms, another pair because of an oblique/hip injury and one with a concussion. Indianapolis also benched Richardson in a pair of games for veteran Joe Flacco last season.
The injury also comes as Richardson competes with Daniel Jones—who signed as a free agent in March—for the starting job in Indianapolis.
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This guy needs to go. Much too fragile to make a mark in the NFL. The Colts are wasting their time hoping he becomes an elite QB!
The Colts are the wrong franchise to take a super young quarterback (which they knew he was when they drafted him) and mold him into a franchise QB. They’re going to give up on him and he will go elsewhere and be developed while holding a clipboard and be a pretty adequate starting QB.
I mean, look at how they mismanaged Andrew Luck. Mediocre coaching that couldn’t convince him to stay in the pocket and stay on the field instead of running and drawing contact. Terrible line that got him killed when he tried to stay in the pocket. Little wonder he retired.
We can only hope the next generation of ownership manages to do a better job than the first two generations, which has been mediocre from a results standpoint for 50 years now. They’re on average giving fans teams that go 8-9, just like they did last year, which includes the of one period of time (the Polian/Manning years) in which the team was run by someone outside the family and they were consistently very good. How they convince y’all to spend thousands on season tickets, I will never know.
Season’s over.
Jones and Leonard !
Biggest problem is his complete lack of throwing accuracy. Move on for Lombardi’s sake.
More sports news than business news in the Indy “business” journal these days…..
You’re right. All this sports news is bumping the latest in Diversity news from the pages of IBJ.