It is the benching that virtually no one seems to agree with — and it has the entire NFL talking. Not just about what this means for second-year quarterback Anthony Richardson and the Indianapolis Colts, but also what this means for the NFL as a whole. For how teams may change the way they scout quarterbacks in the future, if it even changes anything at all.
Because there are also enough success stories of other boom-or-bust prospects, like Josh Allen, to prove that an individual case may not be predictive of future success or failure for other players. Whatever the answer may be, Richardson’s benching has left plenty of questions, starting with the most simple of them all: why did it happen in the first place? Watch an average of 6 games each week during the regular season, plus every game of the NFL Postseason including the Super Bowl, LIVE on ESPN with Kayo. New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1.
Limited time offer. Was it because of his quality of play? Was it because he controversially took himself out of last week’s game against AFC South rivals Houston, later telling reporters he “needed a break” and losing parts of the locker room in the process? Was it a combination of the two, along with the fact the Colts need to win football games right now (at least, that is what the front office and coaching staff are saying)? Wherever the truth may lie, even Richardson himself wasn’t able to answer that simple question when asked if coach Shane Steichen had .