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Halfway through the 2025 NFL season, the Indianapolis Colts looked like one of the best teams in the league, with many believing they might go the distance, with stars Daniel Jones and Jonathan Taylor leading the way.
Unfortunately, following a season-ending Achilles injury to Jones, the Colts’ season spiraled out of control, resulting in the team losing its final seven games of the 2025 campaign and ending any hope of making the NFL playoffs.
Colts GM Shares Update on Possibly Anthony Richardson Trade
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Even though Jones went down with an Achilles injury that will take some time to bounce back from, the Colts have committed to the veteran quarterback on a two-year, $88 million contract.
With the Colts clearly invested in Jones moving forward, backup quarterback Anthony Richardson wants to be traded to get another opportunity to be a starter elsewhere.
On Monday, Colts general manager Chris Ballard gave an update on the status of a trade involving Richardson, which has yet to come to fruition, via Josh Alper of Pro Football Talk.
“We’ll see how it works out here over time,” Ballard said. “We’ve had some discussions with teams. Nothing’s come to fruition at this point. I’m proud of his development, his growth. He’s had some bad freaking luck. We’ve seen it in this league, sometimes thing don’t work out one place and they become good at the next. We’ll see here over the next month how that ends up working out with Anthony.”
Clearly, the Colts brass are in no rush to move Richardson and appear to have struggled to find the right deal.
It’ll be interesting to see if things change in the coming months or perhaps ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft, which gets underway on April 23.
Could the Colts Trade for Myles Garrett?
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Along with potentially trading Richardson at some point between now and the start of the 2026 NFL Draft, the team could explore other game-changing options on the trade market, such as trying to land Cleveland Browns superstar defensive end Myles Garrett.
Even though it may be a stretch, Sports Illustrated’s Conor Orr makes a case for the Colts to land Garrett.
“Let’s imagine for a second that the Browns’ rule proposal of extending tradable draft picks out to five years is tied to their desire to deal Garrett. Which teams would that most reasonably impact in terms of potential suitors for him? The Colts do not have first-round picks in this year’s draft or next year’s, thanks to the Sauce Gardner move, and are clearly enamored with the current roster—enough so that signing Daniel Jones and Alec Pierce to big deals made sense to them,” Orr wrote.
“If you’re Carlie Irsay-Gordon, what is another two years of draft capital at this point if the return is a player who could actually turn the Colts into a contender?… The Colts were 30th in pass rush win rate last season and were heavily dependent on Laiatu Latu for generating quarterback pressures.”
If the Colts could somehow convince the Browns to move the face of their franchise, it would transform the defense while potentially being the missing piece to the championship puzzle in Indianapolis.