Colts are content playing waiting game with Richardson's progression at quarterback
WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) - Indianapolis Colts general 経営者／支配人 Chris Ballard knows 新人 quarterbacks learn best from playing.
He's just not willing to throw Anthony Richardson on the field just yet.
Richardson, the No. 4 全体にわたる 草案 選ぶ, arrived at his first NFL training （軍の）野営地，陣営 Tuesday with big 期待s on a team that ーするつもりであるs to 根気よく 監視する his progression through the preseason.
"You don't want to put him out there and he's not ready to 扱う everything that 要求するs him playing the position," Ballard said. "So I'll lean ひどく on our coaching staff on what they think, what they think he can 扱う and what he's ready for. Then, 結局, he'll play."
Ballard didn't say whether Richardson must 攻撃する，衝突する 確かな milestones or could make his debut in small, 専攻するd 一括s.
But breaking in new quarterbacks has become part of Indy's 年次の 決まりきった仕事.
Indianapolis Colts general 経営者／支配人 Chris Ballard speaks with the マスコミ at the NFL team's football training （軍の）野営地，陣営 in Westfield, Ind., Tuesday, July 25, 2023. The Colts open practice on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
When they host Jacksonville on Sept. 10, it will be the seventh straight season Indy has had a new 開始 day starter behind 中心 Ryan Kelly. Perhaps, as was the 事例／患者 in 2012 with Andrew Luck, Richardson can 勧める in a new 時代 of 安定 after 調印 a four-year, fully 保証（人）d $34 million 契約 Monday.
He earned the 肩書を与える of most 運動競技の quarterback in NFL scouting 連合させる history with an incredible workout on what will now be his new home turf, Lucas Oil Stadium, and it didn't take Richardson's new チーム仲間s long to become 信奉者s, too.
"When I first saw him, I'm like this dude looks like a running 支援する, a quarterback, an エリート receiver," receiver Michael Pittman Jr. said. "He looks like he can do it all. And like his arm, he'll just flick his wrist and it goes 80 yards."
It seems the only real question is when will Richardson start making an 衝撃?
The 21-year-old 新人 dubbed the new 直面する of Indy's franchise enters the league after going 6-7 as Florida's starter and 完全にするing only 53.8% of his throws in his one and only season as the Gators 最高の，を越す quarterback.
Indy has 草案d only two other quarterbacks in the first 一連の会議、交渉／完成する over the past ４半期/4分の1 century - Luck in 2012 and Peyton Manning in 1998. While both went No. 1 全体にわたる and opened their 新人 seasons as the starter, it seems ありそうもない Richardson will follow the same path.
Still, fans are so eager to see Richardson that the Colts have already run out of tickets for several training （軍の）野営地，陣営 practices.
"We all know, 特に when you 草案 one (quarterback) that high, he's automatically stamped as the savior before he's ever played a 負かす／撃墜する," Ballard said. "He and I have had long 会談 about 存在 able to 扱う the highs and lows of the position because you have to."
Fortunately for the Colts, 報告（する）／憶測ing day was much いっそう少なく stressful than an offseason that 含むd a coaching change, 追加するing a new 不快な／攻撃 調整者／コーディネーター, 調印 退役軍人 quarterback Gardner Minshew, 草案ing Richardson and a slew of 草案 週末 貿易（する）s that 含むd the 選択 of 12 players.
It also 含むd running 支援する Jonathan Taylor 公表／放送 （民事の）告訴s about a still-to-be 交渉するd 契約 拡張, how the 全体にわたる league values the position and a 賭事ing スキャンダル that led to the 解放（する） of cornerback Isaiah Rodgers Sr., a 可能性のある starter, and 防御の end Rashod Berry. Ten players around the league are 直面するing 賭事ing 中断s this year.
"They made bad choices. The league's pretty （疑いを）晴らす on what can and can't be done. They broke the 支配するs and they paid a price for it," Ballard said. "It's pretty （疑いを）晴らす to me - don't bet, don't bet on football, don't bet on games, 特に when you're in the building. Be smart."
Taylor 報告（する）／憶測d on time but isn't 推定する／予想するd to speak until after new coach Shane Steichen 持つ／拘留するs his first pra ctice Wednesday. Richardson and Steichen are also scheduled to speak Wednesday at the Grand Park sports コンビナート／複合体.
Only two players, 防御の lineman Tyquan 吊りくさび (膝 外科) and 新人 tight end William Mallory (foot), are 推定する／予想するd to start （軍の）野営地，陣営 on the 肉体的に unable to 成し遂げる 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）. Others may be 限られた／立憲的な 早期に in （軍の）野営地，陣営, Ballard said.
The Colts also 発表するd 解放する／自由な スパイ／執行官 防御の end Al-Quadin Muhammad will return to Indy after playing last season in Chicago for former Colts 防御の 調整者／コーディネーター Matt Eberflus.
For now, though, Richardson's status remains all the 激怒（する） as （軍の）野営地，陣営 opens.
"When it's 11 on 11 and you're playing for keeps, it's different," Ballard said. "Even 11 on 11 in practice when they're not getting 攻撃する，衝突する, the 脅し of getting 攻撃する，衝突する isn't there. So until you get in those moments, that's where your real growth takes place."
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Indianapolis Colts 防御の 取り組む DeForest Buckner speaks with the マスコミ at NFL team's football training （軍の）野営地，陣営 in Westfield, Ind., Tuesday, July 25, 2023. The Colts open practice on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Indianapolis Colts general 経営者／支配人 Chris Ballard speaks with the マスコミ at the NFL team's football training （軍の）野営地，陣営 in Westfield, Ind., Tuesday, July 25, 2023. The Colts open practice on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Indianapolis Colts cornerback Kenny Moore II speaks with the マスコミ at the NFL team's football training （軍の）野営地，陣営 in Westfield, Ind., Tuesday, July 25, 2023. The Colts open practice on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Indianapolis Colts 防御の 取り組む DeForest Buckner speaks with the マスコミ at the NFL team's football training （軍の）野営地，陣営 in Westfield, Ind., Tuesday, July 25, 2023. The Colts open practice on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
