Philip Rivers, 44-year-old who recently became grandfather, to visit Colts for potential NFL return: reports

The Indianapolis Colts, hopeless astatine the backmost presumption aft injuries to some Daniel Jones and backup Riley Leonard, are bringing successful a retiree to perchance pb the mode successful a playoff race.

Philip Rivers, the erstwhile Colts and Los Angeles Chargers backmost who turned 44 years aged connected Monday, volition beryllium hosted by Indianapolis connected Tuesday for a visit, according to aggregate reports.

Rivers would beryllium considered for a signifier squad position, NFL Network reported, arsenic the rookie Leonard, who took implicit for Jones aft helium suffered an Achilles wounded connected Sunday, is considered the team’s starter moving forward.

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Philip Rivers of the Los Angeles Chargers successful enactment during the crippled against the Pittsburgh Steelers astatine Heinz Field connected Dec. 2, 2018 successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  (Joe Sargent/Getty Images)

However, Leonard is reportedly dealing with a genu wounded that could permission Brett Rypien arsenic the team’s lone steadfast enactment heading into Week 15 against a pugnacious Seattle Seahawks squad connected the road. Leonard is being considered week to week, according to reports.

ESPN added that, portion the Colts volition beryllium evaluating to spot if Rivers is successful signifier capable to play successful the league, helium is inactive determining whether helium wants to marque an NFL comeback. But he’s intelligibly reasoning hard astir it with a travel to Indianapolis.

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Rivers past appeared successful the NFL successful 2020 erstwhile helium started 16 games for the Colts. He was 39 astatine the clip and surely a serviceable enactment astatine the presumption aft passing for 4,169 yards with 24 touchdowns to 11 interceptions. Indianapolis went 11-5 that play earlier losing to the Buffalo Bills successful the playoffs.

Rivers ended up announcing his status aft that nonaccomplishment to the Bills, though helium remained successful the rumor mill arsenic idiosyncratic who could travel back. He was unfastened to being the New Orleans Saints backmost successful 2021, and the San Francisco 49ers admitted helium was their prime if they made it to Super Bowl LVII erstwhile Brock Purdy and Josh Johnson some suffered injuries during the NFC Championship Game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Indianapolis Colts backmost Philip Rivers (17) throwing a walk during the archetypal fractional of an NFL wild-card playoff shot crippled against the Buffalo Bills, successful Orchard Park, New York. (Adrian Kraus/AP Photo)

But Rivers remained successful Alabama, wherever helium coached precocious schoolhouse shot implicit the past fewer years. The Colts intelligibly came calling, though, aft a disastrous Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

During the archetypal quarter, Jones, who has been playing connected a breached fibula, suffered a season-ending Achilles wounded and helium was visibly frustrated arsenic helium slammed his helmet to the turf.

The Colts person present dropped into the bubble radical of AFC teams hoping to get into the playoffs aft losing 3 consecutive games since coming disconnected their bye week.

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Rivers, who precocious became a grandfather, threw for 63,440 passing yards and 421 touchdowns with a 64.9% completion complaint crossed 244 vocation games successful the NFL. He besides owns a 5-7 grounds successful the playoffs.

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